South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-09-04
ITEMS OF NEWS,

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totoss are fottina.
Cumberland viii have . thf &c Days
trades display In October.
Alaska contains six volcanoes
which are In constant ersption.
The 18th Reunion Of the Army OF
West Virginia will be held at Hue.
tinetop Sept. l6, ~ aud leth.
More than $1,000 900 Of Worlds
Fair work 10 now contracted for add
10 in progress.
1t il said they have $40 CUES Is At
Capon Springs.
The reunion OF the Fleming fami.
ly at Fairmont this Sta'e last week
WAS participated In by over one
thousand persons representatives.
from nearly half the States in the
Union.
Pure rock salt has been discovered
in Kansas at q depth OF 500 feet,
and tho supply is said 10 be practic
ally inexhaus,ible.
Canada will have a surplus of 33,.
000. 900 bushels Of wheat fnr export.
The interior Of Labrador is said
to be the largest unexplored area on
the continent.
A curiosity at Ripley. Ohio, 10 q
sunfiower In full bloom, growing
from q crevice at the top Of 40 foot
maple tree.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes the
famous poet and writer celebrated
bis eigh,y'second birthday last Sat-
urday.
An old trunk found In the house
Of q st. Louis miser contained
SIT. 900.
As country great in judges New
Zealand is far ahead of the United
States. About one man in fifty is a
justice Of the peace.
Guenther Schnelle, who killed DR..
Schucbardt in Wheeling, few years
ago. hung himself in the lunatic
asylum at Weston Monday.
Ex.Congressmsn Chester d. Hub.
bard died in Wheeling on she 23rd
ult, aged 70 years.
Henry Bnggsss. the oldest man in
Marion county. died Thursday, aged
ninety eight years.
A Norton county (Ksn.) farmer
has left high wall OF weeds stand
ing around bis corn ~ protection
against hot winds.
Advice 10 cheap, and the fellow
who hasn't anything else to give 10
generally very liberal with It.. ~
General Lew Wallace, the author
OF Ben Hur, 10 at work on . now
story.
Matthew Allmeyer OF Wheeling
has invented . new nail machine
which he claims will mako more
nails for less money than sny ma.
ctine Ia existence,
A turtle four feet across tue back
10 said 70 have frequensed Current
river In Missouri, for the past af,y
yoars.
Twenty persons we're killed, nine
seriously injured and twenty bsdly
bruised BY q railroad accident nesf
Statewide, N. c., on tho Western
North Carolina road last Friday. A
train Vas forced from Q bridge b She
sprsading Of the rails and plunged IS
tSUt uOWu INV OtOSAe
Again Abe record for fast OCEAN
travelling bas been broken. Lass
week the reamsr Tsutonic, OF she
White Star line. msds the "trip from
Queenstown 10 New York In Ave
dsys, sixteen hours and s.ensy.one
minutes. This 10 the fastest time on
record.
A Michigan grocer has mouse
that catches flies. He keeps il In
his shoy window, where it doe. bet
ter work than asquare yard Of ordi-
nary fly paper.
Tbe largest gun ever made b =
Krupp is the property OF the Ru al
government. 1t is made of cast
steel and has q bsrrel 40 feet long.
with bore OF l3i inches. II costs
$1,000 to FIRE q single shot from the
gun.
A new enemy OF the po sto vine
has made is appearance in Michi-
gan. The vine when attacked I've.
gins to wilt at The top. 10 the hoI
low OF the stem is found a worm
nearly an inch in length which ap.
pears TO sap the life OF the plant.
Rev. DR.. L. Dewitt Ta'magt
claims to have broken the record for
rapid long distance travelling nv
railroad. To meeta recent lecture
engagement in Iowa. he Was forced
to take a special train from Dubuqn,
10 Storm Lake, and covered the dis.
lance of 254 miles in as many min
utes. There we're only four person.
besides the lecturer on the train
which consisted Of the engine and
ono car, and DIR. Talmsge SAYS he Il