The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A cOrQ OF pltcn pine unOer OlSIlliar
ton gives the following substances:
Charcoal, 50 bushels; illuminating gas,
about /, 600 cubic feet; Illuminating oil
and tar, so gallons; pitch or resin, ~
barrels; pyroligneous acid. 100 gallons;
spirits of turpentine, 20 gallons; tar, l
barrel; wood spirits, 5 gallons
The common crocodiles of Egypt
were kept in temples reared in Mem
phis and other cities in their honor.
There they were worshipped and fed
with the greatest care and adorned
with costly trinkets. They were rem
dered perfectly tame and took part in
the professions and other ceremonies
The passion flower is intimately
associated in popular legends with tho
crucifxion; its three petals are snip
posed to typify the Father. Son and
Holy Spirit, while in its other parts
the imaginative eye finds the cross,
the nails, the spear, the crown OF
thorns, the halo and various other en-
blematic objects.
Out of $4,000 farms in Denmark,
only 800 are over ESQ acres in extent,
ana most of them are worked by their
owners By their great technical
knowledge of their business and tho
gradual change of growing grain to
breeding cattle and dairy farming the
Danish farmers have suffered less from
Transatlantic competition than those
Of any other European country.
AT Frascati, near Rome, there is .
bachelors 1ion which recently pro-
tested against the overdressing and
the general conduct of the girls of the
town, and resolved to boycott those
who did not heed the warning, and to
do all they could to prevent them from
marrying. Whereupon the girls Of
Fracasti marched to the club room,
forced their way in, tore up the cir
culars and drove out the bachelors
with clubs
Large tracts of dense forests in
Australia are practically shadeless
Many kinds of trees in that strange
country turn their edges instead Of
the fat surface of the leaves to the
sun, and thus one NAV stand under q
tree of enormous size and be as fully
exposed to the sun as though he were
in the open plain. Travel through
these forests is said to be exceedingly
arduous work, as the trees, while they
do not cut off the sun, prevent the
breeze from reaching the ground, and
thus the traveller experiences a sitting
heat.
European boys at birth are from
one half to Que centimeter longer than
girls, Prof Waldeyer. of Berlin, told
the Anthropological congress that met
at Cassel, but when grown up man is
ten centimeters taller than woman.
The average weight at birth for boys
is 1888 grammes; for girls, 5000
grammes. The European man is SUI
perior to woman in strength and
height. but the muscle. of the tongue
are more highly developed in woman.
Male blood contains 5000. 900 red cor
puscies 20 a cubic millimeter, female
blood only $500. 600. while the average
mans brain weighs 1872 grammes to
1881 grammes for that of woman.
The Philippines We're discovered
by Magellan in 1921. In 1871 Spanish
supremacy was established over the
five biggest islands, the capital city of
Manila being founded. Up to date
the warlike Mohammedan tribes of
the southern islands have maintained
their independence. No fewer than
twelve expeditions have been fitted
out at Manila by the Spaniards against
the Sooloo islands and southern Min
dsnao at various times from 1877 TO
1850: but. though it was easy to defeat
TIE natives. their permanent subjec-
ton aud conversion to Christianity
has proved impossible. In 1862 En-
gland took Manila. but restored it to
Spain By the treaty of Paris