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8 Items of interest A Georgia woman, 70 years old, has never eaten a mouthful of meat of any kind. A North Carolina editor puts on his free list every woman in the State who becomes the mother of twin boys. In Holland, the church doors are locked during the sermon, so that nobody can interrupt by going in or out. It is suggested that ball dresses may be rendered safe from fire by accident by impregnation with a 25 ner cent, solution of tungstate of soda, which iijiures neither fabric nor color. When they have a funeral in Lead ville.they end it with a dance, and when they have a dance they kill two or three men, and of course the remains demand funerals; so it’s hard to see why an under taker shouldn’t prosper in Leadville. The Garden of Eden, now called Gournah, is forty miles northeast of Busreh, in Turkish Arabia, at the cou fluence of the Tigris and Euphrates. The country is destitute of vegetation with the exception of date palms, which are quite luxuriant. A Nebraska man has settled the ques tion of how prairie dogs obtain the water they drink. He says they dig their own wells, each village having one , with a concealed opening. He knows ! of one such well 200 feet deep, having I a circular staircase leading down to the water. Cuttings of roses, heliotropes, etc., will grow better if taken off at the junc tion of the old and new wood, and should be cut off’ just below a joint or bud, as the roots start from that point, and if a bud is not left near or close to the base, the cutting is liable to decay in the soil. A balky horse in Philadelphia the other day was proof against all ordinary methods of persuasion, until a little man smoking a big pipe came along. Just as soon as the man had emptied the burning tobacco and hot ashes from his pipe into the horse’s ear, the horse went tearing up the street as if he never intended to stop again. Italy has an annual average of eight; murders to every 100,000 inhabi.ants, against nine in Spain and Hungary, two in Austria, one in France and Bel gium, and only 0.5 in Great Britain. In crimes against public morality the rate of average for Italy is four, while that of Germany is thirteen —the highest figures on the list. The book on which all the kings of England, from Henry 1. to Edward VI.. took the coronation oath is in a private library in England. It is a manuscript of the four Evangelists written on vellum. The original binding, in a per fect state of preservation, consists of two oaken boards an inch thick, fas tened together with stout thongs of leather. A fireman, employed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, whose capa city for drinking enormous quantities of cold water made him famous along the line, has died after a short illness, ascribed to his inordinate absorption. It is said that he often drank two quarts without taking the vessel from his lips, and he had been known to drink as much as eight gallons of water in one day. A leading physician says that a patient who is lying dying of exhaus tion is generally dying of starvation. We give him beef-tea, calf’s-foot jelly, seltzer and milk—that is, a small quan tity of the sugar of milk and some fat; but the jelly is the poorest sort of food THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE GAZETTE. WESTERN&ATLANTICR.R. THE GREAT KENNESAW ROUTE. I CONDENSED SCHEDULES BETWEEN ATLANTA anil BOSTON, NEW YORK anil the EAST, READ DOWN. Via PENN. It. R. READ UP. North-bound. STATIONS. South-bound. T. 30 p m ILOO~p mLv ..ATLANTA Ar. 2.25 pm 5.51 am 2.41 pm 12.14 am Lv Kennesaw Lv. 1.17 pm 4.47 am 7.00 p m 4.30 am Lv .Chattanooga .Lv. 8.55 a m 1.00 a m 6.50 am 6.00 pm Ar CINCINNATI Lv. 8.47 pm 8.05 a m 7.25 am 8.00 pm Lv CINCINNATI Ar. 4.45 pm 6.10 am 11.30 a m 11.45 pm Lv Columbus Lv. 12.55 p m 2.00 a m 7.10 pm 7.00 am Ar Pittsburg Lv. 6.30 am 7.45 pm 2.35 am 1.55 pm u Harrisburg “ 11.50 pm 2.00 pm 5.30 am 4.40 pm “ Baltimore “ 8.25 pm 10.55 am 6.30 am 5.50 pm “ Washington “ 7.10 pm 9.50 am 5.35 am 4.45 pm “ Philadelphia “ 8.50 pm 11.20 am 8.00 am 6.55 pm “ NEW YORK “ 6.00 pm 9.00 am 6.00 pm 6.50 am Ar BOSTON Lv. 10.00 am 10.30 pm Pullman Palace Buffet Sleeping-Cars between Cincinnati and New York, without change; and Pullman Palace Sleeping-Cars between New York and Boston without change. I, ’ Via BEE LINE and NEW YORK CENTRAL. 1.30 pm 11.00 p nijLv ATLANTA Ar. 2.25 pm 5:51 am j 2.41 pm 12.14 am “ Kennesaw Lv 1.17 pm 4.47 am 7.00 pm 4.30 am “ Chattanooga “ 8.55 am 1.00 am 650 am 6.00 pm Ar CINCINNATI Lv. 8.47 pm 805 am 7.15 am 7.02 pmlLv CINCINNATI Ar. 6.35 pm 7.55 am 9.00 am 8.50 pm* “ Dayton Lv. 4.40 pmj 6.00 am 2.35 pm 2.50 am Ar Cleveland “ 10.45 am 12.25 am 8.00 p m 7.40 am “ Buffalo “ 5.20 a m 7.45 p m 11. pm 10.30 am “ Rochester “ 4.00 am 6.50 pni 6.10 a m 4.00 pm “ Albany “ 10.15 pm 1.15 pm 10.30 am 7.30 pm “ NEW YORK “ 6.00 pm 9.50 am 10.57 a m 12.40 am “ Springfield “ 6.05 p m 9.00 a m 2.45 pm 6.25 am Ar BOSTON Lv. 3.00 pm 5.00 am Elegant Wagner Drawing Room Sleeping-Cars between Cincinnati and New York, and between Cincinnati and Boston without change. All connections made in Union Passen ger Depots. r --/n— ~ii cainT- ■* °i rg-mana— aroaEMTW w hbihm w wbu. r i ■ HMgaaswi ■, m ni .1 ■«— paamuuf k. g .u" um in. 