Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-04-04
GENERAL NOTES,

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laborer in Quebec.
Joseph III. Shortsleeves, Of Bur-
lington VT, aged l07 years, walks
TO church regularly without assis-
lance.
Hayerhill prayer meetings are
announced in the streets by man
who rings big dinner bell, after
the manner of the old town crier
An agile locomotive in Wis
consin is reported to have jumped
from its own track and landed ex-
actly on parallel track six feet to
the right. The passengers were
shaken, but no person was hurt.
A Vienna journal recently con-
tanned an advertisement offering
the services of 'Anna Agrikol,
sick nurse, watches dead bodies,
repairs straw chairs, applies leech-
es, and makes pastry, desserts and
delicacies."
A California newspaper, speak
ing ola rich mine, says that on
discharging blast seam of rock
about the thickness of a mans
hand was displayed, SO yellow
with the precious metal as to seem
almost solid gold.
According to the official census
for 1872, recently published, the
entire population of Japan is 49,
ITO, 825. There are about the same
number of men and women. The
Imperial family has tWenty-nine
members, and there are 459 of the
higher mobiles, and 100000 of the
lower order of gentry.
The Boston Advertiser says the
most notable feature in the March
elections is the election of women
to places on school committees in a
large number of towns in central
and western Massachusetts. The
recent discussion in Boston ex-
cited very general Interest, and
many towns have taken this meth
Cd Of showing their opinion of the
subject.
We hear great stories of the
mammoth fruits and vegetables
of California, but think they will
hide their diminished heads at a
yam which grew near Tongatabo,
Sandwich Islands. This vegeta-
BILE monster was twelve years in
growing, and when ripe weighed
a ton. 1t grew on spot called
Tabud, from a chiefof that name
who was killed there. The cap
tain of whale ship obtained per-
mission to take it on board of his
ship, but being interdicted from
breaking it up On the shore was
forced to leave it,
The statute to Rousseau in the
vaults of the Pantheon at Paris is
one of the most remarkable things
of its kind; the vault is about ten
feet square, with the tomb in the
center. 1t consists of plain pan
ell on each side, and out of the
| heavy slab which covers the top
the right arm of the concealed stat
ue is represented as having burst
open the tomb, from which it pro-
jects at least foot, with the hand
grasping and holding up the torch
of truth.
AT Portsmouth, n. H., recently,
one of the children of Ralph Bra
cey found an apple in the yard,
which he shared with the other ju-
venile members of the same fami-
ly. Shortly after eating, all four
became seriously i'll, and before
medical assistance arrived, the
eldest. a girl, had died in great
agony, with symptoms of arsenic
poisoning; the other children con-
tinue in a precarious condition. 1t
is thought the apple was purpose
ly placed there by some malicious
person.
The Boston Transcript describes
the private box of Mr.. A. II. Stew
art at Niblo's Garden, which is
said to equal in style, size and con-
venience the box of any crowned
head in Europe. 1t consists of
suite of four rooms, large parlor,
a dressing room, cloak room, and
box. They are richly carpeted and
curtained, and the parlors has inn
mense mirrors and one of the fin
est cut glass chandeliers in the
city. The dressing room has every
appurtenance of the toilet, and his
box is filled with luxurious Turk
ish chairs covered with crimson
satin. A dance can be INDUCED
in between the acts, if the orches-
ira be playing, or supper served
from the Metropolitan Hotel, just
across the court.