The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-01-10
CURIOUS FACTS.

Dynamite is thirteen times as power
full as gunpowder.
The $40, 600, 900 left by John Jacob
Astor in 1s49 has grown to 5000, 10000
'of the nearly 700 physicians practic-
ing in San Francisco, hty-six are women
The average number of fires in New
York city is $500 year, or about seven
day.
Backing the nose as a preventive of
blindness seems to have become
recognized as successful.
A former teacher of Latin in one of
the high schools in Indiana is now driy-
ing a dirt cart in Wichita.
The first really practical electric rail-
way ever made was in Ireland. Itisstill
in operation in County Antrim.
There are native American sparrows;
but the English sparrow originally came
from Northern Europe and England.
Lenawee County, Mich, is at present
paying out something like twelve dollars
day in bounties on dead sparrows.
The Russian Imperial family have very
Indifferent health, and two or three mem
bers are always more or less seriously i'll.
Booksellers in New York city report
that the sales of Burke's ''Peerage" are
enormous. They cost SIS a copy, too.
Mexico is offering bounty for rub
Der tree culture. 1t requires six years
for the rubber tree to come to maturity.
The Friends meeting house at Woods
town, n. j., which has been built 104
years, his just received its first coat of
paint.
In the section of the Paris Exhibition
devoted to tie Historic du Theatre there
is a collection of wax models of feet Of
noted ballet dancers.
The Neuburg Theatre at Vienna is the
best illumiA oted place of amusement III
the world. l,Nere are 5000 incandescent
lights within the house.
Mrs. Charles Kimla, of Trenton, Wis,
recently presented her husband with
three fine girl babies, their combined
weight being twenty-one pounds.
Montrond, in France, recently had a
plague OF butterflies The inhabitants
had to keep their windows and doors
shut against an influx of the insects.
On a farm at Unadillo, Mich, war
broke out between the bees and turkeys,
and seventeen of the latter were stung to
death before the cessation OF hostilities.
There is a spot in Siberia about thirty
miles square where the ground has not
thawed out for the last 100 years, and
where it Is frozen to a depth of sixty
feet.
The English postoffice does all the ex-
press business in Great Britain, carries
parcels at an average cost of eleven cents
each, and makes profit of 50, 250, 600 a
year.
A paper watch has been exhibited by
a Dresden matchmaker. The paper is
prepared il such manner that the watch
is said to be as serviceable as those in
ordinary use.
Men working in an old cellar on Lsrned
street, Detroit, Mich, dug out several
cannon balls. The place where they were
found was near the site of fort magazine
during the war of 1872.
The distance of the horizon is governed
by the height of the eye above the earth
or sea. On the sea, with the eye at a
height of five feet, the distance is three
miles; at sixty feet in height, ten miles.
In Ventura County, CAL, the wild
morning glory fourishes so luxuriantly
that it threatens to monopolize all the
tillable land. Farmers there have to put
in vigorous work in the glory of the
morning to Gust this vigorous floral pest.
sit may seem singular to you, says a
New York florist, "but I've been keeping
a record for these twenty years past, and
l have found that nine murderers out of
ten are ardent admirers OF flowers, and
most of them prefer daisies and lilies"