The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-06-30
Here and There.

2 ducts are canned in France, the bulk oil
: the worlds supply comes from this coun.
try.
Three factories in the United States
consume over 100000 eggs per year in
making albumen paper, extensively used
ill photography.
A couple of Wayne county, Ind, cele-
brated their golden wedding last week.
Among the guests were three who at
tended the original wedding.
May "a was the ninth anniversary of
the opening of the Brooklyn bridge. Per-
sons travelling over the bridge have aver
aged 10000, 600 year.
Marigolds and camomile in North At
RIGA grow to the height of four or five
feet. In India the rhododendron grows
to the height of thirty feet.
The French minister of public instruc-
ton and fine arts has given orders for
the establishment of a historical mu-
scum in the house of Jeanne dare at
Domremy.
A minister at Hawkinsville, Ga, while
working in his garden recently, I'M
earthed German coin about the size of
ten cent piece, bearing the date of the
year 100.
The late Etienne Arago is quoted as
authority for the statement that Balzac
at the age of twenty was so discouraged
that he contemplated drowning himself
in the Seine.
Investigation of rain drops lead to the
conclusion that some of the large drops
must be more or less hollow, as they fail,
when striking, to wet the whole surface
within the drop. aa
Erl Gray, formerly of Roxbury, Mass,
is probably the oldest New Yorker. He
is now living, at the great old age of one
hundred and nine years, ON the county
poor farm at Delhi.
A grocer on one of the islands off the
coast of Maine is fifty years years old
and has never been off the island, where
he has accumulated a handsome compe-
| tence in his trade.
For fifty-five years Miss Hannah Fair
child, of Westport. Conn, has been a
member of the church. and has not
missed a service in that period. She is
in her seventy-eighth year.
There are at present in China only
1,022 citizens of the United States, and
nearly half of them are women. OF this
number 400 reside in Shanghai, 1856 at
Tientsin and IA in Canton.
In the British Pharmacopeia the me-
trio weights, and measures will be adopt
ed, to the entire exclusion of the Eng
lish weights and measures hitherto used
there and in the United States.
A yellow fish, called Alaskan mackerel,
and fully equal to the mackerel of the At
lantic coast, is found at the west end of
the Alaskan islands. They move in
large schools and are finely favored.
A church in the town of Bergen, Nor
way, is built entirely of paper. 1t can
seat 1000 people in comfort, and has
been rendered waterproof by a solution
of quicklime, curdled milk and white of
eggs
The Grand Trunk Railway of Uruguay
to Montevideo has been completed, and
opens out vast tract of fertile land
hitherto comparatively worthless, the
area of which is only little less than
Belgium.
The syndicate that formerly proposed
to establish Monte Carlo on one of the
| islands off the Pacific coast now asserts
that it has purchased q tract of land just
across the Mexican boundary, in Lower
California.
AT the trial of a horse thief in Phoenix,
A. t., recently, the prisoner rose at the
conclusion of the testimony and asked
the judge to instruct the jury to bring
in verdict of guilty without leaving
their seats. He was accommodated.
A resident of Plumstead, Pa, has a
turkey hen which is very aquatic in her
habits. She recently Matched and is now
caring for fourteen ducklings. When
they take to the water she wades in after
them and keeps as near them as posi-
ble
William B. Smith. the richest man in
South Carolina, died in Charleston, yes
terday, at the age of seventy sev en- years.
He was engaged in the cotton business
all his life. His estate is estimated to be
worth about 81 00,0 900.
| An important discovery Of very extern
sive iron ore deposits, which are even
supposed to rival the enormous iron-ore
| t.1l. 4. lO,~
has quite recently been made in Finland
by NJ. Stjernvall, the geologist.
The money-order department of the
Pittsburg postof1ice, where the receipts
are more than $4,000, goo per annum, is
exclusively in charge of Mary Steele.
| This is said to be the largest business
handled by any woman in America.
Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland or
Ireland, by BIRTH marriage or creation,
are free from arrest or imprisonment on
civil process, and in the event of peer
ess being charged with a criminal otfense
she would be tried by the House of
Lords.
The police force of Paris, which num-
bered 6,l0O men in 1871, when the popu-
lation of the city was 500, 000 now num-
bers only 3,400, although the population
has increased to 2.423,O00. The perfect
of police wishes to increase the force to
1900.
In Berlin the Medical Aid Society for
Female Teachers and Governesses is
thriving institution employing eighty
four doctors, who give their services,
while the money at its disposal is spent
tor drugs, wines and baths, and a sepa-
rate fund supplies courses at watering
places.
On the subject of the swaying of lofty
chimneys it is declared to be absurd to
hold that chimney say 400 feet high
would sway 16 inches. The slightest vi
bration is felt when on tall chimney,
and II inches is thought to be the ex-
IRENE amount of swaying that takes
place.