The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28

600.
AT Buchanan, Ga, w. A. Keith
found a stone of the blue flint varict,
in the heart of solid pine tree.
A man at Stanford, N. ", has thu
watch Major Andre offered as ran
som to his captors. He has document
to prove that it is genuine.
Mourning paper is going out o
| fashion abroad. Instead. a little tri
angle is printed in the corner of tn
envelope and the note paper.
So rapid is the production of shi
rivets that one train of rolls feeds fon
machines, which turn ont sixteen ton
of rivets in three shifts of eight hour
each.
A process for the production of
new material called "lactite," or "mill
ivory" has been invented, skim mill
being the substance from which it il
made.
Babies and young children dressed
in white are thought by medical mer
to be more susceptible to colds and in
fictitious diseases than those clad in
dark, warm colors.
The Capitol at Hartford, Conn, is
of marble, and local engineers claim
that it expands one inch to each lOC
feet, being three inches longer in sum-
mer than in winter
The Sitka Indians in Alaska not
long since gave great feast to visit
ers from other tribes. The principle
dainty was tubs of last seasons wild
straw berries soaked in seal oil.
Diapers and others showing win
dow goods liable to lose color by fad
ing are advised to put yellow-colol ed
glass in their windows, as the bleach
ing is cansed by the white rays of the
SUMS light.
There are at least six plate-glass man
ufacturing companies in the United
States, who have an annual product of
nearly IL million feet. This exceeds
the entire production of Europe fifteen
years ago. .r
The largest magnet in the world is
at Willet's Point, L. I. 1t is made of
two condemned Dahlgren guns, each
of 15-inch caliber, wound with eight
miles of heavy cable, and charged
with electricity.
No kissing ever occurs in Japan
except between husband and wife, not
even between a mother and child, no
shaking of hands in salutation. If
you were to offer kiss to Japanese
maiden she would probably think she
were going to be bitten.
The Berlin gold heaters at the Paris
Exposition showed gold leaves so thin
that it would require $4,000 to pro-
the thickness of single inch, vet each
was so perfect and free from holes as
to be impenetrable by the strongest
light.
A museum founded at Berlin by
William l. is intended solely for the
reception of royal garters. Carriers
from the limbs of all the Plincesses
that have been married in Europe
since 1917 may be found in this unique
collection.
Formerly, a kind of beryl was
used in place of glasses, hence the
German name brille. The manufac.
ture of spectacles was first carried on
in Italy, afterward in Middleburg, in
Holland but as early as 1882 we have
spectacle makers mentioned at Nurem-
burg.
The picked olives of trade are put
up very carefully by the packers. They
must first be picked by hand severa
weeks before the are matured. After
being picked they are stepped in caus-
tic soda and water. They are then
soaked and picked in brine for several
days.
Expedition Island, a tract of land
thirteen miles long and from one and
one-half miles to two miles wide,
lying off the coast of Australia, has
entirely disappeared beneath the
,uauoa No ono knowc uban tho