The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17
OUT OF THE WAY LACTS

Mexico has an area of $4,000 square miles
or nearly one-fourth that of the United
States.
The territory Of ancient Troy and that
of the District of Columbia are equal, 70
square miles.
Uruguay and Nebraska are of nearly
the same size the former having 1900
the latter 76, 200.
Siam has %, 900 square miles about the
area of North and South Dakota with
Minnesota added.
Pennsylvania lady of exemplary piety
sent the motto, worked in cardboard,
Fight On" with her wedding present OF
pair of fiat-irons and rolling pin.
Partisan restaurant keepers mix littel
honey with their butter. This gives it
an agreeable flavor, it is claimed, and
makes inferior butter more palatable.
party of Canadian boundary comis-
sioners arrived at Juneau, Alaska. week
or so ago, to begin survey of trail $500
miles long, from Taku Inlet to the headwa-
tiers of the Yukon river.
Among the early Christians the books
of heretics. such as Origen and Arius, were
frequently burned ingreat piles, while here
tics retorted in kind by burning the writ
ings of the orthodox controversialists.
In the fifteenth century religious nov
elettes were fashionable Some of them
abounded in absurd anachronisms. In
one Abraham is represented as about to
sacrifice Isaac by shooting him with
blunderbuss.
Adun took its name from celebrated
bailiff of London during the reign Of
Henry VII named Joe Dunn. He was ex-
tremely clever in devisng ways and
means to compel unwilling creditors to
settle their accounts.
Search is now being made in the subter-
ranean rooms OF the great kremlin, OF
e. Al e., s1pa <<f vvvovr
w., surnamed the terrible. Eight hun
bred famous bat lost manuscripts are sup
posed to be hidden there.
OF the immigrants sent us in 1888 by the
various countries of Europe. but small
proportion were skilled workmen. Thus
among emigrants from Scotland there were
skilled. in 4 from England Wales, in
S ; Belgium,1 in Z; France. in 9;Germany
and Russia. in TO- Italy, in IA; Russia,
in 10; Poland, in %.
william Brock. of Patterson, New Jer-
sey, intends to run his house on the cleo
trio plan. The house will be heated by
electricity. the cooking will be done on
an electric range. the house will be cooled
in summer with electric fans; there will
be burglar alarm connecting with every
part of the house, electric annunciators.
and the whole, from cellar to garrett, will
be lighted by electricity.
The Church Missionary Society of En-
gland, which is in a very fourishing
state, has been taking forward step.
A thousand a year is spent in securing the
entire service of two clergymen and one
layman, who are to act as missionary depu-
tations of a new type. They will seek
not so much to give missionary informa-
ton as to speak on the general duty OF
the Christian church toward foreign mis-
sions.
The house of r. LeCount, which re-
Gently fell through the ice while being
carried over Gardeners Lake, Conn.,, now
rests squarely on the bottom. 1t has
righted itself and sunk. The water now
fills all the rooms of the lower floor, but
the value of the upper tenement has been
enhanced. There are five rooms upstairs
which have good water front and a fine
reservoir in the easements. The attic
will accommodate several beds, and the
place will be in demand next summer.
A Springfield, N. J. farmer has for
some months been bedridden from rheu-
matism. A few days ago. acting on the
wife placed half dozen tightly corked
beer bottles filled with water in the stove
to heat. as a remedy for the disease. Pres
emily the six bottles exploded. wrecking
the stove and SCATTERING the windows.
Nearly frightened to death, the bedridden
from the house. When he returned all
traces of the rheumatism had vanished
and have not since returned.
The Hawaiian Islands. as the result of
recent exploration, have been found to be
richer in animal life than was formerly
supposed. AS the result of recent years
Investigations by the British Association.
through its committee. it has been found
that of birds there are seventy eight spe-
cies. of which tifty-seven are peculiar to
this group. All the land and fresh water
shells are peculiar, and of thousand spe-
cies of insects. seven hundred are not
found elsewhere. 1t thus seems that
these islands have by no means been pop
ulated from the continent, but have been
centers of independent creation.