The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-30
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| piece of worl--the whole Bible con-
tanned in IN English walnut she'll no
larger than hens egg. "The nut"
says the manuscript, s.holdoth the
book, and there are rs many leaves in
1t as in the great Bible"
-Delawareans used to be a good deal
amused by the custom on the old juno
ton IL Breallwater railroad OF sending
O brakeman through the cars at inter
vals with tray of ice water. Tho
superintendent of the road was Now
Highlander, and he brought the custom
down with him from Yanlleeland. 1t
still prevails on parts of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford road.
Elm bezzlement in Texas means the
stealing of actual money only. An ex-
county treasurer in that state made
away with $4,000 belonging to the
county. When he came up for trial
Judge Hightower ordered his acquittal
On the ground that the only legal tender
is money and that the ex-treasurer had
raised the amount for which he was n
defaulter on bonds and coupons
"A letter received by an Augusta,
Me-, publisher n few days ago from
Salem, O., was mutilated in a remark
able manner. The Ohio postmaster had
incloscd the letter in an official en-
velope, along with a note explaining
that the mail carrier who had collected
it had been shot by a highwayman, the
charge passing through his pouch and
its contents, taking effect in his leg.
"A glass eye may serve as substi-
tute for the genuine article on some
occasions, but there are times when it
H0ocr,,f Gil ha % IT
Katz, who has brought suit in the New
York courts to compel his newly
welded wife to abide with him. She
refuses to do so upon the ground that
he has an artificial eye, which fact she
had not been made aware of prior to
their marriage.
Five bears i'll two days is considered
better than average luck, even in
eastern Maine, and SO Charles Cakes, of
Cherryfield, who made this record last
week, has reason to feel satisfied with
the shooting season as far as it has
gone. AS the skins arc worth from
eight to sixteen dollars apiece and the
state pays bounty of five dollars on
each bear killed, it will be seen that
the Cherry field hunter earned pretty
fair wages for those two days.
Tho report of Harrington, the new
chief of the weather bureau, shows
that there are at present over 1000
weather signal display stations in
operation. 1t is expected to have so
many volunteer stations as to establish
them not more than twenty or thirty
miles apart over the entire country. 1t
is claimed that these weather data show
climatic conditions in various parts of
the United States that are not sur
passed by the famous health resorts of
Europe.
Steel ties that were placed in the
track of the Chicago & Western In
diana railway nineteen months ago
have been examined by the roadmastcr
The track had very heavy trf3fc, but
the roadmaster reports that the ties
were not only safe, smooth, and pleas
ant to ride on, but were a money-say-
ing device. He also observed that there
was less oscillation and vibration in the
locomotives and cars passing over them,
especially in heavily loaded cars of
yielding material like grain.
1t is almost impossible to find on
the peninsula of Delaware and Mary
land point ten miles from navigable
up by navigable streams, and in the
lower part of the peninsula small ship
yards are found in many villages, and,
indeed, often clear outside of village
limits There arc many good ship
wrights throughout the region, and for
nearly two hundred years much of the
produce has been carried in vessels
built within few miles of where it
was grown.
"A man in San Francisco has some
queer divining rods. They are four
slender pieces of steel, tapering to a
point at one end and flattened out at
the other, with notches in the extrem-
tiles like the notches in an arrow. Two
are an inch shorter than the others.
Two persons use them, each taking hold
of one long and one short rod with the
thumb and forefnger and holding them
out horizontally with the hands close
together. The notches are pressed to.
gether. In a few minutes the rods
move from side to side, or up and down,
pointing, it is said, to that part of the
room where coins or jewelry may be
concealed. Some persons cannot use
the rods, but those who can may easily
find the hiding place of any valuable.
The largest plank in the world ac-
cording to the N. w. Lumberman, is a
redwood plank that is IL feet 5 inches
wide, IL feet 0 inches long and 5 inches
thick, and is about 90 per cent clear.
1t was taken from tree 80 feet in d.
ameter and 500 feet high, which, ac-
cording to its rings, was more than one