The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-05-08
ITEMS INSTRUCTIVE AND INTERESTING.

ITEMS INSTRUCTIVE AND INTERESTING.
A bunch of celery containing twelve
stalks has been gathered at Kalamazoo.
1t weighed thirty-fve pounds.
A lady artist at Eastbourne has found
q new use for paupers. She wants ia
An August, (Me.) lady started out to
collect 100000 postage stamps. She
has accumulated 10000 and is ready to
sell out.
Face powder made of egg shells is the
rage now with brunette beauties. 1t is as
light as magnesia and very expensive,
being hard to get.
A West Virginian got a marriage Ii
cSDp the other day and gave the lady's
last name wrong. When notified of his
mistake he said he really didn't know
what her name was.
There is lady in Greenville, Mich.
who has three daughters whose birth
days are celebrated on the same day
the 18th day of June. They were all
married in the same month of the year,
ar, each OF them married man having
four letters in his surname.
Tie emperor of China enjoys riding
on Il railway, and has one running into
hi summer palace. 1t is generally drawn
or pashed by eunuchs, as they are afraid
to use the engine. They think if it is
once started it can never be stopped, but
engineers are to be trained to run it.
Pita. the new remedy for hydrophobia
recently discovers i'll Spain, seems to be
70 fI,a 1nxy.ar StoIty of fhe,
alec, a plant common to some parts of
Spain. The story goes that its virtues
W ere discovered accidently, by man in
lit of hydrophobia falling upon an alec
plant and unconsciously biting the stem.
One of the most remarkable old ladies
in Cobb county, Georgia, is Mrs. Olive
Handy. She is now 70 years old, and
the mother of nine children, six of whom
are living. She has siXty-six grandchil-
dre.l and can reach any of them in two
hours ride, except two who reside in
Arkansas. She can tell the name and
age of every child and grandchild, Civ
ing dates with perfect clearness.
Ben Williams of Lansing, Mich, has
novel way of Kidding his face of whiskers.
Every Sunday morning for the past
y
the glass and pulled the hair out of the
lower part of his face with a pair Of
tweezers. He says that it hurt like most
anything at first but he dosen't mind it a
bit now. He is rs years old, and is
loaded with nerve and grit.
A calf was recently caught on the cow
catcher of one of the big locomotives of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
railroad, near Gobutta, and carried a dis
lance of nine miles. When discovered
the young bovine was lying compla-
Gently on the pilot, apparently enjoy
ing the mode of rapid transit. 1t was
completely unframed, and when re-
leased trotted away as if nothing I'M
usual had happened.
A few weeks ago Prince Bismarck
entered ordinary inn in the neighbor-
hoo | of his estate of Freidrichruh, and
purchased a glass of cognac and some of
the well-known black bread which is such
a favorite in Northern Prussia. AS soon
as he left the room citizen of Hamburg
rushed to the owner and purchased the
cognac glass. the plate, and the crusts of
bread which remained for 5 francs. These
relics he will place in his family cabinet
Ramabai now has nine pupils in hee
school. Her sister, Miss Demmon, mas
established sewing class. This would
mean very little here; in India it means
a revolution in the customs of centuries.
Ramabai recently accepted an invita-
ton to lecture before a conference at
Poonah, another innovation, as no other
woman has ever been invited to address
such body. Her subject was America
and American Women.
An English paper gives this explana-
ton of the familiar phrase "by hook or
by crook. About a century ago two
celebrated kings counsel fourished
whose names were respectively Hook and
Croke pronounced Crook. They were
generally opposed to each other in all
important cases, and people said: eff
you can not win your case by Hook you
will by Croke." Hence arose the idiom
which is so firmly grated into the Eng
lish tongue.
The Oldest bank notes are the "fying
or convenient money!" first
issued in China 1897 B. c.. Origin
ally these notes were issued by the
treasury, but, experience dictated a
change to the banks, under government
and control. The early Chi
nese "greenbacks" were in all essentials
similar to the modern bank notes, bear
ing the name of the Lank, date of issue.
the number of the note, the signature of
the official issuing it, indications of its
value in figures, in words, and in the
pictorial representation in coins or heap
of coins equal in amount to its face value,
and a notice of the pains and penalties
following counterfeiting. Over and
above all was laconic exhortation to in
dustry and thrift: Produce all you can;
spend with economy" The notes were
printed in blue ink, on paper made from