Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-06-03

TO one.
Russia proposes to abandon Siberia
as place Of exile. She has found a
colder spot.
The farms in France cultivated by
owners average 10 acres those by
tenants, 80 acres.
a man in a balloon four miles
above the earth can plainly hear the
barking of dog.
Bolivia has Joined the record
breakers by being the first nation to
recognize Cuban belligerency.
1t is stated in fashionable journal
that 100000 bonnets were sold in
London during one week recently.
In Germany the men as we'll as the
women wear wedding rings. When
either dies the survivor wears both.
In France, Russia and Holland apo
plexy is most frequent in winter; in
Canada and the United States in sum
mer.
The English language is spoken by
only about 125, 900, 900 persons while
the Chinese is spoken by over 400,-
900, 900.
Nearly 200 patents have been is
sued for horse shoes, but not one of
the inventions has ever come into
general use.
Since the year 1880 the Paris police
have arrested as many as 20, 900 chill
dren who were being trained for beg
ging and vice.
In Silesia there has sjust been bored
the deepest hole i'm the world. 1t
passes through S3 separate beds of
coal and is $3.50 feet deep.
Those who claim to know it all
should bear in mind that there are
twenty million square miles of the
earth's surface yet uneXplored.
In the more expensive Paris res
taurants where the art of swelling
the bill is reduced to science, the
charge of so centimes (10 cents) is
made for taking seat.
AT Coggin's mill, near Sisson, CAL,
| the loggers cut a tree short time ago
which was just four years of age. 1t
was eight feet in diameter, and pro-
duced 10, 900 feet Of lumber.
The largest carpet in the world is
In Windsor Castle. 1t is 40 feet in
breadth and contains 5S,Si0,O0
stitches. The weaving of it occu
pied % men fourteen months.
Italy gives the world outside hel
borders $500, 100000 oranges
Spain, 1000. 900, 900; Portugal, sO,,
600, 900; Paraguay, 60,000,0 900
Florida nearly as many as Paraguay
Cremation is more extensivel,
practiced in Italy than in any othe
country. The first crematorium wa
established in Milan in 1876 and ther,
are now fifty in operation in italian
territory.
In short time the New York post
Office will collect mails with horseles
wagons. Experiments have beer
tried, and the department official
are satisfied that the new method viii
result in quicker collections.
Two gangs of workmen have jus
begun digging in Colorado the long
est tunnel which man ever attempte
+ to construct. The main bore will b
20 miles long, and connecting wit
this are Subsidiary tunnels, with
, total length Of 80 miles.
1t has been estimated that 1O,0O
dead fishes were cast upon the shor
9 of the lake at Loring Park, Mil
r neapolis, when the ice melted tn
q year, the unusual thickness of tn
ice during the winter having cause
D the fishes to perish OF suffoc alton.
: If it had been told thirty years ae
that the great cataract of Niaga,
: would be utilized to turn machiner
. and run street cars in Buffal
: twenty-seven miles away, whOev,
made the prophecy would ha,
q seemed fit candidate for the strai
8 jacket.
" The result of an inquiry made /
q the directors of the German tel
o. graphs into the effect of the netwo
of telephone wires i'm the lar
!. cities has been, according to ID
q Wetter, to show that the presence
the wires tends to reduce the violen
n of thunder, and to diminish the da
II gers from lightning.
% Every civilized country on t
y globe contains persons who served
t. the Civil War, and now draw pc
sions from the United States Go
re- ernment. OF all foreign countr
Canada has the greatest number
he our pensioners, there being no |,
than 1888 persons residing in IL
up country who draw pensions for 8
n vice In the Civil War.
.o Pens are made by machines viii
NO seem almost to think. The steel
cut into ribbons as wide as the lens
- of one pen, and these are fed to q
Ia chimes which cut out the blanks, I'll
- fashion, stamp them, split the poi
ou and place the makers name on
W backs. The pens are now comple
~, save the annealing, and this form
:, separate operation. After being
9i nealed they are counted and pla
in boxes. A machine has been
ke vented for performing both tn
Operations.