The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-11-30
CURIOUS FACTS.

An Idaho man has invented a "nose
protector
Queen Victoria h7s had wicker baskets
made for her cats TO travel in.
Catechisms are said to have been com.
piled in the eighth or ninth century.
The word cloture means the same as
the previous question in parliamentary
law.
1t Is declared that there are restaurants
where robins are privately served as
game.
There il young lady in Keokuk,
Iowa, who Is six feet eleven inches in
height
The log line was first used in naviga-
ton about 1870. 1t Is first mentioned
by Bourne in 1871.
The highest mark ever reached by the
Ohio River at Cincinnati was February
Ii, 1Ss4-71 feet inch.
One watermelon doctored with half an
ounce of strychnine killed 1000 rabbits
On a ranch at Traver, California.
Chicago has the finest Chamber of
Louis is the largest horse market in this
country.
The largest china vase in the world is
steven feet high, is valued at $40, 600.
and it took eight years to make it--at
Hanley, England.
Lester NJ. AIicheny, OF Fairhaven,
Conn, who recently died, had been a
sexton for twenty years, and dug 5000
graves for other people.
The curio dealers of Kioto, Japan,
have decided TO open showroom near
the Kitano Temple, where mo article
will be admitted that is less than 1000
years old"
Very high-crowned hats were worn by
Queen Ehzabeth's courtiers, and high
crowns were again introduced in 1888.
Silk hats began to supercede beaver
about 1920.
Ten different husbands who were trav
cling when the Ashtabula disaster took
place used it 10 ''play dead on their
wives and SKIP out to some other part of
the country.
Charles King is the name of a man
years old lie has over 600 descendants
liv ing. He was born near Quebec on
January 10, 1871.
A San Diego Cali paper SAYS a line
Of porpoises was seen in the ocean from
the Coronado Hotel a few days ago,
which was over half mile in length
They were estimated to number 10000.
\ Port Huron, Mich, undertaken has
had n large tent made. Whenever he
has funeral on a rainy day he will place
the tent over the grave 20 that the service
may be held with but little inconven.
fence.
A London preacher placarded the city
with notices that he would preach in
Surgeons tabernacle on the sub ect
",-;-:-2-i." There was large
TO whom he announced
the text: "Stand thou still awhile, and
then said that his subject was The
Pauses of life"
A gentleman and lady who had been
stopping at a Maine hotel had a
queer experience. They met on the At
lantic ocean; lie proposed in Sweden,
was accepted in Russia, asked her
fathers permission in England, tine mar
rage settlements were drawn up in the
United States, they were married in
Algiers and spent their honeymoon in
Bar Harbor.
A colored man who speaks English
with genuine Irish brogue is rather a
novelty. Yet William b. O'Dell. a full |
blooded African, a-tonished a Brooklyn 1
police justice the other day by test flying |
in a rich Irish brogue. O'Dell says he
was born of African parents at Ballyslo,
Wexford county, Ireland, and, not hav-
ing been naturalized since his arrival in
was st Il an Irishman.
The Athen um Library, Bury St Ed
nunds, England, has biography of a
man named Corder which is bound in
piece Of human skin. Corder murdered
his sweetheart and married some one
more to his liking. Having been de-
tected and hanged, the doctor who OBJ
aimed his corpse sent piece of his skin,
properly cured, to the publisher, and
'opy of the dead mans life was accord
ngly bound up in his skin.