Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-08-23
Interesting Items.


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An ordinary piano contains a mile
of wire,
japanese children are taught to
write with both hands
An Easton PENN girl drops asleep
whenever she gets in the brilliant sun
light
At Corunna, Spain, is the oldest
lighthouse in the world. 1t was built
nearly eighteen hundred years ago,
The book Of Job, written about
1920 B. C., describes very accurately
several processes of smelling metals.
\ man in Bethlehem, Penn, was
too poor to buy grave for his dead
child. 50 he stole INTO the cemetery,
dug the grave, buried the infant and
was arrested.
The expressions "lIallelulah and
amen are said to have been nitro
duced into Christian worship by st.
jerome. some time about the year \.
D. $50.
There are more ducks in China,
and more are eaten, than IN all the
rest of the world. At some OF tn"
duck farms in that country 10000
are annually hatchcd,
In times Of necessity the South Am
can natives sometimes rob the nests
of the termltcs, and as much AS five
bushe. OF grain have been taken from
single nest
\ gold-wcighing machine IN tn"
Bank of England is SO sensitive thata
postage stamp dropped on TIA" scale
will turn the index on the dial dis
tance of six iuchc.
Arthur Wooisou, aged fourteen,
lives in Browusboro Ill., His hair
began falling ont when he was twelve
years DID, and now he isas bald.hcad-
cd as man of seventy.
A Liberty (Me.) man has twelve
years growth of beard, which Is be-
tween six and seven feet IN length.
He wears 1t plated in apIgiall rc.cm-
| bling Chuaman- cue
James Gobo, of Elk, Corners, State
of Washington, met with singular
accident. His whskcrs are so long
that he sometimes trcads on them.
| This be did on the DAY Of the accident.
1t caused him to pltca forward and
| tall on his nose, which wa- broken at
the bridge.
The difference between rising every
morning at six and eight IN the course
of forty years amounts to 29,2OO
hours, or three years, l2l days and
sixteen hours which are equalto eight
hours a day for nearly ten years, 80
that rising at SIX will do the same az
| if ten years Of life were added.
Berlin claims the record for quick
ness in turning out the fire brigade.
| At a test the other day the company
tested was out Of quarters, fully
equipped for the fire, twenty-five Sec
onds after the alarm was turned m.
/ Amsterdam has hitherto claimed to
| hold the record on twenty-six seconds.
The great artesian well at Passy,
one Of the suburbs Of Paris, flows
steadily at the rate Of 100000 gal
Ions a day.
4 caterpillar in the course Of
month will deyour G,000 times It's own
weight in food. It will take a man
three months 10 eat an amount Of food
equal to his own weight
In the manufactures Of Great Brit.
ain alone the power which steam ex-
erts il estimated % be equal to the
manual labor Of 4,000,000Y0O0 ofmen,
or more than double the number Of
males supposed to inhabit the globe.
Plants often exhibit something very
much like intelligence. II bucket
Of water during a dry season be placed
a few inches from growing pumpkin
or melon vine the latter will turn from
its course, and in a day or two will
get one Of its leaves in the water.
The latest thing out IL pulseome-
ter, by which the life insurance exam
iners can tell to fraction the exact
condition Of an applicants heart beat.
An electric pen traces on prepared
paper the ongoings, haltings, and per-
CARNATIONS Of the blood, showing with
the fidelity Of science the strength or
weakness Of the telItale pulse.
a Danish chemist has invented a
new agent Of destruction which reyo-
lutionizes entirely the present modes