Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-01-09
Current Notes.


Uncle Sans liquor bill last year
was 1858, 900. 900.
OF the 401 Congressman no fewer
than 285 are lawyers.
There are 948,0OO more women
than men in Great Britain.
One railroad in Mexico has had
forty presidents during it's existence.
The famous Botanic Garden at
Kew, London, covers an area OF 200
acres.
The Chinese take about $15,O0O,-
900 year ont OF California and send
it home.
| In Georgia colored people own
600, 900 acres Of land and pay taxes
on about SIC, 000,0 900 Of property.
Paris is to have an elevated rail-
way eighteen miles long and built at
o cost Of ten millien dollars.
Dechinite, or vandate OF lead and
zinc, has been discovered in Montana
Ore OF this nature is worth $4,000
pound.
A Raft containing 100000 feet of
hard wood timber tor wharf building
i, being constructed at Two Rivers,
Nova Scotia, and will be towed to
New York.
Sol Abrams, who is reported to be
one of the richest men in Oregon
used to lead horse, packed with no
tons, which he sold TO people be
tween Oregon City and Silverton at
an early day
There have been some recent and
valuable findings in gold-bearing dis
tricts in Cherokee county, North
Carolina, on the watersof the Hiwas-
see river, and also in Georgia, Just
over the North Carolina line. As
says of these ores average as high as
$75 per tom
outlets tears is the name of a
new confection much priced in Paris
Each globe has in ita drop of brandy.
In the National House of Repre-
sentatives there are AZ Johns, 81
James, 40 Williams, 81 Charloses, IT
Thomases and 10 Georges.
1t is out at last-the secret of
William Waldorf Astor's ambition to
shine among the stars of literature.
At school he was the editor of the
college paper.
At Oakland, Cal, lives Mrs. G. A.
Bryant, nowaged, once belle, whom
George Nv once kissed and to whom
Napoleon III is said to have offered
his heart, hand and empire.
The little son of the Mayor of New
Orleans hurt himself with toy pis-
tol /; the next day somebody with a
toy pistol shot the Mayors dog, and
on the day following the Mayor issu
ed q proclamation against the toy
pistol
In Boston favorite method of
muscular exercise is that in which the
bean bag figures. The bags are GOV
cred with plush of different brilliant
colors and are $50 nice and soft"
that the most delicate hands toss
them about with ease.
Going away from home for bit of
news, one finds this in the Day that
sheds light over the Texas town of
Waco: ain Pennsylvania two men
ran for an Office. One voted for him
self and the other for his opponent.
The man who voted for himself was
elected by one majority"
The hymn in some of the books
used in the Presbyterian Church be-
ginning
"When through the torn sail the wild tenn
pest is streaming.''
is ascribed in those books to Heber.
1t was written by Francis Key, au-
thor of "rhe Star Spangled Banner
In reply to a forid eulogy of the
late Robert Tombs by the Atlanta
Constitution the Cincinnati Cone
Dtercial- Gazette saps: Confidential
ly, we do not think the term kingly
applies to Toombs The average
king is a stupid egotist The MAORI
ty of kings are fools. Toombs was
not silly or small creature. He
had some faults, but he was not king
ly,"
Herr Most, the anarchist, says that