People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — All Sorts. [ARTICLE]

All Sorts.

Since 1840 the world's production of meat has increased 57 per cent; that of grain 120 per cent One fifth of the total population of Denver is composed of people Whb went there for their health's sake: More cases of feonsumption appear among fifeedle-makers and file makers than any other classes of laborers. A sponge having a circumferance of five feet six inches -has been taken from the waters of Biscaynebay, There are in the United States seventy thousand bee keepers. The average product of each hive is twenty-two pounds. A meteorological station has been established at Siberia, Palestine, a place 682 feet below the level of the Mediterranean sea.

Joseph Nicola, a Penobscot Indian, has written a 176-page book telling of the doings of his tribe from way back up to the present year. The weight of the earth, as calculated by Professor Maskelyne, the astronomer royal of England, in 1774, is 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. Nothing is wasted in China. The stones of various fruits and the shells of nuts are cleaned, dried and carved into ornaments of the most graceful kind. All the Chinamen in the United States came from one of the eighteen provinces of the Celestial Empire—most of them from one corner of that province. The Indians of the Pacific northwest are great admirers of the telephone and they cheerfully pay their money for the fun of talking Siwash over the wires. Six hundred thousand quarts of strawberries, we are told, were shipped from Ridgely, N. C., this season, which netted the growers 130,000 over and above all expenses. An engaged couple recently ran a foot race near Bluefield, W. Va. The young woman won, and immediately discarded her lover, saying that she would never marry an inferior.

Lost children in Japan do not long remain astray. It is the custom for parents to label fheir children with their addresses, so that in case they wander any wayfarer can send them home. Naltdenhoff, of Geneva, says there are 311,000 blind persons in Europe, mostly from fevers, and that 75 per cent, would have kept their sight had they been properly treated. Sing Wagner is the musical name of an Oakland Chinese who went on a big spree and was found at day-break perched on a sack of oats in a barn loft crowing and shouting “Alle same rooster!”

In various times and places the pansy has been styled by the following epithets: Herb trinity from its three colors, love-and-idle, kiss-me-ere-I-rise, and three-faces-under a-hood. Imitation pearls are now made prettier than the genuine. The scales of a little fish that swims in the Mediterranean are pulverized to dust and the most luminous portion of the powder saved. This sparkling dust is then spread on the inner surface of a little glass sphere and your pearl is made. At first the scale dust was spread over the outer surface of the “pearls,” but it rubbed off. The pearls made by this process are really prettier than the product of the oyster, but then, they aren’t pearl, you know.