The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-04-25
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
News Gathered From the OLD Worie
and the New.

News Gathered FROM tAe ~
and the New.
Emerson. Neb.. has one brick build
ing.
Deep sea soundings of 4,5OO fathoms
were taken ON the coast OF Alaska III
1898.
The latest estimate of the population
of Maine is $4,000, gain OF 1000
in four years.
Pope Telesphrous, of the second CEN
tury A. D., instituted Christmas, the
Christian festival.
The sound of bell, which can be
heard 1920 feet in the water, can De
heard only 456 feet in the air.
A Saco physician has certified that
an old lady ''died from old age, ana
that said disease is not contagious.
Deposits of sand and dust six inches
deep were left in some dwellings dur
ing recent sandstone in Wyoming
In nine consecutive transatlantic voy-
ages the -, OOO-ton Lucania averaged
trifie over twenty five miles an hour.
The wettest place in the world is
Cherrapuni, in Assam, where the aver
age rainfall for fifteen years has been
493 inches. In 1861 it was 905.
w. W. Thomas, ex-minister to Swe-
den and Norway, says that, relative to
it's size and population, the railroad
system of Sweden is the most complete
in the world.
A Clarke County, Georgia, couple
last week celebrated their golden we'd
ding in the house in which they were
married fifty years ago, and which has
been their home continuously since.
A Newark, N. j., bridegroom started
on his wedding tour the other day with
a black eye. His sister-in-law caused
it by vigorously throwing a weighty
slipper after him to give luck to the
young couple.
A storm overturned a large oak tree
Oh the farm of M. D. Cartwright, OF
Ripley, Miss. While squirrel hunting
B. S. Saunders, of Indian Bay, Ark,
discovered beneath the roots pot OF
gold and silver coin amounting to $780,
900.
In the shop of a ST. Petersburg
matchmaker humanf faced clock is on
view-the only one of its kind. The
hands are pivoted on it's nose, and any
messages that may be spoken into its
ear are repeated by a photograph
through it's mouth.
Herr Mascha has lately unearthed in
MOravia a number of skeletons OF
associated with those of hu-
man beings. A remarkable feature of
one find was that of what appeared to
be whole family of human beings of
gigantic size coexsitent with the NAM
moth.
New Hampshire yields most of the
mica produced in this country, and no
great quantity at that. Mica always
maintains good price, and second
hand furniture dealers in New York
make it speciality. Even
bric-a- brac dealers occasionally keep it,
and an eccentric member of the guild
in Houston street has pane in win
dow of her shop glazed with loaded
mica by way of advertisement.
Kentucky has been rounding up her
fat children and has discovered some
youngsters. Carroll county
has 9-year-old boy who weighs 131
pounds. Little Horace Lane, of Wye
kliffe, is the last prodigy heard of. He
is Z years old, weighs 142 pounds,
measures thirty nine inches round the
waist, forty one round the chest, eigh-
teen round the biceps and is four feet
five and half inches tall.
Dover, N. H., one Of the prettiest of
the smaller cities of New England, is
to be one of the large, con-
sumers of snuff among all the cities of
the country. The population is some
thing like 10000, and last year more
than five tons of this form of tobacco
was used there The habit of snuff
dipping is not usual in New England,
and it was brought to Dover, so it is
said, by soldiers just after the war, and
has increased to its present proportions.
India is getting nearer to England
year by year. New and faster steamers
have been put upon the P. and o. line,
and letters are now delivered in London
twelve days after their departure from
Bombay. The mail of course travels
across the continent by rail to Brindisi,
a route which would not be available
for the transportation of troops in the
event of war. The troops could be car
ried from Great Britain to India, it is
believed, in eighteen days.
A frog farm with about 1000, 900
head of stock is carried on successfully
by man in Contra Costa County, Cal. |
He started ranching in frogs a few
months ago with herd of about 1900
frogs, and is already making lots of
He supplies the markets of
San Francisco, Oakland and other large
cities on the coast. It costs little or
to raise the frogs. and the
rancher is not anxious to trade his ranch
even for a gold mine, so he says