The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1899-10-14
The Scissors Fiend.

There are 100000 varieties Of insects.
Secretary Hay owns a copy OF the
famous Gettysburg speech, written IN
Lincoln's own hand.
The Canton Aargau in Switzerland
accepted the cattle insurance law by a
vote Of 1890 against 1902.
The largest landed proprietor In
Europe is the Prince of Schwartzen-
berg, who owns 2O7,371 hectares OF
land.
Sir Robert Rawlinson, K. G. B., is
the only man who was ever knocked
out of the saddle without being killed.
The telephoto attachment is a mar
vel0us recent addition to the use OF the
camera. 1t is designed to enable the
photographer to obtain mdgnified pic
lures of scenery and buildings at a
considerable distance.
People in the Arctic regions can con-
verse when more than mile apart, be-
cause there the air, being cold and
dense, is very good conductor, and
the smooth surface Of the ice also
favors the transmission of sound.
The horse has a smaller stomach pro-
portionately than any other animal, be-
cause the horse was created for speed.
Had he the Eliminating stomach Of the
OK he would be quite untitled for the
labor which he now so admirably per-
forms.
A London bookseller has just been
sentenced to nine months imprison
ment for selling indecent French
books, in spite of his counsePs plea
that book in foreign tongue would
not corrupt the morals of her majesty's
subjects. Though this was the first sue
cessful prosecution on record where the
book was not in English, the court
would not allow an appeal.
France in war has 1000 soldiers to
15.407 inhabitants; Germany in war
has 1 900 soldiers to 17,424 inhabitants;
Great Britain in war has 1000 soldiers
to 72,427 inhabitants; while under the
House bill, during the late war, the
United States has 1000 soldiers to
about 791, OGO inhabitants.
In the course Of a day a person
breathes about 1900 gallons of air,
weighing "a pounds, about six times
the average amount of food and drink
COuSuuleu IL IuclGIOIt oCCIIo Itl1AoA
foolish to be constantly on guard
against adulterated food and impure
water, and allow your neighbor to pol
lutte the atmosphere because 1t is
cheaper for him in business.
The~spider has tremendous appe-
tite, and his gormandizing defies all
human competition. A scientist who
carefully noted spiders consumption
of food in twenty-four hours concluded
that if the spider was built proportion
ately to the human scale ne would eat
at breakfast approximately a small
alligator at a. m. lamb, by 9 a. m.
young camelopard, by 1 o'clock a
sheep, and would finish up with lark
pie in which there were 10 birds.
A curiosity at least is this compila-
ton of the deepest wells in the world:
In Europe, one at Passy, France, depth
1000 feet; at La Chapelle, Paris. depth
1850 feet; at Grenelle, Paris, depth
1873 feet; at Neusalwerk, near Min
den, depth 1888 feet; at Kssingen.
Bavaria, depth 1877 feet; at Speren-
berg, near Berlin, depth, 4,19O feet,
which is said to be the deepest well in
the world; at Pesth, Hungary, depth
1882 feet. In the United States there
are wells located at St. Louis, depth
3,843 feet; at Louisville, depth 2,0S6
feet; at Columbus, Ohio. depth 2,775R
feet; at Charleston, S. c., depth 1880
feet.