Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-03-20
miscellaneous Notes.

and WHISKY
There is a school district in Western
Kansas where the actual population is
composed OF man, his wife and their
two grown sons.
The longest known telegraph cir
cult made on this continent for actual
business was the report from San
Diego direct to Boston recently. The
line was cut out the full 34oo miles.
It is reported that the City Council
of La Belle, Mo, where diphtheria has
been prevalent for several months,
has passed an ordinance prohibiting
rabbits from being brought to that
town at all.
A meadow at Biddeford, Me-, is
known as the hoodoo lawn. for the
reason that rain follows every time 1t
is moved before the grass can be cured.
It is said that this occurred for twenty
i've consecutive ySdio.
A few years ago 1850, 900 bronze q
cent pieces were set ahoat. Three mil
lions of these are still outstanding.
Three million 3-cent nickle pieces are
scattered over the United States, but
it is very rarely that one is seen.
An unusual report came from
Etowah County, Ala, when the rec
ords of the United States Marshal of
that district for 1896 were made up.
1t appeared that not moonshiner
had been disturbed there during the
year.
There were seventy live postmasters
in this country and the expenses OF
the department we're but $50, 900 a
year in Washington S administration,
and there are now over 10000 post
masters, and the service costs $o2, 900,
900 year.
All of the iron bridges in Jasper
county, Mo-, for the number and ex-
cellence of which the county is famed,
are paid for out OF the interest received
from the bank in which the county
money is deposited, which averages
$500 year.
1t costs a $25 fine to kill an eagle in
the State of Connecticut, and eagles,
accordingly, seem to have moved on
Connecticut as a safe camping ground.
The Legislature is now being exhorted
by the farmers to put bounty on the
killing of eagles instead of fining the
killer.
At a meeting to perfect arrange
ments to celebrate st. Patrick's Day
in San Francisco, a resolution was
adopted denouncing the Corbett-
Eitzsimmons fight and declaring it as
unworthy of support because it is
advertised to come off on that day.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin
has decided that the State Board OF
Health has no right to vaccinate
against his or her will any person who
claims exemption on the ground that
he or she regards the operation as
morally wrong and in violation OF
the laws of God"
twenty-five descendants of that
historic tribe of red men, the Mohe-
gans, now residing in Eastern Con-
necticut, ask the State Legislature to
determine their rights to land in the
beautiful city of Norwich, which, they
claim, was stolen away by white men.
When John Zimmerer, at Towson,
Baltimore county, Md, brought John
Zimerer as a witness to prove his resi-
dence and right to naturalization
papers he had to explain to the Judge
that he had three brothers named
John, three brothers named George,
and three sisters named Margaret
In the pocket of Superintendent
Morrison, who was recently killed at
Cygnet, O., in nitroglycerine explo-
sion, there was found silver dollar,
in the face of which a Io-cent piece
had been imbedded by the force of the
explosion On the other side of the
dollar is the plain imprint of the OPP
posite side of another dollar.
Senator Vandiver, of the Missouri
Legislature, has introduced bill to
fine widows and maidens for rejecting
widowers and bachelors. The meas.
ure provides for punishment of such
''offenses" by the inhiction of fine
of not less than 500 nor more than
$500, and furthermore, that the party
convicted shall darn the socks of the
rejected and sew on his buttons for six
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