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

Rats arc 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 oa Boston, Mass, was sold in
1885 by John Blackstone for $3.50.
The test of "real good cook" mus
ever be tho making of soups, entrees and
suuces.
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.
Glass beads pass rs money in parts Of
Africa. In Nasal, five blue beads will
buy woman, but ten of them are neccs-
saty to buy COW.
Mrs. Il. II. Robertson, Of Stokes
County, North Carolina, is cutting her
eighth year Of her age.
A papyrus containing problem in
chess said To have been solved in the
tlmo of Ramcscs the Great has beer
offered to tho 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 CTenn.) man has captured
curiosity in the form of u mockiny
bird, or, in reality, two birds grown to.
gcther III 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 tho world. This because of the
result of the good work done by tho
United States Fish Commissioners.
4 trained terrier, with light cord ut
tachcd to his neck, ruus through under
ground conduits, from one mlnhole to
another, in London streets. Thus clec.
trio wires are safely and hurricllY driwa
from station to station.
Chinese witnesses have peculiar
"sauccr 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 AMI shattcr
it.
The hose used in sprinkling tho
pla1as Of Paris is n queer contrivance. 1t
consists of lengths Of iron pipe, cacb
length mounted ut the end on short
axlcs 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 tho other day for $3.50
Just about ono-third of the yearly
salary Lamb earned by his "dry drudycry
of the desk s dead wood" to which Prcsi-
dent Harrison referred in a recent inter
Wow.
In 1916 an awful famine RACED throu 5h.
out all Europe, AMI again from 1893 to
1875, when complete failures caused ter.
rible suffering. In England and France
the people ate the flesh Of dogs and ITS,
and many cases of cannibaism were re.
corded. During the latter three years
thousands upon thousands pcrished from
starvation.
A .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. liuos,
and was considerably tossed about.
When she landed on the stone tagging
of the court yard, she was picked up un-
hurt save for IL 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, "A kind of bread is
made bv the Indians from moss that
grows on the spruce fir tree. This moss
is prepared by placing it in heaps,
sprinkling it with water and permitting
it - ferment. Then it is rolled into
balls as big rs a 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 rudimentary arms in re-.
lief. The idols are believed to he at
least 600 years old.
The custom Of placing Grape on thl
door Of II house where there has been a
recent death had its origin in the on"i"nt
English ncraiii, customs aud dates us
far back, AT !cte n the year 100 \.
ID. At that per. Indictments or ar
mortal ensign. were placed in IrDHt of
houses when the nobility and gentry
died. These Indictments were o. da