The Morning herald., 1878-06-06
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Queen Elizabeth was an accomplished
needlewoman.
On an average man eats annually eight
bushels Of wheat.
Tn San Francisco there are As, 600 voters,
sQoNO of whom pay no taxes.
l. Canada villags has three centenarians,
aged 100, 1O4 and 1o5.
Livery barber in Denmark has to pass
on examination in the elements of sur
gerry.
The favorite fruit of the Partisan is the
apple, the sale of which is regulated by
law.
The first equestrian statue cast in the
New World was that of Charles w., OF
spain, cast in the City of Mexico in 1903.
A Troy youth was relieved recently of
the dead body of large horsefy, which
he had carried with much discomfort for
two years in his right ear.
The English Peerage contains one
Smith, fifteen Smiths, two Smyths and
one Snythe, besides five Smiths, as many
Smyths and two Smythes who bear courtesy
titles
In court room at Raymond, Miss, re-
Gently, witness dropped his pistol, which
went off, and the ball passed very near the
head of the Judge, who only an hour be-
fore had bitterly denounced the practice of
carrying arms.
"Who," said member of the Canadian
House of Commons, to the members who
were trying by interruptions to choke him
of, 'wbo brayed here?" 'It was an
echo" retorted a member, amid a yell of
delight.
A few years ago, in Commanche county,
Texas, number of domestic chickens de-
serted by their owner took to the brush,
and the woods are full of wild chickens.
They are numbered by the thousand, hy
like hawks and are hunted as game.
A poor woman in Milwaukee, unable to
feed her eighty year-old boy, resolved to
kill him. She took him on bridge over
deep water, and, although he chung to her,
and mplored her not to drown him, threw
him into the water. He was, however,
rescued.
In 1916 Joseph Nicephore invented pho
tography He succeeded in securing pic
ture printed by light in the camera. "A
view of Kew Church, taken by him in 1927,
was the first photograph from nature taken
in England. 1t is in the British Museum.
A convicted Texas murderer, in his coll
fession opens in this style: Il scratch
YOU few lines to let you know that L Still
float through the gentle breezes of misery;
but, according to the decision of the ap-
pellate court, I guess it is about pea time
with me, but then we must bear our mis-
fortunes in this world like men,"
While negro man down in Georgia,
recently, was carrying child IN his arms
along the road, large eagle swept down
upon them and endeavored to seize the
child. A lively battle ensued between the
parent and the eagle, the latter getting the
better of it until farmer came to the
rescue, and knocked the eagle senseiess
with an axe. The bird was captured.
The following are facts: Washington
was a surveyor and farmer; Franklin a
printer; Tom Paine staymaker Greene
blacksmith; Warren a physician; sumter
shepherds Roger Sherman a shoemaker
Marion farmer, as also were Putnah''
Ethan Allen, and Stark; Hancock snip
ping merchant; Trumbull an artist, ano
Arnold, who, though traitor, was gooo
General. druggist and bookseller.
A Savannah man pursued his eloplne
daughter, and found her in hotel Will
her new husband. She was of age, ane
therefore he could not force her to fetufl
home. but he was the lawful owner OF he
clothing, and he compelled her to go to he
room and take off every shred OF IT, lhei
he went back to Savannah with iarg
bundle under his arm, and the women II
the hotel contributed something for Tn
bride to wear.
The revenue of the Dominion OF Canaa
for 1888 is estimated at $23, ooo,ooo "n'