'm WMBfl&tfsz im rjym.xamauukiWßiMMßMmß Via N. 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R. 1.30 pm 11.00 pm Lv ATLANTA Ar. 2.25 pm 5.51 am 2.41 “ 12.14 am “ Kennesaw Lv. 1.17 pm 4.47 am 7.00 “ 4.30 am “ Chattanooga “ 8.55 am 1.00 a m 6.50 a m 6.00 pm Ar CINCINNATI Lv. 8.47 pm 8.05 am 8.25 am 7.20 “ Lv CINCINNATI Ar. 5.15 pm 7.45 a m 12.38 pm* 10.25 “ “ Chillicothe Lv 1.00 pm 4.40 “ 5.10 p m 2.30 am Ar Parkersburg “ 9.40 am 1.40 “ 1.13 am 1 9.25 “ “ Cumberland “ 2.43 am 7.45 pm 3.35 “ 11.24 am “ Martinsburg Lv. 12.28 am 5.29 “ 6.00 “ j 1.15 pm “ 'Washington “ 10.10 pm 3.30 “ 7.10 “ i 2.15 “ Baltimore “ 9.00 pm 2.30 “ 10.47 “ ! 6.11 “ “ Philadelphia “ 4.02 pm 10.16 a m 1.20 pmi 9.20 pm Ar NEW YORK Lv. 1.00 pm 8.00 am Elegant Palace Sleeping-Cars between Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore, without change. All connections made in Union Passenger Depots, Through Palace Bufiet and Mann Boudoir Sleeping-Cars Atlanta and Cincinnati without Change, Connecting with ahove Through Sleeping-Car lines for New York and Boston* Only via the Western and Atlantic railroad can you go to Elizabeth, “the marble city of Georgia,” where there : is the most wonderful marble cutting • machinery in the world. Tourists will miss it if they do not stop at Ma rietta and go up to Elizabeth, only I two miles distant, immediately at the foot of the famous Kennesaw Moun tain. Sam Jones, the evangelist, lives on the Kennesaw Route. Sixty-eight different kinds of miner als and ores found on the line of the Western and Atlantic railroad. Only via the Western and Atlantic railroad can you get to the healthiest county in Georgia, if not in America. and the beef- tea is a mere stimulant. The popular belief that beef-tea contains “the very strength of the meat” is a terrible error —it has no food value. It will surprise some people to learn that the sagebrush lauds of Idaho, naturally the very emblem of sterility and desolation, can be readily converted into fruit farms whereon apples, peaches, apricots prunes, grapes, nectarines, and all the small fruits are produced in the greatest profusion and of a quality unsurpassed. It is declared that the Boise, Weiser, Fayette, and other Idaho valleys cannot be excelled by any region east of California for the production of fruit. An ingenious calculator has been set ing down the progression of the hand, and finds that it travels as fast, if not as far as the foot A rapid penman writes thirty-five words a minute, and in doing so—what with curves and turns of the pen necessitated by every word, not to mention crossing his “t’s”—draws his pen through sixteen feet of space. In forty minutes his pen travels a-furlong. Thus many persons who do not walk on all fours progress 300 miles a year with their hands, or, rather, with one hand. Neither in China nor Japan need you look for beauty of architecture in the sense generally implied by that term. Their temples are, one and all, of the same type, which is simply that of the one-storied Indian bungalow, with its veranda and heavy roof; nevertheless some of the larger temples have a cer tain solemnity and a wealth of rich color. In the Honam temple the inter est centers in three colossal gilt figures which represents the three Buddhas, on either side of whom are ranged a num ber of statues. All the minor adjuncts of lanterns, draperies and temple fur nishings are handsome and harmonious. Although New York had more than fifty regiments at Gettysburg, only one has raised a monument on the field, while Massachusetts has already erected twenty-eight, marking the location of as many organizations. A Kennebunk, Maine, man recently captured 800 bees while they were swarm ing in the woods He daubed himself with honey, the bees lighted thereupon, and in this way he transported them home without receiving a sting. Among the latest inventions is that of a match which may be used over and over again an indefinite number of times, the wood being it is claimed, soaked with a peculiar chemical solu tion. The island of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland, is said to be so mild that palms and camelias thrive in the open air, without injury, in winter, although the laiitude is that of the northern part of Labrador, on the continent. Chinese children turn their backs on the teacher when they recite. There is no catechising of children in the Chinese schools; they simply learn a thing by heart and go up and repeat it, with their faces turned from the black board and the teacher. The oldest Episcopal church in this country that in Williamsburg, Virginia which contains the font in which Pocahontas was baptized and which has had among its communicants George and Martha Washington, is said to be sadly out of repair. Woodworms can be destroyed in books and woodwork by benzine. Books are locked up in a cupboard with a saucer of benzine. Furniture and carvings are placed in a tightly closed room with an open dish of ben zine. New woodwork can be protected against their entry by a coating of glue.