Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-05-27
LEWIsBURG, WEST VIRGINIA. r
Items or Interest,


times as fast as the hand.
There are about one hundred and
three million swine in the world.
The land covered by new houses in
Great London every year is 1,163
acres.
A million tons of ice are expected
this year from the Kennebec river
alone.
Electric lights in nine cities can
he seen from the top of hill in
Gambia, n. III.
or the inhabitants of Massa.
chusetts, 1902, ,479 have bank ac-
counts of their own.
n japanese tailor makes the lining
TO garment first, and cuts out the
cloth from it as pattern.
The first man to apply steam to
house warming was James Watt, the
scottish inventor, in 1884.
President Cleveland was sixtv
years old two weeks after the expi-
ration of his term of Office.
Arkansas has town named
Credit, Iowa one named What Cheer
and Florida one called Hurrah.
The oldest national flag i'm the
world is that of Denmark, which
has been in use since the year 1919.
The total number of Jews inhab.
iting the globe is usually estimated
as being at present about 7,OOG, 900.
Russia is not only to build her own
railroads though China, but is to
build China's own railroads for her.
The various countries of the world
now use thirteen thousand four hum
dred different kinds of postage
stamps,
There are 100000 silk hats made
annually in the United Kingdom,
worth more than 4,O0O,00 pounds
sterling.
More eyes must be damaged or lost
than people suppose, for two million
glass eyes are manufactured yearly
in Germany and Switzerland.
Two hundred thousand barrels of
souvenir buttons made and sold in
the last three months is the record of
one factory.
There were nearly five thousand
two-story dwellings erected in Phila-
delphia last year. The broadbrims
need room, and flats are not popular
there.
Fifty-5iX Kansas counties bears the
names of soldiers of the late war.
Only two Of them, however, bear
the names of privates-Osborne and
Rocks.
The " Brasher siXteen-dollar gold
piece" which was struck at Newburg,
n. ", in 1856, was the first upon
which "E Pluribus Unum" ap-
peared.
A child has been killed in Phila-
delphia by being carried on seat in
front Of the handle-bars of bicycle.
The risks are too great to warrant
this practice.
Iron made in Alabama Is steadily
pushing its way into the markets of
the Old World, the latest order be-
ing for one thousand tons for ship
ment to India.
A new species Of rabbit has been
found in Mexico at an altitude of
5000 feet on the volcano Popo-
catapetl. 1t is very small, has short
ears and no tail.
Mississippi has netted fifty thou
sand dollars on her cotton crop
raised by convict labor. This is a
good thing for the State, and a good
thing for the convicts.
In a single district in India, ninety
thousand people have died of starva-
tion. Spared by the plague, annihi-
lated by hunger. Civilization is
sometimes as cruel as nature.
In the United States there are
2,s00,000 stocks of bees, which
annually produce 10000 tons of
honey, value, 81, 900; and $500
tons of wax, worth 81, 475,OOO
If Queen Victoria continues her
reign till June 20, 1897, she will
have occupied the throne for sixty
years-a reign longer than that of
any previous British sovereign.
The Wesleyan Methodists of Eng
land are to send an agent to the
United States and Canada to raise
money for monument to he erected
over the grave of John Wesley.
In the last twenty years the South
ern States have expended eighty mil
lion dollars for negro schools.
Nearly every dollar of this vast sum
was furnished by the white people.
Steel pens are destroyed by corro-
sion from acid in the ink. If nail
or some old steel pens are put in the
ink the acid will exhaust itself on
them, and the pens in use will not
cOrrOde.
The London public are kicking uI
their heels over the fact that diniug.
cars have been placed on the Mid
land Railroad in England. In this
country people have dined as they
rode for a great many years.
In Massach husetts "days of grace
are no more, that is as commercial
paper goes, save only on sight drafts
and bills of exchange. When a note
is made payable at sixty days, it does
not mean sixty-three any longer.
The cheapest summer resorts are
in the mountains Of Japan. There
are mineral springs there to which
peasants bring their own bedding
and rice, paying only three cents {
day for lodging and use of water.
Germany, in 1895, had 52,246, 90!