Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-05-14
CURIOUS FACTS.
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ing fair or prosperous weather.
Sweden enumerates over 100, 900 head
of reindeer among her domesticated ami
mails.
Five-eighths of the bread baked in
London, England, is made of American
wheat.
There are LOG boys born to every 100
girls, but more boys die in infancy
than girls.
The meaning of the verb s'boomn is to
rush violently forward. Its business ap-
plication is clear.
The first European lady to arrive in
California was the wife of Governor
FACES, who arrived at Monterey in 1888.
Nine young men are about to walk
from Americas, Ga, to Chicago, ILL.,, a
distance of 1000 miles by road, on a
wager.
The largest piece of asphaltum ever
mined in California was gotten out near
Santa Barbara, it weighing two and one
half tons.
The aboriginal population of japan,
who call themselves Ainos, numbered in
1888, 1862, including SAYS men and
S5S7 women.
The Salvation Army in England is 60
ing to open a matrimonial bureau, not
free, but with a regular price if a suitable
partner is procured.
There is a singular superstition it
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, according to
which any person who hears a whippoor-
willis call in daytime will die before the
end of the year.
Saturday is said to be the great day
for conf1agations in London, England,
and the fire department is called out
more frequently in August and December
than in any other month.
There is a man living in Calhoun, Ga,
seventy years old, who boasts that he
never wore a pair of boots, bought a suit
of clothes, white shirt or any store
clothes in his life, or wore a collar or
necktie.
A herring will swim sixteen miles an
hour for weeks, and a shark will follow
the swiftest steamer across the ocean.
The little nautilus uses his shell for a
boat and spread a film for a sail like an
experienced navigator.
The recent discovery of prehistoric
copper Implements on the site of an an
Gent Indian village lear Betterton, Md.
IS considered as furnishing another link
IN the Chain of evidence that among the
most remote tribes there existed a system
of intertribal trade.
The capital of the column of polished
syenite from Hanes, Egypt, in the Mus.
cum of Archa )logy of the University of
Pennsylvania is in the British Museum,
The column is AS feet in height aud is
engraved with hieroglyphs giving the
names and titles of Ramses II.
A thornless raspberry has been ex.
amined by Professor Britton, of New
York City. 1t was sent to him by Pro-
fessor Millspaugh, of the West Virginia
Agricultural Experiment Station. 1t
grows luxuriantly in Randolph County,
West Virginia, and bears fruit, but no
briars.
The c~ostliest diuner SCI ever made was
by Tiffany, New York. Mr.. Mackey
brought from his mines SIS, 900 worth
of bullion, and this the jewellers made up
into a service, asking $50, 900 for the
work, making the cost in all 49,, 900, and
40 sovereign in Europe eats from such a
gorgeous plate.
Washington himself had been a strik-
ing instance of precocitv in the public
service, for he was appointed adjuta1t.
general of the Virginia troops at nine
teen, at twenty-fou received the chief
command of the Virginia forces, aud was
but forty-three when he took command
of the American Army at Cambridge.
Herodotus asa 40S B. c. mentions
the case of a prisoner who amputated his
foot to escape from his shackles,
and, escaping to his friends, was pro.
vided with a wooden substitute. In
1885, in q tomb at Capus, the most com.
plete specimen of an artificial leg was
discovered, and other relics, dating to
at least as far back as 800 B. G..