The advocate., 1897-10-20
Advocate Museum.

one third or the land SURFACE or the
earth is covered with forests.
The city of Santa Fe, N. NJ, is without
rats, mice and cats, as the air is too rare
fed for those animals
The depression in Canyon DiablO, Ar.
izona, nearly mile in diameter and
100 feet deep, is attributed to an enOr-
nous meteor.
Niagara Falls is reckOned to do as
much work as 226000,000 tons of coal
could do in year. taking the consump
tion of fuel at four pounds per horse
power per hour, almost exactly as much
as the known coal in the world could do
in one year.
AT Delhi is forged iron column sixty
feet high. It is sixteen inches in diam
eter at the base and twelve inches at
the top. It's weight is estimated at
about seventeen tons. From records eX-
tant it is reasonably certain that it was
already in existence 900 years B. G.
The revolver from which the assassin,
Charles J. Guiteau, fired the bullet that
caused the death of President James A.
Garfield, on the I'd Of July, 1881, has been
recovered, after being concealed fifteen
years, and is now in the possession of
Chief Clerk Sylvester, of the police de-
partment at Washington.
Lieutenant Peary has brought from
the northwestern coast of Greenland a
meteOrite that for size reduces all other
objects of the kind to insignificance.
The Cape York meteOrite, as it is called,
is twelve feet long and eight feet wide,
and weighs about 100 tons, or about
thirty-three times more than the largest
now in the United States.
strengthening machines propelled by
electricity have been in use in different
parts of the United States. One set of
twenty was installed at Great Falls,
Mont, which has become by far the
largest wool shipping point of the North,
west. The machines were operated for
nearly three weeks by this motor, and
in that time sheared 1874 shheep, av-
eraging nearly 100 sheep per day per
machine.
The natives Of Venezuela and adjoin-
ing countries on the north side of the
Amazon often avail themselves of the
services of native crane to care for
their poultry, and also, in place of col
lies OF shepherd dogs, to herd their do
mestic animals. This remarkable bird,
which the Indians call ''yakamik," is
found in a wild state in the great forests
that lie between the northern coast of
South America and the Amazon river
1t is asserted that 100000 meteors
reach the atmosphere of the earth every
day, coming from interstellar space,
where the temperature is 400 degrees
below zero. On striking the outer air
of this planet the friction causes a heat
Of 100000 degrees, and the missile, fly
ing $500 miles minute, is instantly
converted into gas. But occasionally the
mass of the meteor is so great that some
Of 1t reaches the earth, becoming Wis
ible at distance of 100 miles.
A writer in a leading magazine has
made the prophecy that in 300 years
from now the-world will only know three
anguages-English, Russian and Chi
nese. The English language will be
spoken all over North and South Amer
ica, in Australia, India, Africa, New Zea-
land and the islands of Australia and
the Pacific. The Russian tongue will
have conquered all Europe except Great
Britain, and all Asia except India. Chi
nese will hold sway over the rest of the
world.
Among the wonders of Surrey, which
is a suburb Of Londontown, is a horse
that wears spectacles, says an exchange.
He wears them for a purpose, too, for
his eyesight is so dim that he can't see
a yard in front of his nose unless he has
ON his "specs" He has suffered from