The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07
CURIOUS FACTS.

The courts OIL DeINS Ouuut11 1euU-,
have decided that a typewriter will is
illegal.
Jacob Stewart, of Amberson's Valley,
Penn., recently picked up tusk of some
mammoth animal of past age.
Seven bushels of fruit have been picked
this season from an apple tree at Lancas-
Ter, Penn. It was planted 127 years ago.
1t IS stated as a curious fact that dur
-uz the recent great strike in London the
,ir,houses were emptier than has ever
--5l the case before.
A Bridgton. CMe.l man believes in the
honesty of postal clerks. He got letter
the other day, one end of which was
burst open disclosing ten dollar Dill.
Welsh mothers put . pair of tongs ora
knife in the cradle to insure the safety Of
their children. Tie knife is also used for
the same purpose in some parts of Eng
land.
There are four men at Old Town, SUI
burb of Fernandina, Fla, who make
their living out of sharks. They cure
the hide, fry out the oil and use the pulp
for fertilizer.
The eight standard chants of the
Russo Greek Church are original Byzan-
tine airs, which have been preserved I'M
changed for at least 700 years, and
probably 1000.
Bees that for seven years made home
OF an unused chimney near Knightsville,
Me, were recently routed, the building
being torn down, and more than a tub
full Of honey found.
Theg grave Of a woman buried in Cohoes,
\. Y, eighteen years ago, was opened
recently and the body found petrfed
The features looked as natural as If the
woman had just died.
\ Litchfeld GIich.) couple, who have
been married thirty years, had misunder-
standing about two years ago, and since
then they have never spoken to each other,
though living in the same house.
Euwari TSausing, Of Lancaster, Penn,
mas sued the Western Union Telegraph
Company for $500 loss through an error
Of the company in the sending of a tele-
gram concerning the sale Of six carloads
of potatoes.
American wild turkeys have been sue
cessfully acclimated in Austria on that
portion Of the estate Of Count Breuner
which is known as the Danubian Mead
ows, and great fiocks Of them are being
seen in his forest.
A lady's gold ring was found in very
singular way at Trenton, Me, the other
day. George W. Austin, after a drive
from Ellsworth, found the ring pressed
tightly around one of the Calls Of his
horses shoe The horse had stepped
into the ring and taken it along.
A. VI. Bisbee, who Is the Chinese dele
cate to the maritime conference at Wash
ington, is an adventurous Yankee, born
and bred on Cape Cod. In his travels
he drifted across the continent and over
the Pacific, and he IS now coast inspector
of the imperial maritime customs service
OF China.
The state of the gem market may be
thus described; The price of emeralds
and rubies is yearly increasing. Dia-
monds and white pearls are not getting
dearer. Black pearls have been increas-
ing steadily in price for the last four or
five years-in fact it is almost impossible
to supply the demand for them.
The Tallahassee (Fla) Times Union
tells of freak of nature in the person of
negro man Although he IS twenty
odd years of age and has a fully de-
yeloped head, his body and lim.h5s are
dwarfed to the size of those of a yonnee::
baby. He possesses average intelligence
and has learned to sew and knit.
An enormous fish, about twenty feet in
length, was found by some fishermen at
Brusc, village on the French coast.
The animal was dead, but being con-
sidered still fit for human food. was
taken to the shore. When opened, the
people who had crowded to the beach
were amazed at the sight of a mans body
and legs, the feet only being missing.
A Turner at Scott Hill, Conn, who
though the boys were stealing his mel
-Ons, watched for them at night with a
loaded gun About midnight he saws he
saw his big black cat steal along among
the vines and select Il big melon, into
which she sank her teeth. Then she be
gan to claw the melon open and in few
minutes had finished all but the rind.
He did not shoot the cat and has since
learned that she eats apples, pears and
other fruit.
The pet of the Alley family, in New