Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-05-13
Items OF Interest.

bridges of many sizes.
The latest estimate of the 1896
Kansas corn crop is three hundred
million bushels, record breaker.
In Minnesota there is a girls school
OF agriculture which is, so far as
known, the only one in the country
Upwards of two million dollars
worth of nuts, mostly chestnuts, are
imported annually into the United
States;
is estimated that about forty
thousand horses were exported in
1896, much larger total than ever
before.
III takes each year two hundred
thousand acres of forest to supply
cross-ties for the railroads of the
United States.
st. Louis is the lsrgest street.car
manufacturing city in the world
The output last year was about three
thousand cars.
The position Of submarine cable
is located by measuring the cleo
tricity needed to charge the remain
ing unbroken part.
1t takes thirty-seven specially con-
structed and equipped steamers to
keep the submarine telegraph cables
of the world in repair.
Brazil is Portuguese word, signi-
flying live COAL" 1t was given
in allusion to the abundance of red
dyewood found in the forests.
The mints of the United States
coined 1, ,914, 200 silver dollars during
the month of November. There
were also coined 4,O53,OOO 1-cent
pieces.
Milliners" were of old Milan
ers," in allusion to the city of Milan,
which used to set the fashion to the
north of Europe in all matters of
taste.
Within the last fifty years the rate
OF speed of ocean steamers has treb-
led, and the usual horse power in
creased from seven hundred to ten
thousand.
No satisfactory evidence of cam
els existing in wild state has ever
been produced. They have, in fact,
been domesticated ftom the very
times.
The public lands still vacant in
this country amount to over six
hundred million acres, without in
Alaska with its three hun
dred and sixty-nine million acres.
In Penobscot county, Me-, the
fines imposed on dealers who violate
the liquor law pay all the county ex-
penses. The fines are collected with
as much regularity as if they were
licenses.
In 1896 there were one hurdred
and twenty-five legal executions in
the United States, and one hundred
and thirty-one lynchings. This
gives lawlessness majority Of nine
over law.
On an average each Englishman
writes forty letters year; each
Scotchman thirty, and each Irish
man sixteen. The average Ital-
ian only posts SIX, and the Ameri-
can twenty-one.
An Austrian inventor, Richard
SzigDondy, is said to have made a
new kind of window-glass, whose
chief popularity is that it prevents
the passage of about nine -tenths of
the heat of the SUMS rays.
The barque "True Love-" built in
Philadelphia in 1854, has been found
upon search to be yet atioat in the
capacity of coal hulk, engaged in
active trade at the age of one hun
dred and thirty-three years.
Such demand for American cot
ton has sprung up in Japan and China
that it pays TO ship the product from
the cotton States all the way to San
Francisco by rail, and there put it on
board vessels for its destination.
TT is not widely known that Queen
Victoria rules over more Moham-
medans than the Sultan of Turkey,
over more Jews than there are in Pal
estine, and over more Negroes than
any other sovereign who is not ma
tive of Africa.
There are fifty.six hundred and
nine distilleries in the United States.
North Carolina leads, with eighteen
and twenty-four, and Vir-
ginia is next, with thirteen hundred
and fifty-two. Pennsylvania has
one hundred and thirty-nine.
The world contains at least four
composed of almost solid
iron ore. One is the iron mountain
of Missouri, another is in Mexico,
another is in India, and a fourth is
in that region of Africa explored
by Stanley, and there have been
reports of such mountain existing
in Siberia.
THE experiment of making paper
and gloves has been going
on for some time. and stockings tC
sell at three cents pair are proposed
and durability are given the
texture by sizing bath of potato
starch and tallow, and, when fin.
ished, its appearance is similar tc
fabric goods.
In the year 1858, when Californit
was the Eldorado of the world, the
gold production of the United State.
reached its maximum, with a pro
duct of sixty-five million dollars
The gold mined in this country las
year is estimated by the Engineering
and Mining Journal at fifty-seveI
million dollars,
In New York city last year tn,
deaths numbered 41'652, q decreas