Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-02-20
Quaint and Curious.


other day and twisted off his ox's tail.
The recipes of over 800 oils and
perfumes have been preserved in the
remains of Roman literature.
York county (Maine) farmers are
telling of snow-white deer that has
been seen in that region several times
of late.
The squatters about Philadelphia
find that the played-out horse cars
make very good shanties, and buy
them for that use.
A placard in cheap restaurant in
Chicago says: "Do not fee the waiter.
He makes more than the boss and has
a half day off"
Mrs. Mary A, Clark, Missouri
woman, has obtained $500 damages
from man who drove her husband
insane by threats against his life.
John Harvey, of Glasgow, Scotland,
married on recent Saturday, and on
the following Tuesday whipped his
wife to death for spelling the supper.
The EZRA of Alexandria" was
adopted by many early Christians,
who assumed the interval between
Adam and Christ to have been $500
years.
Paper shoes, which are said to wear
as well as those of leather and to re-
sist equally we'll the entrance of moist
ure, were known in China in the days
of Marco Polo.
A New York syndicate practically
owns the republic of San Domingo
1t takes all the taxes and pays the
salary of the president and the other
expenses of the government.
Two recent visitors to the North
Powder river, Oregon, brought back
sections of fir bark sixteen inches
thick. They say they saw very many
trees with bark over foot thick.
A curious case of the record-break-
ing mania is that of Newark New
Jersey woman who has developed an
ambition to be the first prisoner locked
up in every police station built in the
town.
1t is stated that a woman in Bing-
hampton, n. j., recently opened
matrimonial intelligence Office in that
city, but she married the first man
who applied, and now the concern is
closed
A party of Michigan hunters waited
patiently all night recently to kill a
coon, which was seen to climb a tree.
When it became light enough to see
it, it was shot, and proved to be an
old cat, which belonged to one Of
them.
Indians relics in great abundance
were discovered near Milford, Mich,
few days ago when workmen un-
covered prehistoric cemetery. There
are said to be several thousand graves
in the area of the burial ground, and
in almost all so far opened pipes,
spear heads and various trinkets have
been found
The Greek church people of Russia
regard swallows as being sacred birds,
but kill sparrows whenever the oppor-
tunity affords. They declare that the
swallows ministered to Jesus while He
was hanging on the cross, but that the
sparrows tore His flesh and did their
best to pluck out His eyes. On this
account, they say that the sparrow's
legs are invisibly bound, which causes
their gait to be a succession Of painful
hops. In this way is the sparrow
doomed to move about until the day
of Judgment.
w. Seward Webb, vice-president Of
the New York Central Railroad, is
having plans prepared for a new
marble palace which he is going to
erect on his property at Scarborough,
n. Y. Mr.. Webb intends to spend
about 81 100000 on the house. The
style of architecture will be a modih-
cation of the Chateau Renaissance.
The house itself, including verandas,
will be nearly three hundred feet long
and 1870 feet wide 1t is to be stu
ated on an elevation, surrounded by
beautiful Italian flower gardens and
winding roads, and will command an
extended view of the Hudson river
for miles, both north and south.
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