Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-17
CURIOUS FACTS.


Cats flesh is much eaten in China.
Cotton having beautiful red color is
being grown in some parts of Georgia.
About Is, 900 people are killed every
year in India by wild beasts and reptiles.
London enjoyed eleven hours of sun
shine on recent Sunday--a most rare
record.
One-third of the crime committed in
London is perpetrated on Saturday
nights.
There are 300 newspapers published
in Fleet street, London, eleven of which
are dailies.
One of the largest umbrella houses in
New York has failed, giving as a reason
that the styles changed too often.
An electric swing suggested for the
Worlds Fair will carry twenty four per-
sons aud swing distance of 900 feet.
The highest inhabited place in the
world is the Buddhist monastery, Haine,
in Thibet, Asia, $1,000 feet above the
sea.
A single sheet Of paper six feet wide
and seven and thres-quarter miles long
has been made at paper mill in New
Jersey.
Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth
President, aud his initial letters stand
for Fourteenth President. There are
fourteen letters in his name.
The biggest orange tree in America is
claimed to be in Terrebone, La. 1t is if
teen feet in circumference and forty fee.
high. The yield this year is expected to
reach 10, 900 oranges.
The standard height of recruits for
the Royal Marines BRITISH is to be five
feet six inches for men under twenty
years of age, and half an inch taller for
those over twenty years of age.
A curious coin used by the Gauls
about 1000 years ago was shaped like
horseshoe or the capital letter U, aud
was about one-fourth of an inch thick
and two inches across. Specimens of
this coin have recently been found in
Ireland.
The last matched cottage of the olden
time in London has been destroyed. 1t
fronted on the green at Shepherds Bush,
and there is good reason for believing
that Miles Syndercomb, the prime mover
in the plot against the life OF Cromwell,
once lived in the house.
In Vienna, Austria, has been opened
postage-stamp museum, where more than
100, 900 stamps may be seen arranged in
three large rooms. Among the rare speci-
mems are the stamps used in the balloon
and pigeon dispatches of the Franco
German war in 1S70-71.
The ancient Egyptians were not par
ticular about about the wraps in which
to shroud their dead. Old napkins, old
skirts and other cast-off clothing were 81
utilized. 1t is said that an unpaid den
tist bill was found on the person of a
lately exhumed mummy, whose teeth
were in extra fine condition.
Antoinette Sterling, the famous singer,
once attended Quaker meeting in Eng
land, and after prolonged silence on
the part of everybody she rose and sang,
Crest in the Lord" At the close OF the
service one of the elders approached her
and said, "Thee knowest, sister, that it
is against the rules, but if the Lord tell
eth thee to sing thee must"
The lobster is greatly in dread of thua-
der, and when the peals are very loud
numbers of them drop their claws and
swim away for deeper water. Any great
fright may also induce them to drop their
claws. But new claws begin at once to
grow and in short time are as large as
the old ones and covered with hard shells.
The lobster often drops its she'll, when it
hides until the new shell is hari enough
10 protect it.