Show Alcohol distilled from wins was first I mentioned as aqua vitas water of life by ViHenouve who died In 1313 The liquors of two centuries ago were without exception invented und manufactured manufac-tured in the monasteries I The various processes of distillation are x believed to have been introduced Into Europe Eu-rope by the Moors about 1150 In the Egyptian nine press the grapes were pnt in a base and squeezed by two J n poles turning in opposite directions Homer mentions a Thracian wine so j rx I strong that even Ulysses was obliged to dilute it with twenty parts of water I In the Southern provinces of Russia a drink resembling brandy is obtained by i distilling the juice of tho watermelon In making champagne the grapes are I squeezed six times each pressure making wfnt of a different quality Hippocrates mentions wino made of med lars mulberries asparagus origanum thyme and many other herbs The Lacrymaj Christi is a Portuguese wine made from the juice that first theirs without pressure from the grapes I In 1571250 loading doctors of England issued is-sued a cautionary declaration 8gnst the t use of alcohol in mo iical practice There has been but one total eclipse of the sun at London since the year 1140 that of 1715 and according to professor Holdea there will not be another until after the opening of the Twentjiirst century Mrs Lewis Washington of Charleston I W Va owns the family Bible which formerly for-merly belonged to General Washingtons mother I Patti owns an openfaced stemwinding watch that is smaller than a United Slates I dime It is almost completely covered with diamonds and is valued at 2009 Tipporusalem City O T is a compromise com-promise name It was ouilt upon the land of a Jew nnd an Irishman The former I wanted the city named Jerusalem tue latter lat-ter wanted it named Tipporary Neither I would give way to the other and Tipper uealem the result At Trenton Mo a man over eighty years old has achieved local fame by letting let-ting the dentist pull twentyone of his teeth at a single sitting without taking gas or chloroform The Empire State Express on the New York Central has a record of 147 miles in 130 minutes Including a Hvemmute atop The run was made between Albany and Syracuse I The cost of lighting for the Worlds fair I at Chicago will be about ton times the cost of lighting the exposition held at Paris The estimate is at present placed at I 51500000 A pine tree in Pennsylvania recently scaled i > 033 feet of lumber It made seventeen I enteen sawlogs 12 and 16 feet in length and the top end of the butt log was o5 inches in diameter Bergen Norway boasts a paper church large enough to seat 1000 persons The building is rendered waterproof by n solution of quicklime curdled milk and whites of eggs A Leipsic scientist has demonstrated by facts aud figures what most people have always believed that coids are oftener caught by those who wrap themselves up and avoid the severity of the weather than by those who dare to brave the elements Ostriches are commonly plucked once every eight months yielding one pound weight of feathers each but many farmers only pluck sixty feathers at a time so as not to cause too much irritation and inflammation inflam-mation which is very injurious to the health of the birds nod lessens the next crop of feathers The French Congo country is five times the size of France It is believed that its contains 8000000 people and more than halfof them are Pahouins as De Brazza calls them or Fans as Du Chaillu made them known Those who know them best say their name is properly Fangs They are by far the most remarkable people in west Africa A man who has been looking up the matter mat-ter says that an old law is still in force in Pennsylvania that if it wera enforced would hear hard on society women It declares de-clares that if any white female of ten years or upward shall appear in any public street lane highway church court house ball room theatre or any place of public resort with naked shoulders that is low necked dresses being able to purchase the necessary clothing she shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than 1 nor more than 6200 |