The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

The expectation of live stock and
fresh meat across the Atlantic was never
so active as at present.
President Grevy gave two thousara
francs to the poor of Paris in honor Of
his daughters marriage. "
According to the late French paners
a prodigy called Chicky is ASTONISHING
the people by hanging to trapeze WITH
his hands and playing violin solos with
his feet. "''H
Deer, squirrel and pheasants are
said to be abundant in the Shenandoah
Valley of Virginia this fall. PartridceS
are scarce, while wild turkeys are above
an average.
There are six turnips on exhibition
at the office of the Oregon Improvement
Company, Colfax, w. T., that WEIGH in
the aggregate 102 pounds. The larcest
OF the six weighs twenty-five pounds.
The second annual congress of Ger.
man numismatists has Just been held at
Dresden, under the Presidency of DR.
Erbstein. At the same time an exhib.
ton was opened of coins now in nse
throughout the world, which is said ia
have been the most complete collection
of the kind ever seen.
"A project for constructing a cireu-
lar elevated railway for Vienna, which
for the last fifteen months has found
employment for large staff of English
and Austrian engineers, is anout 10 be
carried out. The proposal is that
wherever it may be possible it shall be
carried above ground ON iron columns.
The chaparral cock of Arizona
(paisano) Is a very delicious bird, but
hard to kill, its motions are so rapid.
These birds, it is said, are the natural
foes of the rattlesnake, and build a cor.
raj of chollay (cactus) around him, and
irritate him until he lashes himself to
death against the thorns by which he
is surrounded.
Until she was fourteen years old,
Victoria did not know she was heir to
the throne. But on seeing genealog-
ical table one day, she discovered the
fact, and said to her goyerness: There
is much splendor but much responsible.
ity." Then with tears she exclaimed:
Baroness, will be good" She was
more sober and more digniied ever after
The large pine tree on the site Of
old Fort Herkimer, New York, which
had escaped the AK of the wOodman be-
cause it had given shelter to General
Washington and party while dining be-
meath its boughs, when on his way to
visit Fort StanwiX, was blown down in
a gale few days since. 1t was over
four feet in diameter at the butt and
over $50 feet in height.
At Knoxville, Tenn, Mr.. A. Moore
was instantly killed by the discharge of
his gun while holding the barrel over
the fire to melt the bullet out. The ball
was tightly wedged in the barrel, and
he took this method to get it out. hav-
ing previously unbreached it and picked
the powder all out, as he thought, but
enough remained to hurl the molten
mass into his abdomen.
The biggest thing yet in the way of
plaster casts is the cast of o whale taken
at Provincetown, Mass, by Mr.. Palmer,
ington A papier-mache fac smile is
W DO IuOlNlCu IlOul bllC SuoOy OhC OhOil y
skeleton of the same whale is to be in
serted, and the monster will be sus-
pended in the museum. To show the
arrangement of the skeleton, one side
of the whale will be left open.
Carrie Carr and j. j. Underwood
met casually in store at Bear Greek,
Tenn. A rumor that she was about to
L. nd W
said, 80, no; nobody will have me-"
"rll take you," he replied. An en-
gagement was made to meet at an ap-
pointed time to have the marriage GER
emony performed. Underwood says it
was all joke, neither party pretending
matrimony, and he did not make his
appearance. But she claims that they
were both in sober earnest and has
brought suit for $4,000 damages.
"A Venetian gondolier descends gen.
orally from long line of ancestors,
who were for centuries boatmen. A
pondola costs about 5000. The father
laws by week after week small sum in
order to buy his son one, and thus start
him in life. The gondola costs about
sixty dollars per annum in repairs. The
owner pays tax to the municipality,
according to the station, to which he is
allotted, and he is obliged to be there
not only every day, but every third
night. During the summer months he
earns dollar per diem; in winter al
most nothing.
There is a good deal of difficulty
found in familiarizing the Indian labor
ers employed on Mexican railways with
the use of the wheelbarrow. The same
trouble was experienced by the first
railway contractors in Hindostan. The
laborers there had been in the habit of
carrying off the clay from the excava'
tions in baskets on their heads. The
method proved picturesque, but slow.
Finally, large supply of wheeibarrows
was obtained. The contractors emo
tions may be imagined when, on the
first morning of their use. he beheld
his laborers fling off in long line, each
with his wheelbarrow poised on his
head.
The peculiar mining of Henry Jope,
briefly indicated by Leadville tele
gram as swindling, yielded him Slo,'
600 before his system was exposed.
Most of the ore taken out of the Lead
vile mines is sold to the reduction COM
panies, who extract the ore by means
of improved machinery. The price Is