Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-01-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There are but two living species OF
elephants, the African and the Asiatic-
IN " San.
China is the largest consumer Of
pig tin. 1t is chiefly used for the manu-
facture of idols.
Twenty thousand tons of coke are
shipped every, month from Alabama TO
Arizona, where it is used in smelling
silver ores.
-Mulhall, the great English au-
thority, gives London, New York and
Liverpool as the three most important
ports in the world.
1T is recorded against Lieutenant
Greedy among the testers that he spent
years in the arctic regions without
bringing Mrs. Greedy home a sealskin
sacque.
A horse-thief who got into barn
In Knoxville, Tenn, after trotting
horse had his leg broken by kick, and
now wants to sue the owner Of the
horse for damages.
"A Bridgeport Conn concern has
shipped to the New Orleans Exposition
cabinet showing every style of lock
ever used by the United States Post
office Department from 1900 to date.
Colonel Ingersoll says that when
man loves a woman she never grows
old to him, but through the wrinkles OF
age and the mask of time he still sees
the sweet maiden face that he woced
and won.
One dry goods firm in New York
estimates that it is put to an annual ex-
pense of from $1,000 to $4,000 for
samples of fabrics, with the postage,
sent all over the country in answer to
requests.--N y Star.
An English physician warns
mothers against allowing babies to suck
their thumbs, because it results in a
peculiar deformity of the chest, de-
preston of the thorax by pressure from
the arm of the infant as it lies with its
thumb in its mouth.
Peter Dosen, of st. Louis, wrapped
a five dollar bill around roll Of paper
and went around showing what was
taken for roll of thousand or so.
Next thing he knew he had cracked
skull, and two policemen were taking
him to hospital. ST. Louis Post
The biggest exaggeration the
Boston Herald has seen lately is that
made by a man in Minnesota during
the late cold spell. He said: '.Coldt
Well, should say so. We had to give
the stove four doses of quinine yester-
day, to keep it from shaking the lids
of.
Writing from Lynn, Mass, cor.
respondent reminds the Scientific
american that, as an instance of re-
markable fight of an exploded boiler,
about two years ago boiler exploded
in that city, and the flying portion. de
scribing circle high in the air, landed
nine hundred feet from where il
started.
Beautiful fans are made entirely oil
the plumage of tropical birds in their
natural colors. A web of feather cloth
is formed by gluing the plumage. each
tiny feather separately, upon silk fabric.
This gives the texture the precise APP
pearance of living bird, The tops
are tipped with ostrich feathers.-M.
y. Bazaar.
-Crematoriums are not the innova-
tons many people seem to suppose.
Cremation societies have been in exist.
ence in London for twenty years The
corpse of Lady Dixie was burned In a
crematory in Dresden, Germany, on
October 10, 1874, and her husband, Sir
Charles Dixie, is President of one of the
English cremation societies.
House rents in Arabia are nearly
as low as in deserted Pennsylvania
oil town. A French traveller mentions
his taking a comfortable dwelling at
Bereydah, consisting of two large
rooms on the ground floor and three
smaller ones, besides spacious court
yard surrounded by high walls, for all
of which he paid thirty-six cents per
month.
"A tiger in the act Of eating a
buffalo has been accidentally photo
graphed in India. The poor creature.
which was tied to stump in field,
had just been focused, when out
popped the tiger from neighboring
wood The artist released the spring
shutter of the instrument Just as the
buffalo was laid low by the beasts
paw, and the ''sun picture was taken
before the dying moment occurred. II
is said to be most tragic tableau, and
great achievementin the art of photo
graphy.
-Dumley was giving little dinner
and everything was going on smoothly.
Dumley is very hospitable man, but
lacks self-possession. 81 believe, Mr..
Dumley," said one of his guests, an
old lady, "that you may help me once
more to the oysters. I've eaten very
heartily of them already, but they are
simply delicious" Certainly, my
dear madam" replied Dumley, with
excess of hospitality. II hope you
will eat all you want of them. We