Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-16
CURIOUS FACTS.


The white rose is the favorite flower
u France.
There are now-7O, 900 widows in India
lnder nine years of age.
A few days ago 5000 watermelons
we're destroyed in Georgia railroad
wreck.
1t is said that Asa Low, of Springvale,
mas the shortest name of any person in
Maine.
1t is not an unusual sight to see
seventy five acres of California wheat
ield covered with wild geese.
A sign over the office counter.in he
leading hotel of Leadville, COL, reads :
'sDogs bearded at $40 month"
Constantinople, Turkey, is believed to
nave founded the first hospital ia the
world, as we now understand hospital.
A census enumerator discovered fam
ily of ten children in San francisco,
CAL, who were all elubfooted and knock
kneed.
In the Sultan of Morocco's stables are
| Eve horses for his own use and seven
hundred for the use of his family and
servants.
There are fourteen pages IN the United
States Senate They serve for four years
each, being eligible only between the
ages of twelve and sixteen.
There are seventeen bathrooms in Mrs
Thomas A. Scots residence, on South
Rittcnhouse Square, Philadelphia. The
house contains as many suits as an ordi-
nary hotel.
A very wise citizen of Chicago, who
was seeking boarding house, went first
to a good meat shop and asked the pro-
prietor to tell him the houses to which he
sold the best meat.
A horse tanner advises that a runaway
horse be allowed to go fifty yards. Then
| tig1ten the lines, say ''whoam and il he
does not respond, to give strong jerk ON
the right hand rein, and say whoa
ag lin.
The largest plate of glass ever cast in
the world was drawn from the annealing
furnaces at the Diamond Plate Glass fac
tory at Koko no, Ind, recently. Ii
measures 145x195 inches, weighs 2000
pounds, and is perfect in every partieu-
lar.
A tradesman named Mcckers was found
recently in street of Eastbourne, on the
English South coast, with seven long
nails driven deep into his skull. He was
removed to hospital in dying state
The doctors say it is an astonishing case
of deliberate suicide
Mrs. Ambrose Crouch, of South Jack
son, Mich, has been keeping tab on
her family, aud finds that during the
past year she has baked for them 1868
cookies, 1888 doughnuts, 217 cakes, 267
pies, 81 buildings and 1913 Ioaves of
bread Her family is not large, either,
except as to appetite.
A newly married Hindoo girl is inter-
licted by custom, when living under her
husbands roof, from talking to any but
her younger sisters-ln-law or brothers-in
law. A suicide has been committed by
little Hindoo wife in village in Burd-
wan for the pathetic reason that she could
lind tno one to talk to or play with.
The University of Berlin, with its
5000 students and scores of famous pro-
fcssors, has capital of but $3.50, 900.
Its largest endowment, that of the Count
ess Rose, is only S150,000, Neverthe-
less it is the seat of the highest German
learning, and claims to have the ablest
corps of instructors of all the worlds
schools.
At Mrs. Somebody's sumptuous dinner
party in the suburbs of New York the
other evening canary birds were liberated
from their cages and flew about the din
ing room during the feast, evidently en-
barrassed, if not scared. This ''fes-
ture" comes from London, where Colonel
North, the ''nitrate king had it first at
his regal banquet at the Hotel Metro