Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-01-07

ent sracsry Is found on nearly .ll

Gilt tracery is found on nearly ell
glass.
OF all symbolic signs none Il so an
Gent ~ the BARRIERS pole.
A locomotive on the Reading road
has covered mile in thirty. seven sec
onds.
The Shah Of Persia will not remain at
table on which is either lobster or
salmon.
In Shakespeare's day there Was no
other scenery than tapestry haaglags
and curtains.
The frat woman on the English stage
was Mrs. Coleman as Tanthe, In the
ssSicgc Of Rhodes" 1856.
Three men named Brown, Jones and
Robinson are members of Queen Liiiu-
kolani's Hawaiian Cabinet.
John Wesley used the expression
ssCleanliness is indeed next to godli-
ness" in sermon on 'sDress."
The English clergy were at first very
bitter against the fork, one man de-
claring that its use was impious.
In the South Pacific Ocean is found
wonderful species of the seaweed called
the "vegetable boa constructor.
The people of many of the South Sea
Islands manufacture their entire suits
from the products of palm trees.
Archie Leroy, OF Boston, is seventeen
years old, but is only forty-two inches
ia height and weighs sixty pounds.
Within the last thirty years there have
been on the British coasts 66,277
wrecks, with the loss of %, Sl2 lives.
A recent experiment has proved that
carrier pigeons may be trusted to co.,
veys messages from ships several hundred
miles at sea.
The prosecuting attorney of Kslkaska
County, Michigan, was elected in 1885
by one majority, in 1887 by two aud in
1891 by four.
There are nine 110-ton guns IN the
British navy at present, aud every time
one Of them is fred $50 pounds of pow
der are used up.
A woman in Ohio has churn which
has been in her possession for fifty-fi
years and which has made more than
$40, 900 worth OF butter.
Mrs. Kate Flanagan, of Tamaqua,
Penn. no longer rocks her baby's
cradle. Her carpenter husband built
little windmill upon the house, aud it
furnishes power, easily conducted down
to the cradle, which takes tho place Of
the ''hand that rules the world"
While men were digging grave at
Industry, Ill.,, and when about four feet
below the surface they cane upon the
petri6ed body Of mao, Persons who
have examined il say that the features
are natural and the hair tho same as in
life. The body will probably be ex-
humed for scientific purposes.
Among The great men of the world
blue eyes have always predominated.
Socrates, Shakespeare, Locke, Bacon,
Milton, Goethe, Franklin, Napoleon aud
Renan all had blue eyes. The eyes OF
Bismarck, Gladstone, Huxley, Virchow
and Buchner are also OF this color, aud
all the Presidents of the United States
except General Harrison enjoyed tho
same cerulean color as to their optics.
George Washington was the Com.
msnder-in Chief of the Army at the ago
OF forty three; Cromwell entered on his
remarkable career at forty nine; Napo-
leon conquered Italy before he was
thirty; Gladstone was member of Par.
lament at twenty.three; Macauley be-
gan his literary career at twenty; Col.
unbus started on his voyage of dscov-
cry at thirty.six; Frederick the Great
began the thirty years war at the ags
of thirty, aud Blackstone finished his
commentaries before he was thirty five.