The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The London police force consists of
5000 men.
The Sutro tunnel in Nevada has been
bored 10, 44O feet.
California has $50, 900 children under
fifteen years of age.
The British Government paid out last
year S., 403, $50 in pensions.
San Francisco has two hundred and
fifty-two unmarried female teachers.
During the past year las new streets
were opened in London, and 7764 new
houses built.
-Straitsville, Ohio, proposes sending to
the Centennial single block of coal weigh
ing two tons.
Ladies who admire house plants ought
to know that the oleander is dangerous
and poisonous.
"A large brewing firm in Glasgow, Scot
land, have begun importing California bar
ley for their beer.
They are making noiseless shoes in
Massachusetts that are to be felt-when
mothers use them.
East Hartford, Conn.,, expects to put
more tobacco in the market this season
than before for ten years.
Boston has had eleven postmasters
since 1889, and all but Jonathan Hastings
and Aaron Hill are living.
-" Walkin g. Scar" is the name of two
female partners in the shirt making bust
ness in Chicago, and people do.
Eugene is suing the French Republic
for some of her husbands property which
he could not take to England.
An Alabama widow a few days ago
found on her farm nugget of gold weigh
ing two and ahalf pounds, and worth 5000.
Out of 600 convicts in the Georgia
Penitentiary only one, tenth are white, the
twelve.
Lady physicians are doing a thriving
business in Salt Lake City. There are not
men enough to go round, and it prevents
! trouble.
"A negro Justice of the Peace in JEFF
ferson county, Florida, passed judgment
against his wife for stealing chemise, and
in default of bail sent her to Jail.
The Prussian corps of cadets consists
of the main institution at Berlin and six
preparatory schools at other places, con-
tanning altogether about 200 cadets.
The directrees of female industrial
school in Paris was sentenced to pay fine
of 100 francs and to suffer an imprison-
ment of three months for ill-treating the
children.
DR.. Mary Walker has arrived at Salt
Lake City, and been welcomed by the
much-marred, who doubtless think one
woman wearing the breaches very little to
speak of.
The Prismoidal or one-rail railroad
completed from Houston to San Antonio,
Texas, is now open for traffic. Japan is
building one of the same kind that will be
500 miles long.
When Mile. Roch, daughter of the
French guillotinist, was married the other
day, the crowd threatened to be so large
that the ceremony was performed at
o'clock in the morning.
Twenty forts and large number of
provisional camps are being constructed in
a circle about twelve miles from Paris, and
will be completed in 1878, three years
sooner than was anticipated.
-" Prockie " is the euphoneous abbrevi-
alton to which Miss Proclamation Emanci-
patton Coggeshall, of Ohio, is compelled to
submit. Her patriotic father thus afflicted
her because of the date of her birth, poor
creature.
The Empress of Austria is the fairest
of royal ladies, having the loveliest dark
eyes in the world, and sweet and winning
manners. But it is nevertheless currently
reported that she henpecks her royal spouse
numerically.
Walking horse races have come into
usage at Western fairs. 1t is urged in
favor of such contests that horses able to
walk at the rate of five miles an hour are
of more value to farmers, for farm work,
than those that can trot mile in 2:20.
"A German paper expresses uneasiness
at the decreasing population of Prussia
proper. Between 1861 and 1864 there was
an increase of s, 400, but between 1864 and
1867 there was decrease of IL, 922, and
between 1867 and 1871 one of Sc, 440. AL
lowing for the loss of life in the last two
wars, and for the Prussian soldiers quart
cred in France at the time of the census,
the loss of population in ten years amounts
to So, 200
The Chinese in their own country used
to get their opium chiefly from India, but
latterly they have consumed a native article
which is said to be less rapidly enervatins
at Canton, Mr.. Robertson, asserts with
regard to the latter: "The truth is, it is
a stimulant of harmless character when
used, as it generally is, moderately; and
to those much exposed to the weather, such
as boat people, it is necessity. That it
may be abused is probable, but excess car
ries with it, among the Chinese, the same
amount of moral degradation as inebriety
does with us.
EyThe Director of the Mint is prepar-
ing to coin ten, twenty and fifty cent silver
COINS and issue them in redemption of
fractional currency. There is now in Cir
culation $40, 6S3, 575 of fractional currency,
and Il, 900, 900 are in ten cent notes, ST.
500, 900 in fifteen cent notes, $40, 900, 900 in