The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-23
CURIOUS FACTS.

The only space on the London omnibus
where an advertisement does not 90 is
underneath.
A gopher hunt was organized at Lock
ford, CAL, and the hunters cleaned up
1000 scalps.
A German jeweler exhibits large
model of locomotive and cars made en-
tirely Of solid gold
A man at Suisun, CAL, has made a
clock that will run $50 days without
winding a second time.
In default of snow the lumbermen in
northern Pennsylvania covered the log
slides with crude petroleum.
An Aberdeen fscotland) granite dealer
sends to this country annually, it is said,
$500, 600 worth of stuff for grave stones.
Milk from a COW which had been bit
ten by mad dog is supposed to have
fatally poisoned a whole family near
Malta Bend, No.
There has been an advance in the
price of sponges at Key West, Fla One
lot Of 1870 buaches was lately sold for
the fancy price of $4,000.
According to the Registrar General of
England there are centenarians in that
country at the rate of one to each 49,
600 of the population, or about 300 in
all
Farmer Becker, of Coolbsugh, Penn,
recently found a 300-pound bear under
his hay stack He and his son had
tussle with it, and after hard fight they
killed it.
While blowing in a field the horses of
Farmer Guss, of Martinsburg, W. Va,
suddenly sank into the ground and went
fifteen feet below the surface before they
found the bottom.
Trains on the Pennsylvania limited
have the market quotations posted, a
stenographer and typewriter render
gratuitous service to the passengers, and
waiting maid is provided for the ladies.
Oscar futile, of Santa Cruz, Cal, was
splitting kindling wood when he tackled
q large piece of redwood. He found 4
ive-cent piece OF 1850 lodged in the CEN
tire of the limb. 1t was blackened by
the sap.
Farmer Gardner, of Porterville, Cal,
set six traps one night for coyotes. Each
trap was sprung, but the coyotes got
loose by eating their legs. This heroic
surgery lost Gardner $50, as the feet do
not count as scalps.
Albert tombstone Campbell, late of
Mexico, believes that he has a valid
claim to the titles of Earl of Annandale
and Earl Of HEARTFELT, and is in London to
press it. Both these earldoms figure in
the books as extinct.
The date palm is successfully cult
waited in HilIsborough County, Fla. The
trees come into bearing in six years, and
one cultivator has trees which bring him
in from s. to SIS each. They produce
good crops every year, without regard TO
the weather
Not the least curious imitation of the
EifTeI tower is one in ice, fifty metres
high, which has been inaugurated in St.
Petersburg. It has a platform reached
by stairs cut IN the Ice, and this IS lighted
by electricity so that one can eat and
dance there.
Two beggars, Charles Gerke, aged
fifty-eight, and Mary Eichmiller, aged
sixty, were recently married at Louis
vile, Ky. When the magistrate asked
the groom how they would get their sup
port, he answered: ''Hustle around and
live some way"
A farmer named Walker, in Tough
borough County Court, ireland, was
mulcted in SIS for damages to 4 lawyer
named Giles, who lived and had a fine
garden 300 yards away from one of the
farmers fields. The complaint was that
the farmer allowed his field to grow up
to. thistles and that the wind blew the
down over into the plaintiffs garden.
Walkers defense was that he had kept
three men and a woman pulling up the
.histles.