Salt Lake Herald | 1896-02-14 | Page 5 | Miscellaneous Items

5USOELLAXEOUS ITEMS Pliny says that the liquor of the cuttlefish cut-tlefish was often used by the Romans as an ink I was considered superior to the lampblack preparation but was not used so freely on account of its much greater cost Several species of the rhododendrons have the singular peculiarity of producing pro-ducing a poisonous honey Chemists have repeatedly examined the flower but have not detected the poisonous principle which appears to be only developed after the bees have manufactured manu-factured the juices ot the flower into honey A Mrs Richard King is the owner of a landed estate in Texas which occupies occu-pies nearly two thousand square miles She employs a small army of men on her property which is also a congressional congres-sional district and her power Is so great among her employees that she can readily dictate 1 is said who shall be the next representative from that district to Washington 1 tJ j