The herald., 1895-04-04
OUT-OF- -THE=WAY FACTS

The ancient Egyptians used wooden
rollers to move their hug e bocks OF stone.
Some OF the Boston beauties, who are
| fond of athletic exercises. array them
| selves Just after breakfast, in half gym
nasum costume aad run foot races.
One of the heaviest snowfals in the
| history of this country was February 18TH
to "A. III, when the snow remained f1ve
to seven feet all over New England
A colored woman in New Orleans is
about to take her degree in medicine, and
viii be the first woman to practlce IN
tnat city with a degree won in Louisiana.
Statistics are quoted to show that in
New York city last year S47 fires were
caused by coal oil. 20 By gas, 273 by
matches and Only As by the use OF electric
light and power.
The standard Chinese work on coinage
is in twenty volumes, and Chinese money
itself is iIot less bulky. as d string of
''cash" Weighing five pounds is worth
less than - cents.
The largest amount of farm lncum-
branccs is in New York. Next comes
Iowa, then linoIs. followed by Pennsyl-
vania, Kansas. Ohio, Wisconsin and Mis-
souri,, in the order named.
woman in Jacksonville, Florida,
while cooking. mashed her finger. She
rushed out OF the house screaming MUIR
der! fire!'' An accommodating neighbor
kindly turned in an alarm of fire, and in
a few minutes the fire department was at
the woman house.
The elder Darwin wrote the prosaic
falsehood that bees iniure pants by rob-
bng them of their wax. The younger
Darwin made clear one of the more poeti-
cal facts of nature-that bees and other
insects ''are the priests who wed flower
to flower. lest beauty be barren and bear
no fruit
The unit used in measuring the strength
of electric currents was first called IAN
ampere by the French electric congress
of 1881, the name being given it in honor
OF Andre Marie Ampre, the French scien-
tst. who elucidated the theory that the
magnetism of the earth is the result of
electric currents circulating around it
from east to west.
Albert Frazier, who married recently in
Muncie, Indiana, in celebrating the event
gave cigars to couple of boys who are
minors. The grand jury indicted Frazier
quashed the Indictment after reading
letter from Rev. q. A. liill who OH
ciated at the wedding, and petition
from several other citizens.
Many queer experiences have been mar
rated by the librarians anent the strange
J e luests which they receive for books.
The list can be heightened by recording
what recently happened in small town
in Massachusetts, where visitor to the
library, apparently III search of Miss
Beatrice Harraden's popular httls book,
gravely asked for Boats that pass on
the waters, ~
The Massachusetts board OF conciliation
and arbitration reports that the strikes
in that state last year were numerous. but
generally successful, and that those called
successful entailed more loss than gain
60 the workmen The results of arbtra-
tion were favorable to all concerned, but
IL seems that both parties to a labor con-
trcversy will seldom agree to so calm and
T ason,p!e a method of ct ling dispute.
At last it has been made known that
the death OF Emin Pasha was due solely
to the pride OF a petty African chieftain,
who wished To show his more powerful
neghbors that he was not afra to take
the life of a white man. The first de-
tailed account OF the murder OF perhaps
the most picturesque figure among eX-
porers vs. written for the February Gem
tury by Il. Dorsey Mohun. United States
agent in the Congo Free State. Mr..
Mohun's sergeant. who was a member of
Stanley's Emin rel ef expedition, dlscov-
cred two of the assassins. Mr.. Mohun
arrested them and very ingenously eX-
tracted full confession from them, which
he has given in their own graphic
language. Both were hanged Just year
after they had cut off Emin's head.
An attractive feature of the Cotton
States and international exposition. to
be held at Atlanta. Georgia, next Septem-
ber, VIII he the reproduction of the
Worlds Columbian exposition in nina
ture by G. W. Ferris. the builder of the
Ferris wheel. The great World S fair viii
be reproduced in its entirety. complete
Il 1nto Ia Of 4
This makes the manufactures and liberal
arts building about ten feet long and the
whole exposition seventy-iive feet long.
Search lights will be shown on the bat
tleship and the various buildings, the in
railway will be seen with cars in
motion, the whalebacl; steamer will be
seen arriving and departing, and Lake
Michigan viii appear in the distance.
BY electrical and mechanical effects, sun
rise. daylight. moonrise and the white
,ity by moonlight will apear in success
non.