The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-12-21
CURIOUS FACTS.


I A heat OF $50 degrees IS insufficient 10
Kill disease germs
A society Of grammarians was formed
at Rome as early as 276 B. C.
The invention of dice is ascribcd to
Palmedcs Of Greece. about 124i.
Fore,t aud lSyeqm relates u story of
how a roll Of fine-cut tobacco killed a
shark
2. l1t .. :, NJ,
France were assured equal rights in the
family.
There arc sixteen different instru-
ments bearing names which end in
''phone.
70 ore who paris his name in he
middle can secure patent from the
nited States.
John Cobb, of Syracuse, y. Y, fired
a charge Of shot into a man who called
him corn Cobb.
The COW bell has been adopted as
political emblem in Wisconsin. 1t calls
the clans together.
santa Rosa, Cal, has floral curiosity
IN the shape OF a hollyhock bush that
5ears jet black flowers.
Kansas has produced twelve year-old
Joy VINO has stolen over so. 0pu worth
Of horse flesh in twelve months
a woman in Denver, Col. was so SEN
sitive that when her husband ca led her
q SLOUGH she took poison and died.
It was a not uncommon practice foI
The poor o. the Middle Ages TO sell them
selves into slavery. or to become slaves
0y debt
An o.d chap Of nineiy-two set ont to
dance at a country picnic in Massachu-
sets, and the bones Of Lis legs snapped
Ike pipe stems.
Dublin, Ireland, is noted for the nan
afacture Of Irish popiins; Belfast, Ire
and, for linens; Philadelphia, Pa, FOL
hosiery, SO is Nottingham, England.
The Alcalde OF Para, Brazil, has tie
power, should he meet . sub cct with
bis hair parted in the centre, 10 order
as head shaved as sleaa as a billiard
8al and then CREASED with lard.
A san Diego paper says a line Of por-
9oises was seen IN the ocean from the
or1nado Hotel a few DAYS ago which
vas over half a mile in length. They
we're estimated 10 number ten thousand.
Cyrus Trp'ett. who died at the age Of
..ghty-two years near Akron, Oils re
entity. had never been outside the lin
Il Of his county but once. and in all his
ifetime rode only five miles on rail
'oad.
A sensation was causcd at a Georgia
hanging not long ago, when the muir
iefer stepped upon the scadold, 10y a lot
d his friends applauding him with their
hands and throwing him big bouquets
IF flowers.
Charles Dyer. Of Indiana, bet fifty
,ents that he could cross highway be-
ore a railroad tram could hit HIM.
Charles lost by a Tex seconds. but there
: no need to read him a ser.non about
l. They haven't found but hall OF him
set.
one Of the Oldest bits Of bric-a brae
81 d0gpincer," an instrument once
p use ia Wales 70 enable the beadlc to
exc and ect unruly or bad-behayed
.or- from church during services The
National Society Of reach Antiquaries
s-as shown one Of these the other day by
.he learned Celtic scholar GaidOz-
According 20 curious old marriage
aston. still prevalent IN Brittany. the
bridegroom. Immediately after the priest
aa- welded the couple strikes his wife
70 the face. saying, This Is how you
ril fare II you make me angry" and
iheu. kissing her, be- SAYS. And this Is
how you viii fare If you treat me well"
What we cali a nightmare was sup
posed By .sour Saxon forefathers TO
be a demon or vampire called Mara or
Mare. that sat upon the chest Of sleeper
and cave him horrible senations. These
ramBires were thaueht 10 be guardians
q, hidden trea .ures, aud the place where
Ihev hid these was called their dus. or
aest-
some three months ago the water in a
seor.ia well. some forty feet deep, be
ran 70 roar and boi. in a most alarming
amer. and a few weeks later the per-
f.rmance was repeated. so the owner
concluded 10 lean 1t ont and find the
t-ou r. lie did-and didn't for when
he bottom was rea he'd there was moth
AZ there. grd the veil and the mystery
-. 81. DAY q deem a. ever