The advocate., 1897-09-15
Advocate Museum.

The refOrmer's chosen plot Of ground
lies in the midst Of thistles and burrs.
It is estimated that each day the peO-
pie of Philadelphia swallow over 100000
pills.
The Red Lion, an inn at ArdmOre, Pa,
has been licensed public house for 100
years.
1t rains on an average 2O8 days in the
year in Ireland, about $50 in England,
and in Siberia only sixty days.
At sea level an object 100 feet high is
visible little over thirteen miles. II
500 feet high it is visible nearly thirty
miles.
All the vehicles belonging to the Van
derbilt family are black, with maroon
body, the spokes of the wheels being
shot with red.
At the time Of the surrender, in April,
1865, Andersonville had received 49,4S5
prisoners, of whom 1926 died Of dis
ease and privation.
A sturgeon was caught near Portland,
Oregon, that was eleven feet six inches
in length and weighed nearly7O0 pounds.
1t sold for about $40.
Let no man think lightly Of good, say
ing in his heart it will not benefit me.
Even by the falling Of water drops a
water pot is filled.-Buddha
The speculative astronomers are now
arguing that the moon is in the shape
of plumb-bOb, and that the large end
is always toward the earth.
Prof. G. D. BrintOn, an authority ON
anthropology, says there is not single
zOOlogically specific difference to be
found between the races Of men,"
The largest mass of pure rock salt in
the world lies under the province Of Ga
licia, Hungary 1t is known to be $50
miles long, twenty broad and 25O feet in
thickness.
Greeley had to make very strict rules
to keep his men awake during the long
Arctic night. Beds were not allowed to
be made, and the men were compelled to
get up and move about.
Hundreds Of experiments have been
made to determine whether toads could
live when enclosed in blocks of stone,
and in every case the toads died before
the end of the second year.
An attempt to acclimatize ostriches in
south Russia has proved successful. The
Ostriches born in Russia are much less
sensitive to cold than the imported ones,
and their plumes are equally good.
The letter S begins more words than
any other letter in the alphabet. OF the
1851 pages of dictionary proper in the
1891 edition of Webster's International
Dictionary, 2O4 are occupied by words
beginning with S.
In 1890 the population OF New York
city was 80, 3,131, less than that Of Topeka
now, and Philadelphia had but $500 |
Sixty years ago Chicago was a town of
4,170 inhabitants, and in 1900 Pittsburg
numbered 1866.
At lake near Elizabeth, N. j., snap
ping turtle caught a chicken by the leg. |
The turtles head was cut off and the |
jaws pried open in an attempt to save |
the fowl, but it was found that the leg |
had been crushed.
The specie room on ocean steamships |
is usually sixteen feet long, ten feet wide |
and eight feet high. 1t is formed of |
steel plates a quarter of an inch thick,
with steel door, which has burglar
proof combination lock.
Science News: A Polish chemist has in
vented an anaesthetic which vOlatilizes
rapidly on exposure to the air, render !
ing persons in the immediate vicinity
unconscious for long time. A pellet
broken under mans nose puts him to
sleep for four hours.
When you pinch your finger you think
you feel the pain the very same instant,