The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-28
OUT=OF=THE=WAY FACTS

The Atlantic takes its name from Mt.
Atlas.
1t costs SIS to change the tunes of a
street organ.
The crown worn by Queen Victoria
weighs forty ounces
Gold which is abs olutey pure is said to
| be twenty-four carats fine.
The crocodile'e egg is about the size OF
that OF the goose.
The polar currents contain less salt
than those from the equator.
Herodotus says that Crpsus was the
first ruler to order gold coins made.
At the Bombay zoo the skin of sea
serpent sixtyfour feet long is on exh!-
btion.
Sea water is said to contain all the
soluble substances that exist in the
earth.
ing the year 1894 lost over go 900. 600 by
theft.
A Spanish paper in the Pryenees rpgu-
larly suspends publication in hot weather
1t is estimated that the gull stream
takes about two years to flow from
Florida to Norway.
The silver dollars issued in 1904 are
worth $1,000 each. There were only Is, $40
coined in that year.
The North British Railway Company is
building II station Edinburgh at cost
of 81, 300 900.
1t is claimed that Lake Erie produces
more fish to the square mile than any
other body OF water i'll the world
Some of the little bronze images of
Chinese delties are supposed to have an
antiquity of 20o0 years before Christ.
In 1898 u. 132, All bushels of buckwheat
were raised, ground into meal and made
into cakes, to be duly served with butter
A New York halter who keeps his
finger on the hat pulse of the world "
says that the men OF the United States
spend 5000. 900, 900 a year for headgear.
In all. it has been estimated that over
- 90. 900 acres are devoted to the main
tenance of deer in Scotland. and that
about 5000 stays are annually killed.
The Berlin Street Car Company paid
s2500O0 into the treasury of the city
cipal avenue. Inter den Linden, at one
| point.
Sea water contains silver in consider
| able quantities 1t is deposited on the
copper sheathing of ships in amounts
sufficient to make its reduction profit
| able.
A curious burial custom exists in As
sam. All corpses arc lowered from the
| roofs with ropes. 1t being contrary tt
the laws OF the country to carry dead
| body through door.
The Imperial canal OF China was begun
| in the year $50 A. ID. and not completed
until 1850, it is 2l00 miles in length and
! is by long odds the most important arti-
| fetal waterway on earth.
| The people of tropical countries almost
| Invariably use some form of capsicum
| with maize as a stimllant to the stomach,
maize being more difficult of digestion
! than some other grains.
A gentleman who recently d ed in
| Vienna at the age of 20, had been IL
smoker since he was II. During that
! time he had smoked 32s 7l3 cigars, As, $50
of which were gifts. Those lie paid for
cost him $l2, 800.
In reply to question by the editor of
| the Richmond Dispatch the department OF
agriculture has decided that the peanut is
not nut. and that the weight of all-
thority seems to be in favor of accepting
| it as native of Brazil
In France very good gas is made from
the fatty material contained in the soap
suds after washing woods and yarns. The
wash water of a wooden mill with 20, 600
| spindles will annually yield enough of
| this substance to produce 1, 100, 600 feet of
| gas.
The early Christians celebrated Christ
mas at several different dates. Some COM
muntes observed the 1st of january:
| others the 9th; others the 18th of March,
| the date of the Jewish passover; others
| the 18th of September, the date OF the
| feast of tabernacles