Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-29
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OLA PODRIDA.

| Mt. Ararat, the resting place of the
scriptural ark, is, in reality, two noun
tains separated by valley The higher
peak is II, 210 feet, and the lesser ID, 600
feet above sea level.
1t is estimated that twenty-five acres
OF land are necessary to sustain one man
on flesh meat. The sane space of land,
If devoted to wheat culture, would feed
forty-two people; if to oats, eighty eight
potatoes, Indian corn, and rice. 176; and
If to the plantain or bread tree, over o.
900 people.
COMMON Nouns FROM NAMES OF Scr
ENTIsTs. Appended is list of techni-
cal terms. common nouns, derived from
the names of scientific men. shall be
glad to have omissions pointed out.
Ampere, coulomb, daguereotype,
davy, farad. galvanism, hessian, jacobian,
joule, kyanism, lieberkuhn, moncriefiian,
nonius, oersted, ohm, orrery, pfaffian,
talbotype, vernier, volt, watt, weber,
wronskian.-[ Notes and Queries.
SOME CURIOUS COMPARISONS. 1t may
interest the readers of THE TABLET to
be informed that Greece is about the size
of the State of Vermont; that Palestine
is about one-fourth the size of the State
of New York. and that the Caspian Sea
would reach from Philadelphia to Pitts
burg.
Hindoostan is about % times as large
the State of New York, and the Sahara
Desert has almost exactly the number of
square miles as the whole of the United
States. The Mediterranean Sea would
cut the United States in two across its
greatest breadth, making an open sea
from New York to Vancouver. Great
Britain and Ireland have about the same
number of square miles as Arizona-not
80 ''great" after all Madagascar is about
as large as New Hampshire, Massachu-
sets, Vermont, Connecticut, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and
North Carolina combined. The area of
England proper and that of the State of
Iowa are almost identical.
How Moons EAT BUTTER.--A West
ern butterine company recently wrote to
the United States Consular Agent at
Casablanca, Morocco, asking if it would
be feasible to introduce their product
into that country. They received the fol-
lowing very curious and interesting
letter in reply:
U. S. CONSULAR AGENT,
CAsABLANCA, Morocco, July 10, 1892. {
Messrs.: Your favor of June % to
hand and contents noted; and in reply /
am sorry to say that nothing can be done
in this locality with the class of goods
you speak of Native butter is too plenty
and too cheap to undertake to compete
with it at the distance you are writing.
And, again, you give your goods very
bad recommendation TO sell to the ma
tives. Yon say il won't turn rancid; by
that the Moors would imagine they could
get no stink out of it, in which case it
would be quite tasteless to them. They
say of butter: No stink, no good
The Moors never put salt in butter,
and 10 prepare it for use they press it into
stone jars, containing from ten to forty
pounds, the aperture just large enough
to pass their fist through; when full, OF
nearly so, they plaster the top over with
soft COW dung, then bury it in the
ground, and when il has been there from
three to five years it is taken out all
ready for use. II then contains all the
celors of the rainbow, and as many differ
ent tastes and scents. Butter is of no use
TO the Moor until It is toned up to that
pitch, and unless you can conjure up an
article that will outstink the Moorish
butter when prepared for use, don't write
me any more on that subject. Ever at
your command, j. COBB.