Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-08
CURIOUS FACTS.
,lichigan man has a dove farm.

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A horse sometimes sheds real tears Of
anguish.
The first workman who made pens got
81 apiece for them.
Pittsburg. Penn, is known in Europe
as the City of Bridges.
In small towns in Germany only Chin
ney sweeps wear plug hats.
A wild bear wandered into the streets
of Wilbur, Washington, the other day,
and was shot for his temerity.
Female (ish of all species are consider
ably more numerous than males, with two
exceptions, the angler and the catfish.
A Guatemalan mother gives her con-
sent to her daughters marriage by be-
laboring the young lady with heavy
stick.
The greatest number of people ever
killed by an earthquake was 19J, 900, in
the year 1908, at Yeddo, Japan, aud
vicinity.
The Dundee (Scotland) Courier tells Of
white leghorn hen laying an egg two
and half inches in diameter and weigh
ing over four and half ounces.
General Johu Sewer was Governor of
the State of Franklin, the name first
given to Tennessee. He died near Fort
Decatur, Ga, September "a, 1915.
At a.Rich Hill (Mo) "sociel" the
other day prizes we're offered to the young
man who could thread needle in the
shortest time and to the woman who
could drive the straightest nail.
The first locomotive ever seen in Bang
kok. Siam, was recently started on the
Korat railway. The native population
took immense interest in the trial run
over the half mile of railway now laid.
The safest lake in the world is Lake
Uruma, in Persia, situated more than
1000 feet above the level of the sea. 1t
contains twenty-five per cent. of salt, as
against S.5 per cent. in the Dead Sea.
Ill the sultors for girls hand in
Borneo are expected to be generous in
their presents to her. These presents
are never returned. Therefore the artful
female long defers positive selection OF
tue udppy mau'
Clara Edwards, resident of Stewart
County, Georgia, owns a hen which she
claims has laid two eggs about the size
of turkey eggs every day for the past
four years. She also asserts that every
egg contains two yolks.
Alexander Kennedy, Blount County
(Tennessee) mar, resides in the house
in which he was born, ninety-two years
ago. lie is the father of twenty-six
children, all of whom grew up to matur.
ity, and eighteen of whom are now
alive.
The halcyon days are the seven days
before and the seven days after the
shortest dag The halcyon or kingfsher,
is supposed to be breeding at this time,
for which reason the sea, for this fort
night, very considerably preserves per-
feet calm.
In the Isle of Man it was formerly the
law that to take away an OK or horse
was not felony, but trespass, because
of the difficulty in that little territory of
concealing or carrying them off; but to
steal pig or fowl, which is easily done,
was capital crime.
The expression "Vox populi vox Dei''
the voice of the people is the voice of
God was used in the writings of Will
lam of NJ llmesbury, who was born A.
d. 1913 or 1895, aud died about l142.
He quoted the expression as a proverb
even IN his time sufficiently well known.
A wainscoting extends from the choir
lott of the First Baptist Church, New
buryport, Mass, to the opposite end of
the church, just over the pulpit. The
ticking of a watch placed on the wains-
coting, at either end, can be distinctly
heard at the other extremity of the
church.
A battalion of infantry carries $50
picks, $50 shovels, ten spades, twenty
i've axes, fl ty billhooks aud four crow
bars. An engineer company has 130
picks, 130 shoves, six spades, eighty-one
axes, thirteen handsaws, four cross-cut
saws, forty billhooGs, thirteen croTbars
aa1 TWO heavy hammers.