Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-09-02
Items OF Interest.

1t Is estimated that in England one
woman in every six earns her owr
living.
A Salem (Mass.) genius has in
vented an umbrella that can be put
in his coat pocket.
The doors of the tomb that EN-.
closes General Grants body weigh
seven thousand pounds.
More than three hundred DEGREES
of divorce were granted In the Chi
cago courts last month.
One hundred and twenty firemen
are required to feed the furnaces OF
a first-class Atlantic steamer.
A Kentucky strawberry grower re-
ports clear profit this season of
S729.6O on seven acres Of ground.
The cost of producing tea in India,
as based upon the operation of forty
companies, is fifteen cents a pound.
A nail-making machine produces
as many nails in given time as
were formerly made by one thousand
men.
A caterpillar is so greedy that in
one month it usually devours six
thousand times its own weight in
food.
The Queen reigns over one conti-
nent, 100 peninsulas, 500 pr0monto-
ries, 1000 lakes, 1000 rivers and lO,-
600 islands.
Near Elkton, Mich, live probably
the oldest couple in the United States,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Hitler, aged 1O7
and 105 years.
Lumber to the amount of thirteen
million square feet was last year i'm
ported by China, most Of it from
Oregon and Washington.
A note of the Bank Of England,
twisted into kind of rope, can sus-
pend as much as 329 pounds upon
one end of it and not be injured.
The Yellow River is styled the
escrow of China" 1t is estimated
that its floods in the present century
have cost China eleven million lives.
A turtle dove al Tiffin, o., that
survived separation from her mate
for 70 years, has set a beautiful ex-
ample of constancy to other widows.
1t Is stated that in six months of
the year American manufacturers
can make enough shoes to supply the
7O,OOO,OOO people Of the United
States.
Sixty persons have been arrested
In Moscow and will be deported to
Siberia for trying TO organize gem
eral strike i'm the mills of the Mos
COW district.
Germany has law requiring that
all drugs intended for internal use
shall be put up in round bottles, and
all intended for external use in hexa.
gonal bottles.
Il. ID. Smith, a manufacturer of
Menesha, Wis.,, has given to the
town tract of land worth S25, 900
Tor public park and $4,000 for a
public library.
The Oregon railway commission.
ers report that not a road In the State
has for four years paid dividend or
been able to pay the agreed rate Of
interest ON its bonds.
Roses discovered in tombs contain.
ing Egyptian mummies often have
their colors perfect, even though
some of those found must be over
three thousand years old.
The largest order for carpets ever
given for single hotel, it is said,
has been given for the new Astor Ho-
tel. New York, adjoining the Wal
dorf. 1t has 1000 rooms.
A report from the office of the
register general Of England contains
the intelligence that 225 women reach
the age of 100 years, while only SO
men out of ZOO, 900 count the mile
stone of a century.
Ireland sends out as emigrants to
other lands from 10000 to $4,000 of
her sons and daughters annually {;
while Scotland parts with only from
$4,000 to $4,000. The figures last
year were For Ireland, AZ, 222, and
for Scotland, 16, 500.
japanese cotton weavers pl efer the
long staple cotton of Texas to any
other they can find for use in major
ity of their manufactures from this
staple. That accounts for the pres
ence OF japanese buyers at the cot.
ton exchanges of the South.
Near Boise City, Ida, 400 feet be-
low the earth's surface there is
subterranean lake Of hot water of
ITO degrees temperature. 1t has
pressure enough to ascend to the top
floor Of most of the houses and will
be piped to them for heating pur-
boses.
The organ of sight is more highly
developed in birds than i'm any other
animal. Naturalists declare that the
kestrel is possessed of such won
derful powers Of sight that it is able
to see mouse when ii is itself at
such height in the air that it is in
visible to the naked human eye.
Electric lighting will cost New
York City $1,250,0O0 this year.
Philadelphia will spend S647, 900 for
the same purpose Brooklyn, $780,
600; Baltimore, $40, 900; Cincin-
natl. $4,000; Washington, ID. c.,
and st. Louis and San Francisco,
$1eO, 900 each, and Buffalo about 1925
600.
An eminent physician states that
typhoid fever can be washed out of
the system by water. He gives his
patients what would amount to eight
or ten ounces an hour Of sterilized
water. In cases Of cholera, where
the system secretes large amount of
fluid, enormous quantities of hot
water are Of great benefit.