Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
SELECT SIFTINGS.

"A span IS Ten ana seven elSnIS 1nCneS.
David ODER, of White Oak, Penn. has
had lead pencil forty years.
The crown and regalia of England were
pledged to the city of London by Rich
ard II. for $40, 600.
The German and French governments
in the war of 1871 held to their agree
ment to employ no privateers.
A vegetarian hotel is an innovation in
London There are already thirty vege-
tartan restaurants in that city.
The custom OF going bare headed one
day in the week (on the Sabbath, or
Saturday is observed by the Mingrelians.
Recently disguised Oshkosh, Wis,
juryman offered to pay the sum in dis
pute if the claimant would dismiss the
case.
Even so celebrated general and old
soldier as the Duke of Wellington felt
it necessary to fight a duel as late as
1929.
Paradise, by Tintoretto, is the largest
painting in the world. is 81 feet wide,
334 feet high, and is now in the Doge's
Palace, Venice.
huddler meaning a loafer, or idler; so
a word of similar import.
Within a twelvemonth four persons
have been killed outright and fifth
badly crippled at very near the same
spot in the freight yard at Americas,
Georgia.
Cooks of old were considered a sacred
race; even their fingers were consecrated
to the de ties The thumb was devoted
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middle finger to Saturn, the next to the
sun and the little one to Mercury.
A traveller at St. Clairsville, Ga, out
of curiosity visited the court house, and
was almost Mortified to find his only Sis
ter the defendant in murder trial going
on at the time She had mysteriously
disappeared from home years before and
her Whereabouts were unknown to her
people.
Jacob Hibshman, an unmarried man,
aged forty five years, residing near Lam
caster, Penn. died of blood poisoning
fore, while cutting feed for his stock, his
right hand was pierced by sharp frag-
ment of hay, and that scratch caused his
death.
An immense pipe of baked clay, that
mound builders of prehistoric days, was
recently dug up near Purdy, Tenn. 1t
weighs four and one-half pounds, and is
in the shape of an eagle, the bowl rest
ing on the eagles back, and measures
nine inches in length.
Jim Blevins, living near White Rock,
Texas, killed very large chicken snake
d few days ago, and noticing the snakes
body was unusually large and ill-shaped,
made an incision and found it to contain
a large cow horn and in the horn a
prairie rat. It is supposed that the snake
chased the rat into the horn, and to Sc
cure the rat swallowed the horn.
In the National Library at Paris there
is a Spanish globe 800 years old, on
which the Congo follows in a remarka-
BILE manner the course now given to that
river on the maps. All the best maps in
the sixteenth century showed the Congo
as rising in a lake far inland, while in
this century we first tried to identify
the Congo with the Niger, and then for
many years made it flow north.
Poison for some animals is food for
others Hogs can eat henbane or
hyocyamus, which is fatal to dogs and
most other animals. Dogs and horses
are not easily poisoned with arsenic
Goats eat water hemlock with impunity;
pheasants, stramOnium; rabbits, bella
donna; and morphia IS said to be innocu-
Gus to pigeons. There is some truth in
the old saying that What is one mans
meat is another mans poison" This is
due to habits and idiosyncracies.
The Time of Thinking.