Evening journal., 1903-10-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST

rhe latest indignities that microbes
we been subjected to is firing them
ON gun This was done by govern
ent officials. and 1t was found that
q bugs were not injured.
A British board OF trade return
ows 442 strikes and lockouts IN the
nited Kingdom during 1902. The
umber OF employees affected was 256.-
z, the aggregate duration in working
iys 3,4T9.0O0.
The electronometer is so acutely sen
tive that it will detect in one minute
amount Of matter which must accu-
lulate for 100000 years before there
enough OF It to affect the most sen
tive chemical balance.
There is a man in Warsaw. Poland.
Who has the long distance record for
lgamy. bar Utah, Turkey and a few
uch places. He has seventeen living
wives, and each and every one Of them
glad that he is in jail.
ireland possesses the Oldest Judge In
he United Kingdom. This is Vice
Chancellor Chatterton. who was born
in 1919. six years before Lord HAS
curry. and who stepped from parliament
o his present position in 1867.
The annual vacation is one Of the
most efficient weapons against break
lown for those who live in the intense
modern life. A well known New York
physician used to say that he could do
4 years work in eleven months. but
not in twelve.
Some large beetles are as good as
circular saws. They seize a branch or
twig with their deeply toothed Jaws
and whirl round and rcund until the
Wig Is sute- on They heye been
Known to saw twig as thick as a
Walking stick in this manner.
The Kickapoo Indians are leaving
oklahoma at a rapid rate and settling
In Mexico. The McLoud Standard
says It won't be long until the tribe
will be forgotten in and around Nc
Loud and that there will be some fnl
sections of land for sale in the near fu
ture.
In the Alps, Mont Blanc. the highest
IS tedious, but easy. Delicate women
make 1t by hundreds without much
danger. The lower Matterhorn. when
conquered. took four lives Whymper.
one Of the three who escaped death,
afterward broke his leg by falling OF
a platform at a lecture.
The power plants now in operation at
the falls divert one-seventeenth OF the
volume Of Niagara river. and when the
fumes now building are completed
one-eighth less water will go over the
falls, this aside from the water divert
ed by the Welland canal and by the
great volume of the Chicago drainage
canal.
The published statement that we
now get no pure Mocha coffee is con-
troverted by the United States consul
at Alden. who shows that mixing other
coffees with Mocha or shipping coffees
to Alden to be reshipped as Mocha Is
prohibited by the authorities. The Unit
ed States bought OF this coffee last year
2,6SS,2S5 pounds at a cost Of S377.352.
On the thirty-seven acres Of ground
devoted to the live stock department
at the worlds fair at ST. Louis are be-
ing built $500 stalls. Two thousand
four hundred Of these are open stalls,
3 by 10 feet. The remaining 400 are
box stalls. 10 by 10 feet In addition
four Octagonal dairy barns will provide
l40 open stalls and twenty-six box
stalls.
Ether and chloroform. SO useful in
sending men to sleep. have the very
opposite effect on plants. which are
stimulated to the greatest possible ac-
tivity by these drugs. In Denmark and
Germany advantage has been taken Of
this fact to force flowers In rooms and
glass houses and to make them bloom
out Of season. The results ar. said to
be marvellous.
It is proposed to use currents Of cleo
tricity in place Of anpsthetics for oper-
atlons on the teeth. One pole is con
nected to an electrode nodded to flt the
tooth and lined with wet asbestus TO
counteract any heating effect on the
tooth itself Five minutes sufilces to
render insensible a tooth with a single
fang Molar teeth and those with sew
eral fangs require longer.
In some countries walking sticks are
manufactured from shark ems From
lhe skin Of the animal is obtained a
leather suitable for making sword
grips and many fancy articles Sharks
abound on the coast Of Nicaragua. and
Mr. Gottschalk. the United States con.
sul at san Juan del Norte suggests
that the FMS backb8nes and skins
might with advantage be imported into
the United States for industrial pur
poses.
There are twelve Iale students who
because thoy arp more than 9 feet
inch tsl are eligible to membership f.
The new club Of Brcbainenass- Of tn
university. The president IS Frederic
". Wilhemi Of New York. the secre
tary George A. Gross of Waterbury
Conn. and the vice president and treas
urer Stuart p. Sutphin OF Cincinnati
The tallest man Of the club is Thor
Baker OF Cincinnati. who stands fee
8 inches In his stockings.