Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-06-10
Items OF Interest.

| W. aleT dlole mas Deen known TO
sustain life for 50 days.
There are said to be 5000 cells in
square foot Of honeycomb.
A good railway engine will travel
one million miles before it wears
out.
1t is said that there are over 3
600, 900 teachers in the Chinese En-
pire.
The longest single arch in a stone
bridge is 9S4 feet, over the Rialto at
! Venice.
Vacciuated are not allowed to vote
at an election.
Over GS per cent. of the whole
number of English criminals are
unable to read.
The diamond has been found on all
continents and in almost every coun-
try in the world.
Michigan produces one-iifth of
the iron of this uouutry, mining
nine million tons year.
The United States and Germany
are the only great powers that have
no postal savings banks.
1t takes about three seconds for a
message to go from one end Of the
Atlantic cable to the other.
In Japanese saws the teeth point to-
ward the handle, and both saws and
planes cut toward the workman.
American colleges received last
year gifts of money and property
amounting to sixteen million dol
lars.
The most extensive cemetry in the
world is that Of Rome, i'm which
over 100000 human beings have
been inferred.
Senator Morrill, is not only the
oldest man in the Senate, but the
oldest active member of that body
within lis history.
Three fourths of the earth's sur
face cannot be cultivated on account
of mountain ranges, deserts, swamps
and barren ground.
a doctor says that probably half
the deafness prevalent at the pres
ent time is the result of children hav-
Ing their ears boxed.
| Massachusetts has forty-two per
cent. of all the cotton spindles in the
country, and twenty-five per cent.
of all the wool cards.
Certain female insects live sixty
four times as long as the male. The
female Of bees and ants are longer
lived than the males.
In every school in Paris there is a
restaurant where free meals are
served to the children who are too
poor to pay for them.
No rulers head was impressed on
coins until after the death of Alex
ander the Great. All images before
that time weIe of deities.
Until the discovery of the gold
mines in California, Russia was the
greatest gold-producing country,
mining about $14, 900, 900 a year.
The "year without a summer
was 1916. Ice half an inch thick
formed in New England and in the
Middle States in July and August.
The leaf of cocoanut tree is
nearly 80 feet long. A single leaf
OF the parasol magnolia Of Ceylor
affords shelter for 3 or 20 persons.
The two highest inhabited spots or
earth are Arevichiary and Mucapata
mining camps in the Andes. The
former has an elevation Of 1885,
feet.
Mrs. Mary E. Beasely, of Phila
delphia invented machine tha
hoops 200 barrels a day, Her in
come from this invention is $40, ,OOI
a year.
Nearly all the female servants O
Russia have to supply their ow>
mattresses, and place them in an
convenient corner-usualIy in tn
kitchen.
The Director of the Mint estimate
that there will be an increase in tn
output of gold for the present yea
as compared with last, Of over te
millions.
1t is thought the output of tn
steel rail companies this yea
will be in the neighborhood of tw
million tons, or fully three times tn
output of 1895.
A single bee, with all it's industry
energy and the innumerabIe joul
neys il has to perform, will not co
lect much more than teaspoonfl
OF honey in single season.
Insects are, for their size, th
strongest members of the amin,
creation. Many beetles can lift
: weight equal to more tnan 500 tim,
the weight of their own bodies.
t Over FIVE million dollars worth ,
| goods were shipped from Portlan
for Great Britain since the first
e December, including nearly one hu
= dred and five thousand barrels of a.
Piles.
y Claus Spreckels is building a 81
!. !. million-doIlar house i'm Sem Fra
cisco. In IL there will be six bat
rooms that will cost fifty thousar
dollars, no two of which will
Y alike.
Belgium, like Italy, has adopt
the twenty-four hour method
s marking the time for railways, DC
= and telegraph; and the old distir
J, tion of A. M. and PM. is to
r abolished.
A break in the main water pipe
street i'm Tombstone. Ariz In N