Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-31
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Cincinnati's music hall has q carpet
that measures 5000 yards.
Two names in the Chicago directory
are Weynacht and Whatnot.
4 Japanese reporter collects news, but
does not in any case write it. He tells
what he knows to news writers
The other day an Indiana Judge de-
cided that a man who was being rotten
egged was just fed in shooting to kill
At the time of the battle of Gettys
burg the Union army numbered 500, 600
men, the Confederate army about $780,
600.
A pipe smoked by General Jackson
while he was President was recently pre-
q to the New England Historical
Society.
,ne ,argest watermelon raised III
Georgia this year was grown in Reuben
seventy pounds.
More than 1000 sea shells have been
brought to Tampa, Fla, TO be used In
the foundation of its big new hotel, and
two vessels are at work increasing the
quantity.
A schooner has brought to Boston
fish weighing 175 pounds, caught In
deep sea fishing, that no one can name.
1t is almost as broad as long, bright red
and covered with silver spots.
Pontiac, Mich, will provide gold
rings, marriage license, minister, hacks
and two pairs of shoes to the unsophis
ticated pair who will agree to be mar
ried on the county fair grounds.
Samuel Wolff, of Jersey City, n. j.,
was born in March /, 1850; married
March ]. 1868; had a daughter born
March 1, 1869; she married March /,
1897, and gave birth to a boy March 1,
1888.
There are about 1900 places of wor-
ship in ondon, of which 500 belong to
the Church of England, $50 to Weslyans
and Methodists, 100 to Independents,
$40 to Baptists, fifty to Roman Catholics
and about 200 to various other religious
sects.
A tribe in the palm region of the
Amazon, in South america, cradles the
young in palm leaves. a single Leaf
turned up around the edges by some
native process makes an excellent cradle,
and now and then it is made to do ser
vice as bath tub.
John Roll, residing in Redmon, H.,
is the owner Of a horse that is twenty
hands high, weighs $500 pounds, and is
said to be the largest horse in the world.
1t is five years old, never was off Rolls
farm, never has been broken, and has
never been 'shod. The blacksmith at
Redmon is afraid to shoe the horse.
John T. Andrews, of Knoxville, Ga,
has a Panama hat that was worn by his
father to the Georgia Legislature, of
which he was member in 1>'40. The
hat has been worn constantly for forty
eight years by the different members of
the Andrews family, and yet it is sound,
there being no hole in it, and no breaks
of any consequence.
A young woman on her way home
from church in Mentone, Ind, recently,
was caught in thunder shower and
struck by lightning. Though terribly
frightened she managed to reach home.
On examination she found that the fluid
had bent two of the hairpins on her
head and actually melted one, but she
was not injured a particle.
A small skye terrier displayed heap
of good sense at a big ire IN Cincinnati
the other afternoon. While proving
around his hair caught fire. 1t was
slowly burning, and the dog was about
to be turned into a roast, when a hose
burst. The poodle saw it, and made
dash for the stream, into which he
jumped, eXtinguish rg the fire.