The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

ONO Is Ill ncr thlrty-nlnth year, and
every second or third year since 1875
| she has entirely shed her skin. During
these changes of cuticle her hair falls
and hcr tngcr-nails drop out
The census Office has issued n bull
lctin giving the population of Indiana
by minor civil divisions. The total
population of the state for 1890 is placed
ut ., 02,i04, an iucrcase of ED, 1903 over
1880. OF the the ninety-two counties in
Indiana twenty-five show decreases of
more than ten.
Mrs. Vannaman, of Bridgeton, N.
j., while wedding her garden last year.
noticed tall weed of peculiar appear
ancc, which she let grow 1t has now
grown into tree over twenty feet high
and II foot in circumference. 1t has an
enormous leaf. Hundreds of people
have seen it, but no one knows what
kind of tree it is.
Owners of irrigating canals in
southern California complain that fish
do much damage to the banks by suck
ing the mud to obtain the fine small
roots of grass and weeds that grow in
it. by this means the banks arc en-
cavatcd and made thin. and actually
OF high head of water.
MIR. jackson Richards, master me-
chanic of the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad. is contriving powerful loco
motive which he expects will be able
10 attain speed of one hundred miles
an hour-to make the run between New
York and Philadelphia in fifty-fou
minutes, or between New York and
Chicago in about ten hours.
Three years ago c. lIachulc, of
Parma, Mich, purchased two carp to
put in private pond. lie estimates
that they will weigh from ten to twelve
pounds now and that their progeny will
number thirty nine thousand. He feeds
them with n barrel of bread per week,
and when they are called they come to
the surface in great numbers to get
their rations
The army is to be set to work at
professional studies, and an officer will
hereafter find promotion harder than
ever The new regulations will go into
effect a year from next January. An
important feature of the Forthcoming
order is the esta blshmcnt of lvceum
at every post in the army. Every Of
ticcr in the service will be required to
prepare and read n paper upon such
professional subjects as he may elect
Mt certain specified times before these
iyceums Attendance is also made
compulsory.
The saying that cats have nine
lives is in fair way of being proved
by cat in Chester, Pa A steel.
worker in that town. wishing to close
the career of the aforementioned tab
by, tied stone around her neck
tossed her into the river and she sanl.
TO the bottom. Fifteen minutes later
the animal was fishcd out and a little
boy amused himself by linging the
body around and kicking it. firing of
this fun, he left the inanimatc cat on
the field. Early the next morning the
cat, with stone still dangling from its
neck, walked into the steelworller's
shop.
Many people OF undoubted veracity
declare that they are wholly unable TO
swallow pills. Some spasmodic move
ments of the tongue or irregular con-
fractions of the pharynx balk every
conscious endeavor, or at least keep
the pill in motion in the mouth until
its flavor becomes unpleasant a ''pill
taller" has been introduced to over
come these difficulties. and its action is
so extremely simple and so very salts
| factory that medical contemporary
does not hesitate to commend it as in
valuable. 1t is adjusted on the rim of
tumbler or wincglass. and the pill is
placed in small grating. The pill is
then simply washed down the throat
almost unconsciously carried down
with the first mouthful of fluid.