The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-03-19
P0T-POURRI.
A COLLECTION OF QUAINT AND
CURIOUS ITEMS.
Gathered From Here, There and Every
where-Scraps of Information on Many
subjects-Delectable Tid-bits for Dainty
Delivers the World Over.

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in their family for forty-five years.
A big dog is Nero, owned by Wayne
Bailey, of Rutland, Va. He weighs
nearly 300 pounds, and measures six
and one-half feet from tip to tip.
A remarkable eel has been discover
ed in the Fiji Islands. It has ne
culiar formation in it's throat which
causes it to whistle when in an excited
state.
A variety of apple has been discov-
cred in Montrose County, COL, having
a deep red skin and a colored meat,
somewhat resembling that of blood
orange. r.
The largest mass of pure rock salt
in the world lies under the province
of Galicia, Hungary. 1t is known to
be $50 miles long, 20 broad and $50
feet in thickness.
Liberia is the land where clocks are
almost entirely dispensed with. The
sun rises exactly at 6 a. m. and sets at
6 p. m. throughout the year, and is
vertically overhead at noon. 8
Dumas pere was. paid a centime a
letter for his feuilleton of LA San Fe-
lice" He had been paid by the line,
but the lines were so short that the
publisher felt he did not receive full
value.
Two English railroads now issue ex-
cursion tickets for dogs.
The graves of Negroes in Zululand
have whimsical decorations. Some of
these mounds are garnished with the
bottles of medicine used by the depart
ed in their final Illness, and the dura
ton of the malady is easily guessed by
the number of bottles.
Tobacco-chewing members of the
Methodist church in Albertsville, Ala,
have been levied upon by the steward
for special tax of $40 a year.
Cassius NJ. Clay has been confined but
once in thirty years to his bed. Then he
was recuperating from the trifle of six
teen knife wounds inflicted by man
named Turner, who died an hour after
the affair. ~
A Chinese merchant in New York re-
Gently imported 400 packs of playing
cards from China for the use of his
countrymen. Playing cards are cheap
lin China, and the merchant valued them
at the custom house at 80 cents for the
lot. He expected to have them passed
through as Chinese paper, value 80
CENTS" at 20 per cent. ad lvalOrem, and
he nearly fell dead when he got a bill
for customs duty at 10 cents a pack,
$40; internal revenue tax at 2 cents a
pack, SO; and fee of u cent pack for
aftixing revenue stamps, $2-a total of
just $50 duty on so cents worth of
goods T, ". z--,' =: :.
That rolling stone may sometimes
gather moss appears from the fact that
a guard on the Great Western Railway
in England has just been given a purse
of 100 guineas for being the greatest
traveller in the world. His journey
| ings back and forth have amounted to
100000 miles in forty years. This
beats the children of Israel.
A few years ago Attorney E. w
Draffen, of Kentucky, bought a pair OF
white rabbits. One of them died, and
strange to say, a strong attachment
soon sprang up between the other rab.
bit and a Jersey calf The two became
constant companions, and when the
calf grew up the friendship was no,
broken. The Jersey goes out in the
field to Craze during the day and the
rabbit plays about the yard. In tht
evening, when the Jersey comes up
the rabbit goes out, and the two fon
die and caress each other in the mos
affectionate manner.
John Lakey laughed so hard at ;
ball game near Carlisle, Pa, when tn
ball struck another spectators hea'
and bounded high in the air, that h
couldn't close his mouth again and ha'
; to be carried mile and a half to
| surgeon.
I One of the convicts pardoned by tn
governor of Indiana on the groun
/ that he was so full of consumptio:
that death was only question OF
, short time, is reported to be bicyclin
: daily and to be in better health tina
: for many years.
Samuel jackson escaped from tn
Rockville Jail, Maryland, and is su
at large. jackson, as is the usual CUT
e tom, was allowed to eat his dinner
! the Jail yard. He climbed to the ro<
!, of small porch over the back doc
: and from there made his way with di
J fculty to the roof Of the Jail Duildin
He crawled over the slanting slate TO
to the lightning rod at the top OF Il
building, and from there slid to Il
e ground, q distance Of about thirty tex
Il When he reached the ground he ma
3 for the woods, a short distance fro
i the jail, and made good his escape.