The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-04-04
CURIOUS FACTS.

From twelve to fifteen deer day are
killed along the line of the West Vir
ginia Central Railroad.
There are three United States in the
Western Hemisphere: The United States
of America, of Colombia and Brazil.
Some fish swim deep. The Govern
ment steamer Albatross, investigating the
coast of Southern California, caught
black cod at $50 fathoms.
A large bald-headed eagle wasone of
the visitors at a recent flag raising over
school-house in Lubec, Me. The bird
circled round the staff three times and
then few toward the west.
The cunning dog belonging to Jacob
Hendricks, of Berks County, Penn, was
stolen the other day and tied to tree
in the woods. When recovered it was
nearly famished, and had almost gnawed
the tree down.
Joseph Klinefelter, of Marion, Ohio,
has a COW which few days ago gave
birth to three perfectly developed and
welcomed calves, which were all born
alive; but shortly after two of them died,
and one is still living.
Seventeen years ago man named
Ebbs, a crippled pauper, left Miflin-
town, Penn, and has been wandering
around the State ever since. In recent
law suite at Bellefonte the court decided
that he was a charge to that borough, and
now Miffiintown has a debt of $1,000 to
pay on the old man.
Situated on the farm of Scott West,
near Fayette, Ne, are two living springs
only a few rods apart, but on opposite
slopes of a watershed. Rills running in
different directions from these respective
springs traverse each a diitance of more
than fifty miles before they finally reach
the same destination.
A wonderful map of O'Brien County,
Ia, has been made, and is on exhibition
at the State Fair at Des Moines. The
map is wholly composed of corn grains,
each town and township being distin-
guished by different colors. The rail-
ways are marked by rows of blue-black
s'square corn, and the wagon roads
with popcorn.
To show the capacity of his stomach
visitor at the Neversink Fire House at
Reading, Penn, ate mixture composed
of pound of figs, fifty raw oysters and
a pound of sugar, and topped off the
mess with a pound of lard. He said on
wager he would eat box of wagon
grease, but the spectators would let him
go no further.
A report comes from the lumber
regions at Portage Lake, Me-, that a
huge panther came out in clearing apdlL
walked around some men VINO were
yarding logs. The men were much ter
rifed, but kept perfectly quiet, and the
beast disappeared without doing them
any harm. 1t is very rare, now, that
these animals are seen in Maine.
The natural cunning of the fox was
shown at New Ipswich, N H., the other
day. A fox that was started by hunter
ran directly to pond and passed around
the edge on the ice as near the open wa
ter as possible. The dogs followed
closely, and, coming upon weak ice,
broke through, and but for help given
them would have drowned. Meantime
Reynard escaped to place of safety.
In Iceland there are no prisons and no
officers answering to our policemen. In
1874 it celebrated the one-thousandth
anniversary of its colonization, and at
the same time became independent of
Denmark, though subject TO the King of
Denmark as the head of the IceIandic
Government. Iceland's new Govern
ment is thoroughly republican in spirit,
all citizens having equal rights and per-
feet religious liberty.