Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-05-20
CURIOUS FACTS.

Fivc.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 "boom" 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 Americus, Ga, to Chicago, ILL.,,
distance of 1000 miles by road, on a
wager.
The largest piece of asphaltun eved
mined in California was gotten out nea!
Santa Barbara, it weighingtwo and onel
half tons.
The aboriginal population of Japan,
who call themselves Amos, numbered in
1888, 1902, including S475 men and
S597 women.
The Salvation Army in England is 60
ing to open matrimonial bureau, not
free, but with a regular price ifa suitable
partner is procured.
There is a singular superstition in
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, according to
which auy person who hears whippoor-
Wills call in daytime will die before the
end of the year.
Saturday is said to be the great day
for conhagations in London, England,
and the FIRE department is called out
more free dently in August aud December
than in any other month.
There is a man living in Calhoun, Ga,
seventy years old, who boasts that he
never wore pair of boots, bought suit
of clothes, white shirt or any store
clothes in his life, or wore collar or
necktie.
A herring will swim sixteen miles an
hour for weeks, and shark will follow
the swiftest steamer across the ocean.
The little nautilus uses his she'll for a
boat and spread film for a sail like an
experienced navigator.
The recent discovery of prehistoric
copper implements on the site of au an
ceut Indian village near Betterton, Nd,
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 Archie )logy of the University OF
Pennsylvania is in the British Museum.
The column is 14.S 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 costliest dinner set ever made was
by Tiffany, New York. Mr.. Mackey
brought from his mines S75,OOO worth
of bullion, and this the jewellers made up
into service, asking $40, 900 for the
work, making the cost in all S95, 900, and
no sovereign in Europe eats from such
gorgeous plate.
Washington himself had been a strik'
ing instance Of precocity in the public
service, for be was appointed adJutant'
general of the Virginia troops at nine
teen, at twenty. four received the Chief
command of the Virginia forces, ant was
but folty-three when he took command
of the American Army at Cambridge.
Herodotus asa 4OS B. CO. mentions
the case of prisoner who ampltated his
own foot to escape from his shackle',
and, escaping to his friends, was pro-
videl with a wooden substitute. In
1885, in a tomb at Capua, 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.