The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-12-10
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

$25 for collecting $40 bill, but threw
off SO and called the thing square.
Some folks i'll Hiawatha, Kan, hang
n piece of raw beef liver over the bed
ut night for the mosquitoes to feed on.
Since dairy instruction has been in
troduccd into Ireland Irish butter is be-
ginning to recover the position it has
lost.
The United States flag today floats
over 4, 200, 900 tons of shipping, rs com
pared with 1920, 600 tons i'll 1890 and
LOGS, 600 tons III 1880.
The Germans seem to be losing re-
spect for their emperor Last year there
were SO per cent more imprisonments
for leze majesty than IL years ago.
Judge Reid of tho Atlanta city court
recently found it necessary to issue an
order prohibiting attorneys from eating
peanuts while the court is i'll session.
76-yearold lover at Coventry, Eng
land. finding as the wedding day drew
near that he had not money enough TO
pay the expenses, drowned himself in
pond.
Smoking is to be tolerated in the
main restaurant of conservative old Del
monico's in New York, Il canvass among
the ladies showing little opposition to
the change.
Gold was first discovered i'll Colorado
i'll 1883, and since then tho state has
produced $3.50, 900, 600 in gold and sill
yer. Out of the Sc counties of the state
26 arc gold producers.
To all ordinary rubber hose the super
intendent of the Congressional library
has attached tho compressor of the
pneumatic tube system and airily dusts
his million books by turning on the
hose. :"
Amateur theatricals, short sleeved
dresses and swimming baths are forbid
den to the women of Dulmen, in West
phalia, by authority of their parish
priest, because they are dangerous to
morals.
The Japanese government now issues
every day three weather charts, which
include observations i'll China and the
Lin Kin islands, enabling captains to
ascertain the movements of storms sew
eral days in advance.
An expert in the matters Of inks and
papers says that the books of the pres
ent period are printed with such poor
ink on such perishablo paper that fu-
ture generations Will not have an oppor-
tunity OF reading them.
The court of appeals of New York has
held that it was no ground for Il new
trial because the jury i'll murder case
attended, rhurol, on, S11nAnI- inf
tody of the sheriff and heard Il sermon
on the prevalence of crime
a noted woman phrenologist, after
an examination of female heads in va
rious cities, says that 1.-THE Boston girl
is apt to think most men are fools and
nearly drives them frantic with her
knowledge born of schools.
a correspondent of a New York pa
per favors Indian corn as the nationa!
emblem. "Eistinctively American,
large, generous, life giving. benefcent,
glorious i'll form and color. with its
crested flower pointing upward-truly
torch of liberty held aloft.
1t is reported that gentleman stop
ping ut ono Of the hotels III Texarcana
found Il railroad spike III his hash the
other morning. ard the explanation of
the waiter was that he "spcctcd dat de
steer had done collidcd wild dc kecrs
some time during his natural lifetime -
The London publisher Walter Scott
recently asked the subscribers to his
Scott Library to ballot cn the ques-
ton of what classic they would have
for the one hundred and first volume of
that series. Goethe was victor in the
competition, and selection from his
critical papers was accordingly chosen.
Boston citizen who had been in
Europe all summer and had not seen
single piece Of pic Went into the most
famous pic joint III Boston the day after
his return For his luncheon he took
cup of coffee, IL piece of apple pie,
piece OF cnstard pic, Il piece of lemon
plo and piece Of blucbcrry pie. He
didn' take any OF the grape pic because
it was out.
Rev. Washbnrno West, who died
lately III London, had the distinction of
being able, through judicious distri-
button of his property, to cast 23 votes
at each parliamentary election He was
kept busy III rushing from one polling
place TO another on election day, as he
was Interested in politics. At the 1892
election he managed to vote the Con
scrvativc ticket II times.
corduroy road made of small cedar
trees. which We're in Il perfect state of
preservation, was unearthed IS feet be-
low the surface of the earth, seven
miles cast of Ashtabula, 0. Professor
Carl Wright, teacher of geology in Ober-
lin college, who has visited the spot
and examined the wood, gave it as his