Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — Curious Facts. [ARTICLE]

Curious Facts.

A Paris barber advertises false mustachios, “warranted to deceive the most expert eye.” In some Eastern countries, and especially in China, sow’s milk forms a very important portion of domestic food. A Vermont family had a quadruple wedding, when four daughters were married off at one and the same time. The Christians observe Sunday, the Greeks Monday, the Persians Tuesday, the Assyrians Wednesday, the Turks Friday, and the Jews Saturday as -.-lays of worship and rest. Experiments show that sugar can be extracted from melon at a cost of 2 cents per pound less than from sugar-cane. Besides this, oil is made from the seed and alcohol from the rind. There is a bird called the cross-bill, which breeds in the spruce and pine forests of New Brunswick in the month of February, and some of these young birds were recently found in Bolton, VtThe tallow tree is a native of China and affords a seed from which tallow is prepared. It is excellent to make candles, and, when refined, is good for the purpose of lubricating railway wheels, etc. To the Laplanders the reindeer is everything; in fact, without it they would cease to exist. The flesh affords them food. The milk is not only drunk, but serves to make cheese, etc.; it is also distilled into a kind of spirit. The reindeer skin, which is soft and pliant, warm and strong, serves as clothing, fc* blankets, and, in fact, for almost even purpose to which we apply the various forms of cloth. The tendons are used for every purpose to which we apply cord, rope and string, while reindeer tongues form one of the most dainty dishes that can be placed upon the table, as well as, it is believed, a considerable article of export.