Warren sheaf., 1894-01-11
MlSCELLANEou

resembles piece OF me gum ARABIC.
One-quarter of all the people born
die before six years, and one-half before
sixteen.
IS American pumps are known in
China and Japan, as well as in all parts
Of Europe.
The highest range of mountains is
the Himalaya the mean height being
10000 to $4,000 feet.
With load of 400 pounds camel
can travel twelve or fourteen days
without water, going forty miles day.
The city council of Pierre has
passed a resolution exempting from
taxation for five years any lots on
which artesian wells are sunk.
1t is estimated that territory equal
to the whole surface of the globe has
been dug over 100 times in order to get
room for burial places.
"A four-year-old boy in Cooper's
Mills, Me-, is constant smoker, and
his parents are proud of his ability in
that line.
-Mantell and Fremantel remind us
of the covering once worn by our an
cestors, the latter owing its origin to
the frieze cloth formerly worn in En-
gland.
Slightly oMixed- Hooking at
painting of Columbus first landing)
"Wife, what's this ,ere paint'n all
about?' She-"Can't yer see2 Why.
it's Wash n ton cross IN the Delaware. .
-Tommie-"Does Deacon Jones al
ways tell the truth?' Mamma-s.Why,
Tonmie, of course he does. What
makes you doubt him?' Tommie-
"Well, he said his little boy could
whistle Gates Ajar,' and can whistle
louder'n he can, and always have to
open 'eln with my hands. Inter
Ocean.
The royal commission on labor
pays tribute to the superiority OF
feminine taste over that of men in
various industries Barmaids are en-
ployed in England in preference to
men, on account of their ability to
'set forth the food in an appetizing
manner" and to arrange their counters
tastefully.
-Manetho fourished in the reign OF
Ptolemy Philadolphus, about 26O B. C.
He was keeper Of the sacred archives
In the temple of Heliopolis. He wrote
general history of Egypt, now lost
and drew his facts from the sacred
columns of Trismegistus. He has also
had attributed to him poem, which is
praised, and work on the rites and
ceremonies of the Egyptians.
The women of the west are taking
ample advantage of their new political
privileges. They took an active part
in the school elections in Seattle, Spo.
kane and other Washington towns,
going to the polls in companies of from
a dozen to hundred. Candidates o1
their own sex were nominated in sew
eral districts, which helped greatly te
enlist the interest of the women.
1t is now established that flowers
and the perfumes distilled from them
have a salntary influence and consti
tute therapeutic agency of high value
and that residence in perfumed at.
nosphere forms protection from pul.
monary affections and arrests phthisis.
In the town of La Grasse, France,
where the making of perfumes is large.
ly carried on, phthisis is unknown.
There are but seven or eight of the
1904 issue of silver dollars known to be
in existence. This coin is called ''The
King of American Rarities y The
legend of its scarcity is that yes
sci bound for China had on board al
most the entire mintage (so4 was s19,-
R-0\ o,,I 1Ncf OF Nv al -
is claimed that the fiscal year ending
in midsummer June 30) the report en-
tered on the register of the mint in
1905 (s32D included the mintage of the
months Of 1904 subsequent to the fiscal
report and entry of that year.
The few civilized inhabitants of
our westernmost island possessions,
the Aleutians and Pribylovs, have now
been left for some weeks in their lone
ly winter condition. The rockeries of
the Pribyloffs have once or twice been
raided by seal poachers in Decent Der,
but the thing is Of too rare occurrence
greatly to be feared. and even stout
Mike iIealy, commander of the Bear,
has left those waters. The little COM
pany at Ounaiaska and the smaller set
tlement of whites in the Pribylov group
will see no new face until next May or
June, unless, indeed, some stranger
of very tender age comes among them
not by way of the Pacific.
The tortoise is particularly sensi-
tive and fully twenty-four hours before
rain falls will look for q convenient
shelter However bright the weather
may be, whenever tortoiscs are OBJ
served making for shelter rain is GER
tain to fall shortly afterward. This
presentiment, which exists in many
birds and beasts, is doubtless partly
due to the increasing weight of the
atmosphere when rain is forming. In
our own country the robin is said by
its peculiar movements to give evidence
of an impending change in the weather,
while in America the catbird is motor
ious for its unerring instinct in giving
warning of an approaching thunder
storm. It's method is to sit on the low
est branch of a tree and utter peculiar
notes which it never appears to use
except as storm signal
MIR. j. G. Scott has returned from
an expedition among the Was, a tribe
of head hunters in portion of Bur-
nah, lately transformed into British
territory. They are divided into
tame and wild The tame men
let their hair grow long and wear q
bang over the forehead. The wild Wa
country is very populous and has good
roads from village to village. The
Scott party is probably the only one
that ever came through this region
with their heads. The Was are very
diligent agr;cul turists and great drink
ers. Outside Of every village is the
avenue of skulls. Some skulls must be
added every year if the crops are to
prosper, those of distinguished men
and strangers being most efficacious.
Unlucky or lazy Was may purchase
their heads. When !. new head is se-
cured it is hung in basket on tree
until the skull is bleached, when it is
placed with noisy ceremonies in the
avenue.
The, Colt Found Friends.
Three years ago, as related by an ex-
change a colt Stra we'd from the Y,1aca