In some parts of Siberia milk is sold frozen around a piece of wood, which serves as a handle to carry it.
Herons, which average only four pounds in weight, often have been known to eat more than three pounds of fish at a meal.
In 1850 only one woman worked for wages to every ten men; now the ratio is one woman to four men.
His Second Fall Cures Him.
There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise;
He jumped into a bramble bush
And scratched out both his eyes;
And when he saw his eyes were out
With all his might and main,
He jumped into the bramble bush
And scratched them in again.
W. J. Parker, a Corunna, Mich., lawyer, unwittingly took the part of the wise man in the Mother Goose story, with results as satisfactory as the tale sets forth. He recently slipped on an icy sidewalk and sustained a sprain of his ankle that compelled him to hobble about on crutches.
On a recent evening when he started down cellar to fix the furnace fire, he slipped and fell downstairs, and when he picked himself up, found his ankle was all right again and that he could walk without crutches and without pain.
Surgeons who examined the ankle say the first fall caused an obscure dislocation and that the second one reduced it. Parker has discarded the crutches permanently.
Has Lived Seventy-two Years on Same Farm Land.
Luman Owen, resident of Oak Grove, Wis., who has lived on the same farm seventy-two years, says he is the oldest living white person in Wisconsin who was born in the Badger State.