The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

According TO q French statistician
man of so years has slept O. 600 DAYS.
worked $500 days, walked 500 DAYS.
amused himself 1000 days, was sick
500 days. He ate II, pounds of
bread, 10000 pounds of meat, 1900
pounds of vegetables. eggs and fish and
drank 1000 gallons of liquids.
Lots OF money keeps going from
people in the United States to the old
folks and others in Great Britain. In
the last annual report OF the British
post Office it appears thatof the 81, 06O, :
900 received in the money order DEPART
ment from foreign countries there came
from the United States So, 5SO,0OQ.
The pineapple grows from the up
per part of n stem which rises two or
three feet high from the center of q
cluster of leaves growing close to the
ground. The upper part of this stem
becomes covered with the flowers of
the plant, the flower cluster becomes
enlarged, its parts uniting and forming
the pineapple.
"A major, the now wealthy pro-
prietor of II well-known concentrating
industry, obtained the recipe for it in
trade few years ago, when both he
and the other man were almost penni-
less. lie had just pawned his valise
for dinner, and gave away the pawn
ticket for the formula, out of which he
soon made fortune
1t is remarkable fact, that in
cemeteries which have an eastern and
western slope. the eastern slope
graves are considered preferable. The
bodies are usually buried with their
feet toward the east: therefore, while
all the graves are level, it seems that
on the western slopes the bodies rest
with the feet higher than the head.
If we were to count all the islands
in the world VIC should find that they
mounted up into the hundreds of thou
sands. There are over one thousand
islands under the flag of Japan, and in
Georgian bay, the north extension of
Lake Huron, where we find very few
islands on the map, there are in reality
several thousand islands, most of them
of course, quite small.
"A post Office inspector of Sioux
City, Ia, who has been watching for
some time to discover who had been
pilfering the cash drawer of the Sioux
City post Office, found day or two ago
that the offender was mouse. The
mouse had been carrying off paper
money for several weeks and had taken
one twenty dollar bill. About forty
dollars was recovered from the mouse's
nest
The oldest inhabited dwelling
house in the United States is said to be
that of Killian Van Rensselaer,, oppo-
site Albany. 1t is described as being
of brick with gambrcl roof. The
front wall contains two portfolios, out
of which the early inhabitants shot at
the Indians According to plate in
the rear, set up by the Albany Com
memorative society, the building was
erected in 1852
There is n bounty in Idaho on the
ears of jac1-rabbits, and, like the coy
ote scalp bounty of California, it has
created new industry. The discovery
recently OF several live Dummies" minus
their ears has developed the fact that
active bounty-workers are trapping the
jacks, clipping their ears and then turn
ing them loose to breed future crop
from which bounties can be obtained
till the end of time.
Fright caused q deplorable injury
to Miss Alta Felker, of Monroe county,
Pa. She was on visit to her mother,
at Reeders, near Stroudsburg, when
from distance she witnessed a fight
between two intoxicated roughs and
some of her acquaintance. She was
informed that her brother had been
seriously injured in the ARRAY, and the
shock resulted in rendering her uncon-
scious for eighteen hours. When she
was able to communicate her thoughts
by writing, she informed them that she
could not hear or speak, and that her
lower limbs were paralyzed
Capt Francis Kelley, who recently
died in Bath, Me-, was n fine example
of the old-time Yankee master mariner.
He was born at Parker's Head, in the
town of Phippsburg, in 1903. went to
sea at the age of fourteen, and became
a captain at twenty three, continuing
as master until 1861. During his forty
four years at sea he was never once
wrecked. and during all his years as
master he never met with Il disaster,
although he had the reputation of being
great driver. His best passage was
fourteen days from Savannah to Liver
pool in the ship Samaritan-a remark
able run, which the fastest of our mod
ern would find hard to equal.
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