The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-12-08
odd PARAGRAPHS or NEWS.
Some Interesting Facts That are Not
Known By the General Reader.
"The HeFaId's" Compact EneyclO.
Pedla Of Information for
Young and Old, Of
Both sexes.

No British sovereign has vetoed par
liamvntary bill in the past 1856 years.
The nearest approach yet to perpetual
motion is the discovery by European
clockmaker who has invented elocL
that Will run ten years without winding
1t is a curious anomaly in the law that
II you pay for your photograph being
taken, no copy can be sold without youl
consent, while, il Won do not, the pho
tographer may sell it to any extent.
The youngest officer in the Union army
to wear the double stars" was General
Pennypacker, Of Pennsylvania. He was
4 colonel Of volunteers at 20 and brevet
major general When but six months pas,
his I'D birthday.
The total colored population Of the
United States is 1888 800, OF which 40, ;
04O are OF African descent; lO7, AS Chi
nese; 2,US9 Japanese, and So SOC civilized
Indians. The increase in Chinese in ten
years has only been 2,2l0.
Miss Nora Houser has been chosen
as model for the solid silver statute OF
her native state, Montana. She is Il,
with the face of Madonna and the figure
Of an Amazon. Toe statute will be life
size, in solid silver, and will 70 to the
Worlds fair.
When condensed milk was first intro
duced, thirty years ago, the idea was
laughed at. The inventor carried the en-
tire daily supply for New York city in a
ten quart pail, delivering it personally to
patrons. He died worth 81 ,OOO, 100 made
out Of the business, which has grown to
be gigantic industry.
The wife Of General Hancock declared
that the latter went TO bed at 7 O'Clock on
the evening Of election day, 1880, being
too tired to await news. Next morning
he awoke at dawn and asked il there was
any definite tidings. Upon her reply,
"Yes, you are beaten" he turned over
and went to sleep again.
Here is one Of the several statements
made on the origin Of the very common
custom Of drinking healths:" In the
d ,ys when the Danes lorded it in Eng
land they had very common habit Of
stabbing Englishmen in the throat when
drinking. To avoid this villainy, a man
when drinking would ask some Of the
settersby to be his pledge or surety " lille
taking his draft. Hence the custom.
A matchmaker in Newcastle, England,
recently completed set of three gold
shirt studs. the second OF which contains
a watch having a dial, which is only
hrec-sixteenihs Of an inch in diameter
The three studs, placed in a shirt front,
are connected from behind by delicate
liver tube containing winding and set
ting mechanism. To wind the watch it
Is necessary to turn the upper stud. and
to adjust the hands the lower stud is
turned.
The Jewish population Of America now
Numbers more than million. At no
time in their history, no; even immedi-
ately after they had taken possession of
the promised land" we're the Jews
more prosperous than they are to-day 10
America. All efforts, therefore, to at
ract them to Palestine seem to be futile.
The Jerish TidiHgs. in speaking Of this
matter, SAYS; "The conditions in this
country will have to change nightly be-
fore the Jews will forsake it for the land
Of the prophets"
The little daughter who was Just born
to the emperor and empress Of Germany
~ the first female child born in the i'm
periaI palace of Berlin since Queen Lou
ise, during the past century, gave birth
To daughter, the great aunt Of Emperor
William l. All the daughters Of the
house Of Hohenzollern born since that
time were not privileged to see the light
If day within the historical walls Of the
Berlin palace until in the present case
the record was broken tor the first time
within 4 century.
A Dread Superstition.
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