The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-06
QUAINT AND CURIOUS
Carthage was 25 miles round

1t IS un!ucky IN Eng4an0 10 XIII
beetle.
The wall of Babylon was 200 years
in building.
There is such thing as the Ameri
can Society Of Dancing Masters.
In the Eternal City there were 1, Isl
palaces, and 46, coz houses divided into
fats.
The labyrinth of Egypt contain:
three thousand cham bers and tweIv:
halls.
Thebes, in E4yrt, presents ruin:
twenty-seven miles round. It had one
hundred gates.
Although a sacred insect among the
Egyptians the beetle receives but little
notice in folk lore.
Mary Goodwin, of Atlanta, Ca, is
thirty-eight years of age and the mother
of twenty-seven children.
Flies are sometimes regarded as fur
and even of other events.
Deschales, Jesuit, first proved the
rainbow Is caused by the refraction of
light through the raiudrops
Spaniards, in the sixteenth century,
believed that spiders indicated gold,
where they were found in abundance.
Oakland, Cal, may be called City of
Oaks, having taken its name from the
grove in which the city was originally
built.
In Germany it is said to indicate good
luck to have q spider spring his web
downwards towards you, but bad luck
when he rises toward you.
A hat which is supposed to have been
worn by General Santa Ana at the bat
tie Of Palo Alto has been sent to the
Matamoros (Mexico) museum.
Near Oakland, Tenn, an express
train struck fallen tree and every car
left the rails, yet not a single passenger
was either killed or wounded.
Engine 80, of the Union Pacific
road, that is now employed in trans
ferring cars across the Omaha bridce,
has record of having run /, 14O, 625
miles. 1t has been in use for twenty
five years, and was one of the first loco
motives used west of the Missouri river.
Mr.. George W. Childs, of Philadel-
phia, has just received a perfect copy
of the rare Saur Bible. This valuable
work was presented to him by grand
son of the original printer of tho book.
1t is as large as modern pulpit Bible.
with a mosaic cover, and Is strongly
bound.
The largest of the pyramids is four
hundred and eighty feet high, six hun
dred and sixty-three feet on one side;
its base covers eleven acres. The stones
are about thirty feet in length, and the
layers are two hundred and eight.
Three hundred and thirty thousand
men wero employed in its erection.
A new idea in tricycling has been in
vented by an Englishman, who has
been travelling with his wife through
France on machine fitted with bam-
boo mast on which a sail can be
noisted. The wind has sometimes kent
him moving, even on up grades, with
out using the pedals.
A queer incident took place at Mr.. A.
Lowers home at Critic, Ga. A COLONY
If black bees had been living peaceably
lear tribe Of Italian bees for years,
Until the black bees attempted to rob
heir yellow neighbors. A fierce fight
vas the result, in which hundreds of
he black robbers were killed. No in
quest.
Americans on the Pacific slope will
nave a regular Monte Carlo. This new
resort will be just across tho
Mexican border line on the ocean. The
Mexican Government has granted tract
If land tor the purpose, and everything
will be elegantly fitted up in the high
st style of art, and games of chance of
very kind will be conducted.
Horse-shoeing competitions at lead
ng Z glish horse shows have been de-
7elopcd into one of the leading features
# such exhibitions, the entries ia this
contest at a recent show numbering
early ono hundred. Each smith is sup
'lied with fuel, forge, anvil and iron, but
his own tools, and makes and
cts the shoe, and the man who best
,erform5 this work in the shortest time {
wins the reward.
A Washington physician possesses a
in the shape of kitten that .
as pink teeth. These teeth are arti-
ciaIly colored by putting a little mad
er in the food given to the animal. {
he madden discoiors the bones, but has
o bad effect on the general health of ]
he cat. At first the bones became of
ight pink tint, like the inside of :
hell, but the shade gradually deepeng t
With time. TIE discovery was m ade
bout fifteen wears aOo nv a From ch srr