Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-12-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


House, says the Baltimore Sunday
News, is a strong man of no mean
showing. He exhibited last night at
Mechanics Hall and astonished a large
audience with his feats of strength. He
breaks good-sized chains with his teeth
on his biceps and around the chest. He
breaks stones with his fist and drives
spikes into two-inch board in the
same manner. Two of his greatest feats
are the tearing of two packs of cards
and the lifting of 500 pound keg with
his middle finger. Hart was born in
New York city 26 years ago, and atan
early age moved to Wisconsin, where
he engaged in numbering in the forests,
from which he doubtless derived much
of his strength.
The friends of Col. VIM. P. Craig
hill, Corps OF Engineers United States
Army are becoming interested in the
action of President Cleveland upon
the retirement of General Casey, the
head of the corps, which retirement
will take place next April under the
age limit. Col. Geo. H. Mendell, who
will retire six months after General
Casey is the second ranking officer
This would cause Col. Craighill, to
become head of the engineer corps
within year but there is talk of the
President being asked to appoint him
to succeed General Casey. This would
give Col. Craighill the rank Of brig
adler General.
The whipping post is coming into
use again. Delaware has for some
time maintained these institutions and
now in parts of Maryland $50 many
lashes" are the penalty for wife beat
ing. Iii most effective punishment
and it is safe to say that no wife will
ever receive a second beating from a
husband who has been punished with
the lash. There are many petty Of
lenses against the law which would be
far less numerous were the whipping
post the punishment.
The largest pillow in the world, per-
haps, is owned by Richard Grid, of San
Bernardino county, California. This
immense sod turner stands eighteen
feet high and weighs $4,000 pounds.
1t runs by steam, and is provided with
twelve 12-inch pillow shares, and is
capable of blowing fifty acres of land
per day. 1t consumes from one to one
and a half tons of coal per day, and
usually travels at the rate of four miles
an hour.
There is mining camp called Bach
elor's Rest about sixty miles north of
Tucson, Ari., and the population now
numbers upward of eight hundred.
There IS not a woman nor a cat in the
camp, and two hundred men have adj
vertised for wives in Tucson paper
They must be Of good character and
understand the duties of household.
The richest miner offers a dowry of
$4,000.
A vibrating helmet for the cure Of
nervous headaches has been invented
by a French physician. 1t is con-
structed of strips Of steel, put in vibra-
ton by small electro-motor, which
makes 600 turns minute. The sem
sation, which is described as not I'M
pleasant, produces drOwsiness; the pa
tient falls asleep under its influence
and awakes to find that the pain has
ceased.
A hunter says curious aboutthing
a rabbit is it always faces the sun,
turning around slowly all day in order
to do so. In hunting them in field
this fact should be kept in mind and
the ground gone over by the hunter
with his back to the sun. He can then
see the eyes of the rabbits in the bushes
and they will glitter like big diamonds
in the sunlight
The editor Of Georgia weekly Of
fered a sewing machine as premium
for new subscribers. An old bachelor
won it and then advertised in the pa
per for a wife to manipulate it. lie
was a married man in less than SIX
days. Anyone can see the moral OF