MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2317, 15 January 1906, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

!Xh« United State* supreme court issued an order assigning Hawaii to the Ninth California circuit. Vitellius, the glutton, who for a short time ruled the Roman empirs, had a waist measure of 63 inches. Most of the medieval manuscripts have the important initials In rsd ink; hence the term rubrics, from rubrica, red.

The original word translated apothecary in the Bible is believed by some authorities to ba better translated byperfumer. The Orinoco is only 1,600 miles in length, but is much larger than might be supposed, owing to the heavy rains of the tropics.

The city of Pensacola, Fla., now claims to be the third in commercial importance on the Gulf of Mexico, being excelled in exports only by New Orleans and Galveston.

A Japanese firm has leased an old brewery in West Berkeley, Cal., and proposes to manufacture, liquors for the Japanese residents of this country. Japanese beverages made here can be sold at a price much lower than the cost of the imported liquors at San Francisco.

When an Arabian horse finds Itself wounded and perceives that it will not be able to bear its rider much longer, it quickly retires from the conflict, carrying its master to a place of safety while it has still stHficient strength. But if the rider is wounded and falls to the ground, the faithful animal remains beside him, unmindful of danger, neighing until assistance is brought.