Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-11-05
CURIOUS FACTS.
FANS were first used IN China.

Fans were first used IN China.
The only fresh. water fish in the Canary
Islands is the eel.
A man in Los Galos, CAL, for ten
years has not tasted cooked food.
Several Cinnamon have proved them
selves successful farmers in Montana.
Two tons OF cells were caught at Will
Transport, Md, in one night recently.
A Chicago man has sued his doctor
for $50, 900 for breaking tue drum OF
bis car
In ordinary English writing ~ only
occurs twenty two times while re oo-
ours one thousand.
W. J. NJ. Barry, the Irish athlete,
threw the -pouad hammer 1871
feet in Manchester, England, the other
day.
Since football became popular in this
country there has been marked in
crease in the sale of arnica and sticking
plaster.
The silky little King Charles spaniel
is an expensive luxury, because puppies
a month old easily fetc So apiece, aud,
when half grown. 500.
The roundsnen in Orange, N. j., ride
on bicycles, and are thus enable to
pounee unheard upon policemen who
wander from their posts.
More than a fourth OF the gold and
more than a third of the silver produced
throughout the world in the year 1891
was mined in the United States.
A family in Walla Wala County,
Washington, consists OF ten members,
the average weight beng Pa pounds
and the average height six feet SIX inches.
A glass factory at Liverpool, England,
now has glass journal boxes for all of its
machinery, a glass floor, glass shingles
on the roof and smo&e-stacS los feet
high built wholly of glass bricks, each
a foot square.
No death has occurred in the family
of the Rev. Samuel Wakefield, of Latrobe,
Penn, in sixty-one years. He is in his
uiuety-fourth year; his wife few years
his junior; they were married in 1921,
and have ten children.
Bass, the ossifed man, hal morbid
fear OF the anatomist, and dreaded being
carved or chiseled BY them after death,
To avoid this he ordered that his re.
mains be placed in an ironclad, thief,
proof vault, so that they could not get
at him.
A remedy for liver complaint was
tried by weaver in Accrington, Eng
land. 1t was turpentine plaster, applied
over the stomach Having worn it
some tins, he lighted a match to examine
the plaster. The plaster took fire and
the man was burned to death
A strange sinecure in Paris, the place
of dentist of the Paris Opera House, has
just been filed by the election of the
lucky man from list of $50 appli-
cants. The salary attached to the posi-
ton is nominal, bat the number of appli-
cants shows how eagerly the place is
sought.
In a West Brighton (Coney Island)
band of twenty pieces that lourished
during the season Just passed, there were
seven dummies-neu who pretended to
be playing instruments, but merely held
them to their mouths Not one of them
knew a note of music from q Greek
character.
Seven acres of apricot orchard in
Tulare County, bringing their owner
return of 5000, and eight acres of pru1e
orchard in San BerDardino County, yield
ing twenty-five tons of fruit which
brought $50 ton, or more than $3.50
per acre, are mentioned in this years
early reports upon the California fruit
crop.
The District of Columbia was formed
out of Washington County, Maryland
and Alexandria County, Virginia, and
the National Government was removed
TO the capital in 1900. The Virginia
portion of the district was ceded back
in 1916. Citizens of the District of
Columbia have no vote for National
officers, and it is governed by Congress.
Some workmen were making some
alterations to the parish church of Long
Cawson, near Melton BIowbray, Eng
land, when they discovered large
quantity of honey. 1t is thought that a
large portion of the west end of the
church has been inhabited by bees for
more than twenty-five years, as during
the whole of that time they have been
seen in the vicinity, and not frequently
have been observed fitting about inside
the building during divine service.