Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-04-17
CURIOUS FACTS.

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the sun, moon and stars by kissing the
hand.
A St. Petersburg druggist tips cigars
with preparation that lights, like
match.
The British kingfsher is likely to be-
come extinct, owing chiefly to its reck-
less destruction for feminine adornment
The man who devotes his time to cut
ting buttons from the coats Of eminent
men is the latest nuisance in Washington.
The sewing machine is only forty-four
years old matches have been in common
use since 1929, and Americas first street
car line dates from 1926.
DR.. Schaffranek, of Palatka, Fla, has
recently sent to Europe handsome
bouquet, composed of wild flowers, the
handle being an olligator's tooth.
A lady in New York has brass bed
stead inlaid with real pearls Across
the top runs a brass rail, on which the
owners name is wrought in pearls.
In some parts of Australia, where the
plague OF locusts and caterplllers is
worst, the ground is covered to depth
of several inches by the pestilent in
sects.
New York is importing red cabbage
from Rotterdam, onions, tomatoes and
potatoes from Cuba, onions, beets
aud potatoes from Bermuda and potatoes
from Scotland and England.
Tho reason that so many Canadians
cross the boundary into the United States
to get married is owing to the fact that
the license fee is very much lower in this
country. In Quebec it is SS.
The novelties at the bird show Ot the
Crystal Palace in London arc a water
rail, a white hedge sparrow, swallow,
a white thrush and talking blackbird,
all birds seldom seen in confinement.
A Mrs. Wainwright fell overheard in
Jupiter Inlet, Fla, and was eaten by a
shark. For three years her husband has
done nothing but hunt Jupiter Inlet
sharks, aud up to date has landed about
300 Of them and is still fishing.
The funeral of Mrs. Lucinda Allen in
Louisville, Ky, recently was attended by
her children, grandchildren and great.
grandchildren. She was 100 years old
when she died having been born at Cul'
pepper Court House, Va, 1882.
The six littlo sons of the German
Kaiser arc subjected to a severe regimen
by their father. They sleep in q plain,
bare room, upon iron cots with hard mat
tresses and scant beiclothiug. At Z
every morning they take a cold bath and
aro then put through vigorous gymnastlc
exercises.
A late member OF tho British Parliament
named Dyott was buried at night, 10
accordance with custom dating from the
Commonwealth. Tho procession, at
tended by twenty torch bearers, passed
through Lichfeld, before tremendous
crowd. An hour extra time before clos
ing was granted to the public houses.
Robinson Crusoe's alexander Sci. ,
kirk old home, the Island of San Juan /
Fernandez, is at present inhabited by =
Baron Won Rodth, the gallant Austrian
officer who, at the battle Of Sadowa in
1866, was all but shot to pieces. So far
as known he and few companions are /
the only civilized companions on the /
island.
Beds are still strange pieces of furui-
ture in Russia, and many well.to-do
houses are still unprovided with them.
Peasants sleep on top of their ovens;
middle. class people and servants roll
themselves up in sheepskins and lie down
near stoves; soldiers rest upon wooden
cots without bedding, and it is only
within the last few years that students
in State schools have been allowed beds. I
Buffalo Bill Praises the Redskins.