The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-17
QUAINT AND CURIOUS

York.
An eastern woman to save gas partly
CO.'S the burners il her boacders' rooms
with asbestos.
A walking-stick, the crutch-handlo
Of which is an ear-trump is the latest
convenience for deaf mon.
JACK Brown, locomotive engineer
on the Michigan Central road, is tho
living image Of the late General SheTi-
dan.
The largest sponge ever found II dis
playel in q NV York dealers widow.
1t i, eight feet il circumference AMI
thrce in diameter. 1t is Vtlu2d at
$25.
The Persian namo for Americans is
Yangc DJoa-ya, which means dweller
of the new world. The fir. word
sounds very much like Yank.o in pro
nunciatIOn.
The heart Of the poet Shelley it
seems is preserved among other precious
relics of the poet il the house Of his
son, Sir Percy Shelley, at Boscombe
manor, Bournemoath, Eagland.
A Bangor M..) lawyer, who is no.
tea for his observation-disclosures, went up
his own stairs the other day, and see
Ing notice on his door Back at 2
O'clock" sat owa to wait for himself.
Tho postofIlce at II mock, NJ l., en-
joys distinction which is diff rent
from any other in the country. 1t has
box rep ters from three different states,
West Virginia, Maryland and PennsyI-
vania-
The tax collectors receipts of the
ancient Egyptians wcro Inscribed on
brok en- pieces of crockery. Some of
them, from the Br tjsh Museum collec-
ton, have been translated, and show
the tax in Egypt under the early
C9Iars.
A bachelors club organized In Ben
tonville, Ark, is to impose a heavy fine
on mem 5ors unmarried at tll3 end of
1889, excepting those who can give
satisfactory cvi lcnce that they have
proposed and been rejected three tines
during the year.
There hes just been landed at San
Francisco freak worth mention, in
shape of black marc from Australia
that is utterly and absolutely without
hair, even where name and tail ought
to be. In all other respects she is a
model of the equine race.
While duck shooting on Ma71toulin
Island, Canada, D ,ri.l Hagey discov-
cred cave full Of human bones that
further examination showed to be those
of Indians, though how, why and
whea CO they came there is one Of those
things whereon history and tradition
are alike silent.
Blacksmiths, who sometimes get hold
of fractions horses, will appreciate the
device of Sidney, Ohio, man. The
invention is horsesh ociag rack, and
consists of pon, reality adjustable to
the size OF any animal, AMI in which a
horse can be securely fastened, the rack
being made so that it can be readily
taken down and moved out of tho way.
1t is stated upon authority that there
is a set of false tooth at the bottom of
nearly every we'll in New EngIa2d-as
people are prone to lose them while
drawing water-also that they are fre
quent'y found by clam diggers embed
ded in tho sand-rathcr ghastIy NOM
orials of the bathing season-and that
trainmcn often fad them beside the
railway where they hav1 dropped from
the mouths OF Quito okiag passengers.
The putting on a short time ago Of
the fast expresses between Edinburgh
and London has revived memories OIL
the old inha.itants as to English rail
Foading forty years ago, and one Of
those alleges that he can remem Der
when tho train for E lnburyh wa:
started by busle playing I'D be {
Butterfly" The passenger cars wore al
much like stage coaches as possible
the baggage was carried piled on top,
and the guards sat like drivers on top
also