The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1894-09-01
POT-rOURRl.
A COLLECTION OF QUAINT Ans
CURIOUS ITEMS.
Gathered From Here. There and Every.
where-Scraps OF Information ON Mnny
subjects-DelectableT ld-btts TO, Datao
Delivers tho World Over.

Rain falls in the Andes about once in
seven years.
All mail carriers of GAINESVILLE, Tenn,
are Afro. Americans
A Missouri frog farmer contends that
frogs have Q language.
In New Jersey and Connecticut boys
may we'd at IA and girls at l2.
A snake with two horns on it's head
has been seen at Waycross, Ga. d.
Swedes believe that the devil has pow
or over child until it is baptized, ~~
The great school of Harrow, England,
was founded by John Lyon in 1911.
Tin plate was manufactured in Eng
land on the continent az early az 1867.
Mrs. Martha Jones died last week in
Hopkinsville, KY, at the remarkable age
of lO6 years.
A Parsian dentist filed a hole in an
elephants tooth the size of a silver tlol-
lar, with composition and tin.
1t is officially declared by the Russian
Government that cholera prevails in
seven Governments of South Russia.
In ls45 Scotch farmer sued the Gus
toms authorities for penny and won
his case. The costs amounted to 500.
The manufactures Of St. Paul amount
to more than $s0,0O0,OOO a year. The
city was originally known as Pigs Eye.
nyou tell woman she ID beautifIs
whisper it softly, for if tho devil hea1s =
hs will repeat it mann times.-DurivsoA
Kansas City. Kan, is separated from
Kansan City, No., by the state line.
which runs through the middle Of :.
street.
The War Department is experimenting
with aluminium for cups, plates, horse
shoes, bayonet fixtures and other
articles.
ERyp.'s smelling festival is legal ana
commercial holiday. Onions and ctber
odorons articles an s. great dsuan1 I.
4 ~ sioa. d n
I u .-ss.sss I'D sTsTIf
| 6Ardtuia. the object Of which 40 oue.
from Aristotle down, has ever been able
70 determine.
The Baptist Union Of Great Britsin
has just passed resolution DECLARING.
that there is too much" lynchine in tho
United States.
. A Frog can not breath with its mouth.
open. Its breathing apparatus 10 90.
arranged that when it's mouth is open ito,
nostrils are closed
; There is newspaper in Southern
: Missouri that is still running a railway
advertisement Offering low rates to The,
J. Worlds Fair q. Chicago.
! A Lobster's skin when shedding splits
down the back and comes off in two.
equal parts. The tail slips out of the
Shell like finger out of glove.
Australia is country without or phans
or an orphanage. Every waif is taken to
receiving house, where It is kept until
country home is found for it.
In Germany prisoner is acquitted on
d a tie vote by jury. A vote Off to 5
r. leaves the decision with the Court, while
}. vote OF to 4 means conviction.
=. The most common offense in Jamaica
,. is the use of obscene and offensive Ian
II gusge. Over one fourth of the arrests
b made last year we're out on this charge.
v Among the curious displays to which
u electricity has been made to lend itself
y in household decoration is a dish OF
A. illuminated jelly in which an incandes-
y cent light has been buried.
:. There is wild flower in Turkey that
10 the exact floral image of a hummiDG
:. bird. The breast is green, the wings are
- deep rose color, the throat yellow. the
~ head and beak almost black.
e Boyd Gray, an Afro American wheel
k. man, is making tour of the United
q States on his bicycle. His ohjec: ~ to
n. make enough money shining shoes 70
n. raise mortgage on his fathers homo in
e. Atlanta, Ga.
ls Mr.. VIM. Dixon, one of the ablesl
r. Afro-Americans in Tennessee, il can
IN dldate for the legislature of that Ssate
to Mr.. Dixon is President of thu WheeleTs
We an agricultural association, and voult
ne make creditable represe NATIVE.
ill
49, Investigation shows that Elere are ool,
g six llaying card factories in the Unitsi
States, three in New York, one in Gin
cinnsti, one in Indianapolis and one d
Kalamazoo, Mich. The annusl ~xtpu
Is about 30,00O,O0O packs. There aS
in about 5000 dealers in playing cardi
vhoee stock on hand is estimated at 10
90. 600, 900 packs. The revenue from plsy
sor ing cards, the current year, at the ~
tor of 2 cents per pack provided for in u
,ho tariff bill, Is estimated at 81 600 co...
he Davis 4 KeloRh wanted a"cotton. del
ht, quartet" for their productions Of Dow
in Dixie" A quartet OF Afro-AneIiss
singers in JacksonviNs wae styose
recommended to them. The manaeo
ion had.no time to 60 TO- jacksonville to.he,
the the singers, nor conld the men aNorG
Ed. come to New Yc1h 10 b heard. Sol
On. quartet sang into . phonoGTaph. :
the the rolls we're sent 10 New York. "
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