The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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Our ostrich farms are profitable Birds the worth ti00 apiece and a good specimen yields about $26 worth of feathers at a
 Mss Ella Ewing. the Missouri gaintess, Aas erected g house for herself in Gown . town in that State. The doors in her home are ten feet high and the ceilings dfteen fet Her height Is eight feet four Inches. and she sleeps on . bed ten feet
 Tks sugar cane of China is said by bot
 om .hs. @ sf fndis and ,s. fact posed to indicate that the development of eug4r cane was carried on independa entity by two different nations at the same time. Lincoln County, Ontario. It contained upward of 300 skeletons. which are thought to belong to the tribe of Olti- Nandarons. or Mouths, allied to the Hu- the seventeenth century.
 nattan. New York City. will send about CTS to the country this summer. Of the various churches the Episcopal sends by Tar the greatest number of children. Trinity alone sending 4.o0o.
 A uniue feature of Honolulu dwellings Is the provision made for lighting the ex- terior as well as the interior. Electric lamps are set in the masonry of the walls. thereby throwing a reflection both inside and on the lawns where the resi- dents spend most of their nights.
 Fewer brown straw hats are seen in New York than in almost any other city. Absence of soft coal smoke is one sug- gested explanation of the prevalence of white straws.
 biscarding the traditional means of train-King Edward VII. this year drove from Sandringham to Newmarket and return in his twelve horsepower gas- cline vehicle.
 .Russia's best known newspaper. The Nova Vremya of St. Petersburg has been suspended for a week by the Minis ter of the Interior for publishing an ar ticie on strikes in which the present wretched condition of the Russian work 1ngman is shown up.
 In view of the widespread distress caused In Prussia by the destruction of the seed crops the Minister of Finance has issued circular to the District Pres idents urging the utmost leniency al lowed by law in cases in which farmers are une ble to pay their taxes
 The French army has uite lately put into service number of new types of carriages These include steam vehicles Tor carrying provisions, high-speed car riases for uwse in the transmission of dispatches and others built like a cage to De used for the conveyance of carrier pigeons.
 The largest lightning conductor in +ha world IS in Bavaria. The top of it is some yards above the meteoroiogical sta tion on the Zugspitze. the highest point down the side of the mountain to a body of running water. The length of the rod IS three and one-half miles
 Antonio Vario's painting in Christ's Hospital to commemorate "the founding of the Royal Mathematical Scholarship by King Charles H." one of the largest oic- lures in the world. was recently taken down to be cleaned. It weighs two and one-half tons and is q feet long by is feet wide.
 Twenty-two years ago the South had s67.000 cotton spindles and the rest of the country had 10.600000 spindles; today the South has 5000 cotton spindIes an in- crease of nearly 5,5O0,00o. while the rest spindles, or a gain since 1880 of less than 100000 spindles.
 Soon after her marriage, which took place about fifty years ago, Mrs. Hester 5. Thorpe. of Flushing. N. Y.. made a vow that she would never pass beyond Der frent gate She kept the vow, con lining her strolls to her little yards She newer saw railroad or a trolley car Although both are within a fe wblocks Pf her home. Her death occurred recent iy at the age of 72.
 There has been discovered in China a curious picture, evidently of great an fiquity, which is supposed to represent Noah's ark resting on the top of Mount Ararat. As Is we'll known the religious literature of almost every nation and race contains an account of the deluge, but a Chinese manuscript recently unearthed follows very closely to the story record cd in the Bible.
 The corn grain has. in addition to it's etarch element, tiny germ in which lies It's principle This germ was formerly separated and thrown aside as waste. Lately 1t has been found that this germ Is rich in oil which can be utilized. The and crushed. The oil gathered from it finds ready market, and in the last germ is now separated from the starch few years millions of dollars worth of this oil has been exported to Europe.