Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-16
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 Berlin claims the European record for quiekness in turning out the fire brigade At test the other day the company tested was out of quarters, fully equipped for the fire, twenty-two seconds after the alarm was turned in. Amsterdam has hitherto claimed to hold the record on twenty-six seconds.
 Recent experiments by Mr. Kunz prove that the diamond emits light when rubbed on wood, cloth, or metal. The fact that 1t becomes luminous by rubbing on metal shows that the phe- nomenon Is not electric As imitation diamonds and other hard stones do not exhibit this phenomenon, the property will be valuable as an easy test of the genuineness of the diamond.
 Palmer Cox's Brownies have proved uncommonly popular creations. Not only have the Brownies been repre- sented upon the stage with much sue cess, but at length manufacturing jeweler has bought of Mir. Cox the ex- elusive right to reproduce the Brown ies in metal, and there are now little Brownie searfpins at absurdly high prices to adorn the garments of the rich.
 In Missouri and Kansas the foreign element, or it's immediate descendants, comprises over fourth of the popula- ton; in Ohio little over third; in Iowa and Nebraska between third and 8 half in Illinois, Michigan, Wis eonsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, the persons of foreign birth, or their descendants of the first generation, outnumber the native pop ulation.
 The eyes of the deep=sea fish are very varied; some have neither eyes nor sight; others have greatly en- larged eyeballs, so as to catch the least glimpse of light Their eyes tend either to disappear or to be unusually efficient; but since no trace of sun light can penetrate to any great depth, and it fs probably quite dark beyond depth of some two hundred fathoms, of what use can eyes be?
 -Tenement-house owners in New York are not infrequently canny and thrifty men who have but lately ceased to be busied in much the same occupations as their tenants. Such men often collect their own rents. They are well informed as to the laws regulating tenement houses and wa rily suspicious of strange callers about the premises, lest they be hsaltb in- spectors or other such millions of au- thority on the lookout for violations of the law.
 The Electrical Review states that number of well known eleGffieal men have formed a company to build and operate an electric scenic theater at Coney Island, N Y, during the sum- mer. A handsome building, seating four hundred people, will be erected in choice location convenient to the railroad station and both the iron steamboat piers. The scenic theater will be similar to that exhibited by the Western Electric Go. at the worlds fair, but will be larger and finer
 Mount Kineo which rises pre- cipitousiy seven hundred feet out of Moosehead lake, is wholly composed of hornstone, and is the largest mass of that material in the known world. There is no true flint i'll the United States, but hornstone so resembles if that it takes an expert to tell the differ ence. This rock supplied arrow heads to Indians hundreds and thousands ot miles away. According to an Indian tradition, the mountain is the body ot 8 monster moose that was slain by a giant