Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-11-11
Items Of Interest.

The University of Michigan has
enrolled two Chinese women as stu
dents.
Reptiles and wild beasts annually
kill twenty-five thousand people in
India.
About one-ffth of the school
teachers Of the country are changed
yearly.
There is q macadamiZed road in
India eighteen hundred miles in
length.
The total population of this coun-
try is now estimated at seventy five
million.
When Martin Luther was a school
boy he was hogged fifteen times in
one forenoon.
The engines of a frst-class man
of-war cost nearly seven hundred
thousand dollars.
Two-thirds of the gold now in use
in the world was discovered within
the past fifty years.
The United States has now al ma
val vessels, including the ships of
old and new navies.
There are only three negro tele-
graph operators tn this country, but
they are all first-class.
Milwaukee is about to treat itself
to five hundred thousand dollar
pnblic library building.
Twelve thousand boys and girls
were taught to swim in 1896 by the
London Schools Swimming Associa-
ton.
There are over sixty thousand
cocoanut trees in Florida, and their
fruit is nearly all sent to the New
York market.
The depth of water has consider
able influence on the speed of
steamers, which are found to move
more slowly in shallow water.
The Alaskans often have eating
matches, at which great numbers of
the villagers compete. The one
who eats the most is considered the
biggest man.
The one hundred and eighty thou
sand Immigrants who arrived in New |
York last year brought with them !
an average of less than four dollars
each in money.
We learn from Natural Science of /
London that the ROentgen rays have
been applied to fossils imbedded i'm |
chalk, and the photographs obtained |
have been very successful.
The highest death rate in the
world-4O per ,000-belongs to the
city of Mexico, which, although T.
600 feet above the sea, has no drain
age system worthy of the name.
Although Japan has three thou
sand miles of railway, there are
still over one million men in that
country serving as beasts of burden |
on such roads as the country affords.
There are twenty-five thousand five
hundred and thirty negro schools in
the South, where two million two
hundred aud fifty thousand negroes
have learned to read, and most of
themtO write.
Recent experiments by navigators
have demonstrated that soapsuds are
just as effectual in calming violent
waves during storm as oil, and it's
cheapness is quite an argument in
favor of its use.
A twelve hundred dollar farm in
Tennessee has been paid for wholly
In hens eggs, the instalments being
RENTED daily, sometimes at the rate
Of three cents Il dozen for the eggs
delivered in four-doZen lots.
Married people live longer than
the unmarried, the temperate and in
dustrous longer than the gluttonous
and idle, and civilized nations longer
than the unciviliZed. Tall persons
enjoy greater longevity than short
ones.
American apples are just now
more popular in Germany than the
native fruit, on account of their
lasting qualities but unless past ex-
perience is misleading, it will not be
long before the agrarian party finds
microbes in them as big as earth
worms.
Many people eat altogether too
much salt, says the New York Jour.
nal Of Hygiene. The result is that
the skin and kidneys are excessively
taxed to get rid of salt, and both are
injured by it. Few people have
healthy skins, and it is believed that
many cases Of arrangement of the
kidneys are due to to the salt habit.
Willie, the five-year-old son of
Charles Paro, of Cheshire county,
New Hampshire, died as the result Of
swallowing bee. The insect stune
internally, it is supposed. The boy
was able to inform his parents that
he had swallowed it, but nothing
that could be done to relieve him
was effective. He died in great
agony.
1t is to be hoped that the report Is
true that Mark Twain has paid off
all his debt by his own earnings and
is assured of a comfortable living
from his books. Having accom-
pllshed this by his own exertions
will make him feel far more com.
Portable than if it had been done by
public subscription, as was pro.
posed some time ago. 1t is reported
that since going abroad Mr.. Glenn.
ems has earued 500 by lecturing,
and has received $4,000 for his
writings.
There are 10 daily papers now pub.
lished In this State, as fOllows:-
W el burg, |; Wheeling, 4;
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