The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1906-05-26
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The Oldest lighthouse in existence ia
at Corunna. Spain. 1t was erected in
the reign of Trajan and was rebuilt IN
1854
BY his will pauper who recently
died at the Westbury workhouse. in
England, left his cat to the king of
Spain.
The Angora goat furnishes most of
the hair which adorns ordinary dolls.
This product Is valued at $4,000, 600
q year.
A physician in Spain gets cents
visit from workingmen and 20 cents
visit from an aristocrat and is sup
posed to attend the poor for nothing.
Ike Chance of Sedan, Kan, runs
poultry house and Il barber shop all in
the same room. The chickens are side
line TO the shaves, and the proprietor
claims they draw in the rural trade.
Hard times are reported from Por-
tugal, where many of the vineyard
owners have in their cellars the har-
vests Of two years which they are I'M
able to sell except at huge sacrifice.
Overproduction is the cause.
After recovering the sheet anchor of
the British battleship Cumberland.
which had sunk in twenty-five fathoms
Of water in the Mediterranean. a diver
rose to the surface too quickly and
died after two days from the effects of
the pressure.
1t is told of Herbert Spencer that
when out for drive from time to time
he would have his carriage stopped,
no matter if in a crowded London
street, till he had felt of his pulse. If
1t was regular the drive continued; it
not, he went directly home.
The sultan of Turkey has a great
collection of canaries. He chooses
them by the length of time they sing
without stopping Recently he paid a
very high price for an English canary
which sang without stop for twenty
minutes by the sultans watch.
Considerable attention has been at
tracted to Hamblen county, Tenn, be-
cause of the wholesale charge of the
Smith family upon the local offices. The
only officer Of the county who is not
named Smith has Smith for wife
and Smith for mother.
A dredger built of oak, sixty-eight
feet long, twenty-one feet wide and
drawing seven feet six inches Of water,
Is now in use in Dundee harbor. 1t
has been in use in the same place for
over 100 years, and its engine is said
to have been built by James Watt.
The manuscript of DIR. John Browns
famous little story, "Rab and His
Friends" which was sold for 5000, was
secured for Edinburgh medical men,
who intend to present it either to the
library Of the Royal College of Physi-
clans of Edinburgh or to that of the
university.
In Colusa county, Cal. Miss Florence
Berker ran against her father. Il. F.
Berker. the incumbent. for the office of
school trustee and beat the old man
after hot campaign. She did it be-
cause she had heard her father in
tended to GUST a female teacher who
was friend of hers
Mr.. Nein of Yeagertown, Pa, con
cealed $l10 in gold between the laths
In his home short time ago, and a
few nights later a fire burned the
building. The gold was not lost, how
ever for the next morning Nein sifted
the ashes and found the melted coin.
losing but little of the value of the
money.
An interesting war curio recently ar
rived at Ilhartum in the shape of the
late Sultan Lambio's great war drum
1t is cut from solid block CT wood
and is intended to represent buffalo
The whole thing is more than ten feet
long, four and half feet high and
four feet wide and requires eight or
ten men to carry it.