The Banner-Democrat., 1892-12-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

samuel warner, OF Ferm0n6h town
ship, near Wilmington, Pa, traded his
partially double-headed calf to man
named Boyer, from Snyder county, for
two-year-old colt and some boot
money. The calf had three horns,
three eys and two sets of nostrils, and
was as lively as cricket Boyer in
tends to exhibit the freak.
Persons in bombay, India, are per-
suaded that there will be considerable
profit in making varied display at the
worlds fair. They propose to send over
twelve elephants, so that visitors can
take rides ''in. howdah with mahout';
to give exhibitions of suttee. cremation,
jugglery, nautch, wrestling, etc, and to
sell tea at ten cents cup They expect
to sell a million cups.
"A wine merchant in Cadiz, whose
reputation is unimpeachable makes the
astounding disclosure that al imitation
brandy Of sherry is furnished in i'm.
mense quantities to lone of the largest
mail steamship companies in the world"
at the low price of four and one-hal1
pence per bottle. This beverage, which
at twelve times its cost
Some Australian blacks, who were
imported for show purposes and are de.
tanned at San Francisco, are wonder
fully clever with the boomerang. One
OF their most interesting performances
is the throwing of the boomerang so as
to describe the figure 8. One line
crosses the other as quick as flash,
and the boomerang goes whistling
through space, and finally comes back.
after having proceeded many yards
It's movements are faster than that Of a
flying fish, and it strikes at the end of
its journey with tremendous force.
The mountaineer peasants of north
ern Italy and the Tyrol are unusual
among the immigrants to this country,
but one now and then encounters them
they arc easily recognized by their
great stature, sturdy legs and shoulders,
hard sunbrowned features, and felt hats,
creased in limitations of Kossuth's head
gear, and ornamented with the scimitar-
like cocks feather. Their footgear,
too, y distinctive, being coarse-legged
boots, with pointed toes, and high
tppcring heels, such .yan article of ap-
parel as it seems NO man would dare
venture out with In q region Of difficult
footing.
-Hindoostan is about twenty-five
times as large as the state of New York,
and the Sahara desert has almost exactly
the number of square miles IS the whole
Of the United States The Mediter-
anean sea would cut the United States
in two across its greatest breadth. max
sing an open sea from New York Is Van
couver. Great Britain and Ireland have
about the same number OF square miles
rs Arizona. Madagascar is about a.
large as New Hampshire. Massachusetts,
Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Penn
sylvauia, New Jersey, Virginia and
North Carolina combined. The area OF
England proper and that OF the state OF
Iowa are almost identical
-Incountries where the price of pine
apples are much higher than here, the
fruit is appreciated at something nearer
It's true merit Pineapple juice has
medicinal properties CT the highest or
der. In throat diseases and even in
diphtheria it has seldom failed to give
relief, and as an anti-dyspeptic it is in
valuable. The unpleasant taste victims
of indigestion experience on rising in
the morning can be got rid of by the
persistent use of this remedy, and as it
goes at once to the root of the trouble
and removes the cause, the cure is o
permanent one. Any dyspeptic who has
not tried the pineapple should lose no
time in taking the advice of one Wis
has
The smooth raised edge running
about the face of modern coins and in
closing the device as frame incloses a
picture not only adds great deal to the
beauty of the piece, but serves double
utilitarian purpose, first to protect the
design from wear, and second to afford
horizontal surface so that coins may
be piled up vertically one on top of an
other without danger of toppling over.
As soon as the raised edge is worn from
a coin it loses its clear beauty of design
and fast degenerates into mere char
acterless disk of metal Owing to the
long rest which metallic currency had
in this country during the reign of
greenbacks and shinpiasters United
States coins are remarkably clear cut
and well preserved. Even coins minted
before the war retain part of the mill
ing.
-Four men only have held the full
title of lieutenant-generalin in the United
States army. These were Washington,
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. Win
field Scott was a acknowledgement by
brevct only, from June, 1s4f, to Novem-
Der, 1861. At the time when some APP
prchension was felt lest we should have
war with France Gen. Washington
was given command of the army, with
rank of 1ieutenant-general, July 8, 17oS,
and held the rank until his death, De-
cembcr "A, 1899. BY act of congress
Grant was made lieutenant-general
March ~, 1864, holding the commission
until July 25, 1886, when he received
the higher rank of general of the army,
and Gen Sherman succeeded to the
rank of lieutenant-general When
Gen. Grant became president March 4,
1869, Sherman succeeded to the rank of
general and Gen. Sheridan to that Of
tieutenant-gencral. On the retirement
of Sherman November 1, 1883, the COM
mand Of the army fell to Gen. Sheridan,
but not the higher rank Of general
since that, BY congressional enactment,