Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The government edict has gone
forth that every Chinaman in the
United States who wants to stay here
must have his picture taken before
May 5th next. Cinnamon believe 1t
is unlucky to have their picture
taken, but they will have to swallow
their superstition in this instance or
go back to the Flowery Kingdom.
A curious calf was brought into ex-
istence on the farm of Thomas r.
Smith, near Lincoln, Va, one day last
week. The freak OF nature is of the
Holstein breed and was born with only
three legs-the left hind leg being
missing, there being even no hip bone
on that side. When only two days
old it was able TO walk and is now
quite frisky. Mr. Smith will endeavor
TO raise it.
Mr.. l.. Walker, an employee OF the
Western State Hospital, at Staunton,
Va, on Sundaydescended bymeans of a
rope $50 feet into the Betsy Bell cave.
When $50 down he discovered in a
sort of room about IS feet square and
IS feet high the remains of skeleton.
1t fell to pieces when he tried TO move
it. He brought up some of the pieces,
aud physicians think that they were
probably parts of human skeleton.
Last Wednesday afternoon at Wash
ington Park, Chicago, in the presence
of 10000 spectator, Budd Doble drove
his beautiful mare, Nancy Hanks, to
beat her record of 300 She not only
beat her own record, but lowered the
the worlds trotting record from .. OSss,
the time of Maud s., to 2.07I. Sunol's
record is 2.0St on kite-shaped track
Nancy Hanks is owned by j. Malcolm
Forbes, of Boston, who purchased
her last year for $4,000.
There was an accident on the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Il. r. this week at
Richmond, Va, which resulted in the
wreck of a train and the injury OF
three men. On trestle the crew OF
a train of forty cars lost control of the
cars, and they ran into siding and
struck locomotive and train. Sew
eral cars were thrown from the track
and tumbled down the river bank, d
distance of twenty feet into the wa
ter. The telegraph Office of that
point was also wrecked by the acct
dent.
At Lancaster, Pa, George kttteras,
an attendant at the Lancaster County
Hospital, while accompanying home
Mary Flowers, a cook in the institu-
ton. last Saturday night, proposed
marriage. She refused, and he drew
a revolver and threatened to shoot
her. Nothing daunted the woman
declined thrice to become his wife.
,,frgn1 fired
but the ball was DETECTED by large
buckle the woman wore and she es-
caped serious injury. kitteras fled
and has not been arrested.
Richard Beverly, who for $3.50 a
wear takes the mail from Buena Vista
TO Pleasant View, Amhurst county,
Va, carries it the distance of eighteen
miles on his back. Every day except
Sunday he walks from Buena Vista to
Pleasant View and back, Il distance
of thirtv-six miles, and on Saturday
walks back again to Pleasant View,
to be with his family Sunday, that
days walk being tiftyfour miles.
He is fifty years of age, six feet three
inches high, weighs one hundred and
sixty pounds, and is in perfect health.
He has been carrying the mail for
two years and three months.
A writer in the Atlanta Constitution
SAYS: Il noticed the other day a Pc
king duck that was moping about
and making strange motions with its
head. | decided from its actions that
it had some foreign substance in its
digestive organs and would conse-
quently die. | therefore resolved to
make an examination and see what it
was. On opening the duck | found,
to my surprise, twopieces of gold and
cartridge hull. The gold pieces
were too badly worn to tell OF what
denomination they were, but | think
they must have been one dollar pieces.
The cartridge hull was all worn away
and gone except the head.