Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-21
NOTES FOR THE CURIOUS.

set with 80, 600 toothlike points.
The raven is the only bird found ma
tive in every country in the world.
Latest geological calculations make
the earth 1,526,53o 600 years old.
Prof. Draper says that the descend
ants of a single pair of wasps may be
numbered as high as 10000 in n sea-
son.
DIR. Arnott, in aQueen Facts About
Air." says that If a cubic inch of sur
face air could be taken upwards to a
height of 1900 miles above the earth
it would expand sufficiently to fill q
sphere 1000, DOC, 900 miles in diameter.
The velocity of the earth at the
equator, due to Its rotation on its
axes, is 1000 miles per hour, or a mile
in 3.6 seconds.
In the time of Christ the seven
bright stars collectively known as
"Fhe Big Dipper" were in the form
of a diamond.
Huburt, the great Canadian author
ity on potatoes. says that 10000, 900
tubers of that species can be raised
from a single one in four seasons.
1t would take a line of cradles ex-
tending entirely around the globe to
accommodate the $1,000, 900 babies
that are born into this world every
year.
The famous sacred Mohammedan
flag enshrined at Gonstantinopie is
said to be a portion of a silk night
shirt formerly worn by the great Ma
homet himself.
The deepest place ever measured in
Lake Michigan showed depth of $40
feet, or about one-sixth of a mile.
The mean depth is 1926 feet, or ONE
sixteenth of a mile.
The common house flea is covered
with hard, overlapping plates, some
thing after the plan of fish scales.
Each of these plates is set with a row
of bristly spikes.
An idea of the number of postal
cards used in the United States may
be CLEANED from the official announce
ment that it takes 921 tons of paper a
year to make them.
Green, the great authority on pis-
catorial subjects, mentions live fish
which he saw in the Royal Aquarium
of st. Petersburg which have been
constantly on exhibition for more
than $50 years.
The first appearance of peanuts in
the market was when a consignment
of 10 bags was sent from Virginia to
New York in 1894. Over 1000, 900
bushels r now sold annually in the
United States market.
Edwin Abbey is holding an exhibi-
ton of his pastels in London.
Armenian refugees from Constan-
tinople are crowding into Cantania
and Sicily.
Henry Arthur Jones, the playwright,
is going to drop his Jones and call
himself Henry Arthur.
Liverpool warehouses are to be
supplied with incubators, as too many
babies die there from sheer weak
ness.
Tito Mattel, the song writer, who
became bankrupt five years ago, has
just obtained his discharge in bank
rnptcy in London.
Cecil Rhodes has just ordered large
numbers of English song birds, lin
nets, thrushes, blackbirds, larks, and
rightingales, to be sent to Cape Town,
where they will be acclimatized and
set free.
Highwaymen held up the Duke di
Castelluccia as he was walking home
one evening lately at Portici, near
Naples, and after taking his watch
and money made him strip and hand
over his shirt.
Lord Grimthorpe, who is Chancellor
and Vicar-G General of the province of
York, recently celebrated his golden
wedding, and to commemorate it a
stained glass window has been placed
in st. Adams Abbey.
Tomato plants have been grated
on potato plants in England, giving a
crop of tomatoes above ground and
of potatoes below. Potatoes grated
o tomatoes have produced flowers
and apples and a few tubers.
Berlin proposes to have an immense
"Cairo Street, at her exhibition next
year. Six times as much space
will be given to it as was given
at the Chicago Exhibition, and be-
sides reproductions of Egyptian
scenery and monuments there will be
a harem hidden among the shops.
Strawberries in marketable quanti-
ties were gathered in Greenville, Or,
last week.
The last turnpike road in Connect
cut, the old Derby road, is soon to be
made free.
Two deaths. from the effects of
poison ivy occurred in Connecticut
within a few days of each other re-
Gently.
Fifteen cents apiece is all that the
plumpest cartridges are worth, de-
livered at the hotels, in many parts of
Mainsy i'm this -cxceptionaI year-for
game in that State.
Leggings and tights at Halls.
Arrest Them.
The LEDGER is sorry to be compell-
ed to state that the following from the
Columbia Herald is very often applica-
BILE to some of Mexico's young men
who attend churches and public gath
erings: "Several young bloods have
made themselves very offensive dur
"