The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-05
Items Of Interest.

Mr.. Nathan Harris, Of Rich Valley,
Va, has a daughter l9 years old, who
only two feet ten inches in height and
weighs just forty and half pounds.
She is we'll proportioned and intelli-
gent, and her hair sweeps the floor
when she stands erect. She is the eld
est of four children. She has lived in
the Valley all her life with her parents,
but very few have known Of her exis-
tence until recently, her parents not
desiring notoriety.
Englishmen were much puzzled to
find in SCOTS journal the expression
"Nos poma natamus'-"How we
apples SWIM" and there was a grave
discussion of it's significance in fa-
nous literary weekly, until finally an
army officer came to the rescue with
the fable from which the phrase is
taken. Then came two letters from
New York saying that the writer's had
known the fable from boyhood, and
marvelling that it should be unknown
to any civilized human being.
The English laws, or rather magie
trates, punish offences against property
more severely than offences against the
person. The stealing of any article,
however small, is punished often with
several months Imprisonment at hard
labor, while the costermonger fer
jumping OH his mother" gets bnt a
few days incarceration, minus the
hard labor Wife beating, a favorite
practice among what are termed the
lower classes, is scarcely punished at
all, unless the wife dies. Even then
unless death occurs Immediately, the
brute of husband receives but a COM
paratively light sentence. On the
other hand a deliberate murder per-
petrated with deadly weapon, or by
poison, is followed by the hanging of
the murderer within few weeks. Re-
Gently a murderer was hanged and
buried within fortnight of the death
and burial of his victim.
[The Russians who are enlisted in the
Czar's army have at least one advan-
tege over many of the other subjects of
the Car. The military authorities
will take care that the soldiers shall not
perish by starvation.
The legitimate drama is not appre-
ciated in rural Maine. A company
that was organized at Fairfield last
week to play "Romeo and Juliet"
lived two nights. Romeo is now at
work in a sawmill. while Juliet
struck a job in plain, everyday cot
ton factory.
Canary birds are good deal troubled
by mosquitoes. The toes of the birds
are amply provided with small veins,
and as the membrane between the toes
is extremely thin an observant mos
quito may see his favorite fluid cir
culating in plain sight. A bird with
swollen hind toe was brought to a
bird fapcier recently and he pro-
nounced the trouble poisoning from a
mosquito bite. He said the thing was
not uncommon.
The doctors and citizens in the town |
of Stuttgart, Ark, are at loggerheads. |
A short time ago the leading physi-
clans cf the place formed protective
league against those citizens who fail to
pay their DOCTORS bills. Every doctor
in the league is prohibited from visiting
patient whose name appears on the
black list. This action aroused the in
habitapts to a high pitch of indigna-
tion, and over 300 of them assembled
in mass meeting and agreed to boycott
the offending doctors.
While ascending Pixies Peak by the
new rack railway, about one person in
200 is affected by the rarity Of the air
at the high altitude. The indications
of distress are itching and redness of
the nose and then blackness under the
eyes. A woman who was dying ap-
parently on trip recently was sent
back on the locomotive to the foot on
the mountain, where she recovered.
The summit is 14,400 feet above the
level of the sea.