Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1891 — Little Curious Things. [ARTICLE]

Little Curious Things.

The greatest depth in the western Mediterranean sea, 10,600 feet, is between Sicily, Sardinia and Africa. Recent sounding in the eastern basin has yielded a maximum depth of 13,556 feet—this between Malta and Candia. Dr. Pinel, of Paris, has found that hypnotic patients obey the phonograph as readily as they do a living speaker. He therefore discards the whole theory,’of animal magnetism. A Swiss engineer, backed by the Swiss government, is just now seriously contemplating the construction of an underground railway up Mount Jungfrau to its summit. It will be completed early in 1895 if everything goes well. A meteorological station is to be established at Tiberia. Palestine, a place 682 feet below the level of the Mediterranean sea. Defiance, lowa, claims a living skeleton in the person of a man who is five feet eight inches in height and weighs but sixty-five pounds A curious white frog has been onexhibition in London this summer. It is a full grown specimen of a pure white color, its ruby eyes fringed with a golden hue, strangely contrasting with its pink iris and milky cuticle. William Imes died and was buried at Corunna, Ind., in 1888. At the time of his death Mr. Imes weighed 180 pounds. In May of this year, when the remains were disinterred, they were found to be petrified, to look like r.'arbie and to weigh exactly 405 pounds.