The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-06-15
CURIOUS FACTS.

Noacnes were nrst used IN England IL
1853.
City Park, Philadelphia, is the largest
In the world
The latest discovery is that seltzer
water is a cure for burns.
The highest recorded price for a Strad-
iyarius violin is said to be IS, 600
alediscoifokenonischi is the name of
a man who is working in the Schuylkill
coal regions.
Tie longest suspension bridge in the
world is at Fraibourg; then come those
At Pesih and Bourdeaux.
It is 1895 wears since the death OF St.
Patrick, the renowned apostle Of the
Christian faith in Ireland.
An ancient Japanese coat Of mail was
recently unearthed in the vicinity of
Victoria, British Columbia.
A Montreal butcher named Desmar-
chois was arrested and fined SEQ recent
Is for kissing a woman against her will.
He decided to 60 to Jail rather than pay
the fine.
The venerable American Philosophical
Society, OF Philadelphia, still possesses
the chair in which Thomas Jefferson sat
when he wrote the Declaration of indie
peudence.
In an appeal from a Justices court in
Ohio the lawyer couldn't find any par
ticnlar technicality, and SC he based the
appeal on the ground that court was not
opened with prayer.
The mascot black cat Of Washington
theater walked out on the stage during
a performance the other night and took
a good look at the President, who sat
in box with a party.
There is a legend current among the
peasants Of Bavaria that the long
life Of Kaiser Wilhelm was due to
mysterious philter Of which His Imperial
Majesty alone possessed the secret.
Robert McCrone, of Thompsonville,
Conn, is the most consistent vegetarian
in the Nutmeg State. He has eaten no
animal food tor over forty years. He is
now sixty-five and in perfect health.
Vienna must be jolly place to live in.
On one Saturday night, in a single dis;
trict Of the city, 240 public balls wes
held, and there are about twenty So
districts included in that gay me.2r b
las. - Il
Some Florida cabbages measureE
feet across the top and weigh twenty-ff Il
pounds. 50 the Florida papers say. Thea
also tell Of potato twenty-seyen pounds
in weight aud a turnip weighing ten
pounds
A new rule for removing a cinder in
the eye is given by an engineer 1t is:
Let the injured eye alone and rub the
other one, and the cinder will be out in
two minutes. 1t is a simple remedy
and worth trying.
An Eng. ish judge recently committed
the sentence Of prisoner to five years
imprisonment at hard labor instead of
SIX months imprisonment and two fog
gings. He thought the former sentence
was more mercifuL
The Aleaandran era fixes the creation
Al $500 b. c. This computation con-
TUNED til A. d. 2s', but the following
year ten years were subtracted, and 57S7
became 5777. This conceded with the
Mundane era Of Antioch.
Bob aud Ben Day, of Conyers, Ga,
have trapped si1ty-four beavers and four
o;ters on Georgia streams during the last
three months, besides a number Of smaller
animals. They will realize $500 from
the furs which the animals Welded.
Mrs. Nancy Miller. who died at Cum
berland, Nd, recently, at the age of 10S
years, remembered well the day she saw
General George Washington review his
troops az Fort Cumberland on October
~. 1874. and had many interesting
"reminiscences % tell Of the first Ameri-
can President
At Birmingham, Ala, Doctor Jones
discovered a racoon in yard back of a
drug store and took a novel method Of
capturing IT. lie procured a fishpole, a
sponge and chloroform. Standing at a
distance he lowered the sponge to the
nose Of the sleeping animal and held it
there until the coon was stupefed. Then
fearing that be might be bitten, he ar
ranged a lasso and caught the coon with
out difficulty.