Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There is an old lady of Glenlyon, near Grief, in Scotland, Mrs. Kippen by name, who is in the position of being able to say: "Rise, daughter and go to your daughter, and ask her to go to her daughters daughter"-in other words, she is a great-great- grandmother, and what is more re- markable, all the five generations are alive.
 The Tyrians were the most expert dyers of ancient times. The fabrics dyed with the famous Tyrian purple did not assume their proper color until after two days exposure to light and air. During this time they passed through a gradation of shades of yell low, green, blue, violet and red, which the dyers understood how to arrest and fix at any moment.
 South Carolina has large number of "cold" or ''blowing wells They are situated in the celebrated Sand hills region and the majority of them are of enormous depth. The force of the current of air which continually comes from them varies in intensity according to atmospheric conditions being particularly strong for several hours before and after heavy thunder storms.
 The Nurses home of Johns Hop- kins university, Baltimore, has re- gently received photograph and stat uette of Florence Nightingale. The statuette is of Parian marble and it faH |, ,lS,5e early fame was still fresh The photo graph was taken in 1892 at the wish of Miss Nightingale's brother-in-law, Sir Harry Nerney, and by him presented to the Nurses home.
 Charles A. Platt, who has just won the Wolf prize in the current exhibition of the Society of American Artists, has had success in many kindred lines of art. His etchings have attracted att tcntion, he has written and illustrated magazine articles, and when student in Paris he was always able to sell even his slightest sketches He has been twice married, and bis second wife was the widow of q brother artist.
 "A well in Dublin, Ind, has been acting queerly recently. The we'll is about twenty feet deep and contains eight feet of water The other day it began to bubble and boil A lighted torch was applied, when loud explo- sion took place. In short time another torch was applied with the same result, and for half dozen more times when torch was held over the we'll loud report followed, blowing fNff +las, 4lo4 4I. The boiling still continues with no less force.
 Owners of land among the Thou sand islands have way of making their lands grow. not in numbers but in size An almost bare rock of small dimensions is thus expanded into an island covered with vegetation and having space enough for house of comfortable size. The thing is ac- complished by riprapping, piledriving and the importation of earth. The work is often done gradually, year by year, until the landowner has made space enough for his house, and after that the island is extended as the need arises.
 Every head of clover consists of about sixty flower tubes, each of which contains an infnitesimal quantity of sugar. Bees will often visit hundred different heads of clover before retir- ing to the hive, and in order to obtain the sugar necessary for load must, therefore, thrust their tongues into about six thousand different flowers. A bee will make twenty trips day when the clover patch is convenient to the hive, and thus will draw sugar from one hundred and twenty thou sand different flowers in the course of a single days work.
 -The Navajo Indians produce the brilliant red of their blankets from bayeta, bright scarlet cloth made in eastern cities and travelled by the In- dlans for the yarn. Their gray is the natural color of some of their sheep. SO n ra1k< <k{,s A. xI. 11