Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-15
Items or Interest.

me Chinese preserve eggs by coat
ing them with mud.
The United States has 1900 fruit
and vegetable canneries.
Europe has taken 10000, 900 BUSH
els of American corn this year.
Between 1871 and 1891 nearly g.
0OO,OOO Germans left their native
land.
Before the days Of coined money
the Greeks used copper nails as cur
rency.
1t is said that over 5000 lives were
lost during the recent earthquake in
India.
A humble bee has been known to
distance a locomotive going 20 miles
an hour.
In all their wars the British have
won the average of 80 per cent. of
the battles.
Fleas will never touch an epileptic,
and will instantly leave dead or dy-
ing person.
The United States acreage in grain
is greater than the entire area of the
German Empire.
Queen Victoria rules 1l,i75,O
square miles of territory and 37S,-
725,S57 of population.
The phosphorus match was intro
duced com mercially in 1888, little
more than sixty years ago.
AS regards wealth, the single
State of New York ia equal to Bel
gium and Holland put together.
The proportion of people in Nor
way whU speak English is larger than
in any other country of the world.
The largest mammoth found in
the Siberian ice fields measured
seventeen feet in length, and was
ten feet high.
Wasps are the most inveterate
enemies of flies. Reaumer says
that he has known one wasp to kill q
thousand flies in day.
Bees, according to statistician,
must in order to collect pound of
clover honey, deprive $4,000 clover
blossoms of their nectar.
The French ambassador in Lon
don, whose yearly salary is sixty
thousand dollars, is the best paid
ambassador in the world.
A Georgia paper, commenting on
the floods, says it costs human life
in Louisiana every time woodsman
fells tree in Minnesota.
The average number of novels is.
sued 100 years ago in America and
Great Britain was 16 year. Now
the average is two or three day.
Russia has 57,OOO,OOO hens. They
average yearly output Of 1000.
600, 900 eggs and beat the French and
German layers by about 500. 1000, 900.
The German agricultural papers
say that the imports Of American ap.
pies into Germany last year were
20 times as large as in any previous
season.
A cherry tree in Dayton, Oregon
which was recently blown down by
a storm, bore ton af fruit in sea.
son. 1t was set out over forty-five
years ago.
There are now 7l2 fountains FOL
human beings, $50 large troughs fo,
horses and cattle and 47S small
troughs for sheep and dogs in the
streets and suburbs Of London.
1t is estimated that more than 81
tons Of diamonds have been un
earthed in the South African fields
during the last Is years. These rep
resent a total value of esq, 900, 900.
The crater of Mauna Loa, in tn,
Sandwich Islands, the largest vol
cano in the world, is twenty miles il
diameter. Sometimes the stream O
lava flowing from it is fifty mile
long.
1t was not until 1896, just two hun
dred years ago, that the thimbl
was introduced into England by
Hollander named John Lofting, VIII,
opened a thimble mandatory q
Islington.
A Partisan lamplighter makes hi
rounds on bicycle, with long tore
carried over his shoulder. III
guides the wheel with his left hand
and is so expert that he lights tn
lamps without dismounting.
The irony of fate has Just bee
illustrated by the death of a Penn
syivania officer who survived sixty
three battles Of the war, but We
knocked down by bicycle, recei>
ing Injuries from which he died.
The Brooklyn Bridge gives en-
ployment to permanent force {
seven hundred and seveuty-thre
men and women, Of whom ninet,
five are policemen and two hundre
and sixteen in the train department
Bank of England notes are mad
from new white linen cuttings
never from anything that has bee
worn. So carefully is the paper pr
pared that even the number of di,
into the pulp made by each workms
is registered on dial by machiner,
The account of the receivership
the Iron Hall shows that three a
torneys have drawn an aggregate
hfty-seven thousand dollars for SO
vices in making the settlement, ar
there are eighteen thousand dolla
left, which will undoubtedly
, missed when the end is reached.
1t is said that the hottest mines
the world are those of the famo
COmstock lode. On the lower leye