The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-09-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Berlin claims the record for quick
ness in turning out fire brigade. At
a local test company was in readiness
in Twenty-Five seconds after the alarm
was sounded.
I'm recent Londln lawsuit regard.
Ing noise and vibration caused by
factory, the photograph was brought
in as a witness, being caused to record
the noises and reproduce them in court
The simplest way to tell iron from
steel is to pour on the metal drop of
nitric acid and allow it to act for one
minute. On rinsing with water gray
is iron; black one If it Is steel.
-Voltaire, when he began the study
OF English. and found that 'ague" was
pronounced as two sylables and
plague as one, said that he wished
that half the English had the one
disease and the other half the other.
When the elephant Jumbo was dis.
sected a pint and a half Of gold, silver,
copper and bronze coins was found in
his stomach. In the lot were coins of
three kingdoms, two republics, five
dukedoms, two principalities and one
dependency.
The longest casket ever made by
the Muncie Casket Co., of Muncie, Ind,
was shipped to Allen county recently.
1t measures seven feet and six inches
and was for the remains of fourteen
year-old girl who died of consumption.
She was seven feet and three inches
tall.
The Venus fytrap, one of the best
known types of insectivorous plants,
has been found by recent investigation
Is be better adapted to the capture of
creeping than of winged insects, far
larger number of the remains of the
former than of the latter being found
in the trap. The escape of winged in
sects is much facilitated by the slow
ness with which the trap acts,
"A suspended city has been discov-
cred off Glacier bay, Alaska, by party
of eXcursionists. This curious phenom-
enon is seen regularly after full moon
in June, and in no other time. 1t is
said to be a beautiful mirage of some
unknown city suspended directly over
the bay. A photographer has taken
pictures of it four times, but no one
has been able to identify one of the
ghostly buildings outlined.
For a short distance, lion or IT,
ger can outrun a man and can equal
the speed of fast horse, but they lose
their wind at the end of half mile at
the most They have little endurance,
and are remarkably weak in lung
power Their strength is the kind
which is capable of terrific effort for
short time. 1t would take six men
to hold lion down, even after his
legs were tied so that he could not use
his paws.
According to some recent statistics
of the cost of living an Englishman
spends on an average S4s year for
food, Frenchman S47, German 81,
Spaniard 1913, an italian s24 and
Russian S23. OF meat the Englishman
eats 1909 pounds year, the Frenchman
81, the German "a, the Italian 20 and
the Russian 81. OF bread the English
man consumes $50 pounds, the French
man $40, the German $50, the Spaniard
$50, the Italian 400 and the Russian 635.
AiluOSt tHe only tdoie vegetable
that the Italian corner fruit stands dis
play is the tomato. The Italians are
extremely fond of tomatoes, and know
how to make them up into many forms
for the table. They make wonderful
paste of macaroni dough and tomatoes,
and their tomato soup is rich enough
for working Italians midday meal.
When tomatoes become plentiful and
cheap they sell rapidly by the basket
in the several Italian markets.--N. Y.
Sun.
Everybody knows that much, per
haps most, of the so-called Mocha coffee
sold in the United States is no such
thing, but only few persons know
how some of the counterfeit Mocha is
made. The berries growing on the
highest limbs of the coffee trees in
Brazil are often shriveled in the sem
blance of thu true Mocha, and these
are carefully <et aside, shipped to some
port famous for Mocha coffee, and sent
thence to the western world as the true
thing. af'