The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-12-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

worth, is in his ninetieth year.
AT an expenditure of 100000, I'M
der the Stock Protection act, 469 OOO
kangaroos and wallaby dogs have been
destroyed in New South Wales in a
year.
DIR. McCreery, of Louisville, XIV.
believed that thoroughly acquired an
petite for rum was incurable, and there.
fore, when he found himself possessed
of one he committed suicide.
Robert Warnock, veteran of the
war of 1912, and 102 years old, has lust
become an inmate of the Veteran Sol
diers' Home in Dayton, O., hoping to
pass the remainder of his days there.
The long dry spell caused bees
to tap the grape. They extracted the
juice so thoroughly in some vineyards
about Thomaston, Md, that nothing
was left but the skin and seeds.
Three Philadelphia girls, ranging
from eleven to thirteen years of ace
agreed to test the pleasures of gettino-
drunk. They bought bottle of whisky
and drank it. A policeman soon after
ward found them lying insensible in the
street.
The Sioux have fashion of NAM
ing children in the order in which thew
are born. So the roll has MANY such
names as Winona, Hapan, Hepi, Wa
noke, Hake, etc., which mean first
born, secondborn, third born, fourth
born, tifth-born, and so on.
The identical table used by Thomas
Jefferson for tea service at Monticello
is in the possession of w. N. Ruflin, of
Danville, Va. one of his lineal descend
ants. The table is neatly made of hard
oak, about six feet long and four feet
wide, with two small folding leaves.
In ten minutes 'cane rush" be-
tween Union College sophomores and
freshmen, at Schenectady, N Y, the
other day, most of the contestants were
shirtless. After the fight bits of tat
tered clothing Uttered the ground. The
faculty were unable to stop the fracas,
and will hereafter make expulsion the
penalty for such exhibitions.
The farmers of Maine ought to put
up monument in honor of the cater
pillars which devastated their apple
orchards few years ago; for since that
time the trees have regularly borne in
what are elsewhere ''off years" This
years crop in Maine is enormous, the
quality is superb and the farmers are
getting three dollars barrel at their
own doors, owing to the scarcity every
where else.
Apple peels and apple cores are
now shipped from Chicago by the bar
rel to makers of apple butter. When
shipper asked the freight clerk what
rate he would charge on them, the clerk,
thinking the customer was joking
him, asked: "Do you want separate
rate for stems and seedsP" He was
very much astonished to learn that
cores and skins are a regular article of
merchandise.
No one can contemplate the statis-
tics which reveal the wholesale slaugh-
ter of railroad brakemen, while they are
engaged in the duty of coupling cars
without being shocked into the convic-
ton that some means for preventing it
ought to be enforced. A law compel
ling the use of safety couplers was in
| troduced in the Connecticut Legisla-
ture during the last session and laid
over for year to afford the Railroad
Commissioners of the State time to con-
slider the subject
A Cincinnati boy brought home
some caps and Illuminating powder from
the fireworks factory in which he was
employed, and put them under his bed.
His mother struck them with broom
while sweeping, and caused an eXplos-
ion which almost killed her. The lad
did not let this mishap hinder his di-
version. He brought home a much
larger quantity of the explosives, and
kept them in box on the roof of the
house. A few days ago roofer picked
up the box, rubbed the powder between
his fingers, and was blown into frag,
ments
-Jemima Burke, of Fleming. KY,
was visited simultaneously by two suit
ors, Royce and Rogers. Neither was
inclined to retire and leave the other
alone with the girl, because both knew
that they had alike come to pop the
question. After two hours of obstinate
sitting, Rogers remarked that a man
was selling moonshine whisky in a
lonely place half mile away, and in
vited Royce to 90 and drink some. They
went together and got the whisky.
Rogers then said he guessed he would
return to Jemima, as ne wished to see
her alone. Royce replied that he had
precisely similar intention. That
made Rogers desperate, and he shot
Royce TO death.
Queen Ranavalomanjka, of NADIA
gascar, has always been a strong tenn
perance woman and rigid advocate of
prohibitory laws. In Imerina, her CEN
trail province, new prohibitory law
has Just been promulgated, which, il
She shall be able to enforce it, ought to
result in the strictest sobriety. Under
penalty of fine of ten oxen and ten
dollars, it prohibits the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating beverages, and
Furnishes with lighter penalties those
found drunk or carrying the liquor,
whoever may have sent them. If one
convicted be unable to pay the fine, he
must suffer Imprisonment, one day be.
ing regarded as equivalent to a six
pence of the fine.
An Italian law court has just had to
decide case of great interest to fowls
The Duca di Lavello and his brother
the Marchese di San Marco, had pat
ented an instrument called the me
chanical suffer-" for feeding and fat