Hillsboro recorder., 1888-08-02
CURIOUS FACTS.

A silver pound piece Of Charles L
brought S275.
Thirty loaves of bread are sold for 81
at Fort Valley, Ga.
]. F. Irwin, of 0swego, N. Y, paid
$4,000 for a Bible.
The voice Of Henry Hammond Of Mas
peth, Long Island, who died recently,
could be heard mile.
Dade City, Fla, turns out an alligator
fourteen feet long, and with spread ol
jaws to close around pork barrel.
4 South Carolina newspaper says that
there is an old colored man in Jonesboro
who has been married nine times and
has had III children.
Ed Snyder, of Dayton, Ohio, has a
dog that eats onions. The curious
animal will dig up an onion bed to get
atthe dubious vegetable.
A Tuscola county CAIich.) man has,
during the past eleven years, been tapped
| ia times for dropsy, and $500 pounds
of water taken from his body.
The wife Of Votello Sanchez, a Mexi-
can, gave birth at Pomona, Cal, to three
healthy boys. The babies have been
called Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego.
An elm tree growing in the grounds
of the Pennsylvania Hospital, in Phila.
delphia, is scion OF the famous tree
under which William Penn held the first
treaty with the Indians.
A Georgia man has q three. legged
chicken which, it is said, when it grows
tired of walking on two legs, corkserews
itself over and hops along on the third in
hignly entertaining and original man
| ner.
A Puget Sound (oregon) sawmill has
sent stick Of timber Isl feet long and
90 inches square. to an exhibition in San
Francisco. II is believed 10 be the
largest piece ever turne,. out from saw.
mill.
Two young boys of Lafayette, Wis,
went out hunting few mornings ago and
shot five wolves before noon. Then they
teok the scalps to the County Clerk and
received 800 in bounty certificates for
their mornings work.
Giles Shoot, of Calhoun County, Ca,
has steer twenty.three years old, by
whose help he has managed TO raise
twenty crops and a big family The
animal, once jet black, is now very
gray, but spry and hearty as a two.year
old.
Mr.. Arbuthnot, of Beavers Falls,
Penn, fed his twenty-year. horse on
brewers grains for awhile; aud from
being the steadiest animal in town, the
horse has developed an idiosynerasy Of
running away that makes folks think hin
eIazy.
For the past ten years the owner OF q
Touring mill at Dubuque, Iowa, had 4
sign on his fireproOf safe, reading: "NC
money is here-please call at the house. ,
Il was intendsd for burglars, and the
other night one called at the house and
secured $3.50.
Jesse Ruth, Of Newtown, Penn, had
the little toe Of each foo. amputated IN,
other day as a remedy for eorns. liz
had suffered such pain that he threatened
TO cut the toes of with a chisel il tn,
family would not consent to have sur
geOns perform the operation.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother o.
Abraham Lincoln, is buried on the out
skirts Of Lincoln City, Ind. A plaIr
slab Of marble about four feet high, al
most covered with grass aud dogweed
marks her grave. On the stone is th'
inscription: Erected by a friend Of he
martyred son, 1879"
The oldest merchant vessel, with on
exception, now in actual service is tn
schooner Good Intent. She was bull
by Clapp & LOring in Braintree, Mass
in 1918, and was originally a sloop, will
square stern and no iigurehead her lengtl
4s feet; her breadth, ii feet; her depth
~ feet, and her measure, 20 tons. TIT
home port Of the Good Intent, according
70 the list Of 1856, was Camden, Ne.