The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-23
VARIETIES.

VARIETIES.
a wine vat has been built at San
Francisco that will hold sc. 900 gallons OF
wine.
family of four children, who sold fruit
and vegetables in the streets at Mar
settles. France
Two wealthy Hebrews of Bagdad now
own all that remains of the ancient
town of Babylon.
Marcus y. Hanna owns n little pine
apple patch in Dade county, Florida
which he loves to visit.
Baron Ferdinand Rothschild possesses
an old "grandfather's'' clock that origi-
nally cost over Sl50QO0.
or the gold coins now in circulation
In England only u small proportion bear
date earlier than 1879.
Herman Merivale's new play, with
Charlotte Corday as it's heroine. will
soon be produced in London.
Last years crop of California olives
inadequate TO meet the demand.
The State of Kentucky for the last six
years has produced an average of $4,000
ooo gallons of whiskey per annum.
Franco has the most extensive Par
Lament in Europe. The two chambers
cost the nation about $1,000, 900 a year.
1t is estimated that 2,5O0.OOo bushels
oil wheat are being held west of Winni-
peg, Man., for higher prices.
Mayor Swift. OF Chicago, declines to
sign the theatre-hat ordinance in it's
present shape, and the managers are
happy
1t requires $4,000, 600 cows TO supply the
demand for milk in this country and the
products Of 60,000,0OO acres OF land TO
feed them.
Over the 1O5oo miles of railroad in
Illinois last year there were carried g.
iS5,fl3 passengers with a loss OF only
twelve lives.
Old glass bottles, which are more or
less useless, are now ground up and
employed as n substitute for sand i'm
the preparation of mortar.
BY using electric light during the day
time. Professor Bailey produced lilies
fully two weeks before the plants grown
\. y. Lesueur, Secretary of State Of
Missouri. says: missouri enjoys the
proud distinction OF having the largest
available public school fund OF any State
in the American Union.
The oldest active editor of New Eng
land. perhaps OF the country, is Charles
w. Paltrcy. OF the Salem Register. Mr.
Paitrcy is 80 years of age, and is still
we'll preserved gentleman. He is a
great smoker
The police or Philadelphia made 5S.O72
arrests last year, and recovered stolen
property valued at $l42.76c In the past
ten years they have made 539.gS6 ar.
rests, and recovered $l,S65,352 worth of
stolen property
The Importance Of the new Siberian
railway may he estimated from the
fact that in 1892 only 1oQ,o1O crnigrants
left Russia for Siberia. Will. there Were
as many as that in the single month of
May last year
= Il. II. Merrick. cx-chicf justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court. who has ius.
died in New Orleans at the age of 50.
was native of Massachusetts He
civii war broke out lie and his two sons
entered the service of the Confedcracv.
The new Danish amhassadrcss at
Paris Is an American woman. formerly
Mrs. Charles Moulton, nee Greenouch
OF Cambridge Mass. As LILY Green
ough she lived in the mansion now de-
voted to Radcliffe College. and as a
beauty she was prc-eminent
Ii is said that runaway horses orc
almost unknown in Russia No one
drives there without having a thin cord
With n running moose. around the necl;
OF the animal. When the horse bolts
,hc cord Is pulled, and tho horse stops
rs soon rs il feels the pressure on tie
windpipe.