Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-02-06

valued at 5,000,0O0.
Two farmers have recently died
near Terre Haute, Ind, of gangrene
from frozen feet.
Tea, say the Chinese, is a drink
which relieves thirst and dissipates
sorrow.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron will
shortly celebrate his eighty-seventh
birthday. He is in excellent health.
Dogs got in slaughter house pen,
at New Brunswick, N. j., and killed
As sheep and two hogs during one
night.
The House Committee instructed
it's chairman to report favorably on
the bill for the relief of Gen Fitz John
Porter.
The Mississippi river is blocked
with ice Is inches thick from the
mouth of the Illinois river south to
st. Genevieve.
There are only two places in Paris
where real Havana cigar can be
bought. One firm has a monopoly
of selling them in the French capital
Holyoke, Mass, is expected soon
to become, not only the greatest pa
per manufacturing, but the greatest
paper exporting city in the world.
When Henry Clay was secretary of
state, Washington newspaper in
formed him that "a chivalrous regard
for the feelings of his family prevent
ed full exposure of his shameless
debaucheries."
Judge David Davis got his great
fortune by being compelled to take
80 acres of land near the village Of
Chicago, when he was yonng man,
for debt. The land is now in the
heart of the city.
Edmund Yates writes in the Lon
don World that Nine. Patti is COM
ing to America next autumn. II
fear she is getting lazy" he adds,
"because she has just refused $685.
900 for fifteen concerts in Russia,
because it is SO cold.'"
Feeding feas in an animal show in
Paris is the occupation of Mile. EN-
ma. She bares her shapely arms and
sets lot of feas OH them. They fed
their fill of warm blood, and then they
were put to work again drawing car
riages and cannone weighing ever so
many hundred times more than their
little selves.
During the tenth century persons
accused of robbery were put to trial
by piece of barley bread, on which
the mass had been said, and if they
could not swallow it they were de-
clared guilty. Sometimes slice of
cheese was added to the bread. The
bread was to be of unleavened bar
ley, and the cheese made of ewes
milk in the month of May.
A revolution in the matchmaking
industry may be expected The
Russian department. of commerce and
manufactures has recently awarded
a patent to the inventor of means of
SO impregating wood with liquid
that, when dried, it lights with slight
friction and can be used several times
over, thus securing, according to the
inventor, an economy of at least rs
per cent.
Dickens thought that champagne's
proper place was not at the dinner
table, but solely at ball. "a cava-
Her." he said, may appropriately off
er at propitious intervals glass now
and then to his danceess. There it
takes its fitting rank and position
amongst feathers, gauzes, lace, EN-
broidery, ribbons, white satin shoes
eau de cologne, for champagne is
simply one of the elegant extras of
lifeo
A most remarkable show was re-
| Gently held in Austria. 1t was an ex-
hibition of noses Eighty persons
competed for the prize offered for
the most extraordinary nasal. protu-
berance in form, size and color The
jury decided that only three out OF
the whole could be admitted as com-
petitors for the prize. 1t was finally
adiudged to a competitor from Wen
ma, who is the proud and happy pos
SCISSOR of what is said to be % gigan-
tic nose of deep violet blue.
The loquat is fruit about the col
or of an apricot, one and half inches
in length and one inch in diameter.
The seeds are small and the flavor
like that of a cherry, delicate, sub
acid and good. A gentleman near
New Orleans, who has trees twenty
| feet in height ON his farm. declares