The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-11
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The Tattler.

Coffee was not known to the Greeks
or Romans. .
Before 1874 men almost universally
had their faces clean shaver.
Hats were first Manufactured in Eng
land by Spaniards in 1910.
The first advertisements ever known
were placed on the doors of st. Pauls
Cathedral
1t costs little more than 100000 a
year to care for the capitol building at
Washington.
Joe Jefferson is supposed to be worth
about 100000. Henry Dixie ought to
have a lot of money, but after he made
$4,000 in "Adonis' he lost it.
During the present century seven in
Stances have been recorded in the Brit
ish Isles in which the bride has mar
ried the best man by mistake.
In the fourteenth century armor be.
came so heavy that many soldiers only
thirty years old were deformed or per-
mainly disabled by it's weight
The lowest figure put on Francis
Wilson's wealth is 100000. He got $500
week when playing in 'Erminie,"
and most of his other ventures have
paid we'll. He has invested in real
estate.
The cape used in the Edinburgh Uni
versity graduation ceremony is made
out of the seat of an old pair of George
Buchanan's trousers, just as the cape
of ST. Andrews University is made out
Of an old pair of John Knox's trousers.
A fly so minute as to be almost in
visible ran three inches in half a second
and was calculated to make no less
than $40 steps in the time healthy
man would breathe once A man with
proportionate agility could run twenty
four miles in minute
1t is perfectly amazing to notice care
fully how much an ordinary shrub will
grow in a single summer. A silver fir
two and half feet high was lately
carefully measured 1t had put forth
5S5 new shoots. varying from one-half
inch to six inches each.
Nat Goodwin has $4,000 and would
have had more had he not persisted in
sticking 50 closely to his ideal of art.
Richard Mansfield is said to be rich.
He got $4,000 one year out of CDR.
Jekyll and Mr.. Hide" He owns prop
erty and has lovely home.
Della Fox has about $4,000 in jew
els. besides a cottage at Long Branch.
Edna Wallace Hopper is supposed to
have 100000 or $4,000 and short
time ago made $4,000 in stock specu-
lation Her interest in eel Captain
made her $4,000,
Ninety-five per cent. of all the tooth
picks made in the United States are
formed from birch timber in Franklin
county. Me-. and vet scarcely more
than 100 per cent. are employed in the
industry in that State
When traveller in the grand duchy
of Baden wants to send a telegram
while he is on the train he writes the
message on a postal card, with a re-
quest that it be wired, puts on a
stamp and drops it into the train letter
box. At the next station the box is
cleared and the message sent.
Lillian Russell always works on
guarantees and is sure of $1,000 aweek.
She does not speculate and has made
good investments. May Irwin owns a
whole island up in the st. Lawrence;
Ada Rehan has put aside 100000 and
Nine. Modieska is comfortably sup
piled with money.
Along the Adr.ati sea swallows and
other migra tory birds are caught every |
year by the hundreds Of thousands and
eaten by the italians, who spread nets. |
in which as many as 300 to 800 of the
tired birds are caught at once. 1t is
difficult to stop this wholesale murder,
because on sight of an official the hunt
ers' spies give shrill whistle and the
nets disappear.
Christmas was first celebrated in the
year 9e, but it was forty years later
before it was officially adopted as a
Christian festival; nor was it until
about the fifth century that the day
of it's celebration became permanently
fixed on the 25th of December. Up to
that time it had been irregularly OBJ
served at various times of the year.
IN Decnmher in April and in Nav. but