The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-06-01
SELECT SIFTINGS,

AAonIel neAUlons lochs ana Keys.
The African King Prester John never
had an existence.
One of the small hamlets on Cripple
Creek, Col, is very appropriately
called "Crutches.
The horseshoeing smith first ap.
peared in Germany, where iron shoes
were first used for horses.
The Book of Job, written about 1920
B. c., describes very accurately sew.
eral processes of smelling metals.
In the British Museum, London, &C.
cording to the catalogue just issued,
there are 200 complete, Bibles in all
languages.
An Indian named Kimotah, who
lives at Fort Smith, Ark, has a horse
that is within fraction of nineteen
hands high.
The best pearls are perfectly round,
the next best are pear-shaped, and
egg-shGped ones are considered the
most inferior.
One part of Lake Ronkonkoma,
Long Island, has never been fathomed,
Two hundred feet Of line have failed
to find bottom.
Dion, France, has a poplar tree
with record that can be traced to
722 4. D. 1t is 100 feet high and
forty-iye feet in circumference at the
base.
Mr.. Niger, living on a farm near
Auburn, Texas, has natural curiosity
"A three-legged calf one month old,
which goes around as we'll as If the
right shoulder and leg had been de-
veloped.'
Coin collectors regard the collect
ing of old Greek coins as their most
formidable task, not because of their
rarity, but because fully 1000 indie
pendent cities had a distinctive series
of coins.
A Kansas tramp offered to work fol-
his board and clothes on q farm, made
love to the farmers old maid sister
consented to marry her if she would
have all her ugly teeth pulled out and
ran away after she had done SO.
The Turtle Boy" popular dime
museum freak, has announced thai
hereafter he will be known as the
"Human Terrapin, They's d swells
oh all d turtles, " he says, San d name
sounds more 'ristocratic dan d '"Iur
tie Boy"
Charles Good, a veteran of the
Mexican War, of Plattville, Wis, cele
brated his Tooth birthday anniversary
few days ago. He is as clipper as {
school boy. One ofhis guests was hi
younger brother" from Missouri
who is only ninety-siX.
In Seoul, Korea, men are forbidden
to be on the streets later than eigh
b o'clock in the evening. When tn
curfew sounds the city gates ar
closed, men must withdraw from sight
and women are free to roam about I'm
til one o'clock in the morning.
John Boyd Thatcher has in hi
possession the only copy of the st
Gaudens medal which was declared i'm
moral by Congress and for which an
! other design is likely to be substituted
The piece of bronze is very hand
some thing and 100 years hence will b
priceless.
Herr Herman Stollerwitz, o
: Bremen, was noted for the depth an(
volume of his basso-profundo voice
Two weeks ago it suddenly broke ant
: changed to a high soprano. Herr
: Stollerwitz is very much chagrined
He is fifty years old and wears lon
gray whiskers.
: In the shops of the New York deal
g ers in wax figures for BARRIERS, millin
S ers or other trades there can be see
e beautifully modelled arms and hands G
e wood on which to display ladie
{ gloves The wrists, fingers an
+. thumbs are jointed where they are
+ nature and almost any pose of I'll
D hand can be secured.
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