Notes Of The Day

A number of Santa Cruz men have started for an island in the Pacific, about 800 miles off the coast of Peru, wbere they expect to find some buried treasures. Instead of 5,000,000 boxes of oranges, which is Florida's usual erop, only 100,000 boxes will be shipped. These will come chiefly from the Manatee región on the gulf of Mexico. The two sides of the human face are never alike. In two out of flve the eyes are out of line; one eye is stronger than the other in seven cases out of ten, and the right ear is generally higher than the left. A Chinese laundryman was in Brunswick, Me., looking for a stand. He received little encouragement, and, as he would flnd it rather lonesome, concluded not to settle. Brunswick, so far, liasn't had a Chinese resident. Electriclans say the safest place of refuge during a thunderstorm is a trolley car, and that no inBtance is known of one having been struck by lightnlng. The wires and car pole are a far better protection than any lightning rod. In California it has been found that peach stones burn as well as the best coal, and give out more heat in proportion to weight. The stones taken out of the fruit that is tinned or dried are collected and sold at the rate of J3 per ton.