The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-07-02
SELECT SETTINGS.

A young Cincinnati (Ohio) girl ha!
been made crazy by drinking tea.
The Hotel Of the Three Kings at Basic,
Switzerland, was in existence before the
year 1926.
The value of the precious metals in
Europe at the time of the discovery Of
the new world was only S167, 600, 900.
Gustave Dore, who never saw the Nj.
agara Falls, put upon canvas one of the
grandest paintings Of them ever exc
cuted.
In test Of the capacity of ty pewritine
machines recently made in st. Paul,
Mimi, speed of 200 words minute
was achieved and officially attested.
A redbird died at the advanced age
of twenty-three years in Evansville,
Ohio, the other day. 1t had become
so feeble that it could not mount its
perch in its cage, but it sang until a
year ago.
A most singular method of street
nomenclature is adopted in Canton,
China. Thus there is street called
Unblemished Rectitude, a Pure Pearl
street, street of Beneyolence and
another of Love.
The cocoloba wood or seaside grape,
product Of Florida, is becoming popu-
lar for knife handles. the pink and vio-
lent TINT of the wood, added to its great
hardness, making it very desirable for
that special purpose.
The Chinee makes great account Of
his bed, which is very low indeed
scarcely rising from the foor-5ut is
often carved exquisitely of wood; but it
never occurs to him to make it any softer
than the rush mats will render it.
At Greencastle, Ind, there are two
maple trees, growing about fifteen feet
apart. At the height Of fifty feet one of
them makes sharp angle, growing SOL
idly into the other so that their identity
above that point is entirely lost.
kaleidoscope is from the Greek kalos,
beautiful, eidos, form and skopein, to
look, and the sentence-like word means,
to look upon beautiful forms. The
lenses, mirrors and broken bits of glass
making this wonderful toy have been
we'll named.
A man in Mason Valley named John
son had his eye put out by a swallow
a few day ago. He was entering the
barn door when the bird was flying out,
and it came in contact with his eye. The
bill pierced the ball, and he will lose i
the use of his eye.
A freak of nature occurred recently at
the ranch of L. Givens, near Mariposa,
Cal. Oae of his work mares gave birth
to twin colts, one horse colt and the
other mule colt, something that has
never before been known to happen. The
former is living, but the latter died.
Mackeret are taken in nets and By
hooks. Tho most of them are caught
in nets, which are taken around school
of them and gathered in. When the fish
are scattered they are taken by hook ans.
liue. This fish is wholly food fish, and
is salted IN large quantities for home and
EXPORT.
Carp are known to be hard to kill, but
one sent to PendIeton from Portland,
Oregon, the other day beats the record.
1t had travelled all the way from Portland
on ice, aud there were bruises on its
head, showing that an attempt had been
made there to take its life, but when it
was opened the "fresh fish, was found
to be moving around as though. accus-
toned to such tribes.
The buttresses of "Trajan's Bridge"
which are still to be seen on the Danube,
are theremains of what was, in some re.
spects, the most remarkable structure
ever erected by man. 1t was not mere
floating bridge OF large boats and mas,
sive timbers, but was permanent struc-
ture carried on piers 15o feet high and
sixty feet wide, comprising twenty
arches, extending altogether 1870 Roman
feet.