Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-08
Items Of Interest.

A trolley is being built to the
Pyramids.
In four years the United States has
exported $50 locomotives.
Vermont gained but 1900 in
habitants from 1850 to 1890.
The average weight of a mans
skeleton is fourteen pounds.
Calit0rnia's orange crop this year
is about $500 car loads, against Z
300 last year.
Bombay sentrios salute black cats
Supposing them to be lost souls of
English officers.
Among tho different religious
creeds every day i'm the week is OBJ
served as Sunday.
M. Naillod, now member Of the
French senate, used to be the cannon
man in a circus.
The people Of tho United States
have over $3.50, 900, 900 invested in
church property.
| At Silver Beach, Wash, one man
in six days sawed 1876, 900 shingles
and another bolted them.
One hundred and twenty-five
million of people speak English and
four hundred million speak Chinese.
In Germany dogs arc taxed ac-
ording to size, and it is therefore
cheaper to own toy terrier than a
mastitf.
Mr.. John ID. Rockefeller has Just
presented to the library of Nassar
College 200 books purchased in
Germany.
The bank of England employs
about 100 men and has salary
list, including pensions, of about 81 =
800, 900 year.
A Chicago girl has sued neigh
bor for $4,000 damages for being
stung by bees. Blood poisoning fol-
lowed tho singing.
In the famous Garden of Olives at
Jerusalem there are eight fiourishing
olive trees that are known to be over
one thousand years old.
AiaShu III Stlll tle LleCCd vi ScdTcn-
ers after gold, and every steamer
bound for Yukon carries large num-
bers of miners, prospectors and adj
venturers.
In Einsieden, Germany. the floors
are made of paper, which is laid on
in pasty mass, smoothed and then
pressed. Footsteps on these floors
are noiseless.
Maj. Ginter, the Richmond to-
baccO king, has retired with $1,000
0Oo. In 1865 he was penniless, and
for six months earned one dollar a
day with push-cart.
1t has been estimated that the
COWS of England give every year
something like AT, ,000,000 gallons
of milk over aud above what is used
on the farms for rearing calves.
An industry which has gone down
in remarkable manner is the manu-.
facture of paper collars. In 1878 the
output was valued at Sl,75O, 900,
while now it is less than 100000.
The sun if hollow, would hold
300, 900 globes as large as the earth,
and an eye capable of hourly view
ing 10000 square miles would re-
puire $4,000 years to sec all it's sur
face.
Two Ohio farmers who live q
couple of miles apart have utilized q
wire fence as telephone wire
They purchased the Instruments fol
Sl5, and now they talk to each other
whenever they wish.
A post-office clock in Sydney
Australia, emits an electric flash
light, lasting five seconds, every
hour during the knight, thus ena
bling those living miles away tt
ascertain the exact time.
! With the assistance of the --latest
machines, piece of leather can bt
transformed into a pair of boots ir
thirty-fOur minutes, i'm which time i
passes through the hands Of sixty
three people, and through fifteer
machines.
An abandoned church i'm West
ern town bears over the entrance tn,
inscription "This is the Gate O
Heaven" Beneath it is a sheriff
notice containing this line " Closet
by order of the American Loal
Company"
The largest fruit farm i'm the worl,
is said to be at Olden, Mo. 1t con
sists of twenty-five hundred acres
on which are more than one hundred
thousand peach trees, sixty thOusOnt
apple trees, two thousand pear trees
and forty acres of blackberries.
A stOno wall almost mile i,
length with an average height of /
feet, has been built along Secon,
Ave, in Pittsburg, by the Baltimor
Il Ohio Railroad Company. This i
part of the half million dollar i'm
provement that the Company is max
ing at that point.
In tho course Of the last fit
years considerable number q
European song birds have bee
: turned loose in the woods and gal
dens Of the New World; but, wit
,, rare exceptions, they all disappeare
before the end of the second winter
Only four out of the fifty EngIis
, larks brought to Maryland in 1877
were seen the next spring; and n
nightingale has as yet managed
. survive an American blizzard.
l.. Il Bostick, of San Saba Texa
4 who captured Gen. Santa Anna
years ago, is now i'm his 18th yea
lie went To- TnXas I'm 1903 and CO