The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-13

In England beggars have reduced their
business to a science
The cramps" there have way of marking
houses for each others information-have, in
fact, devised mlestones and finger posts of
professional beggary. AS thus A small
square signifies "Unfavorable; mind the dog y!
A circle with a dot in the centre, Danger
Gus; sure of months prison" A circle
with cross in the centre, Religious but
tidy on the whole" A mark like the prongs
of a pitchfork, go this direction, there's
nothing the other way" A diamond-shaped
mark means Good" A triangle, "Spoilt by
too many tramps;" while plain cross signi-
fies mo good; too poor and too knowing"
A Wisconsin newspaper states that work
has been suspendcn on the St. Paul and Chi.
cago Railroad, between Winona and St.
Paul and men ordered to be retained under
pay until railroad matters are Strengthened
out in that State. The iron and steel works
at Birminghampton, Conn, used 1000 tons
of scrap last year. making $500 tons of finish
ed iron, $50 tons of imported steel in car
riage and truck springs, and made 1000 tons
of iron into axles of all grades and styles
They employ about $50 men, and are about
to add to their business member Of one
of the cooperative societies in London writes
that he has saved enough by it to take his
ldllliS vi continental tTlp.
A curious sight may now be seen on the
quays of Paris, Everybody knows the para
pet is covered with sccond-handed books,
pamphlets, etc. Prince Napoleon has Just
emptied on them the trash" sent him with
. the dedication of the author in his autograph.
All were marked in Prince Napoleon's hand
writing ito be thrown away" Foremost
among the trash" writes n Paris correspon-
dent, are all of Charles Summers speeches
delivered during the last two or three years,
which he sent to Prince Napoleon.
1t would seem to be difficult thing to i'm
prove the Ohio River Its bed is now full of
OF pools and sand-bars. If these are removed
the river will become of uniform shallow
ness, which will practically destroy it as a
means of navigation. 1t has been proposed
to tap Lake Erie to supply it with water, but
there is the triaing objection that Pittsburg
is one hundred and twenty feet higher than
the surface of the lake.
ST. JOSEPH, Michigan, shipped in 1867
four hundred thousand baskets of peaches,
fifty tons of grapes and seventeen thousand
bushels of small fruits. Seven years ago in
that region there were neither grapes nor
small fruits, and not over one hundred acres
of peach orchards in bearing condition
There are 1866 lakes in Maine, some
'dlc lloul 1,SUU W S,OUU IeeJ ABOVE inc level OF
the sea. 1t is claimed that no other area of
equal extent in the world possesses so much
water power.
The Acalanche, published at Silver Creek,
Idaho, says there are two kinds of wood in
THAT country-fir and mahogany-the former
rates, in town, at from $12 to $13 per cord,
the latter at SIS. Hay sells at 800 per ton.
The value of sheep killed by dogs in the
United States for 1866 is estimated by the
Commissioner of Agriculture at $4,000 00.-
The subsistence of the whole number of dogs
in all the States is estimated by him to cost
annually $50,000000
A gentleman in Illinois owns an estate so
large that he has three hundred and twenty
miles OF hedge upon it. He is to SOW new
neld of ten thousand acres for the first time
this year.
Two young women, who were watching
the body ola supposed dead child, in Aber-
ueer, Miss, were somewhat startled when
the youngster sat up and requested some
lthing to eat