Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-27
CURIOUS FACTS.

The silver dollar OF 1904 is worth
$500.
There are oak trees in existence 1000
years old.
In Mexican theaters they pay for each
act separately.
Thirty-four pounds of raw sugar make
twenty-one pounds refined.
A straw hat and linen duster have
been worn for forty winters by DIR. S.
B. Victor, of Columbia, Mo.
A London publisher is going TO re-
produce the first folio 1888 edition of
Shakespeare by means of photography.
A piece of ground was recently sold in
Chicago at a price which in silver would
cover the entire lot with three layers of
silver.
In one of the public schools in New
York City there are no pupils, all but
ten of whom are of foreign birth aud
language.
The vastness of Krupp's gun works at
Essen, Germany is indicated by the fact
that they consume nearly 20e0 tons of
coal and coke DAY.
A woman living in Jasper County,
Missouri, is reported TO have been made
deaf and dumb by lightning stroke,
during a recent storm.
A new-fangled electric light bath is
said to tan a mans face so we'll that his
friends will think he has passed many
weeks at the seayhore
A dog at Yardley, Penn, saw bass
in the river, and, leaping in, frightened
the fish so that it fed to the shore, where
it was grabbed by the dogs master.
A colored man who went to Germany
from Boston aud became naturalized
some time ago is nov on the roll Of
pensioners Of the State insurance for the
aged.
During divine service in church
at Westminster, Connecticut, steer
dashed against the green baize door, and
marched up the aisle with the door on
his horns.
The laughing jackass, when warning
his feathered mates that daybreak is at
hand, utters a cry resembling a group Of
boys shouting, whooping and laughing
in a wild chorus.
Blockman, the murderer who was ex-
ecuted at Greensboro, N. g., the other
day, was hanged with the rope that
ended the life of one of the Chicago an
archists on the scatfold
The natural confguration of many
mountains suggests the human face, and
such physiognomies cut out of the rocks
on gigantic scale are commonly re-
garded by savages as objects of worship.
Masks are of very ancient origin. In
a tomb 5000 years old at Mycene,
Greece, DR.. Schiemann found two bod.
les with faces covered with masks of
gold. One of the masks represented the
head of lion.
A day or two ago what is said to have
been the largest fruit train that ever left
California for the East pulled out of
Sacramento. 1t consisted of twenty
seven cars, and these were loaded with
peaches, plums, apricots, apples, etc.
Tbs sisal grass of Yucatan is one of
the most remarkable vegetable products
known. 1t grows in long blades, some
times to the length of four or five feet,
and, when dry, the blade curls up from
side to side, making a cord which is
stronger than any lotion string of equal
size that has ever been manufactured.
In the middle ages every family who
could afford the luxury kept a dwarf,
whose principal duties were to look as
ugly as possible and to receive with equal
manifestations of gratitude the chidings
of his mistress and the kicks of her
guests. No royal court was considered
complete without dwarf, who, as a
court jester, amused by his wit, or, more
commonly, served as Il butt for the wit
of others.