Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-01-13
Items of Interest.

manufactured annually in the United
States, while one ton Of gold and three
tons of silver and PLATINUM, to the
value of 100000, are used in
stopping teeth.
The supposed grave of Eve is visit
ed by 10000 pilgrims each year. 1t
is to be seen at Jeddah, in cemetery
outside the city walls. The tomb is
so cubits long and u wide. The Arabs
entertain a belief that Eve was the
tallest woman that ever lived.
Henry Tanner, who died recently
at the st. Louis City Hospital, had
four hearts. According to DR.. Suffer
three aneurisms had formed, and each
of these grew and became, as DR.. SUIT
ter described them, zone true heart
and three false ones. These false
hearts" throbbed and pulsated with
the true heart and with equal pre-
cision and apparently gave Tanner
no trouble
Samuel Sloan, president of the Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad was presented with a $4,000
golden table service by the officials
and employees Of the company in com
memoration of his eightieth birthday,
which fell on Christmas. The service
consists Of seven pieces, massive OBJ
long salver, coffee pot, teapot, chloe
olate pot, cream jug, sugar bowl and
a spoon holder.
A Southern writer asserts that the
daisy was never known in the South
before the war, while now every Sec
ton reached by the Union armies Is
covered with them. He says Sherman
brought them first, and that the march
to the sea can now be followed in the
summer time by keeping where the
daisies grow. The explanation Of it
is, of course, that the seed was brought
in the hay for the horses.
The Coliseum at Chicago, which
burned Christmas Eve, was the largest
building under one roof in the world.
1t cost $250,OOO, and was twice as
large as the Madison Square Garden
buildingin New York. 1t had a floor
spac. of seven acres, including the
ground and gallery floors, was no feet
long by 800 wide and contained
100000 pounds of steel, 100000
feet Of timber and 100000 bricks.
A Parkersburg dispatch says ::
Myer Newberger, of this city, Allen
Orr, of New York, and foreign parties
have Just closed a deal for sixteen
thousand acres Of timber lands in
Webster and Nicholas counties, esti
mated to contain one hundred and
.iytv million feet of fine wood. Ten
sawmills will be at once erected and
the West Virginia and PittsburS Rail
road will be extended to the lands
Large foreign contracts have already
been made.
Eugene A. Earl, who owns hotel
property in New York and other
places, is arranging for the construc-
ton of big hotel in Washington. He
has associated with him E. X. Som
sorn, proprietor of Chamberlain s,whO
will manage the new house The in
tention is to erect a building with
about $50 rooms to resemble the Wal
dorf in New York City in appoint
ments and facilities. 1t will be de-
signed for the class of people who like
Washington as winter resort and are
willing to pay for frst-class acconmo-
dations. During the summer months
the hotel will be closed. 1t is esti-
mated that the ground and buildings
will involve an outlay of S 100000.
As though suddenly possessed of a
demon, A. w. Carter, wealthy citi-
zen of Greenville, Tenn, entered the
bed chamber of his wife and daughter
at 3 o'clock the other morning and
plunged the blade Of an ak into his
wife brain, killing her Instantly. He
then sent the ak into his daughter S
forehead, cuttinga fatal cash. Turn
ing upon himself, he sent a bullet
through his own brain. a little boy
in the house was aroused, rushed into
the room and found Mr.. and MIS- Car
ter dead and their daughter uncon-
scious. Mr.. Carter was sober man
and regarded by all who knew him as
a Christian gentleman. He loved his
wife and daughter, and there is nc
means of accounting for his act except
on the theory that he was temporarily
insane. Mr.. Carter leaves an estate
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