Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-22
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CURIOUS FACTS.
Flour is $50 ton IN New Zealand.
W. n;nad 10 600 600 barrels of salt

Flour is $50 ton In New Zealand.
We mined 10, 900, 900 barrels of salt
in 1891.
Wales has church for every $50
Welshmen.
There are seventy-two places called
ST. Etienne in France.
Asa rule, the length Of the face is the
same as the length of the hand.
NJ. Deibler, the executioner of Paris,
has disposed of 220 of his fellow beings.
In ordinary English writing 81 only
occurs twenty two times while sc" &C.
ours thousand.
Two little islands, Zanzibar and
Pemba, furnish four-6fths Of the cloves
consumed by tho world.
Connecticut, spelled in an Indian dia
lect, "Quin -nch-tuk gut, signified
'tland on long tidal river"
N. Garvin, Camden, claims to have
The tallest sunfioweI stalk in New Jersey.
1t is more than eleven feet in height.
There is a ten. year-old boy in Spring
ield, Mo-, who weighs $50 pounds, and
aas two extra fingers and two extra
toes.
A psychologist has learned f,om a
ltage magician that most persons, when
.sked to take number less than ten hit
IN seven.
1t was not until the Council of Trent,
IN 1929, that the Intervention of priest
was deemed, in Europe, indispensable to
marriage.
In Sitks, Alaska, when an Indian wife
has lost her husband by death, she goes
into mourning by;painting the upper half
of her face deep black.
A hundred years ago William MUIR
doch illuminated his home with gas
made in an iron kettle, and burnt at the
end of an open iron tube"
A pair of gloves passes through about
200 hands from the moment that the
skin leaves the dressers until the gloves
are purchased by the intending wearer.
The organist at Cardiff church found
several of the notes soundless. An ex-
animation revealed the fact that six
birds, including a robin, had built their
nests in the pipes.
The only cavalry officer of Southern
birth in the Union Army was Colonel B.
T. Davis, of the Eighth New York. He
was born in Mississippi and was killed at
Beverly Ford in June, 1868.
The English mathematician, Wallis,
could not only retain ID his mind a num-
Der composed of fifty-three figures, but
could extract therefrom the square root,
containing twenty seven figures, without
the aid of paper or pencil.
Bullets made of precious stones arc
rarities in wari are. But during the re
cent fighting on the Kashmir frontier,
when the Bri fish troops defeated the re-
bcllious Huuzas, the natives used bullets
of garnets, encased in lead. The British
preserved many as curiosities.
English-speaking countries have foui
different miles-the ordinary mile o.
$3.50 feet and the geographical or nauti-
cal mile OF 60S5 feet, making a differ.
ence of about one-seventh between the
two; then there is the Scotch mile of
1928 feet and the Irish mile OF 6720
feet.
DIR. Susan Janeway Coltman, Of Ger
mantown, Penn, owns unique collec-
ton of cats, which she values at $4,000.
There are twenty-five of her pets, and
among them are included Skye, Zanzi-
bar, and feather tailed Turkish cats,
tailless Manx pussies, white Maltese,
yellow Persian aud English tiger-cats.
Spain, as country, Is still terribly
backward in matters of sanitation, bu
it has progressed somewhat during the
last century and half. In the yeal
1850 the cleaning OF the streets of Mad
rid was actually forbidden, the physicians
of the city being of the opinion that the
filth was wholesome and the innovation
unnecessary.