The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-07-15
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Rats are natives of Asia.

Rats are natives of Asia.
Twelve average tea plants produce one
pound of tea.
Physicians carriages have the right o
way in the streets of Berlin.
The site os Boston, Mass, was sold in
1885 by John Blackstone for $50.
The test of "resl good cook" mus
ever be the making of soups, entrees and
sauces.
A boy, while wading in a pond in
Jefferson County, Florida, was struck by
an alligator's tail, and had his leg broken
in two places.
Africa. In Nasal, five blue beads will
buy woman, but ten of them are neces-
sary to buy COW.
Mrs. E. II. Robertson, Of Stokes
County, North Carolina, is cutting her
third set of teeth. She is in her eighty.
eighth year of her age.
A papyrus containing problem in
chess said to have been solved in the
time of Rameses the Great has been
offered to the British Museum.
More people were executed in England
during the reign of King Henry VIII.
than ever before or since in the tight
little island, the number reaching H..
400.
A Knoxville (Teun.) man has captured
curiosity in the form of mockiug
bird, or, in reality, two birds grown to-
gether Ill body, but separate in heads
and song.
Lake Erie, it is said, produces moro
fish to the square mile than any body of
water in the world. This because of the
result of the good work done by the
United States Fish Commissioners.
A trained terrier, with light cord at.
tached to his neck, runs through under
ground conduits, from one mauhole to
another, in London streets. Thus elec.
trio wires are safely and hurriedlY drawn
from station to station.
Chinese witnesses have peculiar
''saucer oath" When put in tho box
they say, "If do not speak the truth
may my soul be cracked and broken like
this saucer and then they dash the
saucer against the wood work and shatter
it.
The hose used in sprinkling the
plazas of Paris is queer contrivauce. 1t
consists of lengths Of iron pipe, each
length mounted at the end on short
axles having two small wheels aud the
lengths joined together by short pieces
of flexible hose.
An autograph manuscript of Charles
Lamb, two folio pages in length, was
sold In London the other day for $3.50
just about one-third of the yearly
salary Lamb earned by his "dry drudgery
of the desks dead wood" to which Presi-
dent Harrison referred in q recent inter-
view.
In 1915 an awful famine ragod throu Oh.
out all Europe, and again from 1893 to
1875, when complete failures caused ter.
rible suffering. In England and France
the people ate the flesh of dogs and cats,
and many cases of cannibalism were re-.
corded. During the latter three years
thousands upon thousands perished from
starvation.
A two.year-old girl fell from the
fourth story of New York tenement
house one day recently. On the way
down she met with sundry clothes. lines,
and was considerably tossed about.
When she landed on the stone tagging
of the courtyard, she was picked up un-
hurt save for scratch on her forehead.
She fell sixty feet.
All bread is not made from the flour
of the cereals. Along the Columbia
River, in Oregon, kind of bread is
made by the Indians from a moss that
grows on the spruce fir tree. This moss
is prepared by placing it in heaps,
sprinkling II with water and permitting
it to ferment. Then it is rolled into
balls as big as mans head and baked
in pits.
In excavating some ancient Aztec ruins
in the direction of Chace Canon, New
Mexico, Governor Prince has unearthed
twenty stone idols Of different type
from any before discovered. They are
circular in shape, forming disks from six
to fifteen inches in diameter. the upper
half containing deep carved face, and
the lower half rudimentsry arms in re-.
lief. The idols are believed to be at
least 600 years old.
The custom Of placing Grape on tho
door of house where there has been q
recent death had its origin in the ancient
English heraldic customs aud dates as
far back, at leas' rs the year 100 A.
ID. At that per. Indictments or ar
mortal ensign: were placed in front of
houses when the nobility and geutry
died. These Indictments were o! dia-
mond shape, aud contained the family
arms quariered and colored with sable.