The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-05-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Dakota, Colorado and Texas singular
variety of grass called the Sleepy
grass" When in a fresh. green state,
this plant is strongly charged with mar
cotic propensitics. 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 Dam
forth's Camp, Sportsman's resort at
Lake Parmachenee, Me-, this season, at
an expense of 81 600 The hunters who
visit Parmachenee live high, and some of
them have sweet tooth. for 800 pounds
of candy disappeared there last year.
There is now imported into this
country a 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 cnn be used as sub
stitute 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 1t 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 If pine, white oak. red
oak, sweet gum. cypress and walnut.
--SiXty-five years ago Elias Eviston,
of Marion, Ind. became husband, and
lived happily with his wife until fort.
night ago, when she became alarminglv
i'll. She was of the same age us himself
-eighty-fivc. He earnestly prayed that
he might die first His wish was grant
ed, and he died seated in u chair while
watching at her bedside. Two days
later she brcuthcd her last
Near Olympia, Wash, is a well that
is coming gradually to the surface. II
is between twenty and thirty feet in
depth. For some time the brick wall OF
the well has been protruding tn ough
the ground, until now it sticks up into
the air like funnel to the height of
ten or fifteen feet. The bricks are un-
disturbed. and The well is intact. Tho
bottom of the well, too, is rising with
the wall
To make a spool of thread the very
taken in the raw state and torn to
pieces by machine called Il breaker 1t
is freed from its impurities by several
other machines. after which it is taken
up by Il shipper" and twisted into soft
yarn. Several strands of this are
twisted into one fine thread: three OF
these are then twisted together, making
the siS-cord thread. which, after being
bleached. is ready to sell.
1t has been said that two queen
bees will not live in the same hive. hut
this is disputed by some hcc-kcepers.
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-
sirablc. Bees sometimes fight. and
with very disastrous results. About
four quarts of bees were fouud dead in
and about IL hive after Il battle which
occurred in the summer of lS9l
"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 Wclland
advantage to live aboard their yachts,
and thus be independent of crowded
hotels. 1t is reported that the owners
of many steam bargcs 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,
imprisonment, or both. depending on
the nature and repetition of the oifensc.
A doctor with a diploma can practice
anywhere he pleasrs unless under
special local restrictions. In some
places it is allowable for Il man to place
Doctor" before his name. but he is not
dllowod to place M. ID. after his name
unless he has the degree of Doctor of
Medicine.
"A Detroit man has q 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 AID six nationalities-
United States, Canadian, English,
French, German and Italian. The face
Nti"s va bhN obuhiI'N NuN c.luu> llt
face of the cane, when the stamps We're
all on, was filed smooth and finished
nntil 1t glazed a heavy gold knob
completes one of the handSomest and
most unique canes ever seen in Detroit
Concerning Rev. Z. Il. IIalc's state
ment that while George Washington
was a great gallant prior to his mar
riage there is not a single loYe-lcttcr
,Xtant written hy him." The Richmond
Dispatch saysl "We are under the inn
preston that ex-ttov. 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 war writ
ten is said to have rejected Geo. ge be.
cause he had big hands and feet, or be-
cause he entered IL room awlSwardy. or
for some equally good reason, and hence
the corresp lndcncc was soon tayini
mated"
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En",cnting Arms 10 II Cat,
Some fifty years ago u very high En-,
glish official died i'll II fortress at place
that Is one of the ccntcrs of Brahmanic
orthodoxy, and ut the moment when the
news of his death reached the senov