Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-04-18
MISCELLANEOUS.


70 the name Of country, is of Celtic
origin.
--Corsica has 5000 square miles,
about the area Of Delaware and Rhode
Island, and has made more noise in the
world than both combined.
Norway has 1ss,0oo square miles
almost exactly the size of New Mexico,
or about the combined area of Mime
sota and Missouri.
Who dares to think that these few
Thousand years have exhausted this
majestic and mysterious being that we
call man?-Phillips Brooks
-Wisest schemes by statesmen spun,
time has seen them one by one like the
leaves OF autumn fall-a little song out
lives them all.-W. L. II. Lecky.
Algeria has eco, 900 square miles, or
about the combined area OF the states Of
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Tennessee.
1t is suggested that sounds too
high for our ears would be recorded by
the phonograph, and might be made
audible by reproducing at lower
speed of the instrument
"A gold-weighing machine in the
Bank of England is so sensitive that
postage stamp dropped on the scale
will turn the index on the dial dis
tance OF six inches.
-Humorist-"Where's that joke I
left on your desk yesterday" Editor
--'T don't know. It's probably gone
home; it was certainly old enough TO
know the wayr'-Syracuse Post
Ballads and popular songs are both
the cause and effect Of general morals;
they are first formed and then react
In both points OF view they are an in
dex Of public morals.-H. Martineau.
-"What made him propose so sud
denly?" 'Jeelousy," replied the de-
mure girl. 81 took off my hat at the
theater and he overheard the young man
just behind call me an angel. Wash
ington Star.
Rocking cradles for babies were
used by the Egyptians many centuries
before Christ. Among the pictures
copied by Belzoni is one of an Egyp-
tian mother at work with her foot on
the cradle.
1t so happens that the leap years
coincide with the years that are divis-
ible by four, and thus they may be
known. OF the years concluding CEN
turies. only every fourth is leap year,
beginning two thousand, which Is d.
visible by four hundred, as is also two
thousand four hundred.
The Erie canal is S63 miles in
length. II was begun in 1917 and COM
| pleted in 1925, at a cost of 81, COZ, 900.
The enterprise was undertaken and
carried through by the state OF New
York. II was subsequently enlarged,
and is now seventy feet broad at the
surface and fifty-six feet at the bot
tom, with depth of seven feet
Rocking chairs of the styles pre-
vailing nowadays are believed TO have
been invented in the present century.
They are mentioned by Venerable Bede.
"The women now are so luxurious that
| they do have chairs with wooden circles
on the legs and which sway back and
/ forth In such sort that IL maketh one
sick to behold them"
Among the Arabs practice from
| time immemorial has prevailed OF
churning by placing the milk in leather
skins which were shaken or beaten
until the butter came. The Huns did
their churning by tying bag of milk
TO a short lariat, the other end of which
was fastened to the saddle. The horsS
was put at brisk gallop, and after a
round of some miles the churning was
considered to be accomplished.
Investigation into the cause of the
frequency of railroad accidents in the
state of North Carolina has brought
out the fact that there are lalge
number of boys under IS years Of age
handling train orders, employed by
the railroads of that state than by
those of any other state having the
same railroad mileage. The legisla-
ture will be asked TO pass law regul-
atinR the age OF railroad employees.
-Tongs were said to have been in
vented In China, B. c. 1922, but repre-
sentations of them have been found on
the Egyptian monuments, B. G. 2eO0.
In India they are claimed as in use
since B. c. 900, and their principal en-
ployment in that country, where fires
during the most OF the year are super
fluous, was 10 facilitate the handling
of dead bodies in the funeral pyres.
Seventy pairs Of tonRs, some bronze,
some iron, have been taken from the
ruins Of PompeiL
The cups Of the Assyrisns closely
resemble our saucerS Every noble
man and gentleman had his own CUP
and cup bearer, the latter Of whom al
ways accompanied him 10 q feast,
carrying before him the cup Of gold,
silver, cry stal or marble, which his
master only used on state occasions.
Saucers for cups We're introduced in the
latter part OF the eighteenth century,
and at first were greatly ridiculed, the
persons who employed them being said
not TO be able 10 drink without having
two cups
Here is an interesting idea forsths
housewife who Is troubled with the ag
gravating flies hourishing in their fur
nace-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 be
loved by our Rrandmothers-keep iiei
away. A moderate-sized geranium o.
this variety Is said TO be so disagree
able to flies that they avoid It's neigh
borhood. and two or three OF thos,
plants In room will drive them ou
altogether.
The movement TO unite Newfound
land with the Dominion of Canadi
gains strength in the province. but IT 4
not regarded with 80 much favor Il
Canada. The question is raised whethe
Canada would not pay too dearly 70
the new acquisition, and good man,
Canadians seem TO be answering tina
question In the affirmative. In talinl
Newfoundland, Canada must take tn
debt Of that colony, which ia abou
SIS. 600, 900, and would more than offso
the income which Canada would re
ceive from the colony for many year
10 come.
February, 1866, is referred 10 b
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