The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-12

inmates of the Kansas City Soldiers
Home at supper.
Pulaski county, No., presents as a
candidate for the leadership of the Popu-
lists man whose beard is five feet long.
Six-footed pigs, the progeny of six
footed yearling pig, are to be seen on the
farm of Jessie Garry, of Marion, Ind. A
seventh pig of the same litter had seven
feet, but did not live.
Cafe bars have been introduced on the
trains running between Paris and Saint
German, and will soon be placed on
those running to Versailles.
Train robbery is punishable by death
in Arizona. The supreme court has just
upheld the constitutionality of the
statute.
From ninety-four, flock of sheep
owned by P. A. Porter, of Mount Morris,
Wis, has been reduced to sixty since last
spring by wolves.
In Deerfield township, Kans., swarm
of bees settled on the neck ..oi a horse be-
longing to D. l.. Palmer. Afterward
Mr.. Palmer picked 300 or 400 stings from
the animal
Premature decay and storms have
grain in Stutsman and Kidder counties,
n. D., right in fields where especially
good crops were indicated.
Bears are SO plentiful in Anticosti that
NJ. Menier was granted concession for
the establishment of curing plant for
bears meat on the island, bears ham be-
ing.now--a fashionable delicacy in Paris.
By the burning down of the exhibition
building at Montpelier, France, the town
lost part of its archives including the
bull of Pope Urban V. creating the uni
versity, and the original plans of the
cathedral.
An Indian who had tooth filled and
another pulled at Waterville, Me-, fur
nished the first instance of Il red mans
patronizing Il dentist which had come to
the knowledge of a practitioner of thirty
years in that place.
One to every sixty inhabitants was the
proportion of firearms found by assessors
i'll San Benito county, Cal. and of watches
there were in 1.-The county sstwenty-two
fewer than the whole number of
weapons.
Mayor Murphy, of Temple, Ariz., was
awakened by n rattle one night last week,
and not knowing of any recent arrival
who would be shaking one in the small
hours, he got up to investigate and had
to Kill rattlesnake which was on the
l''''1f" DSAOiS S,Oihs5 DtiSh W Slccp.
The jewel casket of the dowager en-
press of Russia is the most famous in
the world, from gem point of view.
Hardly second to it is that of the empress
of Austria, whose black pearls are noted
throughout Europe for their extreme
beauty and rarity.
The piles of old London bridge, driven
800 years before, were found to be in good
condition when the new bridge was
erected.
England and Austria are the only
islands which exceed Cuba in natural re-
sources. When not wasted by war Cuba
produces 100000, 900 worth of sugar and
tobacco annually, besies the products of
orchards, forests, rivers and mountain
mines.
OF the northeast coast of New Guinea
Is the island of Kitaba, surrounded by a
wall of coral from 80 to 100 feet from the
inside, maintaining thirteen villages of
natives, to whom war, crime and pow
erty have been unknown since the be-
ginning of their traditions
A man who is attracting great atten.
ton in Vienna Mt the present time is an
American giant, who has reached the
towering height of more than eight feet.
He has been examined by the anatomists
of the University of Vienna and is pro-
nounceu one OIL 0he most wonderful spec
linens of man.
The Druids considered the oak as the
emblem, or rather the peculiar residence,
of the Almighty, and accordingly chaplets
of it were worn by the Druids and people
IN their religious ceremonies. The fruit
of it, the mistletoe, was thought to con
tain divine virtue, and to be the pecu-
liar gift of heaven.
Machinery is generally superseding
horse traction on the Paris tramways.
Already there are steam trans by the
side of the Seine from the Louvre to Yer
sailles, and from the Arc Triomphe to
various points, while mechanical trac-
ton, either by steam or electricity, is in
contemplation on other lines. y,
There are dogs standing over three
feet high at the shoulder, measuring
nearly seven feet from the nose to the
tip of the tail and weighing as much as
two hundred pounds, and at the other end
of the scale the little Mexican lap dog is
under seven inches in length from nose to