St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-11
ODD BITS OF INFORMATION.

An unknown donor has given 100000
to Barnard college.
The Buffalo directory credits that city
with resident named Peterle Rmnch
zizkonskekowlowski.
The oldest spoon i'll the world belongs
10 George A. Warren, of indianapolis.
It is 220 years old, and was brought
from England.
A set of false teeth made of ivory by
a New York dentist for George Wash
ington, and used by him, is on exhibI-
ton at the patent office in Washington.
Gladstone, a fawn rabbit, was sold in
England recently for $3.50. Its ears are
twenty-Seven and half inches in
length and seven and half inches in
width.
For long-distance swimming the shark
may be said to hold the record. as he
eah OutStrip the swiftest ships appar-
emily without effort, swimming and
playing around them, and ever On the
lookout for prey.
According to computation recently
published in financial journal, the per-
centage of net dividends returned to the
stockholders of street railways in the
United States is the times as great as
that of steam railways.
falls asleep by degrees. A French
Psychologist conceives that the sense OF
sight sleeps first, then the sense OF taste,
next the sense of smell, next that of
hearing and lastly that of touch.
Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland
or Ireland by birth, marriage or crea-
ton, are free from arrest or imprison-
ment on civil process; and in the event
of peerless being charged with GRIM
inal offense she would be tried by the
house of lords.
The earliest known lens is one of rock
crystal. unearthed by Layard at Nine
yeh. This lens, the age of which is
measured by thousands of years. now
lies in the British museum as bright
and as clear as it was the day it left the
makers hands.
The height of the human body is gen.
orally ten times the length of the face;
the face is as long as the hand: the arm
is four times the length of the face: the
sole is One-siXth the length of the body,
and six times the thickness of the hand
equals the thickness of the body.
People who like frequent changes in
government may find variety in Mexico.
During the past sXty-two years that
country has had fifty-four presidents,
one regency and one emperOr-the un-
fortunate Macmillan. Nearly every
change of government has been effected
by violence.
The Parish prison, of New Orleans,
the scene of the late Italian lynching,
and one of the oldest in the country,
was put up at auction recently, and the
highest bid was only $500. The prison
is after the Spanish type, four stories
high, and covers an entire square.
More than 100 persons have been hanged
in it.
That the world was inhabited long
before authentic history began is now
one of the generally accepted facts.
There are said TO be more than 5000
prehistoric buildings in Sardinia. They
are almost all in the fertile districts,
and are built in groups, which are sep
arated from one another by wide and
generally barren places.
What Is believed to he the largest
aerolite ever known to have fallen from
the clouds is lying in the Caspian sea.
near the peninsula of ASheron. In
failing 1t made terrific noise, and
Illuminated the country and sth for
miles. 1t projects twelve feet above
water, so enormous is - size. Scientists
are deeply int r1Stei p the p!lenOne-
non.