Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-11-11

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The population of London incrsa.
ses at the rate Of 200 souls day.
More people die in the spring than
in any Of the other seasons.
Flour made Of sweet potatoes is
one of the latest of culinary inven-
lions.
National grants in aid Of education
were first made in the United States
in 1903.
Sank Rapids, with population OF
100 souls, is without single drug
store.
The shortest names mentioned in
the Bible are All, Ar, Ed, Og, No,
o., So, Or and Uz.
An unfortunate mother in Hanui-
bal, Mo-. has two sons and daugh-
ter 10 the penitentiary.
A pear that weighs over thirty
ounces is on exhibition at drug
store in Atlanta, Ga.
A Missouri nan has patented a
velocipede which is worked by the
riders hands and arms.
The Episcopal diocese Of Vermont
is to have an EnglishmaD, Arthur
Hall, of Oxford, for bishop.
A widow has nearly broken up a
church at Binghamton, N. Y, be-
cause she rides bicycle.
An Oregon woman has just reeelv-
ed decree for 5000 10 a suit for
a breach of promise.
At the present rate OF incr, ase,
there will be 100000 people in
the United States in City years.
A New York thief has been arrest.
ed for stealing Catholic priests
clerical garb aud pawning it.
There is falling of in the mum
Der of children attending the public
schools in New York, this fall.
One Of the latest fads is The organ
ization of a postal card society for
che collection of postal cards.
A Methodist bishop ont west who
uses chapel car, speaks of it as tue
"Holy Roamin' church"
A writer in the London News says
that American tools arc far better
than those of European make.
There are at the present moment
eleven pretenders TO the various
thrones of Europe trying to make
good their claims.
Col. Gus. Leltwich, of the Miami,
Mo-, News, is the proud possessor OF
stalk of corn nineteen and one.
half feet high.
The young of the polype grow
from the body Of the parent like buds
and when almost grown are separa-
ted by a sudden jerk.
A Shawnee lad, who attended the
Indian school in Virginia as Tommy
Wild Cat, remains under the digni-
fed name of Thomas W. Gait.
An American living in France has
succeeded in making clock entirely
of paper, which will run two years
without wearing out.
The tartar on the human teeth
is filed with animalculae, which are
destroyed by vinegar. Vinegar it.
self contains eel-like insects.
A female queen ant is always at
tended by one or more servants 10
carry off her eggs, of which she lays
from 5000 to 10000 year.
In order TO furnish sport to ashoot-
ing party on his Moravian estate,
Baron Hirsch had 5000 cartridges
transported there in cages and liber-
ated.
A pretty charity, that of furnish
ing street car tickets to poor invsl-
ids for rides in the suburbs of the
city, is practiced successfully in Bos-
ton.
The honor Of christening the bat
tie ship Oregon, when she is launch.
ed in San Francisco, has been alIot-
ted to Miss Daisy Aiusworth, of Cal
ifornia,
A very sad death is that of Miss
Annie LOTUS, Of New York, who ex-
pired in the arms of her lover two
nights before her wedding day.
James R. Randall, of Georgia, au-
thor of"Maryland, Ny Maryland"
has been appointed to a position I'M
der the sergeant-at-arms of the SEN
ate.
In Liverpool there are technical
educational schools for teaching
cookery, laundry work, dress cut
ting and household sewing at two
pence per lesson.
1t is stated that pail of water
containing handful of hay, il plac-
ed in room where there has been
smoking, will absorb all the odor of
the tobacco.
See the Worlds Fair for I5c.