The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-09-04
NOTES or THE DAY

supports no fewer than twenty-0ne
centenarians.
In Missouri four or more common
school districts may combine and estab-
l'sh high school.
Missouri has been invaded by the
plantago palogonico, commonly known
as the buck plantain.
G. e. McGinnis has again leased the
John I. Blair ranch. IL lies five miles
southeast of Rich Hill, Mo-, and com
prises 200 acres.
The New Haven Register has just
discovered the rather curious fact that
there Is no copy of the bible In the pub
lie library of that city.
Myron Smith. prominent school
teacher near Manchester, o., was bit
ten on the hand by spider. Blood
poisoning and lockJaw resulted in his
death.
The cats of the Isle of Man are ns
destitute of tails as II they were guinea
pigs. 1t has never been accounted for,
but, in spite OF being unscientiiic, 1t Is
fact.
The Bannock trouble of 1873 cost the
United States S55G,G3 Twenty
four soldiers thirty citizens and seven
ty-four Indians were killed before 1t
stopped.
IL Is stated by officials OF the United
States mint that over 120,O0OOOO OF
the big copper cents were lost during
the sixty years they were part of the
coinage.
This Is an age of paper as well as OF
electricity. The paper mills of the
United States have now a capacity of
over 100000 pounds day, most of 1t
wood pulp.
The Sault st. Marie canal between
Lakes Huron and Michigan, now car
rles 2O,O0OOOO tons year, or twice the
weight that passes through the Suez
canal annually.
The bicycle which Jerry Simpson used
to ride when he was In Congress Is
now the property of an employe of the
Medicine Lodge Cresset Simpson lost
| 1t on an election bet
There has not been soldiers death
at Fort AIissoula from disease since
1891, and but one from any other cause.
For the past year and Il half not one
has been discharged for disability.
Boston Is to have new hotel, which
"the great hotels Of Chicago and New
York will sink into comparative in
Significance" the Boston newspapers
say.
Since the United States Government
was organized less than 900 people
have served as United States Senators,
while of these more than 200 had pre-
viously been members Of the House Of
Representatives.
| 1t Is said that Of the 5000 vlsitors'to
the National Yellowstone Park during
the last three years hardly 100 were
Americans. Probably more Americans
have climbed the Alps than have visit
ed the Yosemite valley.
Not all admirers of the beautiful mas
turtium have given thought to the
derivation of the name. Nasturtium
is from two Latin words meaning
'nose" and to torture" in allusion to
the tendency of the pungent blossom
to cause him who bites it to make n
wry face.
Five shillings fine was paid by the
first man to use a tricycle. cab in Lon
don, propelled by man in front and
another behind. A crowd collected,
blocking the street, so the police arrest
| oil hin, aud IN ALBANIAN hold thot Ia
was obstructing traffic, imposing fine
so low that he could not appeal.
Nellie Newkirk, n young lady rcsid-
ing near Big Prairie, o., has a cancer
on her tongue, produced so her physi-
clans say, by chewing gum of the rub
Der variety. She chewed gum that
could be drawn out of the mouth and
let snap back, and the constant snap
ping produced an incurable cancer.
A lost set of poems by Goethe, writ
ten when he was a student of Is, at
Leipzig, in honor of his flame, Anna
Katarina Schonkopf, and entitled, "An-
nette," has been found by DR.. Suphan,
of Weimar, among the effects of Goe-
the's friend, Fraulcin Won Grockhan-
sen, to whom the poet probably pre-
sented the manuscript.
DR.. Louis Robinson insists that the
style of hair affected by Paderewski
and other musicians Is not n mere af-
fectation, but is the result of "trophic
changes resulting from mental habits.
This may be true. but it is perhaps
necessary to explain that n "trophic
change" is a change that changes-in
plain English, ''changy change"
A French geographical society pro.
poses to divide the face of the clock in
to ten hours of ten minutes and hun.
dred seconds each. This Is to make
time uniform with the decimal system
or count by tens. The count by twelves
which now shows on the face OF the
clock survives from the earliest times
probably from long before the inven.
ton of letters.
A scientific paper discusses seriously
the discovery by Prof. Conn of butter
bacillus-that is to say, of bacillus