Richland beacon., 1888-06-16
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lliad found in upper Egypt.
Owen county, Ky, has girl school
teacher barely eleven years old.
The first notice of aurora borealis in
England was on March e, ZIG.
The organ was invented by one Ctes;,
bus, a barber of Alexandra, alb ut 100
B. c.
Snow has Just fallen in Formosa,
China. for the first time within the mem
DRY of man.
Twenty -fve-cent gold pieces have been
minted in the United States, but merely
as specimens.
There are but three silver dollars of
the coinage of 1904 in existence. They
are worth $1,000 each.
Solon. Chic. Bias. Pattacus, Perian-
der, Thales and Cleobulus were Gale
the "seven w.se men of Greece"
The Bangor Me- Commrci Il tells of a
man whose hair has been changed by
electricity from iron-gray to beautiful
bright bay.
The Portland Oregon coal men send
card with each load, advising the pur-
chaser how he can measure his coal so as
to ascertain il the weight holds out.
The heaviest man of whom there is any
record was Miles arden, Of Tennessee,
who died in lSj, at the age Of 80. Hight,
seven feet six inches, weight, 1000
pounds.
Under the laws of Maine you can Dor.
row a mans horse, keep him for a year
and DAY. and then settle for twenty
cents per day for every day the animal
was used.
Gold can be beaten 1900 times thinner
than the material upon which this paper
is printed. One ounce of beaten gold
will cover 145 square feet by actual COM
putation.
Mr. and Mrs. Heulet, of Sandsfield.
Mass, have been married seventy three
years, during the last forty of which he
has worked regularly on the farm, and
she, although blind, has done almost all
her housework.
1t is said that Orringtop, Me-, was
meant to be Orangetuwn, and rot its
present appellation from the legislative
'erk, who made ont the charter, and
was of opinion that ''orring" was the
right way TO spell orange.
T,co French ladies lately agreed upon
trial for 500 to see which could talk
the faster The contest was to endure
for three hours. One pronounced 203,
$50 words Areading from Eugene Sue.
The other pronounced 2J6,3 and won
the prize.
A unique coe let, called An ''auto.
graph quilt" w;ss recently presented tc
the Soldiers lIonA at kichmond, Va,
by Miss COPELAND, on. Botetourt County
1t is made of 200 pIsSes, each of which
bears the autograph some notable
person. Among the raISs' are tho>e OF
President Cleveland and NJ, s Cleveland,
Governor ! ee and nited States Senator
John W. Daniel.
An English family has a custom of
feeding wild birds regularly after break
fast. Opening the d.ning-room window
they ring a bell, AMI Immediately all
kinds of birds, and sometmee even
squirrels, come to the feeding place. "
curious result of the custom is that
numerous applicants are seen each
morning waiting the sound of the bell,
like so many patients at a hospital.
\ curious creature was brought to San
Francisco by a sh p which arrived there
the other day. 1t has some characters
tics of the crocodile, but is covered with
a coat of short bristles or hair, which
gives it most peculiar appearance. 1t
has been domesticated to a certain ex-
tent and will permit the captain or any
of the crew to approach it and receive
their caresses with evident pleasure, but
if stranger approaches, it distends its
big jaws and shows fight. The crew
call it ''woolly crocodile" 1t is active
and weighs about forty pounds.