Interesting Items

Glass engagement rings at Portland, Ore., are the newest fashion. Over 500 tornadoes occured during the twelve years from 1781 to 1883 in the United States. Postmaster J. W. Durham of Middleburg, Ky., has a 9-year-old son weighing 220 pounds. It is claimed by Dr. Loew that a single microbe eau become the pareñt of one tril'lion oifspring in twenty-four hours. Hypnol is the trade name of a new remedy for insomnia. In chemical language it is known as manotriehloracethyledimenthylphenylprazlon. Before the great freeze in Florida the annual orange erop was from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 boxes. The estímate for this seasou is 70,000 boxes. It is said that only two miles of stearn railroads have been built in New England this year, and these were equally divided between Maine and Vermont. ïhe New York pólice department asks for the modest little sum of $7,000,000 for the expenses to be iucurred in keepiag the Gothamites in order duiing 1897. Three-fourths of all the iron mined in the United States is shipped from Duluth. The iron ore output of Minnesota increased from 62,000 in 1884 to 4,000,000 tons in 1896. A recent issue of the Medical Record reporta the death of a boy 8 months old of what appears to be old age. The texture of the hair was coarse like that of an adult. A single bee, with all its industry, energy, and the innumerable journeys it has to perforin, will not colleet much more than a single teaspoonful of honey in a single season. A Boston lecturer annouuced as his subject the other night, "Marble Poems; World's Worship in Stones; the Frozen Music of the Ages." Then he went on to talk about European cathedrals.