Alaska sentinel., 1906-12-13
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 The thinnest and toughest leather Is made from frogs skin.
 Out of every one thousand letters used in writing English E occurs 137 times. T is the next most frequently used.
 Yellow Is far the most permanent of any color in flowers. It Is the only one not affected by sulphurous acid fumes.
 In Italy you can tell where the peasant women come from by the size of their earrings. The southerners wear the longest.
 Neither in France nor in Austria are children ever permitted to be re- ceived into warehouses. They are boarded out with peasant families.
 The highest clouds reach ten miles above our heads. They are the white, feathery forms which we see on a clear day. Although apparently mo- tionless, they travel from seventy-hye to ninety miles an hour.
 Certain butterflies have marked odors, some good, some bad. pr. F. A. Dixey, a British entomologist, men, tions a white butterfly of England that has the fragrant scent of lemon verbena, and has noted many species in Africa with such odors as those of chocolate, vanilla and various flowers. The agreeable odors belong to males, being charm to attract females. The offensive odors, shared by both sexes, are protective, repelllng enemies.
 There Is being exhibited in Liver pool a prodigious egg, that of a tall, tigbtess bird-the Epyornis maxi mus-which formerly inhabited the island of Madagascar. The eggs of this immense creature are nearly a yard in circumference and a foot in length, and their cubical contents, roughly speaking. are equal to six os trich eggs, or 150 hens eggs, or sixty thousand humming birds eggs, or two gallons of water The market price ranges from f35 to f60, only twenty Enown specimens being in existence. Having personally eaten some hun dreds of species of caterpllars,' says NJ. Dagin, French entomologist, "raw, broiled, boiled, fried, roasted and hashed, 1 find most of these pleas ant to taste, light and digestible." But tile despsed cockroach of our kitchen Is what NJ. Dagin waXes most en- tEusiastic over. Pounded in a nor tar, put through sieve and poured into beef stock. these creatures make a soup preferable to bisque." Never thcless, Chinese proverb runs to the effect, If your stomach is delioate abstain from the cockroach.' The tortoise is great sleeper. One was a domestic pet In an English house, and when his time for hiber- hating came he selected corner of the dim coal cellar for his winter quarters. A new cook was engaged soon after who knew nothing of tor toises. In a few months the tortoise woke up and sallied forth. Screams soon broke the kitchens calm. On entering that department the lady of the house found the cook gazing in awestruck wonder, and exclaiming, as with unsteady hand she pointed to tue tortoise: "My conscience! Look at the stone which I've broken the coal wl' a winter!"
 At the cuose of a banquet given by the Maharajah of Gwallor to the Prince of Wales a centerpiece in the form of a temple and decorated with electric lamps and flowers was hoist cd to the ceiling by pulleys, and re- vealed perfect model railway on the table underneath. The locomotive and train was eight feet long, and car ried decanters, cigars, cigarettes and matches. The train was started by closing an electrical circuit. As long as this was closed by a spring the train moved, but the lifting of de canter or box of cigars resting on the spring allowed it to act, thus breaking the circuit and stopping the train.