The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-23

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lis 5-12 feet at recent casting contest
Cans are said to have arisen in Scot
land during the reign of King Malcolm
H., about zoos.
Calico constructed telescope in
1899, and Discovered Jupiter's satellites
January 3, 1910.
A mammoth strawberry seven inches
in circumference was grown this season
at Portc5viiIo Cal
There died the other day at Chill,
Ind, a pony of the mustang variety that
was foalol in 1887.
Sewing beach sand for valuaO les lost
Is an occupation followed at most OF our
watering places, chiefly by youngsters
! A recently published Dictionary OF
Furniture and Decorations" shows that
the grandos danes of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries received while
in bed
Mr.. William Winthrop Allen Of Med
fed, Mass, is now the oldest living
alumnus Of Harvard. He was born
January 2G. 1894, and was q member Of
the class of 1917.
! A retrifed tree, tho size Of telc-
graph pole, with we'll marked bark and
roots. was found the other day in an
Ohio sandstone quarry at least sixty
feet below the present earth-level.
Chinese phcasants are so thick in the
Waldo Hills, Col, that they have to be
shooed out of the burrows by the plow-
men, so greedy are they in gObbing up
the angleworms. They are becoming
nuisance.
An old sorrel horse was carried long
distance in California rece lily in par
Tor car. The animal, now % years of
age, is tho property of ex-senator James
G. Fair, who grants the ancient stced
every luxury.
A colored woman, of Richmond, Va,
brought her baby to be baptised the
other day and when asked what name
she preferred for it, chose the word
'Amen," as she liked its sound, and it
was in the bible.
Fort Keogh, NJ. T., can claim the
honor Of showing tho widest range Of
temperature Of any place on earth. Last
summer the thermometer ranged from
1870 to 100 degrees above, while recently
it marked 50 degrees below zero, a
total range of 195 degrees.
Alfred NJ. Horton of Middletown, N.
Y, although totally blind, is expert in
the use of carpenters tools, and does
repairs about his house and stables. He
is fond Of horses and buys and sells
them with good judgment, Judging
them entirely by his sense OF touch.
At Acosta Roman metal pen has
been found 1t is bronze pen, slit in
exactly tho same fashion as the present
steel per. The Dutch invented metal
pen ia 1717, but it was not until many
years later that the hand screw press,
which made the first steel pen, came
into use.
In Paducah, Ky, Mr.. Joseph Hebute,
q rich German, upon going into a drug
store for something to heal hurt got
in the Franco Prussian campaign, found
in the man who supplied it not only a
fellow Ge.mao, but the same surgeon
who had attended him when first hurt
in the fatherland.
In japanese play some characteristic
figures of speech are: Ills attempts at
1--we making are as awkward as puppy
on slant roof" sail by ono rival to
another; and, "the sparrow cannot
comprehend the mind of the eagle
when one character asks another to ex-
plain a remark he has made.
Two littlo pigs were walking along
the Texas Pacific railroad track, when a
train came along and, as they fed in
opposite directions, the train decapi-
tatcd them both at the same time, leG<
ing their heads exactly opposite each
other, one pointing due east and the
other due west.
The skeleton Of an Indian who was
killed in what is known as the "Kil-
burn fight" of 1865 was recently
ploughed up in field near Walpolc, N.
H., where the fight took place It was
in this famous encounter that two men,
two women and two boys defended
themselves for six hours against 400
bloodthirsty savagcs.