Notes And Notions

It costs $6 to have a label registered at the patent office. Mummies are sometimes enveloped in 1,000 yards of bandages. New York does not cover as large an area of territory as Philadelphia. A single plant of spleenwort, it is claimed, will produce over a m Ilion seeds. The flag of the secretary of the navy is blue, with four white stars, an anchor and a cable. The exaot date at which the substitution of the first day of the week for the seventh in the observation of the Sabbath occurred is not known. The process of bookmaking has, from time immemorial, been so cheap in China that a book of twenty-five or thirty pages is rarely sold for more than one cent. Platinum has been drawn into smooth wire so flne that it could not be distinguished by the naked eye, even wlien atretched across a piece of white cardboard. It is stated that in this country there are now in daily service 600,000 telephones, with 500,000 miles of wlre, over which 600,000,000 messages are annually tsansmitted.