Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-29
Items OF Interest.
There is macadamized road in
India | 800 miles in length.

mere Is macadamlZed road in
India 800 miles in length.
There are free parks, free seats and
free music in all the cities of
Mexico.
Russia's census just completed
shows population Of 100, 9,211,113 in
tho empire.
Nearly three hundred thousand
bushels of chestnuts are sold in New
York annually.
More than three hundred DEGREES
of divorce were granted in the Chi
cago courts last month.
Fifty years ago Austria had seven
cities with more than 10000 inhabi-
tants; to-day there are thirty-two.
The scientifically treated French
rabbit skin is trying to fill the va
cancy caused by the scarcity Of
seals.
Canned goods in Maine have
dropped to the lowest prices over
known, and this years pack will, it
is said, sell cheap.
The people of the United States
smoke one hundred and fifteen thou
sand tons of tobacco year, to say
nothing Of cigarettes.
Five hundred veterinary surgeons
have signed memorial denOuncing
the tight check rein as q cause of pain
and disease in animals.
The total product of cigars for con.
sumption in the United States for
the last manufacturers year was
l,237, 1856 ,943, and they all ended in
smoke.
The Swiss federal council has re-
fused to ratify the commercial treaty
with Japan, owing to the prohibit
tory duty placed by Japan upon
clocks and watches.
Each convict at the New Hamp-
shire State prison is furnished with
a Bible and dictionary, and Greek
and Latin textbooks are supplied
those who ask for them.
The total amount of wheat flour
shipped to Japan and China during
the fiscal year just closed is above a
million barrels, equivalent to more
than 100000 bushels of wheat.
Nearly complete returns from the
Australasian colonies indicate that
the total gold production in them in
1896 reached forty-tour million four
hundred and fifty.five thousand.
Fifty years ago the custom of eat
ing horse flesh was introduced in
Austria. To-day Vienna has nearly
200 horse butchers and 20, 900 horses
are eaten every year in that city.
A town, to comprise over forty
thousand acres, or nearly twice as
much territory as Boston, and to be
occupied exclusively by negro citi-
zens, has been laid out in Georgia.
About S175, 900, 900 Of British CAPT.
tai is invested in tea-growing in In
dia and Ceylon, nearly a million la
borers are employed, and a quarter
of million pounds of it are pro.
duced.
The most remarkable gold beetles
in the world are found in Central
America. The head and wing cases
are brilliantly polished with a
luster of gold itself. To sight and
touch they haYc all the appearance of
metal.
Bread can be cut and buttered by
machinery. The machine has been
invented for use in prisons, work.
houses and reformatories. a cylin.
drical-shaped brush lays thin layer
of butter on the bread as it comes
from the cutter.
Nj. Ballot, one hundred and fou,
years of age, and, as he believes the
last survivor of the French soldiers
that fought at Waterloo, was the
guest of honor at the Waterloo ban
quet at Cherisey, In the department
of the Yonne.
1t is claimed that it proper meth
DDS for the utilization of cotton seeC
were introduced in the South the
value ofthe product could be doubled
and reach not less than 500, 900, 600
an amount equal to one-third the
value of the cotton crop itself.
1t cost New Orleans S171 900 tt
make its latest fight against the higi
water in the Mississippi, as Presiden
Thoman, of the levee boards, reports
Everything was done in hurry il
the last moment. but the expens
was less than had been expected.
Live bees are sometimes shipped
on ice so as to keep them dorman
during the journey. This is particu
larly the case with bumblebees
which have been taken to New Zea
land, where they are useful in fertil
izing the red clover that has bee
introduced into the colony.
The Indians do large trade i
buffalo bones which they collect O
the plains and dispose of to sugar re
finers, who find that these bones ar
superior for their purpose. On tn
route OF the Canadian Pacific Raj
way there are piles of white bone
to be seen awaiting transportation.
The stomach bucket of DIR. Ma
Einhorn is described as about tn
size of a small peanut, with an oper
in-curved rim. 1t is easily swallowe
and is drawn up in about five mir
utes by the silk thread attached, til
desired sample of the stomach's cor
tents being thus readily obtained
The per capita cost of living i
New South Wales is the highest i
the world being nearly two hundre
dollars per head per annum. In II
United Kingdom 1t is about or
hundred and sixtv i'm tha IIpita