| Show miscellaneous ITEMS the yankee genius has left untried tow materials chith might be available for the purpose of pen making among the inventions patented have been pens made of hickory aud other kinds of flexible wood found in our forests As a division of lime the fe khas hean used iu the east from immemorial apes it dues not seem to bu a natural division of time though several periods of animal economy ay the incubation of eggs cornsi Mind with one of the most famous log chutes in the west at la Irn nde ore is to be cut up for cordi all the timber ini mediately tributary to it having 1 ten cut away the chute is rg miles long from top to bottom and during its period of use more than feet of logs have coasted through it down the mountain side A german statistician finds that the most unlucky day of the week so lar as accidents to human beings are concerned is not friday but monday 1674 per cent of all accidents occur londas 1577 per cent tuesdays per cent wednesdays 15 73 per rent thursdays 1638 per cent fridays the same per cent saturdays and 2 GO per cent sundays A geneva clock maker has perfected and patented an application of the phonograph to the old le peater eliose springs and hammers have been replaced by a disk of vulcan aed india rubber As the point moves over the surface it emits articulated sounds indicating alie hour being an exact reproduction of the fiuman voice which can be heard in an adjoining loom mongolian pheasants have been successfully introduced for game purposes in various parts of oregon and washington in the last few years and now au attempt is being made to propagate bliem for the same purpose in california A number have been imported into santa clara county from oregon and lettuce seed is to be planted by the mountain springs to provide food for them they are protected by statute for three years recently introduced and engineered to a second reading an ordinance compelling all bathers within the city limits of that town to tic up their head in a sack bathing ahe ordinance provided that all bathers inuss war a shirt or jersey coloring chcon tire upper part 0 the body except the arms the ordinance passed tu the printers and it was the habus cd intelligent compositor who discovered that if it passed the council ever bather in oakland would be compelled by law to bag ins head gangs of skinners men who slaughter wholesale solely for the hides are again at work in the bains of curry county ore A hunting party just returned from that region relate that it was not unusual to colne across a dozen or more carcasses of deer in the course of a day left to rot by t he law violators it is estimated eliat more than deer hare been killed in that section this solely for their leides the skinners find a ready sale for the hides and make much money at the wretched business the san francisco examiner says there is one curious fact respecting the animal creation with which one will never become acquainted if he depends on his textbooks text books for information it is this ko living representative of the animal kingdom has more than five toes digits or claws to each foot hand or limb the horse is the type of one toed creation the camel if the two toed the of the three toed and the hippopotamus of the four toed animal life the elephant and hundreds of other animals belonging to different orders belong to the great five toed tribe |
