Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-03
ODD. QUEER AND CURIOUS.

'fuE sun yields 100000 times the
light CT tic moon.
IN Bulgaria only seven and q hall
per cent. of the population can read
and write.
The word sits. occurs only once in
the whole Of the Bibe.
Two WEALTHY Jews of Bagdad, now
own all that remains of the ancient
town of Babylon.
The population of the earth doubles
itself IN $50 years.
THE total cost Of railroads in the
United States has been nine billion
dollars.
MoRE than 100000 people are con
firmed in the English Church every
year
sixty voyages around Care Hort
have been made by Capt. Holmes, o.
Mystic, Conn.
Three femae physicians are doing
thriving business in Adrian, Mich.
SIX THOUSAND different species Of
birds are known, and Of these Europe
posse -ses 503, and North America, AL
IN 1886 only 100 patents were issued
in the United STATES, in 1889, 23,600,
the largest number ever known.
TAG national debt of Germany, which
is much smaller than that Of any Other
great country in the world, is, in round
figures, 1892, 0OO,0
IT takes about three seconds for q
message to go from one end Of the At
lantic cable TO the other.
PITrsBURGH claims to have more
millionaire in proportion to her popu'
lation, than any other city III the
word
ALASKA cost only 100000 and the
revenue to the national treasury is ex'
pected to amount to S3.000,000 year
for the next twenty years.
URANIUM is now ciassed among the
rare metals; Oh account Of its electrical
ie istance it is likely te be used in cleo
trical insulation.
A GEORGIA postmaster is in trouble.
Through hole In the roof of his office
the rain poured in one night and stuck
together two hundred dollars worth Of
postage stamps.
THE mineral called turfa, or brszo-
Ina, recently discovered in Bahia,
furnishes an oil akin to petroleum, a
paraffiu suitable for the manufacture oil
candles, and good iubricating oil.
The largest sheep ranch in the world
Is in the counties of Webb and DinneI
in Texas; it contains upward Of 10000
acres, and yearly pastures 600,00l
sheep.
TnE cuttlefish. which amongst othel
strange things always walks with its
head downward, does not chew its
food at all, but masticates with its giz.
card.
THE Portuguese nation is one Of tho
least instructed in Europe, the illit
crate inhabitants being officially stated
as 50 per cent of the total population
COLUMBIA is the weaithiest OF Ameri
eau universities, aud Harvard come,
next, with property valued at $8,000,-
/ 00D, and a yearly income amounting tc
1858, l2l.
THE Gar, according to a recent
ststisticiau's calculation, is the largest
private owner of land in the world; the
total is about 10000, 900 acres, about
the size Of the whole of France.
The most densely populated square
mile in the world is in the city of New
York; it is is inhabited by 100000 peo-
PIE. the larger part OF whom are
Italians, who speak only their native
language.
ACCORDING to recent figures, the peo
pie of this countly are longer lived
than those of Europe; in this country
eighteen persons ont Of every thoasail
die each year, in England the average
is twenty, and in Germany, twenty-six
BARON LEIBIG. the great German
chemist, says that as much -four as car
lie on the point of table knife con
tains as much nutliiive constituents a.
eight pints of the best and most nu
tritious beer made.
A FLowERIS6-PLAST has never becr
found within the Antarctic circle; bu
in the Arctic region there are 1852 kind
of flowers; their colors, however, arr
not 50 bright or varied as those o.