The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-18
CURIOUS FACTS.

in Maine.
Trumbur County, Ohio, boasts of a
fence of woven cornstalks.
A fvs-year-old child in Monson, Me-,
is said to speak three languages.
Four-ffths of all the saltwater appa-
ratus in the world IS manufactured in
Boston.
A business man of Cincinnati, Ohio,
places box of ice under his desk tokeep
him cool.
The word chautauqua is the corrup-
ton of an Indian phrase signifying a
'foggy place"
A Philadelphia barber says that the
Western mans skin is the most irritated
of any he shaves-they shave very cl, =
ly.
Duke Karl in Bayern, Germany, who
is a distinguished ocnlist, has Just per-
formed the tkoGsandth operation for
cataract.
A farmer living near Emporia, Kan,
owns horse eighteen hands and one inch
high. 1t IS five years old and is well
proportional.
The hottest weather ever known in the
United States was felt at Phoenix, Ari-
iona, in June, 1888, when the thermome-
ter marked 119 degrees.
A Wheeling Cw Va,) barber has IA
zor that he has used constantly for the
last twenty-five years, and it does better
work now than it ever did.
Charles Ahesse, Of Hamburg, Berlzs
County, Penn, has designed a grouping
of the forty-two stars in the national flag
so that they make six pointed star.
From every State in the Union but
tive, there have been sent to President
Harrison photographs of babies named
after him, until nov, the collection forms
big pile.
One of the interesting exhibits in the
crystal department of the French Expo
sition Is an enormous glass bubble, cap
able OF holding nine casks of wine. It
has never been equaled in the history of
glass blowing.
The flag used to drape the casket of
President Lincoln is incased and hangs in
the private office of the Secretary of War.
General Drum took care of the flag after
The rites had been conducted and took 1t
20 Washington.
In a certain town in Ohio, where
screens are not allowed to be used in
saloons, big fat man is hired by one of
the more enterprising saloon keepers to
stand in his door all the time He OBJ
structs the view very efectually.
1t Is said of the San Carlo Teatro, at
Naples, Italy, that when they wish to
present Mount Vesuvius as the scene in a
play they simply remove the rear portion
Of the theatre, and 10 and behold, the
perpetually flaming and smoking volcano
is revealed to the sight of the audience
In looking through a lot of second
hand books in a store in Parkersburg,
W. Va, Seaman Cummings came across
a book which had been stolen from him
in Philadelphia twenty years ago. He
valued it very highly, as his father pre-
sented it to him when he was quite
young. He feels quite jubilant over the
recovery.
The Egyptians have always been rec
ognized for their ability in the manufac-
ture of perfumes, but due credit was
never given them before a vase contain
ing some Egyptian ointment was opened
at the museum at Ainwick. The per-
fume it contained still had a pungent
odor, although it was more than three
thousand years old.
Mrs Wallace, of Summerville, Ohio, was
cutting up an old dress that belonged to
her mother, who died a couple of years
ago, when the scissors came upon some
thing hard Upon examination it was=
found to be a twenty dollar bill folded
and sewed in hem. Mrs. Wallace Is not
in the best of circumstances and the find
was very timely one.
A suggestion has been made in the
London papers to gid the dome of st.
Paul's. 1t is calculated that the gold
alone would cost S45, 900, and the ex-
penses of labor and of the costly scat
folding would probably nearly double
that sum. Undoubtedly the appearance
Of St. Paul's would be enormously i'm
proved by the gliding of the dome.