Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-04

eighty-four. ''' "9' "
All the popes have been Italians
since tle election Of Adrian VI. of
Utrecht in l522. -
1t was caustic old DR. Johnson
who said: Patriotism is fhe las,
refuge of scCundrel.'' -
u alue the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm: swarms of
insects viii surround you in the sun
Statistics show that short siotted-
ness is on the increase in GERMANY
specs.
a shipment of Sussex county \
y, zinc ore has been made to En0Iand
win view to tests in the making Of
zinc paint.
The continental newspapers are
Poklhg nun at England for her ridicu
lous position, with her vaunted navy
bottled up"
.-Ohe may form an idea of the size
ol the Natlcan at Rome from the fact
tn,'.,i 'u,u90 troops might be easily quar-
\ Neteu WITHIN its wallis
The first court dress which the
! ti,''c'S 1hercedes wore as Queen is OF
( White satin, with "A ruby velvet train
six yards long, embroidered with gold.
A wealthy Newburyport man. fear
ful that his relatives NAV try to put
hlm intoa lunatic asylum, has provided
himself with several physicians certif-
Gates that he is sane.
The raising of the blockade in the
Black Sea has given an enormous i'm
PetuS 10 the sugar refining business i'm
Marsellles-a very important element
III the trade of that great port.
In youth grief comes with rush
and overflow, but it dries up. too. like
the torrent. In the winter of life il
remains miserable pool, resisting all
evaporation.-M S,oetcbine.
-"Cham," of the Paris Chdripdri.
had prepared a cartoon of Bismarck as
the Sphinx, To whom the Eastern uues-
tlon should be referred, but the author
lties refused to sanction the publication.
Mrs. Lincoln, Of Boston, has two
young African lions for pets. They
are twenty-one months old and are
permitted to run about the house like
dogs, The police have ordered her to
cage them.
Judge w. l.. Piea,oe, ee I-elsss Is-
land City, has asked the Legislature to
pass bill abolishing his office and
transferring its duties to other courts.
His reasons are that very little business
comes before him, and he does not do
enough to earn his 81, 500 salary.
According to Boston's boiler in
spector there are about 1000 steam
boilers in that ciuy located beneath
sidewalks and elsewhere. lie has found
that in ten years there has been 976
boiler explosions, costing 700 lives, and
| the destruction OF $1,000, 900 of pro-
| perty.
The title Queen of Tramps is given
| to the woman who walked from Bangor
to Kansas City and back She was
three years at it, and her route was far
from direct, being varied by her wall
| deTing inciindtionS. She worked d little
on the way, but generally lived by beg
ging and stealing,
The MormOns are peculiar people,
but their Legislature Occasionallygrinds
out some healthy laws. One passed at
the present session defines common
barratry as ''the practice of exciting
groundless judicial proceedings, y and
makes the offence punishable by fine
of not less than three hundred dollars,
| or Imprisonment i'll the county jail not
| exceeding six months.
| The famous sea lions of Seal Rock,
| Nr1fN how VNrp
sented to the Legislature as a nuisance
demanding abatement. The Fish Com
missioners declare that unless salmon
be protected there will not be one i'll
the Sacramento river ten years hence
The seals devOm So, 800, 900 fish every
year, and are themselves protected by a
law which makes it penal to kill them.
One Of the most meXplicable eXplo-
sions took place recently, at the Pine
: Iron Works, in Montgomery county
[ Pa, when teamster tipped a cart load
of hot cinders into snow bank. This
apparently innocent action produced
( an explosion which is described as
. Fearful. Houses hundred yards
away were shaken, and persons near by
burned and cut by flying cinders.
! Mrs. Cynthia George, a stitcher il
; a shoe shop at North Adams, Mass.
died recently from the effects of arseni
cal poisoning, caused by working upor
> fancy tips made of bright-coloreC
! leather. The first indication was q
|, slight eruption upon her face. In {
few days her face became much swol
q len, and it grew rapidly worse, until al
,, the time of her death she was scarcely
: recognizable.
: "A boy was receAtly sent by express
> over the crooked roads of Pennsylvanla-
, | ,I'he waY-bfII ran: cone boy from IT. IL g.
, Walton. Doylestown, to w. w. Dewitt {,
White Haven, weight fifty pounds. ,
4 1t was necessary to make several
= changes. A tag fastened to button
: hole was checked by eight messengers
e and he was receipted for by them, ant
l. finally delivered to his destination II
l. excellent order.
a An English judge has annulle'
4 the marriage of young lady who, be
:, ing sent from India to England for he
y education III 1870, eloped with he
n cousin to Scotland in the same yeaI
l. and was married to him after resi-
"A dence of nineteen days and parts OF tw
;, other days in the northern part OF th
p kingdom. An act of Parliament pre-
n scribes that the residence must be
81 twenty-one clear days previous to MAJ
y riage. and this residence was not re
= garded as filing the requirement,