Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-15
CURIOUS FACTS.

The cotton gin was invented by Ell
Whitney in 1873.
A thirteen year-old girl is the organist
in Maine church.
An Iowa woman has named her twins
Gasoline and Kerosene.
There are only six thousand stars
visible to the naked eye.
Five thousand boxes of gum are chawed
up in Chicago every day.
A peasant woman near Nantes, France,
recently gave birth to five children.
Cutting off wife's nose is still a
favorite mode of punishment by jealous
husbands in India.
At the funeral of an aged lady at
Woolwich, England. her seven sons, all
cIergymen of the Church of England,
were present.
The rhododendron plantation of Mr..
Follansbee in the town of Fitzgirliam,
N. H, is one of the floral wonders OF
New England.
Thomas Winans, the Baltimore million
qire, said on his deathbed that he would
give 81, 900, 900 to be able to eat piece
of bread and butter.
The population of London can be best
estimated by the not generally known
TACT that it is greater than that of Norway
and Sweden combined.
The colony of Hong Kong, China,
woe cot na1a1 IN Gs.aaf prifaiu IN 1871
and the cession was confirmed by the
treaty of Marking in 1912.
The first Colonial Congress met Oo-
tober z, 1865, at New York. Timothy
Ruggles, of Massachusetts, was Chairman,
aud John Cotton, Clerk Of the Con
vent;on.
A Three Rivers (Mich,} girl has a
beau who is Lake Shore fireman. Every
lay she ties bouquet to stick and
hands it to her lover as he flies by her
home in his cab.
A family in Isabella, Penn, was the
1 possessor of four kittens joined together
after the manner of tbs Siamese twins.
A cord fastened them together which
seemed to pass through the four. They
lived several days.
An OK has been dug out of straw
stack on the farm of George Pitzer
Louisiana, No. 1t had bsen missing
forty-fve days. Though weak il was
alive and will survive. The straw buried
the animal as it came from the thresher.
Heroditus states that the Greeks re-
ceived the sun dial from the Cnaldeans.
The first dial on record was one set up by
/ King Ahay, of Jerusalem, nearly 400
/ years before Aristotle and Plato. and lust
little previous to the lunar eclipses OBJ
served at Babylon, as recorded by
Ptolemy.
The peculiar reach toward Lake Erie
in the State Line of Pennsylvania, known
rs the Triangle from its being originally
the State of New York extension) was Il
/ special purchase, September 1, 17oS, from
5he Government, Of a slice of the North
west Territory, containing 2O2, lS7
acres, at State cost OF Si57, $40.
The fastest bird on the wing is the
swift, which has been known to attain a
1 speed of 200 miles an hour. 1t feeds
exclusively ON insects, which it captures
while flying. The speed of the swallow,
which comes next to that OF the swift,
is usually fifty miles an hour, but some-
times goes as high as ninety miles.
Jonas Leopold has fine farm in East
Coventry, Chester County, Penn, and
the other morning, without any special
effort, plucked eighty-three stalks Of
four, five, six aud sevenleaf clover. The
four leaf is much sought for as a curiosity,
rs there is good luck on every fringe
Up to date Farmer Leopold has secured
PAS of the phenomenal stalks and be-
lieves the record can go much higher.
The Russian Cars wardrobe vies in
extent and variety with that of Henry
Irving His Imperial Majesty has forty
four different uniforms, all of which he
has worn save one, that of Russian Field
Marshal Although the titular head oil
his army, the Gar has vowed never to
wear the dress of Field Marshal until
this rank shall have been conferred upon
him by the other Field Marshals after a
victorious war.