Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-11
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The rate Ofa horse's pulse is stated
to be but sixteen beats per minute.
If you want enemies, excel Others
If you want friends, let others excel
you.
We know that we must meet to
part, but we know not that we part to
meet again.
Habit is a cable. We weave threads
Of it every day, and at last we cannot
break it.
Let your inclination be to those
who advise, rather than TO those who
| praise your conduct t7e
True joy is a serene and sober mos
tion, and they are miserably out who
take laughing for rejoicing.
In character, in manners, in stvle.
In all things, the supreme excellence is
simplicity.
The creation Of the world is placed
by Hales at 54ll years before the birth
of Christ.
Titus, though generally esteemed.
and thought merciful and human.
cruciiied 500 Jews i'll one day.
There is this of good i'll real evils
they deliver us while they last from
the pretty depotism of all that are
imaginary. taHa
The Germans adulterate their to-
/ bacco by using beet leaves; they would
scorn to use the succulent cabbage.
1t is publicly announced that the
Crown Prince of Austria will visit this
country during the next summer
Cedar, oak, yellow pine and chest
nut wood are the most durable woods
in dry places.
Egypt is nothing but the valley of
the Nile where the Nile turned from
its course, Egypt would be nothing
more nor less than a vast tomb.
mississippi was first settled by the
French at Natchez. 1t was ceded to
Great Britain by the peace of 1888. In
1917 it was admitted into the Union
The present condition of women in
China is of the most degraded charac-
ter. Even among the well-born, few
can read or write.
The day after the Battle of Water
loo it was found that $4,000 men and
horses We're lying on a surface of two
miles square. Each and every foot bore
mute testimony to the misery of war.
1t has been publicly noticed that
aftera great commercial crisis religious
excitement is always sure to break out.
and have run"
There are about 10000 barrels of
oil pouring out of the Pennsylvania
wells everyF Fwenty-four hours of the day,
Never mind about those whales.
There are said to be stored on the
Kennebec river, in Maine, over 100000
tons of ice, most of which is already
under contract at fair price.
Three persons in th narsh of
Assumption, in Louisiana, -led nine
4 thousand alIigators, and sold their hides
for seventy-five cents apiece.
The National Bunker says the
amount of money annually paid to the
newspapers for adyertisingin in this coun-
try exceeds $500, 100000.
"A man, named Silence, was fined
SIS in a police court in Washington,
several days ago, for using loud and
boisterous language on the streets Of
that city.
In the window of shop in an OBJ
scure part of London is this announce
ment: Goods removed, messages
taken, carpet beaten, and poetry com
| posed on any subject. "
The English are making asses of
themselves in breaking Mr.. Gladstone's
windows, and adopting other small
means of offence against him, because
he is not in favor of the Turks.
The first sporting paper was pub
lished in England in 1858, and called
the Jockeys hltelIjgencer. The first
illustrated paper was published in 1643,
embellished with a few rude wood
cuts.
"A young man in Sprague, Conn,
who carries pistol cartridges in his
: pocket with his tobacco, happened to
: get one in his pipe the other day, and
! did not know it until piece of his nose
7 was blown off.
In the memoirs of the Empress
Catherine, written by herself, she gives
an account of d masked ball which
took place at Moscow, where all the
gentlemen came dressed as women,
and the ladies all wore the dress OF
gentlemen.
9 There is no theory too absurd to
: find advocates. In 1899, Charles Pal
t mer published a book entitled, "A
e Treatise on Heliography, satisfactorily
= demonstrating our great orb of light,
5 the sun, to be absolutely no other than
: a body of ice.
-Muskets were first used at the
siege of Arras, in 14l4. Spanish his
torians state that Spain was the first
power that armed the foot-soIdier with
these weapons. They were used at the
siege of Rhegen, in l52l, and superseded
: bows and arrows in the English army
e at the same date.
, A Wisconsin man took fowllng-
4 piece to the village gunsmith for some
; repairs, informing him that it was
q loaded and he must discharge it, Wher
! the mechanic fired it off it burst, anC
Ii he narrowly escaped DEATH And now
i the sportsman has sued the blacksmith
{ for the value of the gun.
i As the result of the Turkish war
:, business has opened in human jaws
{ which are collected in Bulgaria anC
:. consigned in large quantities to Paris
/ The lower Jaws are selected, and thei
IS value depends upon the soundness, re
q gularity and whiteness of the teeth
IS which are extracted on their arrivs
+. and used for dental purposes.