Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-30
CURIOUS FACTS.
There will be ffty-thrse Sundays in

There will be ffty-three Sundays in
1892.
Only three species Of reptiles exist in
Ireland.
In the parrots beak both mandibles
are movable popularity unknown in
other species Of birds.
Lead pencil wood-soft cedar-all
comes from Florida, aud it will he ex-
hausted in few years.
By putting aside quarter Of dollar
every day New Jersey man has in
twenty years saved $685..
Eggs are fried in the shapes OF hearts,
stars and other devices by means of pans
having sunkcn places 10 these shapes.
A Swedish gentle nan wears watch
chain made from one of his own ribs,
taken from his body by surgical opera
ton.
Daniel Wooster was able to repeat the
whole Constitution Of the United States
word for word, including punctuation
stops.
The first coins made on this continent
were made in Mexico in 1885. They
were called the ''real," aud arc now
worth Sc each.
The fame of some men is preserved By
their cast-off clothes. An old hat of
Dillon, the Irish leader, recently sold !:
Australia for S25.
The glass makers of Thebes, forty
centuries ago, possessed the ant of stain
ing glass and they produced the CON-
modify in the utmost profusion.
American travellers have become SO
numerous in Portu gal that some of the
shopkeepers in the cities display this
sign in their windows: 'fAmerican
spoken here"
The descendants OF single wasp
number as many as 80, 900 in one season.
November is the fatal mouth which kills
them all off except two or three females,
on whom depends the perpetu.tion of
the race.
There is farmer in Ventura county,
CAL, whose name is StubblefLid and
another named Haymaker. Los Angeles,
CAL, has still another honest grtsger
who bears the euphonious name of John
Beaublossoms.
When Lemuel Richards, of Milwaukee,
Wis, read of the suicide of his old
friend, DR.. Boring, of Evanston, he was
SO much affected that he choked himself
to death. Both Richards and Boring
were over seventy years old.
When Captain Cook first visited Tahiti
the natives were using nails of wood,
bone, shell aud stone. When they saw
iron nails the fancied them to be sheets
of some very hard wood, aud, DESTROYS
of securing such a valuable commodity,
they planted them in their gar'lcns.
In Japan arcners test their arrows by
balancing them on the nsils of the second
and third fingers of the left hand aud
rapidly twirliug them by the feathered
end with the fingers Of the right hand.
If the arrow makes whirring sound, it
is crooked and must be Strengthened.
A Japanese doctor never dreams OF
asking poor patient for fec. There
is proverb among the medical fraternity
of Japan-"'When the twin enemies,
poverty and diseas2, invade home, then
he who takes aught from that home,
even though it be giveu him, is a robber. "
Horsedesh is used for human food in
Denmark, Swe len and Switzerland and
also in several parts of Italy. it is not
considered tit for human food in Buchar-
est, Scotland or England. Attempts
were made in 1868, 1875 and 1878 to
introduce it into London, but they were
not successful.
A girl in Dexter, Me-, has faculty
which mystifes her friends. When
blindfoIded aud provided with a photo
graph she eau describe the person o;
object portrayed in the picture, and she
will also describe the object; in any pic
ture or print after merely running hel
finger tips over the surface.