The defender., 1900-01-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The healthiest troops in the WORLD
are those of the German army.
The sewing women of Berlin get
only thirty cents a dozen for making
fine shirts.
"A Louisville (Kr.) man has lit
tie house dog that chews chewing gum
with relish.
Rain has never been known to fam
in that part of Egypt between the tive
lower falls of the Nile.
"A miners lamp, using acetylene
gas, has been introduced into the Sell
beck mines of Germany.
The young man of Samoa, when in
love, has the name of his sweetheart
tattooed upon his forearm.
Nearly all of the Egyptian farmers
use the same kind of plow that was
used five thousand years ago.
In Wales, up to the year 1850, II
vas customary for people attending
church to smoke during divine service.
"A correspondent informs us that
| in 1890 20 ostrich eggs were hatched
| by incubator and Is of the birds were
| raised.
A ship of only 250O tons brought
| from Para Brazil, to New York city
a cargo of rubber which was insured
for So, 100000.
American cotton is preferred by
the Japanese manufacturers because
| it has a longer staple than that Of any
! other country.
When an unmarried woman is borne
to the grave in Brazil her coffin, the
hearse and the livery of the coachmaR
are all scarlet.
"A clock is being constructed fo1
Liverpool Street Station, in London,
The interior of it's case could allow five
persons to dine comfortably.
BY special request a circus at Bell
vile, Kan, changed the route of its
procession in order that two sick boys
might see it from their windows.
The worlds births amount to &c.
1872, 900 every year, 100, 800 every day,
4300 every hour, seventy every minute
and one and fraction every second.
| An express train Is run by cleo
tricity between Dusseldorf and Gre
field, Germany; q distance of fourteen
miles, and the trip is made in " min
utes.
"A New York man claims to have
shot a crane UP in the Adirondacks
that had forty-five trout in it's stom-
ach, none of which weighed less than
q pound
The natives of the Philippines
|
ent fabric for ladies' dresses from the
fibres of the pineapple leaf 1t is call
ed pima cloth.
Professor r. L. Garner, who be-
lieves that monkeys can talk, is about
to make another journey to Africa, to
furher familiarize himself with the
monkey language.
When a native of Abyssinia desires
10 pay a delicate attention to FRIEND
or guest he produces a piece OF rock
salt and gracionsly permits the lat
ter to lick it with his tongue.
"A Calcutta paper contains an ac
count of the workhOuse or asylum for
infirm beasts and birds that was es-
tablished some thirteen years ago by
society of influential Hindus
"A Chicago gas company has put
its collectors into Uniform. The dis
tinctive feature about the dress is the
vest, which is of brilliant yellow, with
the company's name IN black letters
across it.
In remote parts of Scotland the old
Covenanters' love for long services or
the bare hillsides still fingers. AT
Dingwall a recent communion service
in the open air lasted from 10 A. M
until 4 P. M.
A soft and boneless tail, PA inches
long, cut from an 11-week child In Ell
bing, was shown by DR.. Simon, OF tha1
town, to the Berlin Anthropological So
ciety. Prof. Virchow called 1t "a
splendid specimen"
The stain of banana juice is almost
lndelible 1t does not proceed from the
, bstalk or plant, but exists in the greer
fruit as well, from which when cut or
bruised it exudes in the shape OF Visclo
milk or cream-like drops.
The fruit of the nutmeg tree is pear
: shaped. 1t consists of four parts, e
f1eshy outer part, a red network WITH
in this, known to commerce as mace
the shell covered by the mace, and thf
:, kernel, or nutmeg proper.
-Co-operation seems to be sue
cess in Moorehead, Kan. That little
ant, laundry, hall, creamery and cam
i ing factory, and several co-operativ'
!. farms are in that vicinity.
e "A six-year-old boy, the son o
e Robert Mortimer, of Hampstead, N. Y
e while seated at a table, fell agains
d the point of a lead pencil which h
10 held in his hand. 1t struck his righ
Ie temple, pierced his brain and cause
l. death.
1T Certain fresh water algae named b
1T a French botanist, NJ. r. Bouifhac, ar
n without injury, at least one species ap
n, pearing to derive more benefit 1
'e growth from arsenic acid than fror
phosphoric acid.
Photography of sounds has reach
~ ed a point said to establish the faC
y that there is no such thing as absolut
a, silence. The machine used is 80 ser
n sitive that it records the lightest cul
ul rent of air passing through a room an
al distant noises the ear cannot detect.
I'd 1t is said that bubbles formed
IN filtered CASTLE soapsuds and glyceriI
ne will last several days. A Baltimol
IN drawing room oFnamented with the:
Ut bubbles, which had been carefully n
As leased close to the ceiling, reflected tt
gas lights in ever-varying tints, ar
the effect was exceedingly attractive.
w Australia raises tarantulas for Il
n sake of their webs, the filaments
at which are made into threads for ba
ny looms. They are lighter than silk, al
of when woven, lighter than canva
On Each tarantula yields from twenty
o. forty yards OF fflement, of which eigl
We twisted togetAAR form . single threa
"a IA Action requires deadly spurs, but G
A0 end, in this case, justifies the mean&