A chemist computes that ,nt the
present market value the average human
cadaves contains something like
$18,000 worth of calcium. Hut, like
the fabulous values of aluminum in
clay, or gold in sea water, the cost of
extraction at present prevents nil
profit to the would-be enterprising
manufacturcts, and the schools of
anatomy will have 110 immediate
cause for alarm as regards commercial
competition.
Tiic Germans have a legend th.it
Frederic Darbnross.i is not dead, but in
an enchanted sleep in a cavern in the
Hart, mountains. His long led beaid
is believed to have grown during this
long cuchaiitmc.it until it covers the
table at which he sits and descends-to
the fljjr Hi h h been t'.iero for. centuries
a id miHt remain for centuries
still, but he will flit illy lu IYcjI, so
the legjiidsiy. i-i 1 le.il !iU
to a gljnous victory.
The geologists tell 111 tint the
the nticeAtur ol the noble
horse of to-day, was but little larger
than the coiiiiu u rabbit of to-day, and
that eich had sixteen toes, four 0:1
each foot, the same as the cattle of
to-day. After the l.ipsj of 11,513 this
e.pras shel a toe or
hoof from each foot and thus became
a animal. The sixteen-hoofed
variety are first found in the
eocene perio 1 of geological epochs.
The Welsh in the United States
claim th.it they are in
as their countrymen in Wales, and
they also claim that one of their ancestors
forestalled Columbus in the
discovery of America by 272 years.
They ba;e their assertions 011 histori
cal traditions and the manuscripts of
old Welsh bards on the one hand.and
o-i the ptevalence of Welsh in many
of the languages of the Indians, both
of South and North America, on the
other.
