Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-11-02
NO. 8.
STRAY BITS.

The keeper OF peanut starau IN Newark, ~.
J., Is named Pizarro Cesar.
The new United States postal card win be
big enough to write a letter on
There are 600 central electric light sta
lions in various parts OF the United States
Professional rat catchers receive a salary
Of 81, 500 year There are but ten IN the
United States.
Homestead entries were made during the
last two months in Cullman county, Ala
for over 6.o00 acres.
During thunder storm at Dennison. Tex,
the wheel of a sewing machine was melted
by stroke of lightning.
A stone at Woodsville, n. H., is said to
mark the boundary line OF two states, three
counties and four towns
Steubenville, o., man suggests that a
day like Arbor day be set apart annually for
the destruction of the English sparrow
A Canton, o., man undertook to eat
twelve boiled eggs in fifteen minutes, and It
took two doctors bring him around again.
The Bennington battle monument, that is
to be sol feet high, has reached a height OF
1874 feet The rainy summer has retarded the
work
A feminine summer boarder, who recently
killed rattlesnake in Passaic county, N j.,
will wear the tanned skin of her victim as
girdle
A deathbed marriage took place lately in
Winsted, Conn. The groom was well to do,
and willed all his money to his wife He was
"a years old
Somebody has discovered that nearly every
one Of the worlds famous beauties was born
In, e,,rrrnor of n fiYna xvhar, fha aarth saosnad
to smilingly welcome them.
The ITO ton gun at Shoeburyness is stated
to have cost el5,0oO, and the carriage, with
its various mechanical devices for handling
it, 900, total of f26,Oc0
1t is stated by one of the guides at the
capitol in Washington that fifteen brides an
hour is the average number of visits to the
statuary hall each day of the year.
The elm tree that shelters the Sheldon
homestead at Deerfield, Mass, is one of the
oldest In the state and its history can be
traced back automatically for 200 years
A young man from Philadelphia has lost
his Job as school teacher In Accomac county,
Va, by chucking the girls under their chins
in study hours and kissing them at recess
In San Francisco one day recently water
melons sold so low that Wholesale dealers,
rather than still further glut the market,
threw consignment OF 5000 into the bay.
According TO a German paper, there Is now
living at st. Hubert an old stager OF 9S. who
takes daily exercise on bicycle, and is re-
nowned all over the country side as an expert
rider
The diary Of the famous Baron Friedrich
Won der Trenck, cousin of the notorious Franz
Won der Trenck, which purports to be written
with his own blood while prisoner at Magde-
burg, is now offered for sale at Leipzig.
The statisticians of the Pennsylvania
weather service have calculated the rainfall
of that state during the summer, and find
that IL gathered in one place it would form
lake 81 900 miles square, and IS feet deep.
A man named William J. Haines, 1O2 years
old, has been converted and has Joined q
Methodist church in st. Louis. He says he
was never sick day In his life. He was an
orderly on Gen. Jacksons staff in the war OF
1872
The craze for pearl fishing has extended
from Wisconsin into Illinois At Belvidere,
on the Kishwaukee river, baker found 800
pearls, for which he has been offered in Chi
cago an average price of thirty-five cents
pearl.
A remnant of the Seneca tribe of Indians
still fingers in Warren county, Pa, spearing
fish, ETC., for living. The tribe all told
barely numbers 1000 members and has so
dwindled that marriage among blood rela-
tions has become almost a necessity.
Clinton A. Snowden, of Tacoma, saw bees
going and coming from hollow tree He
built a fire, smoked out the bees and cut
down the tree to get the honey. He found
great lot Of IT. but, better still, large guam
tity Of gold was in the hollow trunk.
The house in which Oliver Wendell Holmes
was born is still standing on the common at
Cambridge, Mass, and is now one of the col
lege buildings. 1t is All old gambrel rooted
house, and during the siege Of Boston 1t was
the headquarters of the American officers
party Of fossil hunters are having good
luck In the North Fork country Of Oregon.
They have found the bones OF small horses
with three toes on each foot; rhinoceros skulls
and other bones that show, as they think,
that Oregon had tropical climate before the
glaciers came down from the north and Gov
cred the land miles deep with ice.
One OF the jewels which Col North, the
nitrate king" brought back with him from
Chill was miniature canoe fashioned OF
gold, after the model used by the Peruvian
and Gillian warriors hundreds of years ago
in the construction OF their war canoes Col
North announced that he felt much inclined
to build a racing boat on the lines Of this lit
tie canoe, and it ia now rumored that he In
tends to remodel the Thistle In this manner.