Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-26
INTERESTING ITEMS.

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into paper.
There are 6,0o3 pieces in the modern
high-grade locomotive.
When ants are unusually busy foul
weather may be expected.
There is a society in Egypt whose
object is to drive foreigners out of
the country.
To ascend Mount Blanc costs about
| $50, as there must by law be two
and a porter to each person.
The atmosphere is SO clear in Zulu
land that it is said objects can be seen
by starlight at a distance of seven
miles.
An odd monument, in the shape of
a Roxbury pudding stone weighing
1900 pounds, has just been placed
over the grave of Samuel Jones, at
Kennebunkport, Me.
German experiments have confirm
ed the fact that there is a zone around
around fog signals, within which the
sound cannot be heard, Il fact first
demonstrated in the United States.
AT many of the destinations of car
rier pigeons men are placed whose
business it is to shoot down those
birds with messages who circle around
the air and waste time in alighting.
The oldest steam engine in the
country went through a recent fire in
Savannah, but was dug out of the
ruins all right, and will be exhibited
in Atlanta. 1t was built by James
Watt.
\ princess, a countess, a duchess and
the daughter of a reigning prince
were among the 1900 thieves, pro-
fessional and unprofessional, arrested
at Paris during the first six months of
this year.
There is a peculiar superstition at
tached to London theaters, that should
anyone whistle in the dressing room,
the actress or the actor nearest the
door will lose his orher position at the
theater.
Burglars who entered a Connecticut
mansion the other night, not finding
any silverware or jewelry, exhibited
their dissatisfaction by smashing near
ly all the door panels and the furniture
and tearing up the carpets.
London has maintained for many
years pre-eminence in the fur trade.
American and Russian buyers both
visit the city to buy furs originally
taken in their own respective coun-
tries. The sales amount to e., 900, 900
a year.
For a short distance a lion or q tiger
a outrun a man, and a equal the
speed of a fast horse, but they lose
their wind at the end of a half mile at
the most. They have little endurance,
and are remarkably weak in lung
power.
Girls employed in the crepe manu-
facture are under q curious contract
not to engage in any homework after
their hours of labor. The reason is
lest their hands become coarse and
unfit for the delicate nature of their
employment.
The British crown is made up of
diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls
and emeralds, set in silver and gold
bands. 1t weighs 80 ounces and 5
pennyweights, troy. In it there are
3,452 diamonds. 273 pearls, o rubies, II
sapphires and II emeralds.
One consequence of the battle of
the Yalu is the proposal made in
Europe of establishing a naval Red
Cross Society, whose vessels painted
in some distinctive color shall accom-
pany hostile fleets and pick up the
crews of vessels sunk in action.
Horse flesh is largely eaten in
Alsace. The retailers sell the choice
cuts for about fourpence per pound,
and the ordinary for threepence. A
large quantity is used in the manu-
facture of sausages. All horses be-
fore and after being killed are strictly
examined.
In Malta bees are plentiful, and bee
stings are in such repute as a cur for
rheumatism that resort to this, primi-
tive method of innoculation has been
in common practice in several cases
for generations, the results, it is said, ]
having been most satisfactory to the
patients.
Although a rubber horseshoe has
been invented for use on icy pave
ments, nothing satisfactory seems to
been found for horses compelled
to travel upon wet asphalt. 1t is
that horses accustomed to
asphalt learn the trick of stepping
carefully, as men learn to walk with
ankles on ice.