The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-09-08

lars.
Alter studying the sensatibeness OF
the tendrils and hairs on Wants, a
! distinguished naturalist has come to
the conclusion that some plants are
Icapable OF experiencing regular SEN
{sations.
| An Oakland, Cal, judge granted a
! divorce to a Mrs. Matthew of that city
lrecently, because her husband had
thrown her pet dog out of window,
| breaking its leg, and had otherwise
cruellp treated it.
| A novel fall festival peculiar ia
| Rocky Ford, Col, is melon day Peo-
! pie from all over the State gather
once each year and devour several
| thousand melons, after which a pro-
gram of athletic events IS INDUCED in.
Public records of Fairfax county,
! Virginia, show that at the age of 227
George Washington, "the father OF
his country owned $4,000 acres OF
land and in 1890 the Washington fam
lily had killed $50 hogs for their own
use.
! The squirrel fish is a brilliant red
III color, which makes is a conspicuous
inhabitant of the sea as it darts here
and there with alert movements The
DOup Vi lHC t1 HSH SHOWS lew
stripes and is well covered with sharp
Splnes.
The late Russell Sage was a mem
Der of Congress from New York in
, the thirty-third Congress, taking his
seat December 5, 1853. He was a
member of the Committee on Waps
and Means and chairman of the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions.
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troversp over the division of large
Smithson, of California. The land
was divided into four parts and the
four heirs, with the head and tail of
half dollar made successive selec-
tions, much to tn chagrin of the legal
fraternity
Ambassador Reid is gaining a rep
utation for lavish entertainments at
London, Consul General Wynn hav-
ing said of him: at was a difficult
thing for any man to go to London as
Ambassador after Chaotic, but Reid
has gone in for entertaining in such
grand style as to captivate London.
No ambassador has spent so much
money as Reid"
According to a German investiga-
tor the users of tobacco should filter
the smoke from their pipes through
cotton soaked inferric salts. By this
process the fumes of the essential
oil, of the hydrogen sulphide, the
cyanhydric acid and about half the
nicotine and its products of decompo-
sition are got rid of, while the smoke
IS not deprived of its aroma.
The tomb of Mohamet is covered
with jewels worth $I2,5oo,ooo
1t is stated that locomotive en-
gine going mile minute gives
twenty puffs a second.
In the capital of Honduras all the
houses in the poorer quarter are made
OF mahogany, which costs less than
pine there.
The city of Centralia, Wash, was
founded by a scolored man named
George Washington He died at the
age og So years q few months ago and
all the stores in town were closed in
his honor
Three hundred and ninety-twp egg
stations are maintained
by the government in Ireland for the
purpose of bettering the poultry of
that country Many meetings are
held each year to promote Irish poul-
try interests.
The steward of q political club
in New York, John Paul by name,
has the rare distinction of being q
grandson and grandfather at the
same time His grandmother is liv-
ing at the age Of 81, and bly, grand
daughter has recently been born.
The longest bridge in the world IS
1t Ssn8ong, Qhire. and IS called the
Lion bridge 81 extends fye and = !
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