Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
CURIOUS FACTS.
Russia invented paving.
Whalehnne is $4,000 a ton

Russia invented paving.
whalebone is $l5, 900 ton.
Malheur County, in Oregon, has pet
riaed forest.
Diamond cutting by machinery was
FIRST done in Holland in 1899.
Gliding with gold leaf was first done
by Margaritone, an Italian, in 1873.
The first banana was brought to the
United States about fifty years ago.
There are 4G, 900 oil wells in the Uni
ted States, and their daily output is l3O.'
900 barrles.
The prescribed course of medical iu-
struction in the Mexican National Uni
versity is seven years.
Edward I. Berry, of San Francisco,
the strong man of the Pacific Slope, lifts
1000 pounds fifty times day. lie is a
piano mover.
East Cranky, Conn.,, has two ceuten.
ariaus in Mrs. Catharine c. Gould, 10I
years old, and "Aunt" Sally Brown,
aged 102 years.
Artesian wells were known at Thebes,
Egypt, as long ago as the time of Tim
erton, 1000 years before the beginning
OF the Christian Era.
Mrs. Gaines, the property Of Richard
T. Auchmuty, Of Lenox, Mass, is said
to be the oldest war horse living. She
us thirty-six years old.
When the Turk goes to his mosque to
worship he keeps his hat on, as he thinks
he would be unbecomingly familiar with
divinity if he removed it.
Washington is to have a museum for
all sorts of curious life saving appliances,
including the earliest kinds Of lifeboats,
rockets and life preseryers.
"Uncle" Wash Couch. who lives near
senola, Ga, has four sons who are said
to have been born on the same day Of
the month in different years.
Jesse NJ. Perrine, the Postmaster Of
Utica, N. Y, bas been for about fifty
years in Uncle Sans postal service. He
was born in 1914 and is still in vigorous
health.
A wonderful echo is heard at Eagles
Nest, Killarney, Ireland. A bugle played
on one side of the lake, at this point, is
repeatedly echoed as if multiplied By
hundred instruments.
The largest greenback extant is a ten
thousand dollar bill, and only one such
note has been printed by the Govern
ment. OF the five thousand dollar bills,
the next largest, there are seven.
The oldest arm chair in the world is
the throne once used by a Queen ofEgypt.
It is made of ebony, beautifully carved,
and is so hardened with age as to appear
to be carved from black marble.
Few families can show a record like
that CT the Gross family, of Richmond,
Ind. There are six brothers and five
sisters of the family, and there has not
been death among them for fifty years.
The highest place iu the world regu-
larly inhabitNed is the Buddhist town of
Haine, in Thibet, which is 5000 feet
above sea level. The highest inhabited
place in the Americas is at Galera, Peru,
Is, 635 feet above the sea level.
Peercsses of Great Britain, Scotland
OF Ireland, by birth, marriage OF crea-
ton, are free from arrest or imprison-
ment in civil processes, and in the event
of a peeress being charged with a crimi-
nal offence, she would be tried by the
house of lords,
The whistling or sounding arrow used
By the Chinese has a bend Of a buffalo
horn followed out, and with several holes
bored in it, it whistles as it flies through
the air. They are used for amusement
generally, and by robbers as sort OF
challenge to "stand and deliver"