The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-09-13
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A witness in tho Wlllesmen Eng
lanO police court, while under oath,
said that he had to turn a customer
out of his shop because he persisted
in paying bill that he did not owe.
A deaf and dumb person. who is
fairly expert at finger language, can
speak about forty-three words a min
ute. In the same space of time per-
son in possession of his speech Will
probably speak $50 words.
A curious fact noticed at once by
visitors to Moscow is that the cab
drivers used no whips. There is a
law prohibiting their use, and the ex-
cellent condition of the horses attests
the benefits of this humane law.
What is known in the market as
chamois skin is really obtained
sheep skin Innings. The supply of
real chamois skin is very limited, and
all there is in the world would not
supply the United States for single
day.
An official of Tientsin, China, re-
Gently ordered five prisoners to pray
Tor rain on the understanding that IL
1t did not rain in three days they
would be executed. There was
rainfall. so another FIVE were told off
to repeat the experiment
'kamala" is the vernacular name
of the red dye produced from the
glands of the nature food of a tree
named Mallotus Phillipinensis. The
tree is also called the "monkey-face
tree" because monkeys paint their
faces red by rubbing them with the
fruit.
Vienna is to have the largest and
finest Illuminated fountain in exist.
ence. The Illuminating power will
equal 90O,OOO,OOO candles. 1t in.
cludes twenty-seven immense rehec.
tors capable of giving seventy vsria.
tions in light effects every seventeen
seconds.
The vast areas in Canada owned
by the Hudson Bay Company could
not have been sold for a cent an acre
on the average, forty years ago.
Lord Strathcona is authority for that
statement. Now the average value is
over 50 an acre, according to the
same eminent fnancior.
There is curious old law in ia.
pan, still in effect, that when the EN-.
peror or empress appears in public
no private person must occupy
higher place than the members of the
royal family. On such occasions
therefore, it is the custom to close
the shutters of all the upper stories
OF the houses past which the royal
party goes.
SILK hats are worn by the Japanese
gentlemen only on the most solemn
occasions, but at such times they are
as necessary as their etiquette. AS
the owner never wears one out. the
nat is passed down to posterity, and
every fashion since the time of Per.
rvs advent may now be seen when
Japan does honor to royalty or at,
tends weddings or funerals.
Servian peasants help each other
by means of an institution known as
the moba. A man who has not hands
sufllcient to plow or reap his farm
calls in the moba-that is to say, in
vites all his neighbors to come and
help him. He pays nothing for this
service, providing only generous sup
plies of food and drink, but when
any Of them apply for the moba it is
understood that he will take his turn.
In the Island of Minora, one of the
Philippines, the humming birds are
pugnacious little creatures. A hunt
ing party had a novel experience
with them. One of the huntsmen
wandered off from his comrades. but
soon his screams were heard. Thou
sands of humming birds had attacked
and wounded him in hundreds o.
spots on his face and neck. When
rescued he was streaming with blood.