Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Oddities. [ARTICLE]

Oddities.

Corals are not found within the range of rivers flowing into the ocean, as fresh water is fatal. Gold leaf of any thickness down to one-four-milliontli of an inch Is now being made by electrolysis, and, according to Invention, at such rates as threaten lo extinguish the gold boater’H art. On a side door of a room In Duleveyn's house at Plymouth, Mass., was a lock which had given considerable trouble by not working properly. On being (alien off for repairs and after being cleaned uud scraped, the following inscription was discovered: “Tills lock was on the chamber door at. St. Helena wherein he breathed his last who made princes bow and kings tremble on their thrones —Napoleon.” The house Is about sikty years old. The power of continuing motionless with the lifted head projecting forward for an Indefinite time is one of the most wonderful of the serpent’s muscular feats, and Is one of the highest importance to the animal, both when faaelijatIhg its victim and when mimicking some Inanimate object, as, for Instance, the stein and bud of an aquatic plant; hero It is only referred to on account of the effect it produces on the human mind, us enhancing the serpent’s strangeness. In this attitude, with the round, unwinking eyes ffxed on the beholder's face, the etTect may be very curious and uncanny.