The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-06-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Dakota. Colorado and Texas singular
variety of grass called the "sleepy
grass. When in a fresh, green state,
TINS plant is strongly charged with mar
cotlc propensities, so much so that
horses and cattle grazing it are thrown
into profound sleep.
-Forty-eight tons of supplies were
hauled from Berlin Falls, N. H., to Dan
forth's Camp, a sportsman's resort at
Lake Parmachenee, Me-, this season, at
an expense of 1000. The hunters who
visit Parmachenee live high, and some Of
them have sweet tooth, for 600 pounds
OF candy disappeared there last year.
There is now imported into this
country peculiar vegetable material
from Oran, an Algerian seaport on the
Mediterranean sea. The fiber of this SUBJ
stance possesses the quality of being SO
elastic that it can be used as SUBJ
statute for springs, and the like in the
manufacture of furniture backs and
seats.
The Arkansas worlds fair board
has selected ten acres near Little Rock
which it will have cultivated with the
view OF raising various agricultural
products for exhibit at the exhibition
The board has made arrangements to
send to Chicago for the Forestry build
ing specimens of pine, white oak, red
oak, sweet gum, cypress and walnut.
-Slxty-five years ago Elias Eviston,
OF Marion, Ind, became husband and
lived happily with his wife until fort
night ago, when she became alarmingly
Ill. She was of the same age as himself
-elghty-five. He earnestly prayed that
he might die first. His wish was grant
ed, and he died seated in a chair while
watching at her bedside. Two days
later she breathed her last.
Near Olympia, Wash, Is well that
is coming gradually to the surface. 1t
is between twenty and thirty feet in
depth. For some time the brick wall Of
the well has been protruding through
the ground, until now it sticks up into
the air like a funnel to the height of
ten or fifteen feet. The bricks are un-
disturbed, and the well is intact. The
bottom of the we'll, too, is rising with
the wall.
TO make spool of thread the very
best Sea island cotton is used. This is
taken in the raw state and torn to
pieces by machine called a breaker. It
is freed from its impurities by several
other machines, after which it is taken
up by slipper" and twisted into soft
yarn. Several strands of this are
twisted into one fine thread; three of
these are then twisted together making
the six-cord thread, which, after being
bleachsd, is ready to sell.
1t has been said that two queen
bees will not live in the same hive, but
this is disputed by some bee-keepers,
who claim that in large hives there
have been independent colonies, neither
molesting the other. This, however, is
exceptional, and not by any means de-
sirable. Bees sometimes fight, and
with very disastrous results. About
four quarts of bees were found dead in
and about hive after battle which
occurred in the summer of 1891.
"A number of owners of steam
yachts in New York intend to utilize
them to transport themselves and their
friends to the Columbian exposition by
way of the st. Lawrence and Welland
canal. They believe it will be of great
advantage to live aboard their yachts,
and thus be independent of crowded
hotels. 1t is reported that the owners
of many steam barges in Canada will fit
them with comfortable quarters, and
carry Canadian visitors to and from the
fair.
There are laws in most of the states
forbidding the practice of medicine
without diploma. The penalty is fine,
or imprisonment, or both, depending on
the nature and repetition of the offense.
A doctor with diploma can practice
anywhere he pleases unless under
special local restrictions. In some
places it is allowable for man to place
doctor" before his name, but he is not
allowed to place IN. D." after his name
unless he has the degree of Doctor of
Medicine
"A Detroit man has novel walking
cane that represents the work of odd
hours every day for six weeks. 1t is
made of old postage stamps of various
denominations and six nationalities-
United States, Canadian, English,
French, German and Italian. The face
value of the stamps was s100. The sur
face of the cane, when the stamps were
all on, was filed smooth and finished
until it glazed. A heavy gold knob
completes one of the handsomest and
most unique canes ever seen in Detroit.
Concerning Rev. E. E. Hale's state.
ment that while George Washington
was great gallant prior to his mar.
riage there is not single love-lette,
extant written by him." The Richmond
Dispatch says: 'We are under the i'm.
preston that ex-Gov. Fitz Lee has in
his possession the initial number Of
what might have been series of love.
letters from Washington, but the lady
to whom or about whom this was writ,
ten is said to have rejected George be
cause he had big hands and feet, or be
cause he entered room awkwardlv. O,
for some equally good reason, and hence
the correspondence was soon termi