The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-07

feet high. 1t was finished in the year "a
1888, contains 27Ss diamonds, 277 pearls,
twenty-seven emeralds, seventeen sapph-
Tres and five rubies
Every wind that blows is caused by the
heated and expanding air of some locality
rising, while the cooler air rushes in to
fill its place.
peared in the Pacific. 500 miles off the coast
of Japan. 1t spouted fire for five days and
then suddenly disappeared.
Reaumur, the entomologist and natural
list in general. declares that each thread
of the common garden spider is made up
OF not less than 5000 separate flaments.
that at the works of Marrel Freres, at
Rines-de-Ger 1t Is of a hundred tons
weight and works on an anvil which weighs
block of cast steel weighing 125 tons:
1t is not generally known that IN the
human voice, though generally but OF nine
than II, 592 1856, 044 5l5 different sounds. These
ees are produced by f9S ~ ss
produce 70. al s23 sounds.
New Guinea is the home of the most won
derful feathered creature known to the
n'doob, or bird of DEATH The venom
OF this bird is more deadly tan that O. OF
is known. A wound from its beak causes
exeruciating pains in every part OF the
commissions; lockiaw and certain death.
The friends of Julio Muller, son of Pan,
anna merchant; had assembled to attend
of .antipyrine, with apparently a fatal re-
suit, even the attending physicians pro
nouneing him dead; HIS anp9p APP fn,anGe
that he was not really dead. The author
tiles were called upon to make an investi-
rdsy c Mhen they S arry s he ce
10! there was Muller alive and wondering
what was the matter.
sells sometimes cleared Pittsburg for sea
voyage. the captain of ship arrived at
Leghorn with cargo. TIE officer who ..e sx-
your papers are forged. There IS no sch
Place. as Pittsburg in the. world. Your
vessel must be confiscated.' The right
ed the officers attention to the Gulf of
Mexico, pointed out the mouth Of the MIS-
slssppi. followed that stream to, the Ohio.
thence, to the forks, and said. though the
map showed no such place. There sir,
is the port where my vessel cleared out.
The jaculator fish, which is found in the
lakes of Java, uses its mouth as squirt
gun and is a good marksman. If stake
or pole. is put in the water with the END
projecting three feet above the surface.
and a beetle or fly is Placed on the top of
the pole. the water will soon he swarming
with finny gunners. Presently one comes
ure as its distance Then it screws its
mouth into very funny shape. discharges
a stream of water and knocks the fly or
beetle into the water, where 1t is instant
Iy devoured by the successful shooter. or
some of it's hungry companions.
The most gigantic turtles that existed
during the geological ages appear to have
inhabited the foothills of the Himalaya
mountains. The shells and bones of these
extinct creatures which occasionally
wash out of the ravines where they have
been buried for untold ages. prove that
they were more than twice as large as any
specimen of the tortoise family which now
exists A specimen of the shell of one of
these old-time monsters which may be
seen in the national museum at Calcutta
is 61b riches thick. ~ feet and fraction
in length S1b feet broad and more than 5
feet in height when standing cupside down,
like an inverted saucer.