Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-05-17
CURIOUS FACTS.
India rubber was discovered in Hayti

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by Columbus in 1893
| A fashionable drink at night in Parii
is hot boiled milk, sugar and orange
water.
The largest telephone line in the
United States is between Buffalo and
Boston
If you have nothing else to do, see
how fast you can say Soup soothes theo-
sophists thoroughly"
The first vessel of schooner rig is sale
to have been built in Gloucester, Mass,
about the year 1913.
Japanese chickens with tails from
eleven to thirteen feet long are being i'm
ported into this country.
Baal-zebub, the god of flies, wor.
SHIPPED by the Ekronites, was one Of the
best-known deities of the ancient world.
A German dealer in rare old violins,
who has gone out of business, says that
the man who pays over $40 for any sort
of violin get stuck.
A Boston young man can shift hi;
heart from his left to his right side, and
can dislocate every joint and pull himself
together with perfect ease.
The subscription for the Bunker Hill
monument of Boston fingered for many,
many years, and finally the fund was
completed by the dancing of Fanny
Ellsler.
An English officer in India wss seized
by tiger while smoking cigar. As
the beast was carrying him off he touched
his lighted cigar to its side, and he was
dropped like hot potato and got up and
returned to his friends.
Thousands of lives, it is asserted, have
been lost in endeavors to keep possession
of the Kohinoor, the great diamond
now owned by Queen Victoria, and it
may be safely asserted that few gems of
note are without some scene of bloodshed
connected with their history.
The bridge of Signs" is name
given to the covered passage connecting
the Doge's palace in Venice with the
State prisons, so called because con-
demned prisoners were transported over
the bridge from the hall of Judgment to
the place of execution. 1t was built in
1889 by Da Ponte.
At recent duel between two young
men at Warsaw, Poland, both fired and
hit, but the bullet of one was fiattened
against the cigar case of the other, and
the bullet of the other was turned aside
BY the pocket knife of his opponent. The
seconds decided that the young men were
not born to kill each other, and declared
the affair off.
The largest anvil is that used in the
Woolwich Arsenal, England. 1t weighs
sixty tons. The anvil block upon which
it rests weighs 10S tons. Altogether $50
tons of iron were used in the anvil, and
the block and foundation work. 1t is
said to have been six months cooling be-
fore it was sufficiently hard to stand the
shock of the immense hammer
A man just arrived from England was
arrested in Philadelphia for being intoxi-
Gated, who gave his occupation as that
of 'tworm- eater " The magistrate, on
demanding an explanation of the term,
was informed that the man was employed
by firm of London antique manufsc-
turers to fire shot at the furniture and
give it a worm-e eaten appearance,
Doctor A. H. Baldwin, of Norwalk
Conn, and John B. Reed, of Stamford,
Conn, cashier of the Stamford National
Bank, recently played long game of
chess by telephone. Doctor Baldwin sat
in his Office in Norwalk, while Mr.. Reed
was in Stamford Each made sixty
moves, aud their progress was noted by
chess enthusiasts along the line. Then
a draw was declared