The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-08-21
CURIOUS FACTS.

The white rose is the favoritc flower
! in France.
There are now'7O, 900 widows in India
under nine years of age.
A few days ago 5000 watermelon:
| were destroyed in a Georgia railroad
! wreck.
! It's saidthat Asa Low, of Springvalc,
has the shortest name of any person in
Maine.
1t is not an unusual sight to sec
;scvcnty-fve acres of California vA,cat
field covered with wild geese.
A sign over the office counter in he
leading hotel of Leadvillc, Col., reads
1Dogs boarded at $40 q month"
Constantiroplc, Turkey, is believed to
have founded the first hospital in the
world, as VIC now understand hospital.
A census enumerator discovered fam
lily of ten children in San Francisco,
CAL, wao were all clubfooted and knock
kneed.
In the Sultan ,of AIorocco's stables are
five horses for his own use and seven
hundred for the use of his family and
servants.
There arc fourteen pages in the United
States Senate. They serve for four years
each, being eligible only between the
ages of twelve and sixteen.
There arc seventeen bathrooms in Mrs.
Thomas 4. Scott's residence, on South
Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. The
house contains as many suits as an ordi-
nary hotel.
A very wise citizen of Chicago, who
was seeking clearinghouse, went first
to good meat shop and asked the pro-
prictor to tell him the houses to which he
sold the best meat.
A horse tanner advises that runaway
horse be allowed to 60 fifty-yards. Then
tighten the lines, say "whoa!" and if he
does not respond, to give strong jerk on
the right-hand rein, and say whoa
again.
The largest plate of glass ever cast in
the world was drawn from the aunealing
furnaces at the Diamond Plate Glass fac
tory a. Kokono, Ind, recently. 1t
measures 145x195 inches, weighs 1000
pounds, and is perfect in every particu-
lar.
A tradesman named Meckers 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 q hospital in a 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, and finds that during the
past year she has baked for them 1858
cookies, 1883 doughnuts, 2l7 cakes, 267
pies, 81 puddings and 793 loaves of
bread. Her family is not large, either,
except as to appetite.
A newly married Hindoo girl is inter-
dictcd 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
q little Hindoo wife in village in Burd-
wan for the pathetic reason that she could
find "no 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, 600.
It's largest endowment, that of the Count
ess Rose, is only $780, 900. Ncverthe-
less it is the seat of the highest German
learning, and claims to have the ablcst
CORDS 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 che din
ing-room during the feast, evidently en-
barrassed, if not scared. This "fea-
turc" comes from London, where Colonel
North, the "nitrate king" had it first at
his regal banquet at the Hotel Metro
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