Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1889-05-23
All Sorts.
The Samoa disaster cost the United
States government 100000.

The Samoa disaster cost the United
States government 50, 100000.
Chauncey M. Depew recently took
out another lite insurance policy fol
$4,000.
It is stated that Jay Gould owns
forty thousand shares of the Rich.
, mond Terminal stock.
The City of Rome consumes an
average of 200 tons Of coal a day in
crossing the ocean at top speed.
Bellite is said to be 80 per cent,
stronger than dynamite, absolutely
safe for transport and flameless.
Ellen Morrison, of Alexandria,
Va, thinks she is heir to an estate
valued at S24,0OO,000 in Scotland.
Virginia was the first settled State,
and yet there are 100000 unculti-
waited acres of the " Old Dominion"
Mrs. Cleveland has gained exactly
nine pounds of flesh since she quit
shaking hands as a business. Mrs.
Harrison has lost three.
The fleeces Of ten goats and the
work Of several men for half year
are required to make cashmere
shawl a yard and a-half wide.
The contest over the S12,0OO,00O
estate of the late d. Hotchlliss, in
ventor Of the Hotchkiss gun, began
at New Haven, Conn, last week.
The first thing George Sheldon, of
Indiana, did when he got legacy Of
! $40, 900 was to buy $4,000 worth Of
diamonds and 4 thousand dollar
team
In Oregon the government lands
still unoccupied aggregate 60, 795, 800
acres, and in Washington 44,T96, 160
acres Of excellent land wait for
settlers.
American women pay S62,000,0O0
Il year for cosmetics, Of which $751;
900, 900 is rcinvested in advertising,
and the remainder, S15,000,0 900, is
clear profit.
The idea that fish food was brain
food had a run Of ten years before
any one asked why Esquimaux, who
eat the most fish, had no mental
smartness.
1t is estimated that 100, ZOO Ameri-
cans will visit Europe the coming
season. As the cost is placed at 81 900
each they will spend the nice little
sum of SlOO,OOO,OOO.
:, \ Buffalo bachelor has a memo
randum book in which he keeps the
name Of every girl he has ever
kissed. He had 923 names on the
list the last time he counted up.
Out of 100000 people who cross
the Atlantic from New York to Liv-
erpool, the loss of life is not as great
us among 100, 900 who travel between
New York and Pittsburg by rail.
Felice Viart, a professional beggar,
- years old, died a few days ago in
New Orleans, and when her house
was searched nearly $4,000 was
found slowed away in out-of-the-way
| places.
There arc more paper mills, rum
ming more machines, in the United
States than in any other country in
the world. Germany has nearly as
many, but no other country has half
rs many.
Returns from all cities and towns
Of the vote for and against the pro-
hibitory amendment in MasSachu-
sets show the total vote forit SSS, G9G;
against, 1873, l95; majority against,
,ll..l99.
\ curious result of being hit with
a baseball is reported from Philadel-
phia. \ suffering man was struck
in the mouth and when he got well
the impeachment in his speech had
disappeared.
\ rich Mexican lately had twenty
bulls turned loose in his yard, and
single-handed and alone he enjoyed
the spectacle of contests between
them until they were tired out and
could fight no more.
Farmer Dutton, Of Ellisville, \.
y, searched high and low for his
! fathers will after the old gentleman
died, nearly ten years ago. Recently
he took up the family Bible, and the
missing paper was found between
the leaves. 1t had been there all
the time.
Twenty Baltimore girls, who have
plenty of money, and are good Ger
man and French scholars, propose to
travel through Europe this summer,
and to write Il book Of their adven-
lures. There will be twenty chap
tiers, one by each girl.
Warrants have been issued in
Washington for the arrest of two
employees Of the National Museum
tor stealing alcohol in which fish,
snakes and Lizards we're being pre-
served and selling it to local drug
@istS for making bay rum.
\ manuscript copy of the Gospels,
for which 81, 900 has been refused,
is about to he sold ut auction in Lon
don. 1t is known as the evangela-
RUM" written in letters of gold on
purple vclum, and was written by
a Saxon scribe for Archbishop Will
frid in 60.
General Bates, a retired English
army officer Of means, is travelling
through the West. He was rather
surprised the other day when he sat
down to dinner in hotel at Seattle.
The waiter who took his order was
his own son, who had run away from
home seven years before.