The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-10-01
Curiosities in News.

Minnesota paid $5s 600 for wolf scalps
asst year.
The new liquor law. of Boston has re-
yulted in the arrest i more women than
men.
mountain of GOAL in Wild Horse
Valley, Wyo. has been burning for more
than 30 years.
Toledo. Ohio, has wine cask that
holds 66 900 gallons. 1t is of oak, and
weighs 10000 pounds.
Fully 20,ooo,o0O feet of lumber is re-
ported to have been stolen by Canadians
from American forests in the last three
years.
Several hundred eagles swocped down
on Rielgord, Russia, and devoured ~
horses, several sheep, and vast number
of smaller animals.
Probably the rarest stamp In existence
has lust been sold in London for t25O.
It is an American ; cent stamp issued at
Brattleboro, VT, in 1910.
The fact was brought out in New
York police court that a woman who
solicited aims at AN elevated railway
station received S57l9 in three hours
A New York house sent cargo of nails
to San Francisco via Liverpool. because
the freight was cheaper by this route
than direct to the Pacific coast.
When a man marries in France he be-
comes legally responsible not alone for
the support of his wife, but for the sup
port of her parents, should they become
| destitute.
DR. SLEIGH, of Berlin, while experiment
ing With cocaine discovered the fact
that water injected under the skin with
a syringe renders the flesh at all points
insensible to pain.
The unusual sight of jury composed
entirely of women was lately witnessed
at Douglas, Wyo., where Mrs. Ingersoll,
the lanlady of the Douglas Hotel, was
sued by two Of her servant girls for
wages. The jury rendered verdict in
their favor.
In Africa when an army of ants moves
for food the still forest becomes alive
with the trampling of the elephant, the
flight of the antelope or of the gazelle,
or the leopard, of snakes, all the living
world, in the same direction where the
| other animals are fleeing away.
An ornithologist SAYS that birds fire.
uuently commit suicide.
A squirrel and snake engaged in q
battle near Springfield, Ohio, and the
squirrel came out victorious, killing his
opponent.
The sturgeon is toothless and draws
in it's food by suction, but the
shark has hundreds of teeth set in rows
that sometimes number ten.
Haistones larger than hens eggs are
reported to have fallen during a recent
storm at Worthington, MINI. The
growing grain was ruined.
Col. Frederick ConkIing, aged about
seventy-five years, brother of the late
Roscoe Conkling, died at his residence
in New York city Friday of cancer of the
| stomach.
A horse belonging to John Burtless
of Upton, Mich, was found to be cover
ed with honey bees the other day and {
fire had to be built to remove them
The horse may die.
That Connecticut preacher who wal
said to own Shanghai rooster thai
could sing the doxology has been so pes
tered by dime museum managers tina
he has had to denounce the story as {
| fowl lie.
| wonderful flower has been discover
| ed on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. IT.
chief popularity is the habit of chang
ing its colors during the day. In thu
morning 1t is white, when the sun is a
it's zenith it is red and at night is blue
The red, white and blue flower grows OF
tree about the size of guaya tree. an(
only at noon does it give out any per
fume.