Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-08-12
Items Of Interest.
Denmark exports frozen milk.

Over 100000 cat skins arc used
every year in the fur trade.
Russia's census just completed
shows population Of l29,21l,l13 in
the empire.
The entire coast line of the globe
is about one hundred and thirty.six
thousand miles.
| Kansas is said to have fewer mil
lionaires than any other State, and
fewer paupers.
The largest apes have only sixteen
ounces Of brain; the lowest men
have thirty-nine.
There are thirty varieties Of bam-
boo, the smallest six inches and the
largest one hundred and fifty feet
tall.
There are ten Cinnamon In this
country to every American in China
the figures are 100 against H.
600.
1t is estimated that Seventy-fivc
per cent. of the silks worn by Ameri-
can women are of American manu-
facture.
1t is said that with q vocabulary of
one thousand words man can trans
act all the ordinary business mat
ters Of life.
The Britons are becoming con-
tirmed tea topers. They consumed
last year no fewer than 207, ,0j5, ,679
pounds of the herb.
The British Isles comprise one
thousand separate islands and islets,
without counting mere jutting rocks,
or isolated piunacles.
Out of the enormous number of
women in COnstantinople-the pOpu-
lation is nearly a million-not more
than 1000 can read or write.
During the last especially hot spell
work was suspended in the granite
quarries at Concord, n. H., because
the stone had become so hot.
French paupers are provided for
by the funds arising from ten per
cent. tax on theatre tickets. This
tax averages 100000 Il year.
Since the beginning of the century
France has fallen from the second to
the fourth place in point of popula-
ton among European countries.
The Tennessee anti-cigarctte law
prohibits the sale or manufacture of
cigarettes in the State. 1t also pro-
hiblts the importation Of cigarettes
from other states.
According to the deductions of q
well known astronomer, We receive
as much light from the sun az could
he emitted by six hundred and eight
thousand full moons.
According to the last census.
mere are over three million bachelors
IN the United States; that is, three
million men over thirty years old
who have never been married.
The late Shah of Persia left seven.
teen hundred and twenty widows ;
the present ruler has only sixty
wives. Sort of a bachelor, 80 to
speak, from Persian view point.
There are no orphan asylums in
Australia. Every destitute orphan
child Is sent to private family AT
the expense Of the State, and main
tanned until he or she is If years of
age.
Six Of Europe's queens smoke,
The doWager empress Of Russia, the
queen of Portugal, the queen OF
Roumania, the regent of Spain, the
empress of Austria and the queen of
Italy.
The farmers Of this country an,
nually use thirty-five thousand tons
OF twine upon the self-binding har.
vesters, equal to string long enough
to go more than six times around tn,
earth.
The Missouri Supreme Court ha.
declared that the law against opium
smoking and opium joints is unc0n
stltutional, because it interferes will
the right of men to smoke whatever
they choose.
Wooden bottles, for the receptio,
Of pills and powders, are manufac
tured In great quantities in Maine
some are as small as the little finger
and range up to the four ounce size
They are less expensive than glass
Investigations show that il re
quires from three to four years t,
complete the decaying of a CORDS
when buried at depth of four fee
and half, year and half at on
foot, and only year when the bod,
is simply covered over with earth.
| EUnrzy fnn nf
) evaporated, yields eighty-onc pound
of salt; a ton of Pacific water
seventy-nine pounds ; Arctic an,
Antarctic waters yield eighty-fv
pounds to the ton, and Dead Sc
water, one hundred and eighty.seve,
pounds.
A Saharan traveller says that tn
desert is not "a mere sand plain
with here and there an oasis" It
like any other part of the cart
stripped Of vegetation. There ar
mountains, valleys, plains, hills bu
. . not any green thing.
D st. Augustine, Fla, was sacke
= and plundered in 1865 by John Davi.
3 bold buccaneer, who, with a feet c
! seven or eight vessels. made a dc
scent on the coast Of Florida, an
I plundered the city. The Spaniard
| there made no resistance.
e A Birmingham England WORKING
E man made use Of the parcel post r,
Gently to send his 3-year-old boy HON
p by mail. The postoffice, under tn
a rule leregulating the conveyance ofliv