Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1880-02-20
NO. "a.
ITEMs on aENERAL INrEREsr.

TEsSYsoN gets SIS hne for his
poetry.
A FULL.sIzED bumblebee is the new
est lace pin.
JOAQUIN MILLER is very green andawk-
ward in society.
NASHVILLE will celebrate her centen,
nial April %, 1880.
TINS is the season OF the year when
venerable hens enter their second child
hood, and are broiled for spring chick
ems.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has steam
launch at Newport, which he is forbid
den TO use because it contains boiler
OF English manufacture.
THE Queensland transcontinental eur
vey party speak hopefully OF the prac-
ticability Of constructing railway across
the Australian continent.
Two LITTLE negro boys at Paris, Ky
we're given pistol by their mother,
who told them to 60 out and amuse
themselves. They did, and one wns
killed.
THE Russian Society Of Hygiene pro-
pose to print school books in white let
ters on a black ground, in order to check
the increase Of myopia--short-sighted-
ness in scholars.
For want of tenants, Sir John RAMS
den, who owns Huddersield, England,
and has an income of 100000, has been
compelled to take six of his huge Scotch
sheep farms into his own hands.
DURING the recent eruption Of Mount
Htna, the hills, plains, seashore, white
roads, house tops and gardens in the
neighborhood were black with ashes.
CHARLES WADE, the Chinaman who
was conspicuous among the Chinese
party brought to North Adams, Mass,
by Sampson, the shoe manufacturer, has
married an American girl.
THE coffin Of the late Baron Lionel
de Rothschild was of lead, in a case Of
fine elm with plain black cloth cover
ing. In accordance with Jewish GUS
tom it bore no inscription.
In India 10000 to 10000 people per
ished on their way home from fair.
Possibly while at the fair they had at
tempted to sustain life on the oyster
stew dispensed at said fair.-Bosto7a
Transcript.
THE grasshoppers are Matching out in
myriads on the plains west Of the Mis-
souri river. The train out Of Virginia
City, New, passed through a mile Of
them on their migrations the other af-
ternoon.
The Burlington Hatsk-Eye gramma.
rian is again at it. He says: @Ah,
young man, ii you only had not of dyed
your linen ulster last fallfor to make Of
it overeoat, you wouldn't not now had
to OF bought linen duster for your
summer wear"
A GLAss-sPINNER of Vienna offers for
human wear glass muffs, white and
curly glass hats, feathers, cuffs, collars,
wells and dresses for ladies', glass car
: pets and wool hardly to Be distinguished
from the real
TWENTY-FIVE lashes arc hene sforEafd
to be the maximum lea4a logging in the
British army, and this only when q
soldier is on active service. The sub
ject lately afforded a brisk debate in the
House of Commons.
THERE is rumor that the British
Government contemplates the embodi-
ment Of one or perhaps two regiments
of troops ir Canada. for foreign service.
The Canadian papers are Of opinion
that the men could be obtained easily.
CocoANUT SoUEALER, father OF the
first monkey born at the Philadelphia
Geological Garden, is dying. He is
over 80 years old, is stopped, emaciated,
wrinkled, toothless, half blind, and
partly paralyzed-altogether far from
healthy.
AN old bachelor being i'll, his siste
presented him a cup Of medicine.
What is it? he asked. She answered,
@It is elixir asthmatic; it is very aro-
matte, and will make you feel ecstatic.s
Nancy he replied, with smile, 'you
are very sister-matic."
THE Jersey City Journal believes
that there are probably not over doz-
en- or SO of perfectly able-minded adults
in the world who have never told lie,
and the most of them have told q good
many. 1t therefore wonders that the
average man hates so to be called a har.
Dr.. d. LAURENCE, Of Boston, reports
what he characterizes as miracle His
son had an attack of spinal meningitis,
and was soon at the point Of death, in
spite of the most careful medical atten-
ton. Mr.. Webster neighbor, then
seemingly cured the boy by the laying
on of hands.
WHEN Benjamin franklin was an edf
ter he was in the habit Of writing to the
Young ladies' who sent in poetry, saying
in honeyed language, that, owing to the
crowded state OF his columns, etc, he
would endeavor to circulate their pro-
ductions in manuscript. And then he
tied the poems TO the tail OF his kite for
bobs."
The British Museum is about to 40
quire a ll-preserved Egytian papyrus.
belonging to the time ct the later Ptole-
l1ies. It contains nearly the whole Of
the thirty-fourth book Of the "Iliad' The
museum has secured another papyrus,
even more ancient, recently found in an
Egyptian tomb, and containing an al
most complete transcript Of the eight
zenith book Of the "Iliad."
FIVE outlaws were hanged by mob
in Henry county, KY, several years ago.
and until lately that section was free Of
robbers. A new gang, however, has
proved its existence by particularly
! hendish crime Raiding on farmers
premises at night, they murdered three
persons and burned the buildings, for
the sake Of stealing things worth less
than $500. Gov. MeCreery says, i'll 8
proclamation Offering reward, that
Kentucky cannot afford to let the crin-
inals escape.
TIE sleep Of winter and that Of night
are different in those animals which are
torpid for months. The bat, the hedge
hog, the tawrie, the marmot, the ham
ster, tortoise, the toad, snakes, mollusca,
spiders, bees, flies, bears, badgers, ETC.,
retire to their closed holes, and in vari-
Gus degrees undergo temporary death
Of four, five, six and even seven months
Of the year. They usually roll them
selves up, but bats suspend themselves
J., eaxae Those who lay nm provisions