Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-10-16
NOTES AND NEWS

In loI4-Io the total number of phi
grims going to and returning from Nee
ca amounted to 1892, an increase IL
nearly 5000 over tie previous year.
The Crown Princess of Germany CON-
mands as colonel a regiment OF hussars.
and during recent maneuvres before the
Emperor she appeared mounted at tie
head fher cavaliers.
The Postmaster at Okahumka. Fla. .hm
pet turtle. He fed him from his hant
few days since. A sufficient time ha
elapsed to digest the thumb, and tlr
turtle is still alive.
All the sovereigns OF Germany hats
their private beer saloons; but his maize
ty Of Wurtemberg keeps one for lie
public, and turns considerable penny
from 1t, as also from couple of res
taurants.
A Roman court of Justice has irst
awarded a nice little villa near Civxa
vecchia to"the most respectable citizen
Count John Mastai Ferretti of Sinies.
now domiciled in the Vatican" viz.
the Pope.
Love is blind" said Miss Mary r..
CLANCY, the bankers daughter of Soda
liza, Mo-, as she marched up TO the altar
and allied her hand and fortunes to
those Of the blind leader of the town
band, despite the strenuous opposition
of her parents.
The Scientists and professors in Italy
are still occupying themselves with the
art OF embalming and petrifying the
bodies MISUNDERSTANDING man. Mag
zini ID in state of petri6cation 10 bis
tomb at Genoa. The professors cite
him as grand success in this line Of
business.
A Chinese Commissioner, with short
feet and long pigtail is in the United
States, studying up educational stats
tics for his Government. He saws China
is bent on breaking down the barriers
hitherto reared in the empire against
outside barbarians. He goes to Europe
also on the same business.
The women of the Karen tribes in Chi
nese Burmah wear rings of thick brass
and again round the knee and ankle.
confining them 80 in every motion that
they cannot possibly squat down on the
ground IN the usual Oriental fashion. or
kneel to pray as the men do, while in
walking their feet make two seperate
tracks foot or SO apart.
1t is related that a New Hampshire
minister recently portrayed the history
OF Jonah after the following st, le: Il
seem to see jonah passing along the
read to Nineyeh; | seem to see him en-
ter the ticket office, buy his tick ct, and
pay for it; seem to see him walk upon
the vessel; seem to see them lift their
anchor and the stately ship moves grad
ually out upon the broad Atlantic"
The paymaster of the United States
Navy is on trial at San Francisco for
paying himself a million of dollars over
and above his salary. If all United
States paymasters should refund the
Treasury all moneys drawn during he
last fifteen years over aud above legiti-
mate disbursements, what good lime
this country would have The centen-
nial for disgorgiug is fixed at the next
Greek Calends.
A Colorado poet sends the Denver
Tribune an ''Ode to Ortum." We have
room, unfortunately, but for the two
concluding stanzas:
would not dy in Ortnm,
With peaches fiji fot eatin',
When the wavy korn is gettin' wripe,
& the candidates are treaiin';
Whom sassidgc meat is phryin',
And hickory nuts is thick,
Now. who would think ofdyin'
Or even getting sick2