The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-15
OUT OF WAY FACTS

The San Francisco mint is coming
81, 900, 900 monthly OF California gold.
The Princess Paulina is the smallest
| actress in the world. :.
In 1876 eggs sold in Barcelona for one
shilling and six pence hundred.
Queen Elizabeth had a printed Bibl~s
complete, that fitted into walnut.
Leirien has more than 10000 profess
| sional musicians of various grades. .
Mount Shasta got it's name from the
| Russians. 1t was first called Tchastal
which means the white or pure noun =
| tain.
| Arson Epley tainted while watching
| the dressing of friends injured limb inx
Chicago, and falling against a window,
the jugular vein was severed.
| The city of Buenos Ayres has the larg-
est street car SYSTEM in proportion to its
| population, of any city in the world. The
total number of passengers carried last
| year was II, BAG, 564, while the monthly /.
average was 5, 944 SAT.
! A gold weighing machine in the bank
of England is so sensitive that pos tage,A
stamp dropped on the scale will turn the
index on the dial a distance of two
inches.
A butterfly supposed to be thousands of -
years old, was found dormant under a
rock in California and removed to the
Smithsonian institution. When discover
ed its wings were growing shriveled and
there were wrinkles in its antennae.
A French publishing house has issuedfl
volume of eighty pages that is smaller
than the ordinary two-cent stamp. 1t is
the story of Penault, Little Hop o My
Thumb
A woman who wants to play Lady
Macbeth in a Topeka amateur show re-
fused to go on because she couldn't have :
big sleeves for her sleep walking gown.
1o+ in ofor
which pronounces the hours and quartersS
and so obviates the trouble of counting
necessitated by the present system. M.
Silvan, Swiss matchmaker, is credited
with having successfully adopted Edson's :
photograph so as to produce this ingen-
ious result
The smallest postofice in the world is
off the coast of Patagonia, where barrel
hangs over cliff. Letters from passing
ships are taken from the barrel and !.
deposited there.
A little steamer of 100 tons is being con-
structed at Argenteuil, according to the
invention of M. Bazin, which consists in :
rolling the ship over the water instead OF
forcing it through as at present. A num-
Der OF enormous copper cylinders are liked
to the vessel, the speed attained depend
ing upon the speed of the metal cylin-
ders, and it is computed that thirty one
knots an hour can easily be made.
Portions of India and the Sahara
desert are put down for having,
the highest temperatures, so far as deter :
mined by actual observation, the thermo-
meter reaching 1873 degrees in the shade.
The thermometer sometimes reaches 100
and 1913 degrees in the shade in portions
of California, for instance in Death VAL
ley and in Arizona, but the highest mean q
temperature is usually found near the
Equator
1t is to the manner in which different
co1r ohcor ho1 roHoc fa I'd hxra h0H :
that its color is due. If while light falls
upon red rose bush the red alone is re-
Elected from the flower, the other colors
being absorbed. The green leaves, on the
other hand, absorb the red entirely, and
reflect nearly all the green light. rose :.
in green light or leaf in red light would y
appear absolutely black, for in each case
the light which the object can reflect is
absent.
Here is an interesting idea for the
housewife who is troubled with the aggra-
waiting flies fourishing in their furnace
heated rooms long after cold weather is
supposed to have destroyed them. The
suggestion comes from abroad that the
fragrant geranium-the old-fashioned rose "
geranium beloved by our grandmothers-
keeps flies away. A moderate sized gera-
MUM of this variety is said to be so disa-
greeable to flies that they avoid its neigh
borhood, and two or three of those plants
in room will drive them out altogether.
The big American ship Kenilworth from :
Honolulu, takes the first cargo of Ha-
waiian sugar ever sent direct from the
islands to New York She can carry 1900 4
tons of sugar. The California Sugar Com
pany conducts this new enterprise. 1t
has arranged to ship two-thirds of the
Hawaiian sugar to San Francisco, where
it will be refined, and the remaining third
to New York. AS one-third of the Ha-
waiian crop is estimated at 30, 900 tons,
this will load ten of the largest American
clipper ships.