The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-26
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Electricity is now applied to backing

Electricity is now applied to backing
shoes.
The japanese hitch their horses in
the street by tying their forelegs to-
gether.
A duck owned by Jacob Walton OF
Augusta, Ga, laid Two black eggs re-
recently.
Miss Eunice Hooser of Elkton, KY,
has just completed a calico quilt that is
composed Of "a $50 pieces.
The Thermometer has been known to
register as low as 90 degrees below
zero at VerchoiansA, in Russia.
A Baltimore man has collected figures
which show that the bustle3 of this
country cost over s., 1000, 900 year.
A burning baggage car which was
wrecked in Nilsson the other day was
saved by pouring milk on the flames.
Queen Annes brother upon whose
head she twice set reward, was
known as James, the ChevaEer St.
George.
A matchmaker in Maiden Lime, New
York City, has discovered that the
earth has been retarded in its revolu-
luton ten minutes in six days,
The first theatre, that OF Bacchus at
Athens was built by Philos APO B. c.
Marcellus' theatre at Rome was begun
by Caesar and dedicated by Augustus,
u B. G.
Nose-trimming is now performed
without leaving scar or deformity. The
removal of surplus tissue from the end
of a long nose effects a wonderful
change in facial expression.
An old man who died in Fluvanna
county, Va, recently had cut his third
set of teeth when nearly eighty years of
age, and his hair, which had become
white, was returning to its original
color.
Queen Victoria owns the largest book
ever bound. 1t measures eighteen
inches across the back and weighs
thirty pounds. 1t contains the jubilee
addresses of cOngratulation from mem
bers of the Primrose league.
A Portland (Me.) woman has read the
Bible through eighty-fve times; she is
sevcnty-five years ola and began when
she was seven. She reads from the
same book with which she first began,
and has read it at least once every year.
At weddings the Greek church uses
two rings, one of gold, the other of sill
yer. In Spain AID Portugal three rings
are placed upon the fingers of the bride
at the words: "In the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost"
Mr.. VIM. Aiken has brought to the
office Of the Greensboro Co., Herald an
ear Of corn the end of which presents a
we'll nigh perfect picture of human
hand. The wrist and every finger are
represented ANO VI SOIu arr O1
the hand-end of the ear.
Probably one of the oldest meeting
houses in the world is the Bangund
church il Norway, the age of which is
800 years. The pagoda-like structure
is covered with shingles and an inch or
two of tar Runic inscriptions, interest
ing to scholars, are on the building.
A Boston paper asserts that newly
rich New York woman got from dis
honest sexton possession of an old tomb
stone sacred to the memory of some one
of the same nam3 as herself that was in
m English graveyard, AMI now has it
set in her library wall with a fictitious
pedigree as a voucher for her arts
tocracy.
A farmer near Che banse, Ill, noticing
that one of his oxen did not obey order.
as readily as of yore, concluded it had
become deaf. An ear trumpet was
tried with great success, and it is nov
fastened in place by wires around one o
the horns. The animal shows signs o
gratitude and eats heartily, whereas i
had before lost its appetite.
A curious discovery has just beer
made by people living IN the vicinity o
Pine Ridge, in Crook County, Wyo.
between the Black Hills and the Ri,
Horn Basin. The discovery is an articl
which resembles and has all tn
characteristics of soap. 1t is yclIowisl
in color, makes fine suds and will re
move grease from hands and clothing
The people who live in that vicinity ar
using it as soap. The supply is IN
limited.
Two Souls With But a Single Thought