The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-09-11
GENERAL.


TIE King of Denmark is suffering
from lumbago.
THERE are about $4,000 distinct char
table foundations in London in connec-
ton with the city parishes.
GUATEMALA has opened her pioneer
railroad, line of about thirty miles,
from the port of San Jose to Escuintla
in the interior, with great rejoicing.
THE London Lancet says that thirty
eight strokes minute dangerously over
tax an oarsman, and do not produce the
greatest amount of power in him. About
twenty-eight are right.
Two young men of New Haven have
made bet on the Presidential election.
The loser is to stay for two hours at one
of the principal street corners of the
city, black the boots of all the passers-
by who want the job done, and the pro-
ceeds are to 60 to the New Haven
Asylum.
THE Jersey Belle, owned by Mr..
Films, of Scituate, Mass, is claimed to
be the best " butter COW - living. She
is described as being beautiful animal
of rich yellow fawn-color, diversified
with white, weighing nine hundred and
fifty pounds, and yielding over seven
hundred pounds of butter in year.
AN interesting curiosity is letter
written by Martha Washington from
Mount Vernon on the 9th of April, 1862,
and owned by Mrs. J. Reid of Andover,
Mass. In it Mrs. Washington acknowl-
edges the receipt of some "syder, "
speaks of her own and Mr.. Washing
TONS "helth," and begs her friend to
Whom she is writing to except" her
love.
A NOCTURNAL sham sea-fght is short
ly to be executed by the German Navy
off the coast at Rugen on a grand scale.
1t will be in the presence of the Crown
Prince, who attends by special COM
mand of his father, the Emperor. Elec-
trio lights are to be put in use, lighting
up the sea for many miles round. The
iron-clad squadron will take part in the
maneuver.
DIR. STERNBURG, of the United States
Army, who has made speciality of filth
diseases in New Orleans and Havana,
exposed the fallacy of the popular notion
that because foul odor had existed for
years there was no danger. cit is, -
he said, ga powder magazine into which
the spark of cholera, diphtheria sand
malaria might fall at any time. The
germ of typhoid was developed under
such circumstances.
MIR. BELL, the inventor of the tele-
phone that bears his name, is only thirty
two years old. He has made great
fortune out of the invention, and has
enriched his father-in-law, Mr.. Hubbard,
of Boston, who put money into it, and
who is now getting up companies in
London to introduce the telephone into
India, China, Japan and Egypt.
WHILE boy was driving the cows 10
pasture in Wallingford, Conn, the other
day, he saw fox sleeping. Throwing
a stone, he hit the animal on the head,
and, supposing he had killed it, took it
by the hind legs. He had gone but a
short distance when the fox began biting
his fingers. He then dashed the ami
mails head against stone wall, killing
it instantly. :.
MEAGHER COUNTY, Montana, has q
wonderful cave. An arched passage
thirty feet wide, many feet high, and
seventy feet long conducts the visitor to
spacious apartment sixty feet in width
and one hundred feet in length. From
this room passages open on all sides into
other chambers, one of which is esti-
mated to be one hundred feet square,
with a dome-shaped ceiling rising to a
height of eighty feet.
BERKs, Pa, claims the largest chest
nut tree in the county. 1t is growing
on the farm belonging to the estate of
Solomon Merkel, in Rockland Township,
and measures thirty eight feet four
inches in circumference; the lowest
limbs are fifteen feet from the ground,
and measure fourteen feet in circumfer-
ence at the base. The top of the tree is
reached without danger by steps that
are fastened between the limbs. 1t is
estimated that this tree contains about
seventeen cords of wood. 1t still yields
about three bushels of chestnuts an
nually.
NEWFOUNDLAND is determined to
have railroad across its $50 miles of
"i"ui, "hu ohO ouI FOyo alo loW Ill pro-
gress so that an estimate of the cost can
be submitted to the next meeting of the
Legislature. The British Government
has declined to guarantee loan for the
road, and accordingly the expense will
become a direct tax on the people.
Their burdens are now only $3.50 per
head, and an additional taxation of Al
cents per capita will meet the interest
on the outlay for the projected railway,
which will open up vast tracts of settle
ment and mining lands.
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