The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-01
GARNET OF CURIOS.


$50, 900.
Barley is mentioned on some Of the ear
Hest of Egyptian monuments.
Last year the sheep in this country grew
307, 100. 900 pounds of wool.
Rice was cultivated in India many years
before the historical period.
In civilized countries the average age at
which women marry is 23i. years.
The ancients knew. how to cheat. Load
ed dice have been found in the ruins Of
Herculaneum.
Over $50, 900 are spent in maintaining
the churches of the United States, and $780,
600 in running the jails.
The three most common names In Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland respectively
are Smith, Macdonald and Murphy.
An English inventor has devised an au-
tomato airbreak, in which the weight of
the. train supplies the power to set the
brakes.
The three counties of Knox, Athens, and
Fairfield, O., return a certificate that there
are no cigarette dealers in the county.
ty.
The salary list of the Bank of England,
including pensions, aggregates SOC. 900
pounds per annum.. There are 1,1o0 en-
employees in the bank.
Six near relatives of George H. Mccall
mon, of Biddeford Me-, met violent deaths
the father grandfather, two brothers and
two cousins.
An alarm letter box is recent inven-
ton. When a packet is dropped in 1t
listeners that the postmaster has brought
a letter.
The lighthouses of the world number
more than 1000. The United States has
over 1900 houses and as many posts. The
latter are simpler in construction and not
very expensive, since they are maintained
shore. The annual appropriation for
their keeping is now nearly SAC 600.
A Malaysian spider (Argyroepeira stria-
tai which is normally of a bright golden
tint, is said to have the power of "darken-
E~s-~
ened." 1t is well known that certain .spi-
ders can change their color under the slim
illus of changing surroundings.
Prof. John Michels writes in the scien-
ttic American of a parasite called tar
cosperidium," the eggs or germs of which
often exist by millions in the flesh Of hogs.
1t is supposed p Sc IT. to De harmless put 1t Is
until it has been thoroughly cooked.
The Aitken Bible, copy Of which has
just been sold in Boston for $500. was the
printed in America. The imprint is as fol-
lows: Printed and sold by r. Aitken, at
Pope's Head. three doors above the coffee
house in Market street., MDCCXx XII"
A new sort of ornamental glass is now
made in Paris by B. M: Bay, which he
calls by the name of hoar-frost glass;
which resembles the feathery forms traced
by frost on the inside of windows in cold
weather. The process of making the glass
is simple.
water and the weather it is said to corrode
at the rate of an inch in 81 years; an inch
of iron nuder the same conditions corrodes
in 100 years. When exposed to fresh water
and the weather the periods are ITO years
for steel and $50 for iron.
= The bacillus Of diphtheria is one twenty
fixed in the human throat it grows into a
network with other bacilli produced from
it. all operating together to produce viz
blood causes the fatal consequences so
apt to follow from disease.
A Western Episcopal missionary bishop
who recently tried in vain to induce some
young Eastern clergymen to go West,
Eve sometimes say that young men in the
East have no stamina, but from personal
experience 1 can testify that they have
great staying power-staying at home.'
The hotel fever is beginning to strike At
lanta. Ga. number of practical people
are figuring on structures of all sorts and
sizes, from an eight story granite hotel
to the cheapest temporary structures. All
h is due to tRe which
about 800 men employed on the grounds.
The use of third cylinder on locomo-
tive, where the latter is a compound en-
pand, is no novelty. Such plan is quite
common in Europe, but a three-cylinder
locomotive of the single expansion type
unknown until quite recently. 1t is an
American invention. too.
Northampton county, Va, has the un-
broke nrecord of it's court from 1852 to the
present time. This is believed to be the
Oldest complete court record in the United
States. These are kept in the attic of the
old court house on court papers bearing
date before the settlement of jamestown,
and relating to the plans of the London
company looking to that settlement.
Red phosphorus combines with chlorate
of potash to make an explosive Of great
violence. The London Lancet thinks that
in this fact Of chemistry had been more
generally known 1t might have saved the
disagreeable consequences which recently
followed when a man who had not studied
chemistry PIT his safety matches into the
same pocket with his throat lozengers.
Very few people understand the enor-
nous scope of the operations of a modern
railway company. There are now proba-
bly, nearly 100000 employed directly by rail-
ways OF the United States and II any ac-
count is taken of the, families dependent
that possibly 100000 of the residents of
this country derive their support from
these companies.
A Spanish paper in the Pyrenees regular
ly suspends publication in hot weather.
The observanance of Lent is one of the
oldest customs among Christian nations
1t is, in fact, custom of such antiquity,
that it's beginning is involved in obscuri-
ty.
LAS blind mole,''is not sensible
comparison, as the mole is possessed of
good eyesight. although its eyes are very
small, about the size of a mustard seed.
The police of New York city are engaged
in taking census and the returns will be
tabulated by electric machines, which reg
lister the facts and figures by means of per-
forated cards, no writing being necessary.
Prof. Culin, of the Museum Of Archae-
OlOgy of the University of Pennsylvania