Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-05-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Brief Notes of News Gathered FrOuI
Here and There.

The oldest violin in the world was
found In an Egyptian tomb, dating
about 5000 b. G.
Ex-Secretary William C. Whitney
and his family will pass the summer
at Beverly, Mass.
A convict in the Vermont State
Prison received SI2, 900 for a piece Of
real estate a few days ago.
Prof. J. T. Crozart, formerly prin-
cipal of the National Business College
at Roanoke, died at Ravenswcod on
Sunday.
1t is an open secret that Mrs. JEFF
ferson Davis, who is nov living in
New York, is not in comfortable cir
cumstances.
Secretary Herbert, it is said, often
remains at the navy department, en-
gagged actively in official duties, as
late as : o'clock in the evening.
Three hundred convicts in the Ohio
State prison who had eaten too much
bacon and beans, got under the i'm
preston that they had the cholera
and alarmed the town.
For the accommodation of visitors
at the Worlds Fair, at Chicago, there
is hotel which contains 5000 rooms,
and the buildings covers over ten
acres of ground.
The wife of Professor Koch, the
celebrated bacteriologist, recently
procured divorce from her husband,
and the professor has now been or
dered by the court TO pay to her one
fourth of his income.
The World Press Congress will meet
in Chicago on the 22d instant, and
with it will be held an adjourned
meeting of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association. In the pro
gramme is a visit to the fair in tally
no coaches on the 23d.
Mrs. Nancy Christy, the oldest citi-
zen of Harrisburg. Pa, last week eel
ebrattd her one hundred and first
birthday. She is living refutatiOn
TO the statement that smoking is in
furious to all, having enjoyed her
pipe OF tobacco regularly since girl
hood.
\ Florida hunter lost his boots in
novel manner recently. lie fell
asleep on II river bank, placing his
boots within convenient reach. He
was awakened by strange noise,
and to his horror he beheld his lost
boots disappearing down an alIiga-
tors jaws.
There died i'm Mexico lately miser
who had tattooed his will over his
chest Instead of using pen and ink.
The court dccreed that the human
document should be copied ana duly
uttested in the presence OF witnesses.
This was done and the court has pro
nounced the will genuine.
An underground passage of lare
beauty and wonderful adaptation TO
use has been discovered near the Nat
ural Bridge, Va. BY it one may en-
ter at the side of Cedar creek and
come out in the plains above. Steps
and lights are being put in, and it
will be formally opened as The lsa-
bella Stairway.
Returns of Chinese registration
from 30 out of the G3 internal revenue
districts in the United States show
that 3,lGJ Chinese have complied
with the law. The districts most
dense'y populated by Chinese have
not yet made their returns. 1t is es-
timuted that there are 10, 900 Chinese
in the United States.
Warren G.. Butterworth, aged 20
years, of Warren, Mass, committed
suicide last week by shooting himself
through the head with riff. His
daughter Emma, aged % years who
was trying to prevent her father
from killing himself, received the
bullet in her brain after it had passed
through her fathers head, and she
died shortly afterwards.
The two-year-old son of Mrs. Susan
McElhron, of West Philadelphia, Pa,
was dangerously hurt last week by a
big gamecock belonging to II neigh
Dor The cock knocked the child
down and drove its spurs into the
little ones face repeatedly. y neigh
Dor rescued the baby, but himself
had to fight off the cock. The child
was dangerously hurt, and if it re
covers will have badly Scared face.
Near San Francisco, Cal, recently
the remains Of mastodou were
found by wOrkmen whOare tunnclimg
about 100 feet below the surface of
Indian Ill., Several large and we'll
preserved teeth giving undoubtabIe
evidence that they are the remains of
u mastodJn, were brought to light
and parts of jawbone one foot long
and weighing many pounds have
been unenrthed. The workmen have
4 e OIL
tinct animals.
For many years doctors and by
gipuists have had much to say on the
subject of food just before bedtime.
\ number Of intelligent persons have
eXperimented in this line. and have
satisfied themselves and their imuc
date associates that there is good
deal of nonsense in this kind of talk.
All brain workers, especially find that
if they 20 TO bed in any degree hun
gry it often means u sleepless night
and "a weary, dragged out feeling
next morning fortunate indeed are
they if they escape II headache.
In a divorce suit filed al Warren.
O., last week, by Mrs Pardee. of !
Hartford, against her husband, ask
INK for alimony aud relief, she al |
firm. that in the 81 years OF their
married life Mr. Pardee never per
United her to attend any church or
religious services nor to enter a store. !
or 10 attend her fathers funeral, /
making her practically Il prisoner in /
her own home She says ne refused !.
to provide her medical aid when |
needed and adds that he has "A llOW-d |
her but one bonnet since her mar
riaEe.
Two weeks ago Eli Rhoads, of |
Mount Wolf. York county, Pa. aged |
sixty-eight years, was walking on the |
Northern Central railway track, near
his home, when he was struck by /
train No. 10 and instantly killed. |
Thursday William Rhoads. q man OF /
mature years and a brother OF Eli, ,
was walking on the track. When he |
reached the exact spot where his !
brother had met death. the fatal train