Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-09
CURIOUS FACTS.
Africa has seven hundred languages.

Africa has seven hundred languages.
Consuls were first appointed in 14s5.
New Mexico has messenger boy
named Gallop.
November was the ninth month of tho
year at one time.
The man who sowed the first field oil
potatoes in Scotland died in 1850.
Only one couple in 1880 live to
celebrate their diamond wedding.
The feeding expenses Of tine London
(Euglanl) Geological Gardsu are 500
week.
The tusks OF an ordinary elephant
weigh about 100 pounds, and are worth
$500.
George " of England left as part oil
his estate 800 whips aud 500 pocket
books.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday are
the lucky days for marriages in Engllnd
aud Scotland.
Ali the correspondence from tho Vlti-
can at Rome concerning churel matters
is carried on iu Latin.
The dogs in the Unite States nun.
Der 10000, 900, and it costs $500, 00]
per aunum to keep them.
Potatoes were Introduce into Ger
many in 17l0, into Russia in 1863, and
into Scotland some years later.
The bee can draw twenty times its
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an hour and will seek food at distance
of four miles.
Washington died shortly after / 1 T. ",
Saturday, December II, 1872, the last
year of the century, the last month of
the year, the last day of the week, and
within the last hour of the day.
The Imperial University at Toxic,
Japan, is probably the largest in ths
word, having az enrolment of two thou
sand scholars and faculty of forty
members. 1t is uuder Government
control.
An English tramp, arrested and brought
before the Justice of the Petworth Police
Court for the crime of damaging SONS
cut clover by sleeping on it," was fine
by the justice, with tue alternative OF
going to Jail for eight days,
"The Petition of Right" was cele
brated English statute passed early il
the reign of Charles I. of England fol
the purpose of restraining an limiting
the acts and prerogatives of the Crown
and securing the personal ane civil libor-
ties of the subject.
Londoners arc very much interested in
the discovery that the original home oil
cashmere shawls is not Cashmere, but
Germany. Large quantities of German.
made shawls are taken to India with
limitations of Cashmere marks on taem
and sent into the interior an1 sold as
native products.
Nevada is part of the territory ceded
to the United States BY Mesic) by the
Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, February
2, 1913. 1t was at first plrt of Cali
fornia Territory, aud was subsequently
attached to Utah. 1t was constituted a
Territory in March, 1861, with some.
what smaller boundaries than at present.
DIR. Williams, a London physician,
has a complete copy of the Bible written
in shorthand characters. I ere are
many curious copies OF th3 Holy Writ in
in various collections, but it is doubtful
if there is anything in the worll that viii
compare with the Doctors unique work
A Rcent traveller il Morocco says thai
for people who dress IN white aud love
to be very neat in their personal appear
ance the Moroccans are very indifferent
to the cleanliness of their towns.
Around the most beautifully furnished
houses are heaps of refuse and the DO lies
of dead animals All the care of til J
people is centered upon the interior OF
their houses. They fun 81 them al
extensively as their means permit, bu,
what is outside of their walls does moi
trouble them.