Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
SELECT SETTINGS.


The Astors own 5000 buildings in New
York city.
A days journey is thirty-three and
one-eighth miles.
A baby has been born in Chicago
weighing just one pound avoirdupois.
A pound of pennies is worth $142- \
pounu of five cent pieces Is worth
$3.50. 90.
A New York coroner recently narrow
" escaped death from shifting at bottle
from which suicide had taken prussic
acid.
Snow is initiated for theatrical pur-
poses by spreading out white cotton,
over which pulveIized mica has been
strewn.
Baltimore is growing over her three
carrier pigeons, which flew 800 miles IN
a little over six hours, and so broke the
record for that distance.
A monster frog swallowed chicken
at Oconee, Ca, the other day, and
seemed to be relishing the bite immense
ly when the owner killed him.
Mr.. Dye, of Jessup, Ga. has cow
that is perfectly hairless throughout
Spring and Summer, and only puts on her
coat at the beginning of the Fall.
Among the descendants of Thomas
Plantagenet. Duke of Gloucester, fifth
son of Edward Ill, was Stephen j.
Penny, who was not many years ago
sexton at st. George, Hanover Square,
London.
During the drill of sailors aboard the
steamer Forest City at Boston recently,
they ran from a point between decks,
unfastened the lifeboats and lowered
them into the water in the remarkably
quick time of one minute and fourteen
seconds.
A novel letter was received by a guest
at a Cleveland hotel the other day from
New York. 1t was written on a gentle
mans linen cuff, with the address on
the reverse side. A 1-cent stamp was
attached, and it arrived at its destina-
ton the same as an ordinary postal card.
''The name ''Jo-JO," at present
degraded to the use of the dog faced boy
of the dime museums, was originally
coined by the popular Swedish poet,
Johann JOHN Q61S-6D, and used by
him as pseudonym, under which he
composed dramas and comedies for the
New Theatre of Stockholm.
Charley Lee, better known as 'Whist-
ling Charley" who died in Cincinnati
acters of that city. Although eighty-six
wears old. he pushed his handcart around
almost to the day of his death, and his
shrill whistle could be heard for block.
He had mania for rings and his fingers
were covered with them.
The pretty daughter of Columbus,
Ohio, preacher is in bad fix. She has
eaten pickles until she has dwindled
from two hundred to sixty pounds. She
can no longer eat. Her tongue is as
dry and hard as piece Of leather, and
her physicians say that the interior Of
her stomach is as hard and smooth as
the surface of polished glass. The young
lady is only sixteen years old.
A lover of the ''curious in numbers"
has arrived at some interesting facts
about Berlin. The city las 210 miles
of streets, so that a person might walk
ten days in the capital without retrac-
ing his steps. If the l, 400, 0o0 inhabit-
ants should march in double file they
would form a line nearly 80 miles in
length. If the citizens should determine
to start upon journey at the same time,
all the cars of Germany would accommo-
date but two thirds of the number.
A resident of Corey, Ohio, owns
rare curiosity. 1t is a 81 bill, CONT
mental currency. On it is what is
known as the wild hog scala crude
cut of a wild hog; while to its left is
the following: This bill entities the
bearer to receive four Spanish milled
dollars, or the value thereof in gold or
silver, according to a resolution of Con-
gress passed at Philadelphia, February
II, 1916. Signed, John Howard"
Another signature appears, but it is too
much defaced to be made out.