The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-08-02
CURIOUS FACTS.

Scientists say that plants nave Drains.
A tax was levied on funerals in Eng
land in 1898.
The first library at Rome was brought
from Macedonia 1877 B. C.
DR.. Calvin Parker, of WiIlacoochee, Ga,
has mule forty years old.
One boy in every two was whipped in
the Boston public schools last year.
A vessel superior to the City of New
York or the Etruria could not be built
for less than 81, $780, 600.
The art of printing was suggested by a
man cutting letters on the bark of tree,
and impressing them on paper.
Thousands of persons in Asia and some
parts of America subsist upon the seeds
of various species OF water lilies.
The first chief postmaster in England
was Thomas Randolph, who was ap-
pointed by Queen Elizabeth in 1881.
The manufacture of wooden carpets was
introduced into France from Persia in the
reign of Henry ", between 1889 aud
1910.
A cabbage stalk twenty feet high was
on exhibition at the Florida sub-tropical
exposition 1t is the tallest one ever seen
in the United States.
The present system of fiat buildings,
which has become SO popular of late, was
known in ancient Tyre many centuries be-
fore our present era.
Burmah, of the Burmese Empire, was
founded in the middle of the eighteenth
century by Aiompra, the INST ssxs<si-s.
of the present dynasty.
A New Jersey man has crossed the At
lantic fourteen times without seeing a
whale, wreck, iceberg, shark or even a
floating spar. During seven of the trips
he did not sight a sail.
OF thirty-five gamblers which a New
York journalist has known not one of
them died with sufficient money to pay
funeral expenses, though several were
worth $50, 900 at one time.
A boy in Kentucky who was fatally in
jured by play mate refused to give the
name of the boy who had injured him.
''He was my friend, and didn't mean to
hurt me, " was all that he would say.
An ex-convict named Monroe recently
died in England and left 500, 900 to the
warden of the Manitoba penitent;ary. 1t
appears that Monroe was once confined in
that prison and was kindly treated by the
warden.
The great conduit" was the first water
way of lead created in the city of Lon
don, being built in 1885. Stow says:
cat the procession of Anne Boleyn, June
1, 1888, on the occasion of her marriage.
it ran with white and claret wine"
Several centuries ago, some soldiers of
Modena carried away bucket from
public well in Bologna, and it occasioned
a protracted war, in which the King of
Sardinia was taken prisoner, and confined
twenty-five years in prison, where he
died.
Frank Thornton, of Elberton, Ga, has
in his possession a couple of eggs which
are curiosities. They have two shells;
the yolk is inclosed in the smaller one and
the white around it in the larger. The
eggs are as large as a goose egg, which
they closely resemble.
John A. Fulmer, of Moravia, n. Y,
has in his possession neck yoke which
has history. It originally belonged to
Major General Frederick William Angus
tus Baron De Steuben, who came to this
in ITO. He died in 1904, so it
will be seen that this neck yoke is quite
a relic. The wood appears to be white
oak
Mr. G. A. sala tells that the Maoris are
great in oratory. On one occasion he
was being welcomed to a Maori town.
: May your boots, " said the orator of the
day, "be lovely on the hills" in which
G. A. S. dimly recognized revised YER
sion of ''How beautiful upon the noun
tains are the feet of him that bringeth
good tidings."