Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-02-22
STRAY BITS.

Geneva is is said to be the cheapest city in
Europe for a permanent residence.
It is said that there are forty-eight Ian
gvsges and dialects spoken In Mexico.
Three French papers In Montreal have de-
clared in favor of Canadian republic.
The youngest officer in her majesty's serv-
ice is a second lieutenant Of exactly Is
The English board OF trade reports 500
strikes during 1888, with 5000 strikers.
According to the propaganda in Rome there
are 218, 000, 900 Roman Catholics In the world.
A cave discovered near Chico, Cal, Is said
to rival the famous mammoth cave of Ken
lucky.
A 17-year-old girl recently performed the
remarkable mountaineering feat Of ascending
Mount Ararat
While man out In Missouri was blowing
up stumps he unearthed a can containing $3.50
in gold and silver coin.
At present prices 1t is estimated that the
ivory collected by Emin Pasha would be
worth a million sterling.
A man Of Van Vert county, o., ON bet
wheeled a ba3ow containing $50 cats three
miles through a muddy country road.
There are more newspapers published in
Pennsylvania than in all British America,
and million more English speaking people
In the basement OF the White House Mrs.
Harrison found two old mahogany cabinets
which were used In the mansion when 1t was
first built
A medal of honor has been struck In Paris
to be given to each person who had to do with
the erection Of the machinery palace at the
Universal exposition.
San Francisco has 5000 Cinnamon, 5000
Of whom are cooks and servants, 5000 make
ladies' underwear and mems clothing, and
1900 are cigarmakers.
The first sawmakers' anvil used In the
United States Is In possession of Z. Andrews,
Of Wuliamsport, whose uncle imported 1t
from England in 1919.
A young man blowing ON q ranch near
Calf, Cal, found over $1,000. His employer
kept all but $50 Of 1t. and left the plownan
to plod his weary way In the field.
1t is estimated that there are 3, 000, 900 peo-
pie who walk about London's streets daily,
and In 50 doing wear awaya ton Of leather
particles from their boots and shoes.
Not including Alaska, Brazil is larger In
extent than the United States. It possesses
within its limits an area of $685., 1884 square
miles, with population Of II, 3S3, 275.
Nothing that has happened Of late In Con-
stantfnople has excited so much comment as
the action Of the sultan in driving about in
an open carriage with the German empress.
A monument has been erected at Anglers
to honor 900 republican volunteers Of the war
in La Vendee who threw themselves from q
height into the Loire rather than surrender
TO the Vendean army.
A cork tree at Visalia, Cal, was trans
planted to the court house yard recently. 1t
was planted from an acorn in 1867 in o vacant
lot and has grown to be thirty feet high and
twenty inches through the butt. The bark Is
one inch thick
Rev. John w. Farnham, the minister of
the colored Methodist church at Charlotte,
N. c., wears boot the size Of which is 355S,
which necessitates a sole Of twenty inches in
length and seven inches broad. Rev. Farm
ham stands 6 feet 10 inches in his stable
stockings, and weighs 410 pounds when
stripped of his impediments.
The boys of the College for the Blind of
Worcester, England, indulge in cricket, and
are reported to play very fair game. The
ball used Is made of wicker, with bell inside
Of it, which rings when it is thrown. The
wicket keeper claps his hands behind the
stumps to guide the bowler, and 50 expert are
the bowlers that they can hit the wicket with
three balls out OF six.