Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-17
CURIOUS FACTS.
liable shoes for men are now made

n4uable shoes for men are now made
of pig-skin.
The Worlds Fair has two miles of
lunch counters.
In 1892 $500, 900 persons in this
country had life insurance policies.
A free library, to cost million dol
lars, is to be established in Philadel-
phia.
Eighteen hundred young women
graduated at the Boston cooking schools
last year.
The roofs OF Egyptian temples are
composed of huge blocks of stone laid
from column TO column.
The Chinese, japanese, Malays, ST.
amese, New Zealanders and North
American In 1ians are beardless.
A ship recently cleared at Liverpool
which was built in 1886, but which
Lloyds declared to be perfectly sound.
The first bridgebuilder was tho
spider, and the ropes and stays of a
spiders web are always attached with
geometrical accuracy.
Some Partisan shopkeepers attract
spectators TO their windows by emit
ting delightfully."- scented warm air from
openings at the base of the window
frames.
Fill glass to the brim with water,
and you may add to it spirit of wine
without causing the water to overflow,
as the spirit will enter into the pores
of the water.
Most of the transportation in HAY
ana, Cuba. is furnished by little horses
hitched to a victoria. There are 5000
OF those rigs in that city, and but one
horse car line.
During the recent cyclone an old
barn on the plantation of Mr.. johnson,
near Quitman, Ala, was blown apart,
but several hundred bushels of field
peas that were @pon the floor remained
undisturbed
Forney Melhorn, of Smithfeld to. n-
ship, Jefferson County, Ohio, sixty-five
years old, has finished blowing thirty
acres of land, using team of horses,
each of which is thirty years old. Man
and horses finished fresh.
Guttapercha was first introduced in.
to Europe from Malaga in 1912. The
annual consumption now amounts to
1000, 900 pounds, and the East Indian
trees which supply the demand are
diminishing at an alarming rate.
A farmer who lives near Angle. N.
c., hes been married for nearly twenty
five years and has wife and eight chill
dren. He claims that there has never
been death in his family nor the need
of physician for any member of his
family.
The Luchsberg is a singular freak OF
nature in the shape of disintegrated
and phosphorescent mountain, near Al
exandersbad, Germany. Its glowing
appearance IS due to the peculiar com
position of rocks of which it is formed
and the effect of sunlight on them
John Morgan, farmer of Parksville,
Edgefeld County, s. c., has greatly
interested his neighbors by alternating
rows of cotton with rows of speckled
peas. He expects to have crop OF
each, and to improve his land with the
pea hulls, which are rich in ammonia,
making a good manure.
An ingot OF gold weighing q ounces
and worth about $50 is made by tho
gold heaters into sheets so fine that it
would take AZ, 600 to measure an inch
in height By the labor of beating the
gold acquires value of $l00, making
over 26, 900 sheets of gold foil Or golG
leaf, as it is usually called.
A piece of genuine japanese lacquer
costs the native artist almost a lifetime
to perfect, and is produced by hun
dreds of thin coats of lacquer laid on
at considerable intervals of time, the
value consisting rather in the labor
bestowed than in the quality of the
material used. First-class lacquer
work can scarcely be scratched by
needle