Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-06-24
CURIOUS FACTS.
The clock tower Of the British House
of Parlia nent is 800 feet high.

The clock tower OF the British House
of Parlia nent is 800 feet high.
Green vegetables will retain their
color, it is said, if cooked in an uncoV-
cred vessel.
Forks were not introduced into Eng
laud until the reign of James l., in the
Seventeenth Century.
Audiences in Russian theatres are for
hidden by law to manifest their displcas-
nre at actors by Kissing.
A merchant in Germany has been fined
heavily for using quotation from the
Bible to head an advertisement.
Edward Mcdonald, of Allentown,
Penn, owns or did own a dog which
weighed but four ounces when it was
five months old.
A man who enlists in the United
States army now may wear crayat il he
chooses; a privilege which has been
denied him heretofore.
In olden times, when every part Of the
body had its price, the beard was valued
at $5-a large sum for the time-while
the loss of leg was only estimated
at SO.
The Massachusetts, State Board of
Health has found that Of 1918 samples
of wall paper collected in twenty cities
and towns, 3S9 contained arsenic in ap-
preciable quantities.
Mark Kenniston, of Phillips, Me-, had
the smallest bear probably ever seen by
man, and he has been mounted artistic
ally. 1t is six inches from tip to tip and
is three inches in height.
The famous Orloif diamond of Russia
was once the right eye Of the great idol
Serringham in the Temple CT Brahma.
This precious gem was stolen somewhere
about the beginning of the Eighteenth
Century by French solder.
The streets Of London are cleaned be-
tween eight in the evening aud nine in
the morning. Many Of the carriageways
are washed daily by means of hose and
the courts and alleys inhabited by the
poorer classes are cleaned once day.
The Chinese make what is called "chi-
wa-hi," or grass cloth, from the fiber of
the common nettle. 1t is said to make
a splendid cloth for tents, awnings, etc.
When made into betting for machinery
it is said to have twice the strength Of
leather.
A couple of months ago Philadelphia
woman bought rustic table made Of
the boughs of some tree from which the
bark had not been removed. A few
weeks ago the table began 70 throw out
green sprouts and soon after the whole
table was in full bloom.
The Chinese are ahead of the world
in the preparation of roast pork for the
table. After it is come out Of the oven
it is hung in the smoke of various aro-
matte herbs, which gives it a delicious
favor and robs it of the porky taste
which is offensive to some palates.
The witch plant, which is the acton
ishment Of the native Australians as we'll
as the foreigners, resembles our common
plantain in the matter of leaf. Six or
eight Of these leaves, sometimes an inch
and three quarters broad an five inches
long, often spring from single "stool."
which sits fat on bare spot without
the least sign Of root.
The foot Of horse is one of the most !
ingenious and unexplained pieces Of me-
chanism in the whole range Of animal
structure. The outside hoof is made up
of a series of thin, verticle lamine of
horn, about 500 in number. Into this
is fitted about 500 more thin lamine,
which belong to the coffin bone, both
sets being elastic and adherent.