The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1891-05-29
CURIOUS FACTS.
The Chinese have no straight streets.
Louisiana has the largest farm in the

The Chinese have no straight streets.
Louisiana has the largest farm in the
world.
A Yaukton North Dakota church has
electric lights.
Virginia has 1900 sub-alliances, and
the Order is rapidly growing.
A sixteen-year-old teamster in
Michigan town weighs $40 pounds.
Previous to the time of Elizabeth. the
only article to assist in eating was the
jackknife.
Football has been prohibited at the
Carlisle Penu.) Indian school rs a
"fendish" game.
A Florida paper says that alligator
meat, properly smoked, resembles half
but so closely that it cannot be told from
that fish.
The termination ''olani" in Hawaiian
names means ''of the heavens. Thus
Luliuokolaui means Lilly of the
Heavens"
The Bank of England was established
in 1894, and is older than any of the in
situations of the class in any other Of the
great nations.
The locomotive engine is said to have
maximum life of about thirty years.
The annual cost of repairs is from ten to
fifteen per cent. of its first cost.
The number of Indians in the United
States who can read English is stated to
be over %, GOO; the number who can read
Indian languages is over 10000.
The proceeds of the O5erammergau
Bavarial Passion Play of 1890, ex-
elusive Of receipts from the sale of
photographs. amounted to Sl65, 900.
In Switzerland every man is his own
assessor. After a mans death the Gov
eminent carefully investigates his estate,
and if he has been dcrrauding the
Treasury it collects the back taxes with
interest.
The royal standard of Persia is an
apron. Stout old Gao, the Persian
blacksmith, raised revolt which proved
successful, and his leathern apron
covered with jewels is still borne at the
van of Persian armies.
The last executions for witchcraft of
which there is any record occurred in
Poland, January II. 1775, when nine old
women 7ere burned at the stake. They
were acc sed of bewitching the land and
rendering it untruitful.
Jacobs well aud the plat of ground
surrounding it has been sold to the
Greek Church by the Turkish Govern
meut for $40, 900. The same company,
headed by wealthy Greek, of Moscow,
Russia, are negotiating for the wreck of
q building in which it is said the
patriarch Abraham was born.
A singular accident occurred in San
Francisco, CAL, the other week. George
Fountain was carrying a sack of potatoes
when flames suddenly appeared on his
right side but were quickly extinguished.
An examination showed that little
bottle of potash tablets had been crushed,
and the blaze had started from that
source.
Some one asserts that in nine cases out
of ten, ships leaving New York, Boston
or Philadelphia for distant ports are
proyisioned so close by their owners that
if shipwrecked crew Of ten men were
picked up and fed for three days, 1t
would put everybody on short rations.
A loss of four days on sailing time would
do the same thing.
The so-called "bowed piano" in
vented by an Austrian manufacturer is
really q case resembling a pianoforte
frame and containing six violins, two
-ysalas aaa-t4s..- aaallss-tAs strinas of
which are tuned to different notes.
Circular bands connect the instruments,
and are brought into contact with the
strings by means of the keyboard.
The word ''gazette" is from the name
of an old Venetian coin, worth about
one-balf cent Of our money. The name
is applied TO newspapers because it was
the sum charged for reading the first
written journals that made their appear
ance in 1850. After the paper was read
it was handed back to the owner, who
charged the next conner a gazette for
taking peep at it.