The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-06-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Chief Justice George W. Stone. q
IL Supreme Court Of Alabama. cole
braAed his SEVENTEEN birthday ami
~efsary by dancing jig with his
great grandson.
n IL worthy Of note that most OF
the gifts for the promotion Of medical
education come from doctors who are
themselves eminent in the profession.
Boston Traveller.
"A new rival TO coffee Is "Mussa-
enda," or wild orange, q plant produc-
ing purple fruit About $4,000 acres
Of this plant are now being cultivated
in the island OF Reunion
Some one has discovered that
women never reckon time by calendas
years. but always say so many years
ago instead OF in the year 1888, or
whatever year may be meant
"A girl who had been troubled for
. long time with insomnia, was ad-
vised by Swedish woman TO wet
cloth with ice-eold water and lay IL
across her eyes She did SO, and was
completely cured.
The ginseng Of China, q plant to
which the Chinese ascribe such re-
markable virtues as the renewing OF
youthful vigor, is said TO be in such
demand that the root has sold for more
than two hundred dollars an ounce.
-Woodmen say that three-fourths
OF the moss on trees grows on the
northern side, that the heaviest
boughs on spruce trees are always on
the south side. and that the topmos.
twig Of every hemlock tips naturally
to the east
w. j. Doris, Of New Haven,
Conn, has an African boa constructor
twenty-five years old 1t is thirty
feet long and weighs 278 pounds The
snakes appetite doesn't trouble it only
four times year, but at each meal II
is fed at least fifteen chickens or rab-
bits.
Mineral wax, which is found only
in Galicia, Austria, and about 100
miles west OF Salt Lake, is acid proof
and the best insulator known. Its
color runs from light yellow to dark
brown. 1t costs only one-third as
much as beeswax, and is well adapted
to the use Of doll and candle makers,
as well as electricians, by whom it will
be largely used.
"A farmer in Kern County, Cal,
who has been experimenting with
Japanese buckwheat, reports that in
all respects it is far superior to the
American buckwheat II produces
twice the number OF pounds to the
acre. makes remarkably fine cakes,
can be sown at any time. and he thinks
will prove far NOR. profitable than
wheat to the farmers OF California IL
they can be induced to make q trial Of
IL.
Down in Massachusetts, not far
from Sycamore, on the line Of the
Cape Cod ship canal, is the Upper
farm The remarkable thing about
the farm is that 1t was purchased. or
secured. or pre-empted in 1924 by the
founder of the Upper line. Thomas
Upper, who settled on the land when
the place was an Indian village known
as Shaun, and that his will, still in
existence, has kept the farm in the
Upper family without break for nine
generations.
The Ironwood (Mich.) Times re-
lates that the other day freight brake
man on the Lake Shore road was Or
dered to get the number Of eight ore
cars in the train taken on at Wakefield.
He stood on the platform as the cars
passed by at a moderate rate OF speed
and read the numbers, all Of which
were in the ten thousands. Without
writing them down he went to the con-
ductor and reported the numbers. II
was afterward ascertained that all
were correct
One OF the attractions in a cheap
circus That showed at Albany, Ga. the
other day was a large baboon that
proved very interesting to lot Of lit
tie darkies. From admiring 1t they
fell TO teasing the baboon and were
having great fun, when the big
monkey. worried beyond endurance,
grabbed a brick and flung it at one par
ticularly aggravating negro boy. The
baboon's aim was good, his strength
great, and the brick. hitting the boy
behind the ear, knocked him sense
less For a long time it was thought
he was killed. but he got over II.