The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

=" Jim " Keene, the stock broker
was once a stationery peddler in San
francisco. He saved little moner
&Ed put it in the Savage Mine lust aS Z
cleared nearly S1,0O0,00O
"A woman teacher in Georoetowr
Mass, was driven out of her school bv
the sight of loaded pistol in the hand
OF pupil she had reprimanded, but She
met one of the committee at the sdoor
and he went in and disarmed the how
"A tract of land in Oregon. between
the waters of the Santiam and Clact-
amas, about twenty by ten miles in Al.
mansions, is covered by dense forest
OF larches. The trees grow from 250 to
800 feet in height, many of them risipS
100 feet without limb. re
jay Gould's greenhouses. at biO
summer residence on the Hudson, which
were burned ten months ago, have ALI
been rebuilt. They are 972 feet lone
by eighty wide, and it requires sixteen
men, $50 tons of coal and five I,rro
furnaces to transfer m the freezipo ar
to tropical during the winter season.
Ben billiard, of Washington Coun.
ty, Ga, is perhaps the greatest sufferer
in the world. He has been thirty three
years in his bed. enduring the most ex-
cruciating agony from rheumatism,
unable to move any part of his body ex-
cept his lower jaw and to slightly shrug
his shoulders. For all those long years
of suffering his joints have been as stiff
as if grown together solid.
One of the most fashionable New
York amusements is "a horse hop;'
that is, some society woman engages
the riding grounds and horses, and then
invites twenty-five or fifty of her friends
to be present. Two or three hours are
spent in cantering, galloping and dam
cling quadrilles on horseback and then
the guests adjourn to the house of their
hostess, where they find an elegant
supper.
Henry Clay, a grandson of the
famous bearer of that name, went to
Greenland year or SO ago, with the
purpose of joining the Howgate expe-
dition there. The expedition, like
Captain Howgate, was failure, and
Mr.. Clay was left to look for the north
pole on his own hook. He did so, trav-
eled great deal by dog-team and got
enough of it. He has just reached his
home in Kentucky.
In some parts of the Mary land pen
insula the following is believed to be a
sight cure for chills and fevers: a live
spider is caught and placed in Thin
BILE, and cloth tied over securely to
keep it con fined. The thimble is sus-
pended around the neck of the afflicted
person until the spider dies, which not
only cures, but prevents the chills. 1t
will doubtless tickle the spider to learn
that he is worth anything to anybody.
AT the recent funeral of the Earl of
Airlie, in Scotland, Lady Airlie followed
the coffin, leaning on the arm of her
eldest son. Lord Airlie having been
chief of the clan Ogilvy, the procession
was headed by the pipers, who played
the Portuguese Hymn and 1.-The
Land O. the Leal," while, before it
started, the pipers of Lord Breadalbane
and other noblemen played in front of
the Castle. The pibrochs were ''Loch-
aber no More and "Glengarry's La
ment."
Various cases of poisoning from the.
use of perfumes have been reported in
recent English journals. In one in
stance little girl had bought some
heliotrope perfume at bazaar, and had
applied it on her face. This caused a
vascular eruption, swelling, itching,
and in fact erysipelas, which lasted for
some time. The scent was made with
some of the products of coal tar, and
not with the odoriferous principles of
plants, thus acquiring its irritating
properties.
-Bradhaur accepted an invitation to
dine with Frohberg at Columbia, 5. c.
The meal passed pleasantly, and bot
tie of wine was drunk. The subject of
baptism came up, and one held that I'M
mersion was the only proper mode,
while the other argued that sprinkling
answered the purpose quite as well.
They grew earnest and then angry.
Bradhaur withdrew in rage. Froh-
berg followed him into the dooryard,
where his antagonist stabbed him with
a knife. Frohberg hastily got gun
and shot Bradhaur. The baptismal
question, however, was not settled.
DIR. Tuttle. of Naugatuck, Conn.,,
lost valuable horse in a most singular
manner. His two horses stood side by
side in the stable as they have done for
years; but the other morning one OF
them was found bleeding at the mouth
and the manger and stable floor were
covered with gore. investigation showed
that in some way the other horse had
gotten hold of the wounded animals
tongue and literally pulled it out by the
roots. The tongue was found in the
other horses manger with plain teeth
marks upon it. The horses were wont
to nip at each other in play, and it is
supposed that one got hold OF the others
tongue as if it had been bit OF rope
or other inanimate substance. The In
jured horse was killed to end its SUI
ferings.
"A singular criminal case has Just
been tried at Berlin. Some time ago
Prince Eristof, a Russian, called on a
firm of jewelers. in that city, and under
false pretences induced them to send
to his hotel articles to the value of about
5000 marks, for which he also per-