Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-06-24
Items OF Interest.

many HAS Oh lemale DlaCK-
smiths.
John Bull made | 900 locomotives
in 1896.
Infectious diseases are unknown i'm
Greenland.
In tho United States there are
iifty-sevon frog farms.
a Brooklyn firm makes 10000
loaVcS Of bread daily.
1t would take 27 900 spiders to pro-
ducc one pound of web.
Russian farmers hold an average of
~ acres to each family.
1t is 900 years since the fork made
It's appearance in Europe.
France is the most thoroughly cul.
tlVated country in Europe.
Tho dome alone Of the capitol at
Washington cost 81, 100000.
The average cost Of criminal
prosecutions in England at present is
S16j each.
The United States acreage in grain
is greater than the entire area of the
herman Empire.
The earliest exports of cheese from
the United States were, it is said,
made about 1926.
During the last twenty years
Canada has granted only one hundred
and sixteen divorces.
Connecticut has 81 women who
are daughters OF soldiers who fought
IN the revolutionary war.
Crocodiles, like ostriches, swallow
pebbles and small stones for the pur-
pose Of grinding their food.
The bakers of America last year
sent abroad 14,206,314 pounds of
bread and biscuit, for which they re-
ceived SG34, 900
The telephone which extends over
the longest route is that between
Boston and st. Louis O distance of
fourteen hundred miles.
a doctor says that half the deaf
ness prevalent at the present time
is probably the result Of children
having their ears boxed.
a female queen ant is always at
tended by one or more servants to
carry off her eggs, of which she lays
from 5000 to 10000 a year.
Capt. j. G. Blatock, of Newberry.
5. c., the largest cotton-p planter in
the State, sold the greater part of
his last years crop for 100000.
The largest estates in Austria are
those OF Prince SchwarZenberg, 5lO,-
600 acres Prince Litchenstien, loo
600, and Archduke Albert, 3O5, 900.
a boy who recently died at the
age Of thirteen in Indiana from ex-
ceSsive smoking had consumed in
the past five years $4,000 cigarettes.
The city of Chicago has appropri-
ated nearly $4,000, 900 to be spent in
improvements this year. OF the
amount 100000 is to be expended
for labor.
A st. Louis woman had guardian
appointed for her husband on prov
ing that he spent all Of his pension
money--S3O-every month"; on patent
medicines.
In Austria the Government owns
and operates the railways. You can
ride from Vienna, the capital, $50
miles in a luxurious corridor express
car for Sl.90. In America the cost
would not be less than $3.50.
The railway metals between Lon
don and Edinburgh, a distance OF
four hundred miles, are two hundred
and ten yards longer in summer than
they are in winter, owing to the ex
pansion caused by the extra heat.
The tea consumed yearly in Londor
is thirty-three million pounds. The
daily consumption of tea is ninety
thousand pounds, of coffee one hun
dred and twelve thousand pounds
and of cocoa eighty eight Thousand
pounds.
An impressionable Paris banker
the owner of immence riches, dice
OF grief on hearing that he ha(
lost everything in the world excep
100000 francs His pauper brothe
on imheriting that sum from hin
died of joy.
A collie dog was standing in
window Of church tower in Nor
folk, England, and saw his master,
clergyman, below. The dog imme
diately jumped, although the dis
tance was 80 feet, and strange to say
= was not seriously hurt.
) Thirty years ago the b. c
bought steel rails in England at a cos
of Sl12 per ton in gold. Some of thi
rail is still in use on short branche
and is in marvelously good condition
1t IL pear shaped and was intende
for use with wooden splices.
a Western Senator recently r,
ceived an application for a $3.50
3 postOftice with check for $500 il
f closed. The writer explained b
c saying he had understood that 90 DC
3 cent. was the regular commission
r This office seeker got his check bacl
Q but he will not get the appolntmen
, Every Japanese barracks has
a gymnasium, and the japanese so
e diers rank among the best gymnas
. in the world. In half minute the
O can scale a 14.foot wall by simpl
3 bounding on each others shoulder
one man supporting two or thre
= others.
u London has over 900 ships an
r 10000 sailors in its port every day
has as many beer-saloors and gi,
) palaces as would If placed side