Sharp County record., 1880-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS,

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"A Backs County, Penr,v,r,..
man has Just ended lawsuit oi ,tsa fa- er
two years standing and recoerei !, |, m
cents damages. -" NJ Ii.
"A gentleman writes to ,ra,ora as
STANDARD that cats can be trained 70 y in
trieve game as dogs do. WEanN = = X
takes his gun in his hand his thra n. y m
are in ecstacies in anticipation OF NAY o-@
That gigantic floating palace 4, o'
Livadia, made, in passing from Coz u !.
Gibraltar. upward of seventeen MIL !. q =
hour, while there was a total ab5eno ! !, p'
any disagreeable motion. her " nitlt :,
being but one degree. This NAV /, d
to great change in ship building. " =;
"A piece of snobbery which Won,
disgrace the smallest potato court a,
Europe has just been perpetrate5
Arlington, n. J. 1t consisted in q
ousting of two respectable Young oil a
from literary and musical societTy viii viii Ct
big name because they worked for'
living and did domestic drudgery. O.
Mr.. Riley Kittridge, of Belfast N.
has a postal card upon one side of wbG
he has written clearly 4,O0S words con ri
prising the entire books of Jonah an
Malachi and the fifth, sixth and a part J G
the seventh Psalm. Mr.. Kittridge ,.
Gently sent postal card to each can%
date for President and Yice-PresdeH, W
the six cards containing almost I5,W p
words.
So many tenants on the Duke 10
MarlbOrough's Oxfordshire proper,
have given up their farms that he ba u !!
over 5000 acres unoccupied and throw u
on his own hands. Many other larr :,
landlords in the country are in a simiIr . p
predicament and in Warwickshire, Gin u
ceStershire and Wiltshire things are eys =.
worse. In fact, the number of acrs 4 =
now unoccupied in England is aImosI; u u
incredible. -
wiener wurst" is a comnc Il
street cry in Cincinnati, being used h
venders of Vienna sausage. These mel a
have little stands at the street corner
provided with Il vessel for keeping tbl
sausage hot by means Of steam, a boz
for German rye bread and Jar icf,
horseradisl. For five cents they sci, d
steaming link of sausage, resting Chi
slice Of bread, with hOrseradish surI o
kled over it. The sausage is made
three parts Of beef to one Of pork.
Few persons outside Of ENGLAND
where coursing is one OF the nation o
sports, have any idea Of the value
greyhounds. At a recent sale ae
dogs brought III guineas, TIC
highest being sold for 400 guineas an.
the lowest for ten guineas. This is snrf'
in excess of former sales, Bedlamt,
and Peasant Boy, two weil-knOEN
hounds each having brought 800 guineg
and for Master McGrath, probably h e
most famous dog ever bred in Engal,.
his owne-, Lord Lurgon, was ofen. k
the sum Of $4,000.
In the city of Dublin there are p. .
900 families. averaging five membeE :,
who are each living in a single room 4
The death rate of the city IS forty w !,
1000, which is equivalent TO sixty g'
1000 in the tenement-house distric1
These two facts, the enormous numb :,
OF families living in a single room all
tht high death rate, prove that IL :,
horrors and dangers of Irish distr@
have not been exaggerated. Thes /
families of five shut up each in sing. =
room depend for support on wages \ :,
from ten to seventeen English shilling b
a week.
"A Washington letter writer saE o
How some of the poor Governing
clerks are overworked is illustrated ht1
an order just issued by Commission
Bentley, prohibiting clerks whose win il
dows open on the north from shoOtin!
rubber bands at the chickens in y@
adjacent to the Pension Office Tia
clerks have been in the habit oiamusil:c C
themselves by making targets Of th
chickens. They got up quite rivaF a
as to who was the best marksman. Th
chickens didn't complain; on the COZ il
trary, they took the bands for worm
and ate them. Several of them died v
The owner could not account for ther
demise. In spirit of investigation heb
cut them open and found them stufe
with rubber bands. He soon Learned I
where the rubber came from. and mad
complaint to Commissioner Bentley. ,