Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-06-17
Items Of Interest.

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month for cream.
The jewels which ornament the
| crown of the King of Portugal are
said to bo worth S8,50O,OOO.
British possessions in America
have an area of 250,0 square miles
more than the United States.
1t is said that people who drink a
great deal Of water have rheumatism
less than the non-water drinker.
On most voyages of first-class
ocean steamer about 5000 pieces of
glassware and crOckery are broken.
An adult has about % pounds of
blood and 10 pounds are sent through
veins and arteries at each pulsation.
The curious fact is mentioned that
nearly One-half the suicides take
place between in the morning and
noon.
The library of Gottingen has BIZ
bile written on palm leaves. There
are 5,373 pages, each made Of a sim
gle leaf.
AmOug the 1000 thieves arrested
were princess, a duchess and a
countess.
1t is estimated that the farmers of
the United States lose 500, 900, 900
annually from tho depredations OF
various insects.
Galvanized iron is not galvanized
at all, but is coated with zinc, by be-
ing plunged into bath of that metal
and muriatic acid.
The great diamond mines of South
Africa have yielded in the last twenty
years seventy-five million dollars
worth of diamonds.
Brigham Young founded Salt
Lake City, Utah, just 80 years ago,
this month, and the event will be
sp!endidly celebrated.
Norway is the only country in the
world which is not increasing it's an
nual yield Of cereals. The reason is
found in climatic conditions.
The monument marking the birth
place of George Washington at
Wakefield, Va, has been completed,
and passing ships may now salute it.
In New York City recently a
young woman while bending over a
washtub was killed by corset steel
which broke and pierced her heart.
Cuba has 1872 coffee plantations, 700
sugar plantations, 1900 tobacco
estates, $500 cattle farms and 100
small farms devoted to various pro-
duets.
Experiments have proved that if
flsh get beyond a certain depth in
the sea they die from the pressure of
the water, which they are unable to
support.
AT the Tennessee Centennial Expo-
sltion there is going to be a seesa w
with beam 100 feet long, balanced
on tower rs feet high, with a car
at each end, which will raise % peo-
pie $50 feet in the air.
In Canton, China, they name
streets after the virtues, as here they
are named after persons. Thus there
Is street called Unblemished Recti-
tude, Pure Pearl street, a street of
| BeneVolence, and another of Love.
Jesse Way was sentenced to seven
years in the Indiana State Prison re.
Gently for counterfeiting. He is
eighty years old and has spent forty.
five years of his life in prison
chiefly for the crime of counterfeit
ing.
A preliminary census made by the
Egyptian minister Of the interior in
dicates that the total population O
Egypt is now about nine millions
and therefore probably exceeds tha
OF the period of its greatest ancien
prosperity.
According to recently compiled
/ statistics, the Bible is now printe,
in 3Sl languages, so versions havin
been added in the last five years
Forty-two of these versions ar
credited to English and Scotch sc
cieties, and 5 to American societies.
1t is singular fact that while a.
other games Of chance or skill hav
at one time or another been de
nounced by the clergy of ever
, falth, chess alone has received thei
appreciation, and among the bes
4 players of every land have bee
ciergymen, priests. abbots an
bishops.
3 On the Goth of this month Justie
stephen j. Field Of the lutte
States Supreme Court, completed h
a thirty-fourth year of service on tt
3 bench. With the exception of Chi,
r Justice Marshall, he has served 10,
longer than any other occupant
I the bench since the time of its O
O ganiZation.
> In the year 1898 Great Britain toe
l3, WI American horses. In 1894 Il
8 same purchaser received from q
t United States - $50 horses, and Il
a succeeding year 34,O92. During Il
flrst nino months Of the year IS
y there had been shipped from tI
d United States to England 34,6
a horses.
The German agricultural pape
~ say that the imports of Americ
" apples into the German empire ls
year were more than twenty tim
n as large as in any previous seaso
40 the shipments in 1896 havi
=, amounted to no less than six m
= lion double centners-the centn
being equal to hundred weight.
1t Java has thunderstorms, on
'd average, ninety-seven days i'm t
year; Italy, thirty-eight, Belgir
as twenty-one, land eightet
TO France, Austria and South Rus