Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-08-19
Items OF Interest.

lion envelopes every year.
The highest masts Of sailing YES
sells are from 100 to 80 feet high and
spread from GO, 900 TO 100000 feet of
canvas.
Between 40 and 80 students of
Georgia University will spend the
summer in Cuba fighting for the in.
surgents.
J. ID. Mcclure, an archHoIogist,
argues that the Romans smoked-not
tobacco, but herbs like mint, basil and
bergamot.
The only States in which capital
punishment is forbidden by law are
Michigan, Wisconsin,, Colorado,
Rhode Island and Maine.
In Mexico city " st-class Ameri-
can butter, made by an expert" is
advertised at 30 and 56 cents pound,
wholesale and retail respectively.
The Connecticut Legislature voted
$500 to each of the seventeen news
paper men who have reported the
legislative proceedings during the
recent session.
The incessant fog the past spring
kept the fog bell on Spring Point,
Portland harbor, ringing so hard
that its vibration cracked tho lens in
the lighthouse.
At recent meeting of the Royal
Society in London there was exhib-
tied a new apparatus for registering
the number ofstrokes made with the
oars in row-boat.
Uncle Sans official account of
the rebellion is nearly finished. II
will fill 100 large volumes, and it has
taken nearly 90 years to prepare it.
It's total cost will be S2,500,0O0
Medicine in the form of honey is
the latest novelty. 1t is produced
by keeping bees under glass, so that
they can only sip the sweets of flow
ers which possess medicinal proper
ties.
a Boston tailor sewed a button on
a strangers coat in his shop and soon
after the strangers departure found
that the gold watch and chain had
disappeared from his own vest
pocket.
London has $4,000 policemen,
Paris has 5000 policemen, New York
has $500 policemen. The ordinary
arrests in New York in year are
85. 900. in Paris 100000 and in Lon
don 100000.
Immense as the value of gold ta-
ken from the California mines since
the discovery Of the precious metal
there, it could all be contained in a
room 40 feet long, 20 feet wide and
Is feet high.
In Germany, when the vote Of the
ury stands six against six the pris.
oner is acquitted. a vote of seven
against five leave the decision to the
court, and in a vote of oight against
four the prisoner is convicted.
Florida has only two species OF
eagles left, the bald head and the Us
prey, and these are being killed 50
recklessly that the Legislature i.
asked to protect them and their eggs
TO prevent their determination.
In proportion, n thread of spider.
silk il decidedly tougher than one o
steel. An ordinary thread will bea
Il weight of three grains. This j
about 80 per cent. stronger than
steel thread Of the same thickness.
A hOrse-trainer of breckenridge
KY, has been married three times
is the father of thirty-nine children
of whom twenty seven are alive
His oldest son and his present wifi
are of the same age, forty-sevel
years.
London has added to its park
until they occupy fourth Of tn
city's area. They have added to tn
health and prosperity of the metro
polls, and the Londoners could nc
be persuaded to part with any @
them.
; After diligent inquiry the Pos
master at Lexington Va, had to RI
3 ply to an inquiry by mail for tn
/ name of some person there, male {
l female. who advocated woman's su
T f'rage, that there was none to +
found.
. Paris and Marseillcs are now col
i nected by telegraph lines entirel
I under ground. They are placed i
meath the surface, with manhol,
5000 feet apart. 1t cost $1,000, ,Ol
e to bury the wires.
Q In London the conductor of a ira,
q car is liable to arrest and punishmei
if he permits more than the regul;
Il m hnr Of l. ;a
q Recently one conductor was fine
q one dollar and seventy-five cents b
cause there was one passenger extr
. 1t has been said that the wor
pays most to those who kill, genera
4. and great lords next most to tho
~ who amuse, singers and actor
y while those who preach, teach, al
write for the papers come aloI
. somewhere near the bottom of Il
!, list.
There are no fish in Crater lax
a Oregon, the deepest fresh water la
Is in the world, and the governme
1t has decided to stock it with trot
- The natives used to say that the la
lr was bottomless, but soundings ha
shown it's greatest depth to be 20
I. feet.
1t is proposed to pave Lond
roads with compressed grass blocI
~ The claim Is made that the paveme
& Of these blocks is nOiseless and ell;
tic, resists wear well, and is imp,
vious to heat and cold. Its mar
'r facturers guarantee its life for fl
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