Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-10-16
CURIOUS FACTS.
London has no car tracks.

curiosity at Madison, GA.
The frigate Philadelphia was de-
stroyed by Decatur on February Is,
1904.
The Columbian River is so clear at low
water that salmon fishing can only be
successfully conducted at night.
1t is noticed that some of the "docked"
horses at Newport, R. l., now wear ar
tiicial tails to "avert prejudice"
1t is said to be popularity OF the
Chinese that they prefer stale to fresh
eggs. They can never poach them, how
ever.
Turbot is supposed to be the most
prolific fish. One of twenty eight
pounds weight contained 14,000,0 900
eggs.
In Africa elephants tongue and liver
are deemed great luXuries, and small
wars often arise for possession Of de-
parted Jumbo.
Trains on tue Brooklyn bridge make
faster time (by two miles an hour than
did the first railway train that ran be.
tween New York and Albany.
The Quadruple Delivery Machine Com
pany, just being foated in England
offers for two cents your weight, box
of sweets and an insurance policy. The
latter, which is for 1925, lasts twenty.
one days.
The bugs that can elude the active
turkey must be very animated creatures.
A farmer near Garden City, Kan, at
tackled a column of grasshoppers with
seventy turkeys, and was soon master OF
the situation.
A tree near Manistee, Mich, thirty
ak feet in circumference, twelve feet in
diameter and 175 feet high, will be
blasted with dynamite, as there is no
saw that will cut it, and no mill that
can cut it in boards.
School gardens, of which there are
more than 5000 in Austria, are being
laid in different parts Of Germany. Their
object is to give methodical instruction
in the cultivation of fruit trees to be
used in the teaching of botany.
There is an immense garden in China
that embraces an area of $4,000 square
miles. 1t is all meadow land, and is
flied with lakes, ponds and clnals.
Altogether it is as large as the States OF
New York and Pennsylvania combined.
A woman i; responsible for the idea OF
giving cakes of soap as souvenirs. AT
one of the cheap baths in New York,
each one who is willing to invest five
cents gets the use of tub aud towel.
On going away, the renovated one is pre-
sented with a cake Of soap.
A pony mare, believed to be about
thirty years of age, dropped foal re-
Gently on the farm of Mr.. Nicol, Of
Blackbog, in the Fyoio district Of Aber-
deenshire, Scotland. So far az known
this is the first foal ever bOrne by this
aged dam. Both pVent and ofspring g
are doing we'll.
A valuable bird dog owned by Grass
Valley (Cal.) man was recently shoyn a
parrot. He Immediately "pointed,'
when polly marched up in front of him
and said, "You're a rascal" The terri
fed dog turned tail and ran away, and
is ruined for hunting, as he Aow cannot
be induced to "point at any kind of
bird.
An ingenious portrait has just been
completed of President Carnot. The
head is composed Of his biography, writ
ten in minute letters aud 50 shaded as
to form an excellent Likeness; fragments
of his various orations make the coat and
shirt front, while the presidential mes.
sage may be read on the cordel Of tho
Legion of Honor.
The Louvre possesses a magnificent
mosaic, discovered in the plains OF Tyr
by NJ. Ernst Renan, the famous scholar,
during his tour III Phenicia. The mo-
sale was originally the pavement Of
church dedicated to st. Christopher. 1t
is a beautiful specimen of its kind aud
valuable addition to the Louvre. Its
great size hindered it for some time from
finding place in the museum. But at
length it was placed in the Molten gal
lery, where it now occupies public at
tention.
The silk waist of Mollic Stsrks we'd
ding dress, now owned By Mary 4.
Blanchard OF Pcacham, was taken to
Bennington, VT, for exhibition during
the celebration. The dress is remark
ably we'll preserved, but has, perhaps,
changed IN color from white to tan or
straw hue. An ear jewel, once worn by
the venerable Motley, accompanied the
waist. The dress, except that the
sleeves were too long, was good ht for
Mollie Stark Childs, the eight year old .
daughter OF A. P. Childs.
To Danish Rats.