Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-09-05
CURIOUS NOTES.

There are many women marble poi
isheas in this country.
The tongue of a common snail IS e
with 30, 900 toothlike points.
Latest geological calculations make
the earth 1925, 100, 900 years old.
Lord Salisbury, the new British
Premier, weighs about $50 pounds.
The raven is the only bird fonnd
native in every country in the world.
The frog, owing to his peculiar con-
struction, cannot breathe with the
mouth open.
The Lewiston Journal says that Mr..
Reed looks older since he has shaved
his mustache.
An officer in the French Army has
invented a new bullet that is shaped
like a goose quill.
Authorities on chess declare that
the game was known to the Chinese
IN Inc year li4 b. y.
Michigan has decided that for judi
cial purposes an oath administered by
telephone is binding.
Prof. Draper says that the descend
ants of a single pair of wasps may
number as high as 10000 in one sea-
son.
Microbes killed a Vienna bank clerk
lately, who, in counting a pile of bank
notes, moistened his fingers with his
lips.
There is a one-armed man in Geor-
gia who can pillow, jerk and goad a
mule, swear, and smoke a pipe, all at
once.
The surface of any given quantity
| of gold may be extended $40, S14 times
by being properly beaten with the
hammer.
The velocity of the earth at the
equator, due to its rotation on its axis,
is 1000 miles per hour, or a mile in
SO seconds.
l.. w. Palmer, of London, England,
has one room of his house papered
with cancelled one-penny stamps. 1t
took 10000 to complete the job.
1t is said that Mrs. Edmund Yates
carries her husbands ashes about with
her in a little casket which is fitted
into a travelling bag of special design.
1t would take a line of cradles ex-
tending entirely around the globe to
accommodate the 37,00O,0 900 babies
that are born into this world every
year.
Miss Douglas, the champion marks
woman of England, recently scored
| fifty-seven bull's-eyes in succession
with a revolver at a twenty-yard
range.
The cats on the Isle of Man are as
destitute of tails as if they were guinea
pig. 1t has never been accounted for,
but in spite of being unscientific it is a
fact.
Perhaps the largest camellia in ex-
istence is at Plinitz castle, near Ores
den, Germany. The tree is "a feet
high and annually produces about
$50, 600 blossoms.
The famous sacred Mohammedan
flag enshrined at Constantinople is
said to be a portion of a silk night
shirt formerly worn by the great
| Mahomet himself.
A gold dollar if beaten until its sur
face was enlarged 310,s14 times (as
noted above) would become a golden
film not nor than the 1866, 020th
part of an inch in thickness.
The albatross has been known to
follow a ship for two months without
ever being seen to alight on the water
or take a moments rest. 1t is be-
lieved to sleep on the wing.
Aluminium neckties are now being
introduced. They are really made OF
the cosmopolitan metal, and frosted
or otherwise ornameted in various
shapes initiating the ordinary silk OF
satin article.
OF the four nationalities making uI
the population of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Scotch are the heaviest
men, the average weight being:
Scotch, 1853 pounds; Welsh, 1885,
pounds; English, 1856 pounds; Irish.
154.1 pounds.
Light single railroads, on which
large wheelbarrows run, are begin
nsng to be used on French farms.
The rails are fastened to small iron
cross pieces, the ends joined by fish
plates, and can be easily put in place
and removed.
The weather this summer on the
Maine Coast in the vicinity of Port
land has been the foggiest in nine
years. A big fog bank blew in about
the middle of June, and has been
hanging around, with an occasional
lifting for a day or two, ever since.
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