The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-14
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Spanish theatres have no programmes.
Manchester, N. H., used to be called
Derrydeld.
There is hotel in New York nearly
a quarter Of milo long.
Girls over twelve can mako valid
wills under the laws Of Scotland.
1t would require 6S3 freight cars to
hold the gold and silver in the Bank Of
France.
In Monterey, Mexico, school has
been opened in which scholars are fed
free Of charge.
A Waldoboro (Me.) woman treasures
blue.edged plate upon which 955 pies
have been baked.
John Milton, according to Professor
David Mason, was editor of a London
newspaper in 1861.
The Egyptians employed carayatic
figures, afterwards called carayatides, at
least $500 years before Christ. =.
The old Greeks used beds supported
on iron frames, while the Egyptians mad
couches shaped rude like easy chairs,
with hollow backs aud seats.
A well.known resident Of Fredericks.
burg, Va, who has recently died, had
name that was old enough to attract
attention. 1t was x. x. Charters.
Street.ban are not permitted in
Germany, unless they accompany pro.
cessions. In Vienna, Austria, the organ
grinders are allowed to play only be-
tween midday aud sunset.
Ancient Greek temples were always
erected without roofs, SO that they
might be open te the sky. The largest
of them was that of Jupiter Olympus,
which was $40 feet long and sixty broad.
A colored miner at Knob Noster, Mo-,
fell eighty-iivo feet down shaft, strik.
ing on his head. The force of the con-
cussion broke his shoulder, but his head
sustained only scalp would.
The largest single span of wire In the
world is used for telegraph wire, aad
is stretched over the River Kistuah, be-
tween Bczorah aud Sectanagrum, India.
1t is over 5000 feet long, and is stretched
from the top Of one mountain to another.
Miss Mary Winston, who died at
Downey, CAL, ono day lately, had been
a sufferer from spinal and nervous dis.
case since 1889. She had not been able
to walk for the past fifty.one years and
since 1871 she had been confined to her
bed. =: .srs-
A firm on Maiden Lane, in New York
City, received this telegram: GA mos
quito ill, Mrs. A. B." This puzzled
them until read in the light OF the ab.
sccncc OF clerk. The telegram was chen
guessed to be "Amos quite ILL.," Whether
the operator was stupid or funny was the
query.
A Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake
City, Utah, is the most perfect whisper.
ing gallery in the world. 1t beats the
domes of st. Paul's and the Washington
Capitol. The dropping of a pin into a
plug hat at one end Of the huge struc-
tore is distinctly heard by persons at the
other end.
A discussion concerning tho longest
words used in tho Eng glish language has
recalled to one of the participants tina,
"disestablishmentarlanism" was used by
many English and Irish newspapers at
the time of tho discstablishment Of the
Irish Church, about 1871, and found It's
way into the House OF Commons.
A traveller who has been down among
the mountaineers of Tennessee says that
their usual formula of greeting and in
terest on meeting stranger is "Howdy,"
and after the stranger has returned this
salutatiou, whats your names" This
exhibition Of curiosity is perfectly frank
and no disrespect is intended by it.
When Chinese Emperor dies. this 10.
telligence is announced by dispatches ia
the several provinces, written with blue
ink, the mourning color. All persons ol
rank arc required to take red silk orna-
ments from their caps with the ball OF
button Of rank; all subjects Of China,
without exception, are called upon to
forbear shaving their heads for 100 days,
within which period none may marry,
play upon musical instruments or per
form any sacrifice.