The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

This amt l. quarter" said Wilkins.
Yes it is" said Barber. Its a quarter
OF forty ents."-Harper's Bazaar.
The times when a policy of digni-
f." Hence would unqueSt.onably do a
man G best service are the very times
when 2 di-nifed silence is particularly
lari 20 keep.-Somerville Journal.
"A new eru US and species of blind
cave salar1a Ger reported by L. Stein
| ger in the 'Proceedings of the Unit'd
States Natio' al Museum" The discov-
cry OF such an animal in North Amer
lea is regarded by the writer as a most
important and interesting event.
Old Hopeful-"Now, my boy. your
eIuratiOn is finished. What are you
9, ing tob:? Choose whatever business
you ! Ike, and I'll give you ali the assist
ance | can" Young Hopeful-"Well, l
think I'd like to be a king" Old Hope
ful-'An right! You shall be the JAM
tor of the new fats l am building"
Sir Benjamin Baker, one of the en-
ginecrs Of the Forth bridge. has related
to the Lond n News the fact that dur
ing the progress of the work several Of
the workmen fell from the bridge $50
Ut IOO leu 1uGO Luc "dGcT "lIIlOuL Oc1Qg
killed or ever stunned. They had
breath enough left in their bodies to
catch a rope when it was thrown to
them, but not enough breath to speak
for the next fortnight
-Crnnecticut has to every 100 sqaare
miles of territory over 20 miles of rail-
road, Delaware 16 miles, Illinois IS,
Iowa IS, Massachusetts 25. New Jersey
81, New York 10, Ohio IL, Pennsylvania
%. The other countries in Europe
which have an excess of 10 miles per
! 100 square miles of territory are Ger
many, with 10 miles, Great Britain 16,
France II, Belgium %, Holland Is and
Switzerland II.
"A vein of onyx was discovered in
Garfield county, Washington, recently
which the report of an expert mineral
ogist who visited and examined the find
a week or so since shows to be of con-
siderable extent and probable value.
The possible extent of the mines is 1000
acres, and openings for a mile show a
ten-foot vein. The people of the vicinity
claim that their county is possessed OF
the only onyx mines in the United
States.
The Before Breakfast club of Geor-
gia was organized last August and has
for it's object the recognition of the
rights of farmers wives. Each farmer
subscribing to the club pledges himself
to set apart a certain portion of his
farm, the product of which becomes a
private purse for the wife. This sort of
a club would give enfranchisement to a
large number of wives who are suffer
ing from financial bondage.
One of the famous white oaks of
New Jersey stands in the Presbyterian
churchyard at Basking Ridge. 1t
measures fourteen feet four inches in
circumference at i've feet high, while
the branches shade a circle of 115 feet
in diameter. 1t has been a famous tree
for more than a century, and it vas no
doubt a noble specimen in 1870, when a
log church was built on the ground
where the present one now stands.
The celebrated Dismal Swamp
canal, which was originated by George
Washington and has a very interesting
history, has lately been sold to a Balti-
more firm. The canal is twenty-three
miles long and the waters of
tn Elizabeth, in Virginia, by way of
the Dismal Swamp, with the Pasquo-
tauk, in North Carolina, and it is des-
tined to play an important part in sup
plying the city of Norfolk with drink
able water from the Dismal Swamp.
The truth of history" gets another
b" between the eyes. This time it is
tie esteemed busy bee who is involved.
John burroughs reports hat the bee
does not gather money all the day from
every opening flower, the fact being
that he does not gather honey during
any portion of the day, nor from any
flower. What he gathers is merely
sweet water. Honey" Mr.. Burroughs
explains, lis the sweet water plus the
individuality Of the bee"
The Boston Globe say hat in a
pair of fine shoes there are two sewed
pieces, two inner soles two s~tiffenings,
two pieces of steel to give a spring to
the instep, two rands, - heel pieces,
two sole Innings, 90 upper pieces, so
tacks, 70 nails in the heels and 20 but
tons, to say nothing of thread, both
silk and fax, but the wonder is found
in the rapidity with which these multi
tudinous pieces are com bined in a single
completed work, for. as an experiment,
some shoe factories have from the
leather completed a pair of shoes in less
than an hour and a halt, and, as a test,
a single rair of mems shoes have been
finished in twenty minutes
One Of b prettiest microscopical
studies is the examination of the lungs
Of a plant. Most people do not know a
plant has lungs, but it has, and it's
lungs are in its leaves. Examined
through a high power microscope, every
leaf will show thousands upon thou
sands of openings, infinitely small, of
course, but each provided with lips,
which, in many species, are continually
opening and closing. These openings
lead to tiny cavities in the body of the
Leaf, and by the oprning and closing of
the cavity air is continually passing in
and out, so that the act of respiration
l. &c N lI- Dos-- NJ r 49,