The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-15
CURIOUS CUTTINGS

The death rate OF negroes IS nearly
Itwicesstha of whites in the United
States.
The bubonic plague in India is said
Ito be now destroying 10000 persons
week
There are now more Jews in the
4 British House of Commons than ever
| before-11.
The Swiss Republic is about 10 erect
monument IN honor of the worlds
! postal union.
The river Rhine generally carries
larger volume of traffic than any
| single railway in the world.
New York was the first city incor-
porated in the limits of the United
States. It's charter was dated 1864.
Two million kegs, containing. 100,
900. 900 horseshoes. are used annually
in the United States and Canada
This motto is displayed in Boston
down town desk. THE elevator to
success is generally stuck; try the
stairs
In 1897 the New York State Council
ordered householders to hang out Ian
| terns-the first street lighting in
America.
Thomas Harte, an Irishman in
Leeds workhouse, England, believes
he is 1877 years old and the oldest man
in the world.
In Albany, n. Y, about 1914, the
first American carriage was made, all
previously used having been imported
from England.
Great Britain's 22,3SO miles of rail-
way carried last year twice as many
passengers as were transported by the
2O3,132 miles of the United States.
| OF the large cities New York COW
ers 209.21S acres, Chicago 122,OOS
acres, Philadelphia S2.993 acres, Bos
ton 27,251 acres, ST. Louis 39,277 acres,
Cleveland 22,422 acres and Cincinnati
26,ssO.
In 1874 the fist turnpike road was
made, 60 miles long, between Lam
caster and Philadelphia, so called be-
cause it was required to be SO hard
that pike could not be driven
/ through it.
Queenstown, the famous Irish port
of call for all the American liners,
was originally the Cove of Cork, and
changed it's name when Queen Vic
COTla ldnGeu JneTS ON IeT NlSll "
Ireland.
The Oldest love letter in the world
is in the British Museum. 1t is the
proposal of marriage TO- the hand OF
an Egyptian princess, and it was made
$500 years ago. 1t is in the form of
an inscribed brick.
1t is proposed to buildNa small con-
crete church on the top of Croagh Pat
rick. County Mayo, Ireland. for the
celebration of the annual pilgrimage
mass. The church will be almost
twenIy-siN hundred feet above the sea
In Great Britain among women
workers there are Sc auctioneers, 6
architects, 3,o71 brickmakers, $3.50
butchers 81 chimneysweeps l dock
laborer, $40 goldsmiths, 9G03 print
ers, 745 railway porters. 1850 tailors
and s veterinary surgeons
The origin OF the typhus epidemic
at Berne, Switzerland. is attributed to
horsefesh eaten at cheap restaurant.
This horsef1esh had been bought from
the Psychological Institute, where
the horse in question had previously
been the subject of certain expert
ments with anti-typhus serum.
Waiting mice are not so long as
the common gray mouse, and much
more slender. They are spotted black
and white at each end of their bodies. !
and are clear white in the middle.
They whirl around on their four feet
as if or a pivot; sometimes stopping
and reversing the direction. Instead
of running away when disturbed or
frightened, they begin 10 waltz.
The two-headed snake of Egypt is
not a poisonous serpent. 1t is a boa /
CONSTRUCTOR and it is fairly common. 1t |
is strangely formed in SO far that it's |
tail, instead OF tanerinG off TO 4 point |
as the tails OF other snakes do, widens |
out into a bludgeun shape. thus max
ing it look like a head. JU"glers in |
crease the deception by skillfully |
painting nose and eyes
Recent Investigations by life insur-
ance experts in Great Britain and the !
United States show that total abstain
ers have a much higher chance OF life |
than moderate drinkers have. Between
20 and 80 the number of deaths is II !
per cent. in excess, between 80 and |
20 &c