Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-08-15
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A watch ticks l6O,1II, 900 times a
year.
The summit of Mount Vesuvius
can now be reached by cable rail-
way.
The annual coffee crop of the
world amounts to 1000, 900, 600
pounds.
Two apples eaten uncooked at
each meal have been found to cure
dyspepsia.
The first steel rails made in this
country were made at Chicago in
May, 1865.
There are computed to be 800, 900
commercial travellers in the United
States.
Unless a man is first rich on the
inside no amount of money can give
him wealth.
The man who is living only for
himself couldn't be engaged in any
smaller business.
There is one thing every man can
give without decreasing his own
stock-happiness.
There are still $4,000 acres in
Missouri subject to entry under the
homestead act.
The first State as an oat producer
is Illinois, with 3,S7O,7O2 acres and
1877 1924, ,S2S bushels.
Prof. William j. Hussey will sue
ceed Prof. Barnard as astronomer at
the Lick observatory.
Happiness is an art, and we have
to learn how to be happy, Just as we
have to learn how to be good.
In early life Archbishop Kain, of
st. Louis, was missionary priest in
the mountains Of West Virginia.
The State of West Virginia en-
ploys more people in the mining of
coal than in any other business ex-
cept farming.
In lifetime of eighty years the
human heart beats three hundred
million times, an average of seventy
heats minute.
Emperor William was the guest
of the Officers of the United States
cruiser New York at dinner on board
that war vessel at Kiel.
Gasparin estimates that the evapo-
ration of water from the surface of
the earth is from 25 to so inches a
year, according to location.
The natives of Northern Alaska
and Siberia have no knowledge of
money, and tourists to that country
have to exchange the same into bar
ter goods.
Edison's great-grandfather lived
to the age Of l02. His grandfather
died at 1O3 and one of his aunts at
lOS, while his own father ia stilI
alive at ninety.
A human voice speaking in the
open air, when it is calm, can be
heard at distance of 46O feet; the
report Of a musket, 10000, and
heavy guns, AIS, 900 feet.
A statement prepared at the mint
bureau shows coinage during the
last fiscal year as follows: Gold,
S43, 1884, 475. Silver, S9,069, $780,
Minor coins, S712,564. Total, S53,-
1853.
The average expectation of life on
the principle of heredity may be
found, according to a statistician, by
adding the ages of a mans parents
and grandparents, if dead, and di-
viding the result by six.
Inv ALn-
letic Club, England, has accepted
Yale's counter-challenge for a series
of athletic games and asks for 800
yard dash instead of the 22O-yard
dash. Yale replies that everything
is satisfactory.
A Georgia Judge warned his peo-
pie in regard to coming into court
intoxicated, and used these words ::
" l wish to put everybody on notice
that If they come into this court
room while l am sitting on this
bench drunk, they had better look
out"
You must be sure of two things.
You must love your work, and not
always be looking over the edge of
it, wanting your play to begin and
the other is, you must not be
ashamed of your work, and think it
would be more honorable to you to
be doing something else.