West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1883-08-04
Interestpng Facts.
Piute Indians eat worms.

Piute Indians eat worms.
Lager beer costs 81 a bottle in the Yose.
mite.
A wildc=t oil well isgoing down at Rich
Hill, Mo.
The Northern Pacific Railway has killed
1000 Chinsmen.
A Bipghampton bank ia loaded with
$1,000 of the eighty five cent dollar:
A woman wearing $500 worth Of jewel
~ was sent to Jail for Drunkenness in
Brooklyn last week.
Georgia appropriates money TO colleges
for men, but gives no support to the high
er education of women
New York has 1900 cab drivers.
and nearly 10 600 articles lett IN their clbs
during the past year were restored.
Fred Cox. of Dalton, Ga, invited to his
SEVENTEEN birthday dinner nine friends,
aged from seventy seven to fity-pine
years.
There il a family in Rusk county, Tex,
Consisting of two brothers and two eisters,
and their average aee is eighty seven
years.
An EGglishman bCqueathed his two
daughters their weight in 81 notice. One
of the girls received Goa, 200 and the ether
E59,844.
John Barnett, the fret railroad conduc-
tor employed in passenger traffic, died
lately ir E gland. He accompanied the
old M. l engine in its trial trip with Geo
stephenson.
10 an Egyptian town the people are fur
nished with drinking water which has al
ready been used in washing corpscs. The
story reconciles the reader 10 the English
conquest of the Egyptians.
The telegraphers have the oldtst secret
insurance society in the United States. It
WAS formed in 1868, five years before the
knights Of Honor, and admits ladies' as
well as gentlemen TO membership.
Seneca Haines, of Shaudaken, N. Y.
had twenty children by one wife. A
townsman Oifvre him 500 acres OF land II
he was blessed again. The blessing came
in the shape If twsns, and the 500 acres
are his.
The price of gas in English and Irish
cities. per 600 feet. is as follows: Dub
lin, 9Oc; Belfest, 90c 4; Plymouth, 6Oc
Leeds, 44c Carlisle, Goo; Manchester, 81
Birmingham, SEC.
The Chinese use firecrackers to fighteu
away evil spirits. The Indian medicine
men also think TO exercise the evil spirits
from sick person by making great din,
and the same noisy remedy for disesse il
found In Africa.
A poisonous gas hole smong tho styhc
tite caves IN the Yosemite il called Stygian
Cave. Birds drop dead ia flying over its
mouth, and small animals entering, drop
dead. 1t is filled with chrystalline pendant
deep emerald hue,
A Louisville fortune teller has retired
from business. The seer told customer
that two women, giving their names, stole
her missing money. The accused pcunc-
ed upon the astrological and Tsde him see
more stars than are visible to the naked
eye.
The portraits on the new postage stamps
thsl come in use October l are: cent
Franklin; 2 cents, jackson cent, Wash
ington cent, Garfield cent, Lincoln
2 cent, Stanton 10 cent, Jefferson; 10
cent, Clay; Is cent, Scott 30 cent, Ham
ilton; 30 cent, Perry.
The fireman and engineer of an English
locomotive, exhausted by fifteen hours
work, fell asleep while their engine was
on rapid rub. No one di covered the
danger until they dashed past siding
where they should have stopped. Warn
ing was telcgraphed ahead and they were
Weakened by torpdOes on the rail.
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