Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-02
CURIOUS FACTS.

The Cars car is shot proof.
Owls cannot move their eyes.
England eats New Zealan1 butter. ,
The United States has $500, 900 bee
hives.
A papicr mache trunk is one of tho
latest ideas
Westmoreland is the most billy county
in England.
Women have false teeth much more
often than men.
Desertion from the army costs England
5000, 900 annually.
Labrador has a waterfall with D sheer
descent of 1000 feet
The population of Russia is increasing
at the rate of over 1,00O, 900 year.
Shakespeare, the most versatile writer
OF the world, quotes the Bible more than
five hundred times.
There is a dog at South Norwalk,
Conn, which recently swallowed at ono
gulp a good.sized live chicken.
Persons with diviuing rods are search
ing for ancient Spanish gold supposed to
be buried on the banks Of the Ohio, near
New Albany.
The late Mark A. Cooper, of Georgia,
ct the age of eighty-three was able to
say that ho had never had headache or
pain in a muscle or joint.
The new Brazilian bill of rights has
one section which says that the death
penalty Established except in cases under
martial law in time of war.
There have been constant reductions
in the cable charges. When the first
cable was laid by Cyrus w. Field, the
rate was s. a word in gold.
The Chicago pension office has on its
rolls the oldest pensioner in the Unitel
States. He is 103 years of aud was
sailor Of the navy in the War Of 1872.
Eighty-nine flceces were opened before
a newspaper reporter in Grand Rapids,
Mich, the other day, and every one OF
them contained something besides wool
to make it heavier
Au old ranchman in Harvey valley,
Oregon. has been in the habit of hauling
his supply of water from eighty miles
away, in order to save digging well.
He could secure an abundance of water
at a depth of ten to twelve feet
The longest train Of coal cars OF which
mention has been made passed over the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad re-
Gently. 1t comprised ninety large cars
and was drawn by a locomotive weigh
ing seventy five tons, one Of the heaviest
engines used in the coal regions.
In the country districts OF Kentucky
teachers are not only poorly paid, but
arc required to contribute to the
expense Of keeping the school houses
in repair. In some cases appoint
mcnt is made contingent on the sum
which the applicant will give for the
purpose.
The growth of perjury in law-courts
has become scandal. The value OF a
wtuess's word in comparison with hs
interest, seems to be paralielel by a we'll
known example of school-boy honor
"Will you take your dying oath to it'"
yes" "Will you bet sixpence about
itl" "No."
All Esquimaux are superstitious about
death, aud although they hold festivities
in memory of departed friends, they will
usually carry dying person to some
abandoned hut, there to drag out his re-
naming days without food, medicine,
water or attendance. After the death OF
a husband or wife, the survivor cuts
the front hair short and lajts for twenty
five days.
There are some big trees in the new
State OF Washington. For instance,
there is fir eight and a half feet IN
diameter. and a cedar seventeen feet in
diameter thirty. three feet from the roots,
and twelve feet in diameter 112 feet
from the roots. But the Washingtonians
scorn the suggestion that the latter is the
biggest tree in the State. They expect to
come across tree in their primeval for
ests some day that will make it seem like
a sapling.