Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-08-24
Curious Facts.

Insurance was in general use in It
ally before 1894.
1t takes eighty-four of our years TO
make one year on Uranus.
\ Persian carpet twenty-four feet
square was sold in Paris the other
day for $500.
Clans are said To have arisen in
Scotland in the reign of King Malcolm
ii, about zoos.
\ wild goose flies by chart which
the Royal Geographical Society could
not improve.
Two pure white robins have been
taken from the nest of an ordinary red
breast in Galena, Ill.
\ Nebraska farmer has unearthed
the skeleton of woman who must
have stood eight feet high in life.
An enterprising physician in Aus
tralia advertises: Il will pay half the
funeral expenses in cases where | am
not successful
Four figs taken from tree III Cher
okee, Cal, weighed one pound seven
ounces, one of them weighing eight
ounces.
The phrase The real Simon Pure"
occurs in Susannah Centlivre's play,
"A Bold Stroke for Wife The au-
thoress died in l712.
\ new industry in California is said
to be the killing of bees that swarm
in private houses. At present il is
monopolized by two men.
Salmon fishers at Woodbush, Eng
land, recently found in one OF their
nets a fish with the body and tail of IA
salmon and the head of a haddock.
Joseph Ritas, n Spaniard, recently
died at the age OF llS years. His
brother lived TO be ia, and their
father was III at the time of his death.
4 mole is an insect-eater and never
molests the roots of trees. Two moles
devoured in nine days 3il white
worms, 1863 earthwornis, % caterpil
lars and mouse.
a woman was passing through the
grand hall of the Glasgow Scotland
Exhibition, few nights ago, with IA
baby in her arms, when the band be
gan TO play. The child screamed with
fright and died.
Mrs. Hall, Of Sabine comfy, La,
has three fingers preserved in jar OF
alcohol. which the owner can have by
proving property. They belonged on
the hand of burglar and she cut
them off with "A hatchet
Recently, at a Mascow Russia sun
set, the rays OF the sun were inter
cepted by cloud, and, through some
peculiar property in the atmosphere,
the city was colored vivid purple
hue. The strange effect lasted for
eight minutes.
Judge Arnold, of Argonia, Kansas,
lost his Office and court. room in the
recent cyclone at that place, and was
so severely shocked by a stroke OF
lightning that it restored the hearing
in one Of his ears which had been deaf
for thirty years.
At recent dinner given in New
York IA mound of flowers ornamented
the table. and over the flowers hov
cred gorgeously colored butterflies,
living, but dying in agony. Long
pins were run through their bodies
and they were fastened to the flowers
to die slowly.
Billy Neuberry, Of the City Engi-
neer's Department in St. Paul, Mimi.
is man of phenominal strength. He
is able TO lift heavy man by his teeth,
and can snap steel stove pokers like
broomsticks by twirling them aloft
and bringing them down quickly over
his left forearm.
In order TO secure n case against a
dentist who was using contraband
matches. the detective Of "A French
match company went TO the offender
and had tooth extracted. Then,
taking out cigar, he asked for a
light. The dentist handed him box
Of matches, which he at once declared
were contraband. The detective called
to all associate in an adjoining room,
and case was at once made up.