The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

which say: "No petition for Obs
signed by any member of this firm,
A Philadelphia drug clerk blur
dered in compromising dose for his
own taking, and lost his life thereby
-Jerusha Revell, of Wakullv Conn
ty, Fla, has 262 descendants. Eiobt
OF them are ministers of the Gosnel
She is eighty-five years old, and for ten
years has been blind. L
-Ex-Representative Burleigh has
scheme to domesticate che buffalo
which, as he argues, is much bettar
beef animal for the cold Northwest than
the OK. He wants Congress to helm
him.
That human bite is as as DANCER
GUS as that of any animal is shown br =
an occurrence in the German city ~
Munster, where a man who was bitten
in one of his fingers during a fight has
had the alternative of losing his arm q,
his life. Blood poisoning set in, and
speedy amputation at the shoulder he.
came necessary.
The elaborate bronze balcony rail.
ing made for the house of William r
Vanderbilt, on Fifth Avenue, New York
is how on exhibition in PHILADELPHIA
1t is wonderful piece of hand beaten
work, and, with other bronze RAILING
ordered for the house, will cost $50:
900. Each section is.seventeen feet lCae
and two and a quarter feet high.
Two children, born few weeks
ago in the Canton Vaud, Switzerland.
were joined together in the same man.
ner as the famous Siamese twins. II
was believed that, as infants, the lica-
ment which joined them might, with
success, he severed, and the operation
was accordingly performed. No ppar-
ent permanent injury was caused by it,
and several days afterward the twins
were reported to be doing well.
With the expressed purpose 4
keeping dogs out of the Stockton House,
at Cape Nav, during the present season.
the Directors issued an announcement
that they would be charged for board at
the rate of ten dollars week apiece.
That this scheme for carrying out a
praiseworthy purpose is an utter failure
is proved by the fact that six dogs are
now registered at the Stockton House,
that is to say, three Skye terriers, two
lap-dogs and one pug.
"A large natural cave has been dis
covered at the head of Williams Greek,
in Josephine County, Oregon. 1t con.
sists of series of subterranean caverns,
or chambers. through which person
can walk for some four or five hundred
yards from the entrance, and there are
still other chambers beyond the en-.
frances which are too small to admit
person, but could be enlarged sufii-
GENTLY, it is thought, by little labor
with pick and hammer.
-Four disappointed Arabs are in
Boston. They were Sheiks of distinc-
ton in their own country, and one
claims to be the head of Moabite tribe
descended directly from the Mohabites
spoken of in the Bible. They were
brought here for exhibition, and were
told that they would become objects of
they proved unattractive as shasrse
and, being abandoned by their mana
gers, are paupers, without much pros
PSSo VI SOUoilss peeSh hOilO'
Three women were standing side
by side in dry goods store of London,
Ontario. One hung her umbrella by
the handle on the edge of the counter
and moved away. Another laid down
her pocket-book where it fell into the
umbrella unseen, and when it was
missed the third woman was accused of
stealing it, searched by an officer and
finally released without being able to
relieve herself from suspicion. The
umbrella was rolled up, with the lost
money still in it, and only after a
lapse of week was the truth revealed.
"A striking" instance of mnemo-
MICS is communicated to Notes dn6
Queries by one Of its correspondents:
Gillies de Retz, Marshal of France (said
to be the veritable Blue Beard was
sentenced to be led in chains to the
place of execution and to be burnt alive
at the stake. The day appointed was
October %, 1880, "a date" says the
historian, " about which there can be
no doubt, for all the people of Anjou
and Maine, by common consent,
whipped their children on that morn
ing, SO as to impress the precise day
upon their memory" This strange
mnemonic process is still fayorite
with the peasants of Anjou and Brittany.
A recent writer describes the float
ing vegetable gardens of Lake Grina-
gar. in Cashmere: They are made by
first planting poplar poles, twenty-five
or twenty-eight feet long, in two or
three rows, twelve or fifteen feet apart.
Then the gardener gathers from the
lake a lot of aquatic plants and inter
weaves them between his poles. This
forms the support of the garden. Then
more plants are collected from the lake
and piled up to the height of three or
four inches. These soon rot, and form
the soil, and the garden plants first
sprouted on the land are then trans
planted to the garden. At first they are
watered, but it does not take long for
the rootlets to find their way to the
water underneath The vegetables
raised are said to be very fine, and are
sold at very low prices
"A recent traveller in equatorial At
RIGA says: " Lions are one of the dan
gers between Zanzibar and the great
lakes. They sometimes hunt game in
packs from six to eight. Some animals
show fight against them successfully.
Lions never venture to attack the adult