Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-09-23
Items OF Interest.

DiuoSeiS StTeetS are no" SprlHB leu
with a diluted disinfectant.
Friendship, Me-, has a great grand
mother but fify-three years old.
New Orleans has 255, 900 people,
and extends over sixty square miles
Of territory.
The Ohio penitentiary has more
than paid oil its expenses during the
past four months.
The latest thing in locks is one
where the keyhOle is in the centre of
the dOOrknob.
or 1000 persons only one reaches
the age of 100 years, and not more
than six that of 60 years.
A court of Illinois has decidid
that the Seventh Day Adventists
may plough corn on Sunday.
At weddings in Australia the
happy couple on departing are show
cred with roses instead of rice.
The savings banks deposits aver
age SITS per inhabitant in Massachu-
sets, and only 500 in New York.
Three million five hundred thou
sand steel pens are used throughout
the world every day in the week.
In the Napoleonic wars the French
privateers destroyed English ship
ping to the extent of 81, 900, 200, 900.
Pennsylvania produced 49,1O1, I4S
tons of bituminous and 53,771'S90
tons of anthracite coal during 1896.
The oldest flute in the world is
made of the thigh bone of q sheep,
and was found in a tomb on the
Nile.
The torpedo fish sometimes weighs
80 pounds, and a single shock from
this fish will kill the strongest
horse.
An absolutely freproof chimney,
80 feet high, has been built of paper
in Breslau. 1t is the only one of
the kind.
The sugar consumed in the United
States annually averages 63 pounds
for each person, one-seventh of
which is grown here
Judge Wellhouse is called the APP
pie king of the world. His sorchards
in Kansas consist of $3.50 acres, con-
tanning 100, 900 apple trees.
At present, more than half fifty
six per cent.) of the wool produced
in the United Slater is hauled across
the continent to New England mills.
Twenty years ago England had H.
GIG male and 1901 female school
teachers. Last year there were 63,-
3lO female and only 26,27C male
teachers.
Railroad engineers i'm Germany
are rewarded for carefulness. If
they run ten years without accident
each engineer receives gold medal
and about $500 in cash.
There are no undertakers in Japan.
When person dies it il the custom
for his nearest relatives to put him
into coffin and bury him, and the
mourning does not begin until after
burial.
The entire money circulation of
the world, not counting copper coins,
aggregates about S12, $50. .000, 900, di-
vided as follows: Gold, SO, IT'S, ,0OO,-
600; silver, S3,975, 900, 900; paper,
81, 400, 100000.
In Germany when the vote of the
jury stands six against six the pris-
oner is acquitted. a vote of seven
against five leaves the decision to
the court, and in a vote of eight
against four the prisoner is con-
victed.
John Lakey laughed so hard at a
ball game near Carlisle, Pa, when
the ball struck another spectators
head and bounded high in the air,
that he couldn't close his mouth
again and had to be carried a mile
and half to a surgeon.
1t is estimated that over forty-two
thousand African elephants were
slaughtered last year to supply the
market with ivory. AS there are
not more than two hundred thousand
elephants alive in Africa to-day, a
continuation of this massacre will
soon exterminate the entire species.
While attending school at West
Chester, Pa, few days ago child
of Joshua Abel came in contact with
a schoolmate who had just been taken
ill. The Abel child returned home
and divided some chewing gum she
had in her mouth among four BROTH
ers and sisters. Next day the entire
family was stricken with diphtheria.
Paris has voted SO, 900, 900 to the
exposition of 1900, or more than
double the amount appropriated for
its last exhibition. Two great pal
aces will he erected in the Champs
Elysees, and the Seine, crossed by a
monumental bridge, is to be traDs-
formed into a Venetian canal with
terraced banks and ornamental pa
viliOns.
The most remarkable gold beetles
in the world are found in Central
America. The head and wing cases
are brilliantly polished with lustre
az of gold itself. To sight and touch
they have all the seeming of metal.
Oddly enough, another species from
the same region has the appearance
Of being wrought In solid silver,
freshly FURNISHED. These gold and
silver beetles have market value.
They are worth from twenty-five to
fifty dollars each.
The greatest waves known are
those off the Cape of Good Hope,
where undar the infinanna Of @ north