Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-17
MISSING LINKS.
Some bits of Information of Gcreral
Interest.

Some Bits of Information Of Gcseral
From the Chicago Herald
The total product OF the Mexican silver
mines from their opening by the spaniards
10 the Independence Of the country In lS2I
was 81. 36s. 20oo
by the Austrian processes OF working the
tailings of Nevada and California mills
would produce more sold than is found fin
the richest Austrian mines.
The work performed by the human heart
each twenty-four hours is equal to the lift
ing OF l2S tons TO the height of one topt i'm
the same length Of time.
mining company at Ishperning. Mich.
has undertaken to empty Lake Angeline
covering ieo acres, and seventy feet deep in
the middle. Very valuable deposits of iron
ore lie at the bottom OF the lake.
Two persons playing dominoes ten hours
day and making four moves a minute
could continue ns.oooOo years without ex-
hausting all the combinations OF the game
the total OF which is 24s, SIS 21i.sp
carpets Were brought from the east in
1853. At first they were made by hand hut
the development Of machinery IN their man
ufacture Is such that one English firm
makes 100000 year. There are said Co be
In this country over 70.0oo.Ooo daily troiden
by the feet Of our population.
IL Is popularity supposed that the sudden
downpour which usually follows a bS1eht
nash OF lightning is in some way caused by
the flash. Meteorologists have proved that
this is not the case, and that exactly 90 the
contrary IL is not only possihle hui fs,hly
probable, that the sudden increased prscfpi-
tation is the real cause Of the flash.
long white piumes grow 10 maturity In eight
months. In the male these are pure v mite
while those Of the female shade 70 ecfu or
gray. The short feathers are plucked for
tips and each wing furnishes seventy-rVe OF
these. The tail feathers are OF a deep ivory
color and sixty-fve Of these have CONNER
II has been estimated that Great Brstain
has about 10000 absolutely homeless Wan-
An English firm is using the silk OF tn.
Wild silkworm, from which is woven a soft
substanti fabric OF a light tussore or pom
1t is asserted that the best, strongest end
| most hbrous metal in the shape OF wood.
now used as a pulp for paper, IS made from
The head dresses OF ITO Were 80 large
that ladies' going TO balls were forced. 10
| OF their carriages.
Window glass was first used IN modern
siLnes N Loo. Now the consumption OF plate
giass alone exceeds 6.eoo,oeo square feet IN
England and 5000. 900 In the United States
| Mhen horse is trotting a 22o gait his
As his body is moving at 220 ana as each OF
MS rect when In cantact with the GROUND a.
stationary and then is picked up and moved
Forward 10 take the next step, the foot must
move as much faster than the body as to
make the step, which is over twice as fast
/
country that the art OF feltins wool wxs rrst
l known, and from the most remote periods
the art was carried on by the orientals. In
| india, China, Burmah and Siap hats ere
| made of straw, of rattan, of bamboo. %
pith. of the leaf OF the Tallport palm and OF
a large variety Of grasses. The Japanese
An English court has decided that a cook
male or females not bound 10 give an
other hand is the employer yeouired 10
notify the cook before discharging her The
| reason given is that II the cook was forced
| 20 remain against her VIII she might
| Nenge herself on the members of the family
| or. IN case Of a club. upon her employers
There is sometimes much profit In little
| things. The rubber pencil tip IS SAID 10
have brought its inventor 10000 The past
the inventor a fort9pe eor naSs e nsss,a
| threader brings an income of $1,000 a year
to us inventor. while the return hall" With
a rubber string, 1. is creditably asserted,
| was worth $4,000 year for O while 10 tie
| man who struck the notion.
| "a decisive step In the knowledge Of sis
| tillation was taken in Egypt. There were
| invented the first real distilling aprarstus
during the first centuries OF the Christian
| era They are described precisely IN the
works of Zosimus. an author Of the third
century, from the technical treatises Of two
women chemists named Cleopatra and
| Mary. In the margin of Greek text OF St
| Mark are the drawings OF the apparatus
and they agree exactly with the authors
/ Women have abandoned spoon collecting
| In a measure. No wonderi Some OF them
| have a hundred or two Of every size share
| or design. The latest thing-a real summer
| diversion-is collecting silver hat pins. You
VIII notice the elaborateness Of some OF
| these sharp implements If you take any
| note OF millinery elsewhere than In shop
| windows. Most Of these pins would serve
| for daggers in case Of nee3, being sharp
| enough and strong enough to dispatch q
| man.
Suicide statistics. as recently publishes by
an English doctor show that salxing the en-
| tempt made every three minutes on an aver
| age by some one to take his own life II
| seems that Saxony is the quarter OF the
| globe where suicide is the most popular the
| ratio there being 469 suicides in 600 coo
pies the first place for infreqaency of self
| obstruction. the proportion there being only
/ sixteen to 1.o90 OO0
| tor OF Pennsylvania grasps n silk hand
| kerchief at one corner, and allowing the
| other end TO hang toward the serpent,
| leases her until she strikes IL with her
| fangs, when he Immediately raises the
/ handkerchief from the ground. thus depFiv-
| Ing the snake OF any opportunity OF olsen
gaging herself therefrom, the slightly
| curved fangs are hooked by the material.
The doctor" then kills the serpent by FIRST
| grasping her neck with the diseneaeei
| hand. so as TO prevent her biting him when
he cuts of her head. Should he desire, how
ever. TO keep the snake as a curiosity or for
sale. he will extract the fangs with q small