Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-09-12
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
, Kansas man has sold a meteor FOR

a Kansas man has sold meteor Tor
5000.
An English cookbook describes ono
hundred and twenty different wa. to
ase eggs.
What Americans call sick the Eng
li-lunan calls i'll; sickness in England
implies nausea.
On metal rails horse can draw one
and lwo-ihirds times as much as on
asplatum pavemeats.
The soldiers in the Russian army
are taught to swim in battalions and at
the same time use their weapons.
Nearly four lines as many women
marry between the age of twenty and
twenty-five as between fifteen and
tv cnty.
In England and Wales there are
iI1,754 women qualified TO vote for
county councils, and 24S, 44s for town
councils.
George W. Jones, who lives in Ne
vada County, CAL, recently shot a
rattlesnake, a porcupine and bear in
side of twenty minutes.
The spirc of the cathedral at Ulm,
Germany, is the highest in the world,
$50 feet. That makes 1t the highest
buildi Ig in the world.
A Langhorne PENN man is fitting
up n pigeon house to accommodate
1000 birds. This will be the largest
flock of carriers in the country.
A magpie that has just died at Mer-
,dcn, Conn. could call all the members
of its owners family by name, and
was quite fluent convcrsationalist.
The word Turk in the language of
tramps signifies guild or class. Thus
beggars who feign deafness are said to
belong to the "deaf and dumb Turk"
The earth's only satellite Is the moon.
Mars has two satellites, Jupiter four,
Saturn eight, Uranus four, and the
considerably more distant Neptune
one.
The finest monument ever erected to
a President of the United States is in
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, ILL.,,
and marks the resting place of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Spain is the only country employing
the garrote as mode of capital pun
ishment. Criminals are choked to
death by means of an iron collar
fastened around the neck and frightened
by screw.
A Roman doctor has discovered in
many of the skulls in TIE different
Etruscan tombs, as well as in those
deposited in the various museums, in
tercsting specimens of ancient dentistry
work and artificial teeth. The skulls
examined date as far back as six cen
turtles before Christ.
a Frcnchman fond of literature,
who died at Dole in the Jura recently,
was buried, according to the terms of
his will, with French edition of
Horace beneath his head, a copy of
Milton at his feet, a Greek Testament
in his right hand and an Elzexirian
edition of Horace in his left Under
his back lay an English edition of the
same poet.
Mr.. Gladstone, in recent speech in
the British House of Commons, deliv-
cred one sentence of 21l words, which
in type maze twenty -four lines. 1t
has often been remarked of it that,
Notwithstanding ats extraordinary
length and the more or less extempo-
raneous nature of its utterances, the
sentence was perfectly clear and not
in the least involved"
: The United States is by far the
largest consumer of stamped envel-
opes of any nation in the world, up
ward of 500, 900, 900 having been used
during the past year. In England,
Germany, France, Russia and Austria
combined the number furnished in
1888 was only little more than TO-
100000, or about one-seventh of the
quantity used in this country
More than a century before the
christian era there were many beauti-
full cups in China The Portuguese,
it is said, introduced the ware into
En- ope about 1918, calling it "China,"
after the country so long pre-eminent
in its production. The first English
mandatory of earthenware found
place at Stratford-le-Bow in Eliza
beth's reign. The Shakespeare jug is
the best known of Eiizabethan pottery.
Buffalo Now Plentiful in Australia.