The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-12-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

dogs. '0''er
There is an elk's head and horn.
IN the museum of the University ~
tennessee that weighs over 700 pounds r.
The law of Georgia makes Il i.
CRIME to point a pistol or a gun at an
other, either in fun or malice, wbetbar
the gun or pistol be loaded or not, '''
Benjamin Franklin, who died :,
1870, was grandson of a man born ~
the sixteenth century, in the reign &c
Elizabeth. Three generations TINS av
tending over two centuries.
There are more than twenty thor
sand people in America descendants ~
one Richard Lyman, who landed in
Boston two hundred and fifty years acn -
from High Cigar, near London. 81
The emblem of the Order of tbo
Garter is a dark-blue ribbon edged w;ts
gold, with the motto Honi SOFT an, mai a' -
pense worked in gold letters, and =
buckle and pendent of gold. 1t is worn
on the left leg below the knee.
In order to stop panic in hi.
church, clergyman in Bradford pa
led Off in hymn at the top of his voice
His singing was SO unmusical that tho
congregation believed that he had bo '
come terrified beyond control, and tbo
panic increased in violence.
The position of umpire not aL
ways either safe or pleasalt. man
in New York, to whom was ressrvcA q
dispute whether young womans hair
was red or auburn, decided that it was
red. For this sanguine opinion the ds.
putant who took an auburn view Of the
case stabbed the unhappy referee.
All the Russian prisoners are not
patriots suffering for the human race
Lieutenant Landsberg, who murdered
Madame Vlasoff and her servant for
money to pay his debts of honor, en-.
ploys his life sentence of penal seryi.
tude in overseeing the construction Of
Notifications by gang of rebellious
Mussulmans from the Caucasus.
Henry johnson, Il colorea man in
Sumter County, South Carolina, pro-
cured from a conjurer charmed bullet
and shot John Davis, with whose wife
he was in love. He thought that he was
thus protected from punishment, but to
his surprise and that of the negro spec
tators in the courtroom, he was found
guilty of murder and sentenced to be-
hanged. He still expects to escape the
gallows, however, and his belief is
strengthened by the fact that while his
trial was going on two of the jurors
were suddenly taken sick. and had to
be replaced by others, and that within
three hours after he was sentenced the
sheriff, robust man in the prime Of
life, dropped dead.
The question whether eggs should
be sold by number or by weight has
been under discussion in Paris. All Of
the usual arguments in favor of either
method have been put forth. Men Of
mathematical and statistical procliyities
haye been at work on the problem, and
have learned that eggs laid by the
more generous fowls, such as Black Span
ish, Houdans and Creve- Ceurs, aver
age seven to pound, while HamburgS
and some other varieties lay eggs SO
small that nine or ten are 1aq1ifed 20
tip the pound weight. 1t has not &C.
CURED to any ingenious Frenchman,
that, in view of the varying thickness
of the shells, more equitable method
than either of those under discussion
would be to open the eggs, and sell
them at so much quart for solid meats,
as oysters are sold.
The Lynchburg Virginian describes
an ingenious trap devised by Virginia
farmer to capture sheep-stealing dogs.
Having suffered severely from the dep
relation of dogs upon his sheep fold, he
built around a number of sheep that
dogs had killed an inclosure of rails
twelve feet high and ten feet square at
the ground, the sides of the trap slop-
Ing inward until an opening was left
about five feet square. ANY dog could
easily climb such sloping fence and
enter the pen, but not even a grey
hound could jump out of it. In three
nights the farmer captured forty-slz
dogs. including fifteen or twenty that
had never been seen before in that
neighborhood. This after their had
been a public slaughter of all dogs sus'
pected of sheep killing save one, whose
master could not be convinced OF his
guilt. The trap was built for his espe
cial benefit, and it caught him the first
night.
"A little girl only fourteen years Of
age, named Margaret Messenger, has
just been convicted and sentenced to
death at the Cumberland Assizes IL
England for the murder of a baby
whose nurse she was. The jury foune
her guilty, and also that-although, be-
ing at the time under the age OF four
teen, she was, prima facie, incapable
of crime-she was precocious enough
to have a criminal intent. There is OF
record in England an example of DO.
aged eight years being hanged for burn
ing barn in Berkshire. A boy o
ten. convicted of numbering his bed
fellow, was unanimously pronounced
by the Judges as proper subject O
capital punishment, and does not ap
pear to have been reprieved. These
cases happened long before the Score
tary of State was in the habit of inter
fering in cases of murder as he does OF
present; and it is probable that this
young girl may have her punishment
committed to Imprisonment for life.
"A report comes from physicians ID
Baltimore that case of genuine lepro'
sy has been brought 10 attention there,
The patient is lady, the mother o.
several children, and her case has ex'
nitnd ontnrid or.n hln- nttnntinn Among The