The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-29
Miscsi,, ANEocs.

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"A Benton Hare man has a ,nusket
which used to Kill Frenchmen 200 years
ago, and o powder flask older by cen.
fury.
1t is estimated that the amount of
gold in the world is about 6l3 cubic
yards, and it would at in room twenty
four feet each way, IL in solid cube.
I'm London, recently. largo collie
dog saved . girls life by Selling her
dress and swinging her aside Just as she
was about being run down by horse.
The craze for passing floral tributes
over the footlights to stage favorites
seems to have reached its height at Bos-
ton recently. A minstrel performer re-
ceived a life-size floral image of himself
seated in n chair and playing the banjo.
Some writer has said that the aver
age number of hairs On the human scalp
varies from 10000 to 10000. A single
hair can support weight of two ounces,
and is so elastic that it may be stretched
to one-third of its entire length and
then regain its formor size and con-
dition.
"A remarkable proceeding is reported
from Chicago, where a father, Jacob
Lanfield, was arrested for not taking
out theatrical license for little thea
ter which his children ran in the cellar,
charging five pins admission. He was
arrested on a warrant sworn out by
policeman.
The old lighthouse which stands ut
been abandoned by the Government and
orders have already been received for
its destruction. 1t has been a familiar
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favorite visiting place for New Haven
people.
-Flounders replcnish tho ocean at
very rapid rate. In a season one founder
produces many millions of eggs, scatter
ing them broadcast through the water.
Tho sole produces 1000, 600 eggs, a plaice
not less than 2,OOO,o 900, while a turbot
has been credited with the deposition
of 1000, 900 or IL, 600, 900 eggs.
MIR. Smallfry-"My dear, don't YOU
think this would be good time'for your
mother to go on nice long visit to her
friends in the Eastp The rates are SO
low now, you know" Mrs. Smallfry-
Eyes but you know tho low rates are
only offered for a round trip" Mr..
Smallfry-"Ah- differ
ent."-America.
Tho sea serpent has been rather
late in appearing this year, but no has
been seen, with back covered with n
hard shell of dark brown, with stripes
fow shades lighter. giving it much
the look of the lights and shades on n
corrugated iron surface. AS usual, as
much as the observers desired to SEQ
the monster, they got away as fast as
possible.
"A beech tree cut on tho farm of
William Wilkinson, at Shelton. near
Middletown, Mass, disclosed near the
hard white wood core tho big letters "J
L." on a densely black background.
They were cut forty years ago by John
Leland sailor, and, curiously enough,
had stamped themselves all the way
from the heart of the treo TO the bark.
Though they had been overgrown by
thirty-seven rings of wood fibre, it is
easy to read 81. L. on tho outside bark.
"A new 'curo" has boon invented in
Germany, which may be adopted as a
greater novelty than the mind cure or
the faith cure. Its basis is the harden
ing of the human organism, which has
boon disastrously enfeebled by civiliza-
ton. The patients initiate tho noble
savage or the gypsy, md tho system in
cludes going barefoot as one part of the
cure. One German parish contains 1, 400
patients.
Tho longest parts. male and female,
in tho Shakespearan drama arc Hamlet
with 1860 lines, and Rosalind, with 74o
lines. OF course, in acting, they are cut
great deal, but even then they are, in
the odious but expressive phrase of the
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tain extent, for the professional fond
ness for appearing as Hamlet" and
"Rosalind." Othello must DO rather a
thorn in the side of the stars" for he
has only SIS lines, while Iago has LIZ
"A French military surgeon has been
making researches on wind instruments
which has been used by phthisical
bandsmen, and warns musicians of the
Importance of disinfection. He recon-
mends that instruments should be filled
with five per cent solution of carbolic
ncid, or, in the case Of metallic instru-
ments. that they should be dipped into
boiling water. These precautions are
Of the utmost importance whom phthisic-
al persons have used the Instruments;
for it was found in such cases that
liquids used to wash them out presented
7irulenco similar to that of a pure
! culture of tuberculosis.
Miss Amanda Anderson, of Georgia,
is sixty years of age and has never
travelled more than milo and half
| from tho spot where she was born.
| Though there is q railroad within three
| miles OF her house she has never seen
I It, She has never seen brick house,
and has seen painted house only once.
Though her nearest neighbor lives