Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
CURIOUS FACTS.
The csar's car is shot proof.

| The Csar's car is shot proof.
Owls cannot move their eyes.
A pspier maohe trunk is one Of the
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
| $500, 900 annually.
Labrador has waterfall with sheer
descent of 5000 feet.
The population of Russia is increasing
at the rate of over 1,00u, 900 year.
Shakespeare, the most versatile writer
of the world, quotes the Bible more than
five hundred times.
There Is dog at South Norwalk,
Conn, which recently swallowed at one
gulp good-sized live chicken.
Persons with divining 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 he had never had a headache or
pain in muscle or joint.
The new Brazilian bill OF rights has
, one section which says that the death
penalty is abolished except in cases under
martial law in time of war.
The Chicago pension Office has on its
rolls the oldest pensioner in the United
States. He is 103 years of and was
sailor of the navy in the War of 1912.
Eighty-nine fleeces we're opened before
. newspaper reporter in Grand Rapids,
Mich, the other day, and every one of
them contained something besides wool
to make it heavier.
An old Ianchman in Harney valley,
Oregon, has been in the habit of hauling
bis supply of water from eighty miles
away, in order to save digging well.
He could secure an abundance of water
1t 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 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
are required to contribute to the
expense of keeping the school houses
in repair. In some cases appoint
ment 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
witness's word, in comparison with his
interest, seems to be paralleled by we'll
known example of school-boy honor:
"Will you take your dying oath to it,"
eyes" Twill you bet sixpence about
it?" "No."
All Esquimaux are superstltious about
death, and 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 OF wife, the survivor cuts
the front hair short and fasts for twenty
five days.
There are some big tr"es in the new
State of Washington. F. instance,
there is fir eight and half feet In
diameter. and 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
sapling.
In signed editorial in New York
newspaper the venerable but vagrant
B. Peters Hutchinson tells of Chi
cago's glory, and declares that the
town is still young. Thus does he
heap Goals Of fire on the head Of city
which dubbed him "Old Hutch
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