Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-05-20
Items OF Interest.

Tea was first mentioned in Chi
nese annals 200 b. G.
The cost of cremating q body in
France is only francs.
The Vatican contains 2OS stair
cases and 100 different rooms.
Three thousand marriages are per-
med every day all over the world.
New York appropriated a million
dollars for park in the Adiron-
dacks.
Seats in the New York Stock Ex.
change cost seventeen thousand dol
lars zach.
a new cotton mill in North Caro-
lima will employ colored help
exclusively.
Abont six hundred thousand trees
are annually planted by the school
children of Sweden.
1t isestimated that over SAC, ,OOO, 900
year is spent for fertilizing pur-
poses in the United States.
Forty German cities now have
electric street railways. In 1894
there were only three that had them.
In the Pabst Brewery at Milwau-
kee is machine which curks, wires
and caps sixteen thousand bottles per
day automatically.
There are over seven hundred
laundries in New York, the labor of
which is carried on entirely by Chi
nese men and women.
An official examination shows that
about % per cent. Of the pupils in
the public schools at Minneapolis
have defective eyesight.
The greatest taxpayer is tobacco.
In the last twenty-seven years this
product has paid tribute of 81 900,
100000 to Uncle Sam alone.
a strong microscope shows the
single hairs of the head to be like
coarse, round rasps, but with teeth
extremely irregular and ragged.
There are three varieties of the
dog that never bark-the Australian
dog, the Egyptian shepherd dog and
the " lion-headed" dog of Thibet.
Most Of the shoes worn in Japan
are made of straw or wood. In the
entire country there is but one fac
tory where leather shoes are made.
California now has over twenty
five thousand acres of almond
orchards, representing an invest
ment of more than ten million
dollars.
A Chicago jury discovered re-
Gently, when it retired to make up
its verdict, that one of its members
did not understand word of
English.
The lowest temperature ever
recorded was on Dec. 80, 1871, by
Professor Gorochon, at Wercho
jausk, Siberia, eighty-one degree
below zero.
According to college statistics,
Girard College, Philadelphia, is the
richest college in this country, hav-
ing over eleven and quarter mil
lions of endowment.
The United States have over
twenty times as many miles of
electric road as Europe, and can
therefore make much better show
ing when it comes to tie-up.
Only seventy years have elapsed
since the first railway in the world
was finished. During that compare
lively brief period four hundred
thousand miles have been con-
Statistics show that there are fifty
sardine factories in Maine, with S, 1856
employees. This goes to confirm the
Impression that sardines sold as " i'm
ported" are sometimes imported
from Maine.
The smallest known species of pig
is the pigmy swine of Australia.
They are exactly like their larger
brethren in every particular except
size, being not larger than a good
sized house rat.
AS much as f4O0,00O is annually
spent in England on the purchase of
human hair, AS much as ESQ has
been given for good crop of white
hair, this color being the most diff
cult to procure.
And still people ask if the year
1900 will be leap year There are a
great many folks i'm this country. and
it takes deal of time to tell the
whole of them that there won't be
another leap year until 1904.
a New York clergyman who
recently conducted Sunday morn.
ing service on Blackwell's Island
learned that there are at present
fifteen college graduates wearing the
"stripes" in that penitentiary.
Ex.Speaker Reed, referring to his
hree-thousand-dollar fee as referet
for some Massachusetts insurance
companies, remarked recently: " L
is only when man is drawing s
salary for doing nothing that hi
feels he is at last receiving what hi
really deserves"
Every day New York receives
roundly speaking, two hundred anC
seventy-five thousand gallons o
milk. OF this about two hundred
and twenty thousand is plain milk
| five thousand cream and fifty thOu