The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-12
QUAINT AND CURIOUS,

Alaska shlpS Crau ~ 1-"'' =
markets.
Licorico is made from a plant called
glycyrrhiza.
A blind man has been admitted to the
Buffalo N. y bar.
Amusic dealer says that the violin
has not improved any since 1920.
The Cornish language is dead. The
last man who spoke it is no more.
The Austrian Empire is party to
suit in the Cook County QlIinOis)
courts.
Pennsylvania cat invariably bites
off the feet of the rats she catches and
then lets them go.
A firm of dentists in London adver-
tise that they will purchase old sets of
artificial teeth.
George Washington's own plans for
Mount Vernon are in the Architectural
Exhibition in New York.
Napoleon Bird is the name of Lon
don pianist, who recently played eleven
and quarter hours steadily.
Nelson Cardwell a coIored man, died
in Greensboro n. c., recently from the
effects of a spider bite on the neck.
Mrs. Charlotte Cain of Milton, Mass,
is "a years old, and has green parrot
which IS not less than So years of age.
At a ball near Hot Springs, Ark, re-
Gently, young lady, her mother, grand
mother and great-grandmothor danced
in the same set.
A Brooklyn policeman who danced
on a cellar door, fell through, sued the
proprietor of the place, and recovered
cents damages.
Venus, the morning star, is brighter
than it ever appeared to any man now
living, and nearer the earth than it will
be again for $40 years.
A toy balloon sent up from a town in
Kentucky a month ago, was found the
other day il a field in Connecticut,
where it had just alighted.
James Adams of Pike, n. Y, kept
eleven Leghorn hens the past year which
cost him for feed s. and turned out
total of 2 go eggs or an average of 205
eggs to a hen valued at $21.
At the recent annual Bears Head din
ner at Queens college, Oxford, the
head, magnificent specimen, weighing
over eighty pounds, was borne in on the
shoulders of four servants.
A sweet potato, measuring four feet
and one inch in length and two inches
in diameter, and grown in Mr.. J. C.
Townscnd's garden in East Gainesville,
was exhibited in East Gainesville, Ca,
recently.
A St. Louis game chicken fought an
eagle and the bird of freedom was van
pushed in very short order. The first
pass made by the chicken cut the eagles
head nearly off and another blow set
tied him. The chicken did not lose a
feather.
A prominent society lady in New
York cannot go to sleep without put
ting her thumb in her mouth. She has
tried in vain to cure herself of the hab-
it. She got it in childhood and has
kept it in mature years in spite of many
attempts at a cure.
A Cincinnati man, whose favorite
driving mare fell sick, turned her out to
| pasture among a lot of mules. While
she lay, too feeble to care what was
going on, they ate her name and tail
off as thoroughly as a barber could have
cut them. The mare can still trot in
80, but she looks queer.
1t is rare that a man dies laughing,
but William II. Brown, a New Haven
saloon-keeper, is said to have met death
in that manner. He was sitting in his
| place in conversation with a friend, and,
just finishing a funny story at which
both laughed heartily, was noticed to
grow pale and then fall from his chair
corpse The doctors said it was heart
disease
Worth Their Weight in Gold.