Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1895-04-19 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

TIT-BITS OF INTEREST.  Tull strength of ri horse is equal on an avvrage. to that of SI.VI`II 811(18 lialf men.. Souk: si•ieritists usrrils• all tbe attributes - •••  of oiled to iiiieroseopie khedive of Egypt has coromerieeil bicycle riding. kiwis of insects are fililietett with some form of pariii‘ite. Airst k huihtiiig h 011117,04 Opera iIOUSi. ill till 'IRE cabmen oi Itn are forbidileif to smoke pipes while iiriving a fare. l'ilitell States uses ovally one-half ot the quinine proillieed in the Tor: average life of a is about twenty six years. A M I LLIONTH of a Feeollli can be measured by elet[tricity. l',lNTOlis liii lgi. t ith copper pontoons, were invented by the French. LAII6 E iiglerg often extends 000 to 700 feet loneath the stisface of the water. sisielea in Paris averages eIeVISI a day in December. and eighteen a day in June.. Stsgsm es: have almost mit ire cold rot overthe stet-wont irig industries of New York. Tim first great Artists of the Venetian SAN,' were the brothers Gentile and (iii .atllij Bellilli. NIINNIE HAVE, ihe Operillie singer, is married. ller husband is It ultra her VIM Iltuise Warteg. hariesting of grain by ants is confined to a small number of kinds, and to topical and warm (dimities. AT WillitiOr PiliNee is a carpet made in Hashnlpore. I rid ia, which weighs three tens. Two thousand neigaziees are publislast in Great Britain, one fourth of them being religious. Tam Duke of Coburg possesses a spendid collection of milt:awe silver ships, more than 100 in number. lx New York city the annual average of beinieides is 00 ; of suicides, i 250 ; and of accidental deaths, 1,2e0. It is estimated that Florida's crop of pineapples this year will aggregate 50,000 crates, or fully 2.300,15 K) phasapples. A TYPEWRITER hit 111111<ing entries in books of record has been invented. It is chictly designed for Molise of hook-keepers. PADEBEWSKI'S ChriStifill names are Ignaee Jan. Ile was born in Russian Poland in November, 1800. WAGNER WilS born in Leipsie ill 111 3 : he died during a visit to Venice in 10$3. last opera Was " Tiis phosphoreseenee near the Capp Verde Islands is at times so bright that one can easily read the smallest print by its light. IN the eastern portien 4,1 the Central Pacific Ocean there is an area of 10,500,1011 soar° miles in which there are only Seven seundie"S. IN tile ruilgion Parliament. when a ineniner is mak big a long speech. lint alymid-water is supplied hint at the eipense tif the Governmeet. BICYCLES Ilre lIINISI in France. Last ye:tithe Government derived a reveene of 050,000 limes, from the tax on 132,276 wheels. A la the railway; stations in Sweden at which meals are served are known by a sign bearing the suggestive emblem of a crossed knife and fork. Ttearxo and feathering was once a legal puttisinet[nt for theft. It is said to be halm: in the st Aides of both England. and France about the time of the Crusades. Set ENTISTS are now gettieg excellent direct pitotographs from the moon, which [ show mountains and craters will, ,IlletneS6. T s were found in Gounost's I desk after his death---u minion, an °penal,' [ oratorio and a setting of a prose poem td , LASS, Copper, had, zinc, platinum, ear'ism, plaster. petroleum, silk, cotton and [ paper are used in the mannlateture of ineandesceitt lansf,s. [ SHAH J PHAN, an Emperor :of Hindostan, I ordereit to be constructed a mausoleum for [ himself met his favourite wife, which took 20,i100 men 2-2 years to bnild. I To the present day the leaves of the tali' pot palm are used in Ceylon for writing purposes, ev,[n many legal docummits beings exestited On this primitive material. PERUVIAN eOBOII grows in twelve different [ colours, mining from white to a rich dark I reit. Each velem produces, when the sit-it is planted. the Hanle colour. " WHISTLING for half-an-hour after meals is," says Mrs. Alice Shaw, of whistliug fame, " the best, possible aid to digestion. Try it. weak-chested, slender-throated sisters, and profit by my experience," she adds. A German professor recently look a series of photographs of the movements of the lips of a rapid talker. The words thus formed by the lips could be readily deciphered by deaf-mules. Trim introduction of mahogany into England and the commerce of world was caused by the repairing with a plank of that wood of one of Sir Walter Raleigh's vessels in 1595. Tuz skull of a man whet has died from delirium tremens contains an alcoholic gas. A small opening in the skull, soon after death, permits this gas to escape, and it can be ignited, and burns with a bluish flame. IN Japan the shopkeepers and tradespeople of all kinds otter their customers tea and cake before they show goods or attempt any sales ; some of the shops retain amity good customers by their delicious, tempting sweet and tea. Tits enstachian tube begins at the back of the mouth with an orifice that gradually diminishes in size as it approaches the ear. The existents. of this tube justifies the impression that a man can hear better with his mouth open. IN Australia great inconvenienee is experienced in telegraph construction by the fondness of the natives for wire bracelets, ear and 110 Se rings, and their weakness for the poreelain insulators, which they lashien int° arrow-heads. tobatvo raised in BeIOOChiSIOn is CTevedingly strong and cannot be smoked by any but the most vigorous white melt. The natives do not appear to be tinkled by it, and children of 10 and 12 years pullaway all day with any discomfort. IN JIM 4 nuid BOTllefi tie 're fire two hi ntls of fish which inhabit pouds and small fresh water streams. When the water disappears during the hot season, these fish burrsolf into the mud and remain there in a torpid eondit ion until the autumn rains begim kr Herr Bone's famous dairy in Berlin the milk is strained through a wire sieve with a cloth, over which fine gravel is epriekled. After the milk is strained the travel is put into a hot oven, that tiny germa that may have been possibly strained Imin the may be destroyed. N