The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
BITS OF INFORMATION.
There are-6sa varieties of cotton.

A paper pipe has been invented by
native of st. Helena.
The cost of the Capitol at Washing
ton has exceeded $50, 100000.
Steady intellectual work is good for
the health, both moral and physical.
Patents are issued, it is stated by
sixty four governments in the world.
Newichawannock and Pennamaquon
are the names of two towns in Maine.
The fixed stars are of all colors
violet, blue, green and red predomina-
ting.
Emetics have no effect on horses,
which have no gall bladders to be acted
upon.
Of the $4,000 Frenchmen who fought
with Napoleon at Waterloo only eight
now survive.
Shirts embroidered by hand and
costing $50 each came in fashion in the
reign of Elizabeth.
The United States has less percent.
age of blind people than any other
country in the world.
1t is claimed that the power of some
of the large electric search lights is
equal to 100, 100000 candies.
The moon gives out heat enough to
effect the therm ometer, and make a
difference of two or three degrees.
Men attending the pans in salt works
are never known to have cholera,
smallpox, scarlet fever or influenza
Guineas were SO named from the
| fact that they were first coined with
gold brought from the coast of Guinea.
Many of the most appetizing soups
that delight the palate of man are said
to have been invented in the middle
ages.
There are more swallow-tail coats to
the square inch in Europe than there
are to the square acre in the rest of the
world.
The pin is no new continuance. Pins
are found among the mummies of
Egypt and in the prehistoric caves of
Switzerland.
The longest telephone line in the
world is the one between New York
and Chicago. 1t is nine hundred and
fifty miles long.
There is little town named Mark
neukirchen, in Saxony. where nearly
every inhabitant is engaged in the man
/ ufacture of violions.
The pocket shooting iron promises
to become more deadly than ever. A
l,,, - Il,
seven times in second.
A Geographic signal passes from end
to end Oh the Atlantic cable, a distance
of twenty seven hundred miles, in less
| than one third Of second.
In Sitka, when an Indian wife has
lost her husband by death, she goes
into mourning by painting the upper
F, part of her face deep black.
George du Maurier, the English $50
ciety artist is authority for the state
ment that women are growing taller,
broader and generally healthier.
! DR.. Clifford maintains that it is not
too much to say that ten million per
sons are within the immediate influence
of the Baptist churches of the world.
A Lancashire acre comprises 1850
square yards a Cheshire acre, 10, $40
square yards an Irish acre, 1910
and Scotch acre, 6, 104 square yards.
The recruits for the British army are
! now required to stand feet inches
in their stockings, measure 33 inches
around their chests and weigh 100
| pounds.
| Variations in the size Of raindrops
are attributed to atmospheric disturb
ances, and to the height from which
they fall, those from high altitude
being much the smaller.
Young ladies in France can not ask
their admirers to call at their homes
as the French language has no word
for "home, but simply say "come to
me-" meaning their house
Hitherto the simple consent of the
contracting parties has been all that
was necessary to make a couple man
and wife in New York. The new law
requires witness and record of the
marriage.
! Most tribes of American Indians have
some faint tradition of the deluge or
flood of Noah. The Musquakies, of
Iowa, give the most Ineligible account
of it; several tribes il Alaska declare
that the waters were hot.