Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-25
Iariefies.


have separated because Mrs Leonard
wanted to lecture.
1t is said that the hens this season
are laying the smallest eggs everbrougbt
/ to market.
The following words. if spelt hack
wards OF forwards, are still the same
Name no one man.
Horse flesh is sold for food in some
OF the New York restaurants. accord
ing to the papers
"A Kansas COW will probably excite
the envy of all her bovine companion
III ily time, as She has two weil-deyel
oped tails.
Smith, the American postman. re-
Gently walked 20O0 miles in 1000 hours
i'll Dublin, the most remarkable feat of
the sort on record.
Damascus, like Constantinople,s ,suf-
iers from plague of dogs they per
form the duty of scavengers. however
ahd SO are of some USE
,,e,--,,i ne he British Army in India is com
! po9ea ol l46,o infantry 81 o1o ,,,,,.,i
/ Ri3,OOO engineers, I3 900 artinerY S''aa. sa,5
400 teld-pieees. '''' ? "''
The lady who had I.ar b,,,so .,,,..,
WIN gold has finally found refuge i'm an
insane asylum near the city Of elias
gov.
The collecting of cigar ends and
making them into an agreeable snuff.
forms distinctive and profitable trade
in German cities.
The Africans consider the white
ant rare dellcacy, and, fried in OIL,
dish fit for the king Stanley didn't OBJ
lect to it when he was hungry.
The English volunteers, in the in
land districts, don't think half so much
about soldering, now that prospect of
real war is at hand. They say that the
regular army is paid to do the fighting.
The group of islands known as the
Bermudas lie only about 700 miles
southeast Of the harbor of New York.
For delightful climate and picturesque
scenery these islands are unsurpassed.
Formerly men remaining unmarried
In England at the age of twenty-five
were called old bachelors, and were by
law fined according to their station in
| life.
discovered that when Strawberries grow
among the vines, the phyloxera van
lsheS. A parasite on the strawberry
kills the foe Of the grape.
The CoSsack, when leaving home
on an expedition carries with him a
little bag around his neck, filled with
some Of his native earth. When he
reaches home again he kneels and kisses
the ground.
The remains of a new mastodon-
like animal, from the Loup Fork beds
of Kansas, have lately been described
by Prof. Cope. 1t is evident that the
creature must have been as large rs an
elephant.
A MODEL PLACE. little town
ship of Waltham, VT, with an area Of
nine square miles and population of
249 persons, has no town taxes, no
bridges to maintain, no minister, no
doctor, no lawyer, no town paupers and
no Jail.
The WAR FEELING IN CANADA
| The greatest excitement prevails in
Canada at the news of war between
England and Russia being imminent:
Canada's first contingent of men Will
be 10, 900, 2 900 having already been en-
rolled in Montreal.
One thousand years ago, when ac-
cording to the testimony of Bryant,
the Morse shallops We're sailing up
Massachusetts Bay, the Russians occu-
pied only an insignificant province near
the head-waters of the Dneiper. To-day
| they govern One-seventh part of the
continental portion of the globe.
Probably the oldest hearse-driver
in America is William Boyle, of Phila-
4 delphia, who has followed this melan-
| chOly occupation for fifty years, attend
4 ing a funeral on an average of three
/ times a day during that time. He car
ried the remains Of John Quincy Adams
| and of President Taylor through the
city. He also drove the hearses when
President Lincoln and Vice President
Wilson were honored in Philadelphia
The Emperor of Germany, if one
may believe divers pleasant anecdotes
! concerning him, is stout disciplin
arian. 1t is said that at one of the
| recent State balls he observed that a
young officer, in talking to his partner,
! had accidentally turned his back on an
! English lady. Walking up to the un-
! conscious offender, he seized him by the
shoulders and turned him round, telling
| him at the same time that he should new
er turn his back to a lady. 1t is related
also that his Majesty happened to see
another officer dancing rather awk ward
Iy and Immediately told his Colonel to
inform him that he was not to dance
again until he had learned to do it bet
ter-an excellent injunction.
Wonderful are the ways of COM
promsers. A Boston merchant was
recently informed by Western cores
I pondent that certain persons We're on
I the way to this city to try to effect a
compromise of their indebtedness that
/ they could pay 100 cents on the dollar,
and have S25, 900 left. If YOU men
East, . read the letter, "will com,
| promise with men that can pay in full
at 80 or Is cents on the dollar, you will
make all Western merchants rascals,
and we will all compromise with our
! creditors in order to compete with our
neighbors. The merchant who received
] this letter thought it for the interest Of
honest trading to put it into the news
papers, and so, perhaps, the little
scheme was baked but it may do no
/ harm to mention it,