The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-12-12

With the early peushkisers lhx
problem Of point was tho most acri*
GUS, and long time esapsed tsforo'it
was definitely solved.
Common rot In wood IL caused w
bad piling or exposure, and the ynfalli-
BILE signs Of this disease in wood nrcS
yellowish patches on the cffis Of ts3a
pieces or yellowish dust in the cracls-
The sheets OF steel for pen-maising
are, In their original condition, eight
feet long and three feet wide. From
these strips are cut wide enough to
permit of the cutting of three or four
pens.
"A hat In bounced" or smoothcd by
means of a machine which pclishes the
whole surface smoothly with emery
paper. Formerly this process was
done by hand, the workmen using
pumice stone for that purpose.
"A peculiar Puritan like sentences was
imposed on three offenders In Norris
town, Pa, few days ago. They were
accused OF assault and battery, and
Were released on their promise to ac-
company their accuser to church on
each OF the twelve next succeeding
Sundays.
The first gold pens made In this
country were manufactured by hand
the gold being cut from strips of the
metal by scissors, and every subse-
quent operation being performed by
hand These handmade gold pens
cost from IS TO $40, and were far in
ferior to the machinc-made article of
the present day
Though contrary TO the usual prac-
tice, night air will ventilate a cellar
more thoroughly and cause less hui
mildly than the hot air of midday.
Open the cellar windows at sunset and
leave them open until six in the morn
ing, and the air will be cooler and
dryer than If the cellar is closed at
night and open during the day. The
screens or Pratings should be SO ar
ranged that the windowsc can be opened
and closed without5moving them.
M. Moissan recently exhibited the
largest black diamond ever found to
the Academic DIES Sciences. 1t weighs
three thousand seven hundred and
sixty.six carats, is apparently without
flaw and is the size Of a large pear. 1t
came from Bahia, In Brazil, where it
was found last July. The largest
black diamonds previously known
weighed six hundred and twenty,
eight hundred and ten and one thou
sand seven hundred carats and were
not free from flaws.
Among an interesting collection of
relies brought from Russia for the Me.
mortal museum at San Francisco re-
Gently were two guns that were on the
ship commanded by Behring, after
whom Behring sea was named. The
guns were hauled overland from Cron-
stadt, two centuries ago, through
Russia and Siberia, nine thousand miles,
to the Pacific The vessel sank in the
Okhotsk sea, and the guns remained
under water for one hundred and fifty \
years. and until about year ago.
--'sJotham's fall bic Of the trees Judges
tx, about 1909 b, ca ia the oldest cx-
tant, and as beautiful as any made
SINCE Nathan's fable of the poor
man. UI. Sam. XIII, about 1884 b O. is
next in antiquity. The earliest collsc-
ton of fables extant is Of eastern or
igin, and preserved in the Sanscrit. The
fables of Vishnoo Sarma, or Pilpay,
are the most beautiful, il not the most
ancient, In the world. Prof. Max Null
Ter traced La Fontaine's fable of the
To very early Sanscrit col
lection Esop's fables. supposed to
have been written about sos or 630 j.
G., were versitied by Babrlus, a Greek
poet, about 1870 Il. G., and turned into
prose BY Maximus Planudes, Greek