The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-16
OUT OF rnH WAY FACTS


The inhabitants of Zap Island, In the
Pacific, have pink hair.
After paying all expenses in the San
Francisco Midwinter Fair surplus OF
$32 600 is left.
There is a man in Knox county, Ne
braska, named Wart, and one in Norfolks
county named Barnacle.
The smallest church edifice in the world
is at the mouth Of the Saginaw river. Its
capacity is IS persons.
Queen Victories will. written on vel
lum and neatly bound, IS enclosed IN
casket secured by Chubb lock.
The United States has about forty YES
sells engaged in whaling-the remnant OF
fleet that once numbered 500 vessels.
The colored congregation OF Shelbina:.
Me-, church has given notice that II Will
prosecute any person running horses,
drinking liquor using cuss words.
Mrs. Nicewinter is a poor woman living
In Cedar county. Missouri, whose neigh
bors made her name more appropriate Dy
chopping her year s firewood recently.
A few DAYS ago a Warren, o.. man
dreamed he would shortly meet with .
violent death. Within twenty-four hours
he was run over killed by a locomotive.
In Salisbury. England. on one occasion
a huge column OF gnats swarming around
the cathedral spires 81 resembled smoke
as to raise serious alarm that the edifice
was on fire.
tree climber in the person OF William
Long, 66 years old, who, seeing coon
running up to the top OF 60-foot tree, ran
up after him.
The hay barges on the Swiss lakes rowed
by women standing, and the small sail
boats with tall brown sails stading very
high to catch tickle winds, are among the
most picturesque of craft. -,
John Nogard, a Bradford, Pa, lumber
man, went hunting rabbits with shot
gun and cornered 425-pound bear. It
was fight or climb, and Nogard man.
aged to shoot straight, killing Bruin at
the first shot.
According to the latest report of the
New York Superintendent of Education.
DR.. Alexander Carolius Curtius was the
first Latin teacher of New York City. He
for a salary of $3.50 year.
Lansing, Mich, has a matrimonial
club, whose members at intervals choose
one of their mum Der, whose duty it 10 to
get married within a year. The club
claims that in every instance the chosen
one carried out his orders faithfully.
There is common belief in India that
the Indian oriole lights his hanging nest
with frehies. 1t is said that the bird
catches the insect and fastens them head
first in bit OF moist clay. Naturalists
have found the insects thus imprisoned.
The peacock's spreading train is not the
birds tail. but corona of feathers above
the tail. The true tail consists OF eigh-
teen feathers beneath the corona. The
latter is provided with curious system
of muscles by which it can be erected at
will.
Plans have been submitted and bids
will soon be advertised for the Cullun
building at West Point, to cost $500, 00e.
This is the structure provided for in the
will of the late General George W. Cullum
and will be used as a receptacle of mil
tary statues, busts, tablets. paintings,
trophies, etc. The Alumni Association
of the. academy will also hold its meetings
there.
Colonel W. Seward webb's uniform as
abide camp on the staff Of Governor
Woodbury., of Vermont, is said to eclipse
anything ever attempted by the most COR
geous warrior in the most gilded of SaI aeon
glory. The clothes alone cost $3.50. ne
braid on the dress parade coat is of gold.
and the lace which festoons the outer
garment came directly from Paris. Colo
diamond in the hilt, and cost a ccol
$500.
In matrimonial affairs the experience
of others counts for little. A girl in Kan
sas, on receiving an offer OF marriage, de-
termined to visit her four married sisters
before giving an answer. She found one.
formerly belle. who did all her own
work, with three children to keep her in
the house; another was supp rting her
life was her own. and the fourth was d..
vorced. She went home and told the
young man she would be ready for the
ceremony in month.