The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-15
FACTS IN q FEW LINES.
The sheep is in SIS primo for the table
when it is about or years old.

The principal part of Kaffir's reli-
gion consists in singing and dancing.
Tho Hethelthorn in Norfolk is the
old hawthorn spoken of in an act of
1900.
The natural food of tho horse is grass
There is nothing else upon which he
will grow so large, keep so healthy or
1.-Two SO long.
In Scotland, toward the close of the
seventeenth century, the highest price
paid for tulip bulb is said to have
been 10 guincas.
Tho Transvaal volksraad has decided
that all newspaper articles of politi-
cal or personal nature must bear the
full namc and address of the writer
Queen Victoria now rules 367, OOO,-
600 people, a greater number than has
ever before acknowledged tho SOW
ercignty of either king, queen or en-
peror.
Tho French Society For tho Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals has deter
mined to take active steps to put stop
to the wunton destruction of small birds
in France.
The largest building stones are those
used i'll the cyclOpcan walls of Baalbec,
i'll Syria, some of which measure 63 feet
i'll length by 2G i'll breadth and are of
unknown depth
Food is served in ono of tho London
restaurants on electrically heated plates
so that the guests can cat leisurely and
still huvo tho viands warm until the
close of the meal.
A mathematician has computed the
movement of Il riders feet while work
ing bicycle and has demonstrated that
it requires less exertion to travel Is
miles OH IL bicycle than to walk three
miles.
Tho heart of tho common oal, begins
to rot at about the ago of 800 years The
holly oak is longer lived, and there is a
specimen of this tree, aged 415 years,
i'll existence Near Aschaffenburg, Cor
many.
At tho West Cumberland Hematite
Iron works. in England, there is cir
cular brick chimney, designed by Pro.
fessor Rankine, 251 feet above the
ground, with II feet foundation below
The cost was 81, 500.
The Syrian foxes, 1.-THE little foxes
which spoil the grapes" are not the
only creatures of their tribe which 20
for food to the vineyards. Jackals do
the same and eat the fruit not only as IL
luxury, but as medicine.
Lausanne, in Switzerland, seems to
DO the most southerly point Mt which
ivory gulls have been taken. Notices of
these gulis, which sailors call "snow
birds, are found in the works of all,
or nearly all, arctic explorers.
There is nothing Scotch in bagpipcs
except tho sheepskin of tho bag ard the
tartan. The wood ebony, or cocus wood.
comes from Africa and Jamaica, tho
ivory from Africa, the horn from Aus
tralia and the crano for tho reeds from
Spain.
English ancient acts and charters Of
ten mention trees selected as boundaries
OF property. Thus a chestnut tree of
Tortworth, Worcestershire, the trunl.
of which is formed by the adhesion of
two trees. u freak of nature often met
with, figures upon Il charter dated 1l35
Turning to cid trees in the British
islands, the oldest tree in that country
appears to be the Brabourne yew, in
Kent, tho ago CT which was estimated
by De Candolle to be 5000 years, and
lie attributed the same age to another
Jew that ct Fortingall, i'll Perthshirc
10 celebrated roscbush of Hide
helm, Germany, the Oldest in the
verdi, is we'll known to tourists. Char
lemagnc is said to have planted it more
than 900 years ago in commemoration
Of The embassy received from Haroun al
Rasilid, the caliph of the Thousand
ard One Nights "
The bright rainbow colors of the
mountain trout speak of the sunshine
i'll which no lives, yet when the brool,
has shrunk through drought the same
animal, black and ghastly image CT
its former self, is as like the dark re-
cess under the heather in which he
hides as the recess own shadow.
Dogs will eat fruit, though rarely.
VIXEN they do, they usually take Il
fancy to gocseberries. In the annual re-
Fort on the management of the menag :
erie of the Geological society the item
oiiohS Always nPureS largely In the
bill fer rrovender. They are mainly for
the African antelorcs and giraffes.
The oak of Swilcar lawn, in the for
est Of Needwood, Staffordshirc, Was
still robust i'll S22 ut the age Of 500
years, and about the same time There
might have been seen at Chupstcad
place, Kent. large elm around which
a fair was annually held during the
reign of Henry V fifteenth century,.
The Egyptian sandal was held in
place by menus of. stran that nassnd