Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-03-08
Curious Facts.

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In the Far West girl who works
in railroad restaurant is known as a
biscuit shooter"
A Chinese missionary states that
seventh-tenths of the natives of China
are opium smokers.
Mrs. Mary Burgess died in Valley
View, Ky, Thursday night in terrible
agony from swallowing small snake
Louis Cyr, "the modern Samson, )"
can lift 484 pounds with one finger.
He also holds l02-pound dumb-bell
at arms length with perfect ease.
Workmen boring for an artesian
well in Louisiana struck maple log
in a sound state of preservation at
depth of $40 feet below the earth's
surface.
What is believed to have been the
largest mule ever reared in America
was sold in Kansas City in 1888. 1t
was 49, hands high and weighed 1878
pounds.
The latest trick to catch the patron
age of the public, adopted by several
shop-keepers in New York and Brook
lyn, is to run free stages or give free
car tickets to shoppers.
Down in Mexico an old man named
Brown makes living by peddling
cofins on mule cart. Collins are
bought from him by families at dis
lance from town and stored away for
possible use
Wee Hung Pen, a Chinaman who
left Arizona a year ago with his pretty
American wife, after losing fortune,
is now reported from Africa as having
a good claim in the Matabele country
that will more than replace his van
ished million.
The German national flower is the
humble blue bottle or corn flower, and
when the German Emperor goes among
his people in summer, and when he
has come over to Cowes, the faithful
and patriotic blue-eyed Teuton sports
his blue bottle.
An invitation to dinner in Japan
commences as follows 81 beg pardon
for thus insulting you, in begging your
company at my house to dinner. The
house is small and very dirty. Our
habits are rude, and you may not get
anything to eat; and yet | hope that
you will condescend to be present with
us at o'clock
A curious bridge is found on the
Canadian Pacific Railway. Here a
tremendous chasm had to be crossed,
and the best way that could be seen
of surrounding the difficulty was by
resting the bridge on two trees which
We're growing in the abyss below The
tops of the trees reach the ground
above, and the bridge rests upon
them
The belief in Chinese Columbus
was first allowed by scholars only
about fifty years ago The claim is
that Buddhist priest in the fifth CEN
tury crossed the Pacific to this CONT
nent and returned, making a written
report of his discovery. The report
still exists. 1t was translated into
French in 1871 by NJ. de Guignes.
The Presidents salary is $4,000 a
year and the Vice-President's is
$4,000. The Chief Justice of the U.
S. Supreme Court gets $4,000 year,
and the eight Associate Justices
$4,000 The United States Senate is
composed of Lightweight members,
salary $4,000 each and mileage. The
Vice President of the United States is
the President of the Senate. The
House of Representatives. is composed
of $3.50 members, salary, $4,000 each
and mileage The speaker gets $4,000
year
A very singular case is that of
young man living near Black River
Falls, Wis, named Chandler. For
years his mouth has shown tendency
to grow up. Four years ago it became
so small it was feared he would starve
and fund was raised by neighbors,
and he was sent to Chicago, where the
mouth was cut to the natural size and
pieces Of flesh grated into the corners,
thus hoping to prevent the closing
This has been overcome, and his mouth
is rapidly growing up again; the open
ing at present is not much larger than
an ordinary goose quill, through
which he takes all his nourishment
1t is thought that he must eventually
starve to death, as there seems no way
of preventing the complete closing of
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