Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-03-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

A New York lady recently had on
her dinner table $50 orchids that cost
$3.50 each.
Oranges are now preserved in silos,
the fruit being wrapped in tissue and
buried in sand, care being taken that
the wrappers do not touch, and only
three layers deep being laid in each
trench.
Twelve hundred years ago kerosene
was known to the japanese. but the
method of refining it SO as to be avaiia-
bic for domestic use is bat dozen
years old
During the oighty-one years OF its
existence the British and Foreign BIZ
bic society has issued from its London
house alone 29,000,00 complete BIZ
bles, nearly 50, 900, 600 New Testaments
and II SIS, 900 portions Of the Bible
altogether -, 500, 000
1t has been ascertained that the
burning of the royal palace at Laellen,
Belgium, was caused by great fires
built up to furnish an unusual guam
tity OF boiling water for the stables,
and that the rapid spread of the flames
was due 10 the fact that oak logs
had been inserted bodily INTO the
chimueys when the palace was being
constUctedto take the place OF bricks.
There is no country like France for
starting journals. During 1889 no
less than $50 new newspapers were
brought out, of which not one remains
in life. On the other hand, The Petit
Journal now claims Il circulation OF
1905, coo copies. During the same pc
riod, there were printed in France
over Is, 0G0 rew books, including 5000
new musical pieces.
\ resident OF Massachusetts, came
near going through life with a name
that would have made him miserable.
The name was Lynn c. Doyle, and,
strange 10 say, no one present at his
baptism noticed the strange sound I!
made when pronounced.
There are, II appears in Europe, the
Americas, Egypt, South Africa, Japan,
India, etc, no less than 1,714.000 Eng
lish miles of land and telcgraphS, and
their estimated value is $2JS. 6l2. 800.
Of cables l07, 547 miles have been laid
down by companies, at capital out
Law of $3.50, zoe, G00; by government,
u, 523 miles of submarine cable, at 4
cess of SIS, 500. 600.
James Collins, who lives near Gales
burg. Ills, while searching for hogs
in the woods Tuesday, noticed bees
iiying around large sycamore tree.
Securing help he chopped lle tree
down. rs slrmised, it turned ont 10
be a tree OF the richest kind. 1t WAS 4
mere shell. and when it struck the
frozen ground split open, showing q
section Of honey thirty feet long. In
all he secured LOO pounds. Mr.. Col.
lins thought the bees would have filled
large barrel, but he had no way OF
hiving them.
\ famous Ni6nnese ocuhSt says, for
the benefit OF the people who have TO
earn a livelihood with the pen:
Never write on white paper il You
can get yellow paper. \ sheet or card
OF the same shade placed on the wall
over the desk VIII assist in giving the
eyes & rest, and this will facilitate the
work. lie has made this suggestion
to many. and Ill each case has received
the thanks of those who have been
benefited by it. 1t is simple, and does
not require any philosophy to prove It.
The mortuary chapel at Farnbor-
ough, where the reruains OF Napoleon
III and the prince imperial are inter
red, has St;been endowed with u beau
tifuI and interesting gift. Il IS an altar
cloth, shaped and trimmed by the
hands OF the empress. The cloth IS
made from the gown, worn thirty-sev-
en- years ago. when Mile. Eugenie dc
Montijo, conteSSe de 5Teba. WAS mar.
RED at tic Tuilelies to Napoleon III.
The altar cloth is trimmed with the
lace and embroidery which ornament
ed the wedding gown.