Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-21
CURIOUS FACTS.

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Ego away slowly"
A family Of five generations live un-
der one roof in town 10 Louisiana.
One sheet of paper recently made was
eight feet wide and seven aud three.
quarter miles long.
Prayer books, bound in ivory, that
sell at S33 apiece, are among the favors
in demand at shops that carry speciality
gift stocks.
Twelve oranges, which grew on twig
six inches long in George Stones grove,
near De Land, Fla, completely filled "a
peck measure and weighed thirty-fve
pounds.
A Mexico (Mo.) man has a tax receipt
in his possession acknowledging the pay
ment OF forty-three cents on forty acres
of land in Boone County, The receipt
is dated 1913.
The Hawaiians are supposed to be of
the Malay family of nations. Their
complexion is tawny, inclining to olive.
They are of middle stature, we'll formed,
with muscular limbs and open counte.
nance.
A man applied for naturalization at
Merced, CAL, the other day who, after
thirty years residence in this country,
could not answer a word Of English OF
single question put by the court re-
garding our laws.
The proportion of insane to sane per-
sons in the United States is one in every
262; in Scotland it is one in every 574;
in the agricultural districts OF England
it is one in $40; in London the proper
ton is one in 400.
The State OF Washington owes its
name to a Kentucky member Of Congress
named Stanton. The petition to be set
off as a separate Territory from Oregon
was before Congress as early as 1857.
but was not acted on till 1855.
In the German custom Of clinkling
glasses before drinking the rims are apt
to get Clipped and the PARTICLES OF glass
to fall into the cup. At 'commer''
recently in Castle student swallowed
piece of glass thus Clipped of and died
in horrible torture.
The people of Thessaly, Greece, were
the first to break horses for service in
war, and their proficiency as equestrians
proba'sy first gave rise to the ancient
myth that their country was originally
inhabited by centaurS, fabulous Great
ures supposed to be half horse aut half
man.
Mabel Hunter, sixteen year-old Iowa
girl, is the victim of peculiar habit
formed in childhood. Whenever she is
sent on an errand she walks to and from
the place backward. Sometimes she
will absentmindediy walk right, but up
on recovering her senses will Immediate
ly retrace her steps and begin the jour
ney over again backward.
The Xerobates Agassizii, the grass
eating turtle Of the Mojave Desert, is
said to be the only one Of the turtle
species which lives by grazing like
horse or an OK. Xerobate' dig hole in
the sand to escape the iutcl'e helt; is
about ten inches in length when full
grown, and weighs from six to eight
pounds. Coast dealers in curiosities
value them at s. each.
The Corean wears his hair braided
down his back, 1t being considered un-
holy to cut it, or to even wear it loosely
around the neck and shoulder. After he
gets married, and not before, the i@w
permi', him to wear it curled up on top
of his head. To tell married Corean
that he had ought to wear his hair down
is equivalent to telling him that his wife
is the better man of the two.