The Iuka vidette., 1895-04-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Try tnat mas hitherto been confined
in this country to New York City, that
of whalebone cutting. While much of
the worlds supply of whalebonc is
landed ut San Francisco from the
whaling ships it has hitherto all been
sent to New York and London to be cut
for use.
The American engineer and Rail-
road Journal in discussing the Erie's
locomotive equipment says that there
are eighteen classes of engines in use on
the system. OF late years there has been
Il steady increase in the weight of To-
comotives provided for this road, and
in the heaviest locomotives weight of
10000 pounds is put upon the forward
drivers.
-Goblets with stem and stand like
those we use to-day were employed in
Troy 900 B. c. Among the valuable
objects found by DR.. Schlieman was a
golden goblet. Vessels of this metal
were commonly employed in the service
of the temples. A curious goblet with
three stems has been found at Pompeii.
Its use is conjectural, but the suppose
tion is that it was used to pour liba-
tions to the gods.
-Salt-cellars first came into use in
medieval times there was only one on
the table, and it held from two to three
quarts. The salt was placed about the
middle of the tables length At the
upper end sat the lord of the castle or
palace and his intimates, and the salt
cellar marked the dividing line between
al, ii. L
dependents, so that to ''sit below the
salt meant social inferiority.
AT Hennock, in Devonshire. saws
the Guardian, the vicar refused to al
low grave in the churchyard to be
covered or stone set up on it because
the undertaken employed at the funeral
was a dissenter. The family of the
buried person had tried every means
to make him yield in vain, when one
man knocked him down. For this the
vicar summoned him to court, where
he received one shilling damages.
One hundred thousand negroes will
leave Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana
for northern Mexico in the next few
months. A colony has been founded
under the auspices of the Mexican gov
ernmcnt, and it is expected that the
drain upon the south will result in u
marked reduction of the colored popu-
lation in the states named. 1t is prob
able that the people of the south will
suffer from lack of field hands ere long.
Western lines have been SO badly
bitten of late by bogus ministers that
they have thrown additional safeguards
around the issuance of fhalf-rate permits.
Written application for the permit must
now be made to the chairman, no road
issuing them direct. 1t is believed
from the decreased number of permits
issued that about twenty-five per cent.
of those who have hitherto received
permits have not been entitled to them.
North Cardinals strange people of
the swamps have counterparts in the
mysterious race of so-called Indians in
southern Delaware. They are swarthy
people, with some strong traits of the
redmen, though there are contradictory
stories as to their origin. They are
fully civilized, however. and follow the
ordinary occupations of the region to
which they are natives, though they
mingle little with the whites and re-
fuse to associate with negroes.
Mime. JoniauX, the Belgian prison
er, has entered upon her term of life
imprisonment of such hideous form
that death must soon follow. They
put her in cell into which daylight
cannot penetrate. She will never see
human being, never hear human
voice again. They will push her food
in through slit in the wall of her cell
She will go mad at the end of a few
months, if death does not come first
Even the most stupid and degraded
have succumbed to this horror of living
burial within two years.
This country imports more cork
from the province of Catalonia, Spain.
than does any other country of the
world. Many of the cork cutters in
this country are Spaniards and they
have fine faculty of getting all out of
a piece of cork that it contains. After
stopper or sole has been made the
smaller clippings are powdered so that
they may be used in packing glass
ware. In Spain particles regarded as
unfit for packing are compressed into
bricks that are used for building. The
Spanish cork cutters of this country
sometimes have considerable skill in