The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-06-04
VARIETIES.

The room In which Napoleon I died Is
now a stable
More than 10O,O 600 head of sheep are being
grazed in that locality.
A hundred original sketches by For
ain. the caricaturist, were sold for So, 600
at an auction in Paris recently.
Texas has twenty lone criminals to the
1000 of population. Massachusetts has
twen;y-thlee, and California twenty
eight to the 1000
"a well-known oculist says that opera
glasses which may be hired In most
theatres frequently becoma the medium
for spreading very serious eye diseases.
Queen Magherita of Italy's mother,
the dowager Duchess OF Genoa. was
taken with smallpox during q recent
visit to the Quirinal, and was nursed by
her daughter.
The young Prince Arthur, OF Con-
naught. has taken kindly to his duties as
scholar alt Elton. and boifs his own ket-
tie and makes his own tea just as
though he was commoner.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor did not return
from Europe with her husband, a severe
attack of grip preventing. She remain
ed in Paris and will doubtless arrive
next week.
The Arabs have a superstition that the
stork has a human heart. When one Of
these birds builds its nest on a housetop
they believe the happiness of thai. house
hold is assured for a year.
The olive tree forms one of the chief
agricultural resources of Tuscany. II is
estimated thai about 270090 acres are
devoted to its cultivation, and that an
average crop OF olives yields about 500
gallons of oil.
Christine Nilsson, the Comtesse do
Casa Miranda. bought Watteau's Diane
au Bain," recently sold at auction In
Paris. for 107, 900 francs. The picture
had been previously offered to khe
Louvre Museum for 100000 francs.
On the Malabar coast. in southwestern
India. there are 100000 Catholics, who
came originally from Chaldea and are
HISTORIANS. They have hitherto had
decided that they shall have two Bishops
of their own rte.
One OF the guests at the ceremony of
unwilling the statue OF General William
Henry Harrison, in Cincinnati on Satur-
day. was Bernard Mcdonald. Of Grant
county Ind. now more than eighty years
old, who acted as pallLbearer at the flu
neral of General Harrison. {
A five-pound meteorite. which fell last
April in an orchard near Namur, in
Belgium, nearly killing a young man
who was digging there, has been examin-
ed at the University laboratory at Client
l consists of u wnitEsh crystalline paste
containing iron, trolltte, Divine, bronzfte
and chondrol
TO lessen, If not to abolish altogether
the noise of train when crossing a
bridge, German engineer mas devised
a scheme which has proved surprisingly
successful. He puts a decking of planks
between the cross girders. and on the
planks double layer of felt is placed
In this way any noise Is prevented.
In ithe Gallatin Valley, Mont, this year
the principal crop Vill be barley, and
virtually the entire product will go for
export. The 3Oe00,000 pounds of barley
raised In the valley last year, exclusive
of the Manhattan plantation, all found a.
ready market at a figure which makes It
by far the most profita BILE crop the Mon
rama farmer could raise
American missionaries in the T;mnary
districts have forwarded to Freetown.
Liberia. report shocking barbarities
arising from the superst!tions Of natives
Some eleven cases of burning alive on
the score of alleged witchcraft had taken
place. The missionaries were using their
utmost eHdeavors to prevent the contin-
uance Of such doings
1t Is sald that ithe young Queen of IIol-
land has already given promise Of re-
Inarkaple ability as painter. Her prtn-
cIpal models are her own guards. and
almost every morning, dressed In a sim
pie 'iotle frock of the green tint which so
well suits her bright complexion and
fair hair, she seats herself at one of
ehe palace windows. where she has an
uninterrupte6 view Of the sentrles on
guard.