The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-03
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In India, elephants over twelve and
up to fOrtyfiye years Of age are deem
ed the best to purchase, and will gen.
orally work we'll until they are eighty
years old.
The 1st of January has not always
been the first day of the year For
seven hundred years prior to the fif-
teenth century the year commenced on
Christmas Day.
Paper bags are used by Japanese
soldiers when they wish to boil water.
The bag is filed with water. and then
water is poured over it. 1t is hung
over the fire, and in ten minutes the
water is boiling The bag can be used
eight or ten times, and the cost of it
Is about a penny.
Senator Gallinger of New Hamp-
shire has been in the Senate since In
1891, and say that only once has he
been able to get a private claim
through Congress. This claim was
pending for thirty years before it was
passed, and the claimant died on the
day it finally got through, and had to
be buried by charity.
A Norwegian inventor has discover
ed way to sound deep places in the
done by electrical waves, and a mes
sage is sent down through the water
| and rebounds from the bottom in some
way, the depth being found from the
time it takes the waves to travel down
to the bottom and back.
The natural gastric juice of the hog
has been used by an Italian physician
in the treatment CT disease of human
stomachs. Nothing else so perfectly
supplies the constituents missing, and
much success has been had with this
remedy in nervous and debilitated con-
ditions of the digestive apparatus, di-
latation Of tie stomach, chronic gas
| tritis, etc.
A London jeweler has made col
lection of ancient forks used I'm En-
gland, which show some little known
| facts about the table manners of a
few. centuries ago. The forks, which
are of solid silver, date from the six
teenth century. In many cases the de-
signs in al lthis time have scarcely
varied in any detail, and the forks look
like those which might be bought to-
day. The old forks were a great lux
ury in thei. time, and were only used
by the aristocracy.
The construction Of the great Sim
plon tunnel has proved once more that
geology is largely p matter of theories
which may or may not fit actual con-
ditions, even close to the surface Of
the earth. The engineers have discov-
cred that the biologists were entirely
at fault as to the temperature which
would be encountered, missing the
mark twenty five degrees at the point
where hot water was found. The wa
ter conditions in general were unlike
those predicted, and the engineers
found that the dips In the rock strata,
which had been declared on theory to
be mainly vertical. were, in fact, horl-
zontal.
Two miles from Kamakura, and
| about twenty from Yokohama, in ia
pan, on a terrace near the temple, sits
the most gigantic idol in the world.
1t is the brazen image Of deity, and
dates from the reign of Emperor Sho-
mu, who died A. d. 74S. The dimen-
sions OF this idol are colossal Its
height, from the base of the lotus
flower upon which it sits to the top
of it's head is 631k feet. The face is
sixteen feet in length and 916 feet
wide, the eyes are three feet nine
inches from corner to corner. the eye
brows 51h feet and the ears are 81
feet. The chest Is twenty feet In
depth, and the middle finger is exact
~ Ave feet long.