Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-01-21
Items of Interest.

Parties from Canada are cutting
square oak timber on Coal run, w. Va,
for shipbuilding in England and Scot
land. Some of the sticks are sixty feet
long and cube foot.
Three of the oldest persons in West
Virginia met together at Mononga a
day or two ago They were Mrs. Eliza
Watkins, aged one hundred; Mrs. Ra-
chel Cunningham, aged one hundred
and three, and Jacob Boxer. aged one
hundred and four. They met at a
dinner given by Mrs. Watkins. There
were two others present aged eighty
FIVE and eighty-seven.
Musa Kitssolua, Koroshan Turk,
who was exhibited in the large cities
of Austria, Italy and Germany IN 1895,
and who is now making tour Of the
cities of Western Europe, is human
freak, wonderful only on account Of
the enormous length of his beard. In
1898 the beard Of this follower of the
Prophet was only four feet and four
inches in length today it is nine feet
and eight inches in length. Only one
other human beard is mentioned by
tn. authorities as being longer-that
of Adam Kirpen, an old German, who
lived in Chicago in 1882, and who had
over twelve feet of beard.
A bridge forty-one miles long would
certainly be novelty, and yet that is
tie kind of a bridge they are talking
Of building across Folks strait, to con-
meet the Island Of Ceylon with the
mainland of India. The strait is forty
one miles across at its narrowest point,
but is very shallow in some places.
Surveyors have been at work and the
cost of construction is estimated at
some 2S,000,000 rupees. The plan of
the work contemplates the connection
of the ends of the bridge by AS miles
of railroad with Colombo, the great
harbor of Ceylon, and by 90 miles of
road with Madura, the nearest point
of the Indian railway system.
Silas NJ. Wheeler, aged 60, and Miss
Martha f. Lincoln, aged So, secured
a license to marry few days ago at
Burlington, Iowa. Forty years ago
they were lovers, but triaing quarrel
separated them, and Wheeler went to
California. Several years later Miss
Lincoln also went to California, but
remained in ignorance Of Wheeler s
whereabouts. The other day she re-
turned to visit her aged mother who
lives near West Burlington. Hither
also came Silas Wheeler to attend to
some business and to visit his boyhood
friends. They met for the first time
since they had parted forty years be-
fore. The result Of the meeting was
the marriage license They are both
well-known, highly respected and we'll
TODD.
The big monument just erected by
the Ninth New York Regiment on An
tietam battlefield is said to be the larg-
est of the kind in the country. 1t
stands fifty feet high. The base is
thirteen feet six inches square and two
feet thick. The lettering on the mon
ument is as follows: On the west side
appears oujours Pref. Erected
by the State Of New York to the men,
DRY of the ninth New York Infantry,
Hawkins Zouaves, who fought on this
field September II, 1862" On the
north side-"Members present for du-
ty in action, 372; killed, "a; wounded,
l5S; missing, %; total loss, $40.
Two companies were detailed and en-
gagged elsewhere and did participate in
the advance" On the east side
THE greatest mortality occurred near
this position, where the regiment con-
tended with superior force Of infant
ry and artillery" On the south side
About , p. m, having forded the
Antietam creek, the regiment, meeting
with desperate resistance, advanced to
this position and held it until ordered
elsewhere. On the shaft is chiseled
the coat of arms of New York and the
motto Excelsior.