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RANDOM NOTES. 
A pearl has been found on the 
western Australian coast valued at 
$ 20 , 000 . 
Vanadium, a white metal discov¬ 
ered in 1830, costs $10,000 a pound. 
Utah’s mining output for 1884 is 
valued at $5,257,021.44. 
Earthquakes in North Japan are 
more numerous and severe in winter 
than in summer. 
An animal tamer has used elec¬ 
tricity as a subduer of unruly beasts 
with great success. 
The “Rock City Geologist” is the 
name of a new twelve-page month¬ 
ly, to be issued from a Nashville, 
Tenn. press, by J. A. Murkin,Jr. 
No. 1 appears before the collecting 
public about September 1st, 1885. 
Write for a sample copy, 
Hon. L. E. Crittenden, Register 
of the Treasury under President 
Lincoln, presented to the University 
of Vermont some time ago his large 
and valuable cabinet of shells, con¬ 
taining from 2,000 to 3,000 species, 
and a rare collection of the eggs of 
American birds. 
Hr, Newton told his hearers the 
other day that the hymnal for chil¬ 
dren in the Sunday school of science 
may be expected to give such a 
modern rendering of old hymns as 
this: 
“Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, 
I don’t wonder what yon are; 
You’re the eooling down of gases 
Hardened into solid masses. ” 
The cause of the powerful muscu¬ 
lar contraction of the claw of the 
common crab after it has been sev¬ 
ered from the body with the scalpel 
has engaged the attention of a New 
Y^ork physiologist summering on 
the New Jersey coast. The con¬ 
traction, he finds, is in the nature of 
a death throe to the tissue, but the 
rigidity continues for about forty 
minutes, when the rigid muscle spon¬ 
taneously relaxes. 
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