The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

ia lyon Chinese, and New South Wales
is going to initiate her.
-Thefwife of Mr.. G. Chevalier Of
L Assomption County. Canada, ha, pre-
sented him with his twenty-ffth child
- Five carloads of dromedaries wero
recently shipped from Texas to Arizona
to be used in transporting United States
mails. rE
Six thousand dollars in sihsle div
is reported as having been picked from
pockets Of people reading Street blIIe.
tins in Washington. l0U1 0sR ~
On the body of an outcast woman
who drowned herself at Detroit was
found gold medal. which she had re.
ceived for remarkable scholarship on
graduation at an academy. Iu u ~
AHighwayman in California tried f.
wreck a train the other day, for the
purpose of capturing Millionaire Fair
who they expected to hold as a HOSTAGE
until heavy ransom should be paid. ;
Miss Schaffer, young lady resid.
ing in Elmira, N. Y, who took the S2Od
prize at Brockport recently for BEING
the handsomest woman in the State. has,
gone crazy. Her insanity is the result
of too. much notorietY on a weak mindl
Morocco has been suffering from
heat that is described as all but insun.
portable. 1t was sosgreat thatthe fast
OF the Ramadan conld not be kept and.
in the last removalof the Sultan S camp
over 200 camels persisted of excessive
heat. ~ 4 t3lt( T. 4
In Nevada the cattle-owuers nest,
Kill their critters by numerous brands
and the loss in the value of hides, bH
SO much branding, is estimated at $780,.
0OO year. An old brand spoils a hide
four-bits' worth and a new one one dol
lar. Some bands of cattle are SO much
marked as to make their hides worth
less. NJ, - ha' =. NJ i7rrF'
General J. B. Gordon, of GEORGIA
has became wealthy since he left the
United States Senate. His good fort
Iune came through the sale of coal lands
IN Alabama, for which he and his two
brothers and Governor Colquitt re-
ceived $780, 900, together with IS 600
600 in stock of the Richmond and Dan
vile Extension Company. <.A't.ry.
Brother Knowiden' polygamy is of a
KIND that even Mormons do not approve. .
He has a wife in each of. seven Utah
towns, so that in his travels he is pro-
vided with convenient lodgings free of
cost, for he lets the wives support them
selves. One of them became SO poor
that she, nearly starved to death, and Z
hnowiden was mobbed the next time
he visited her. ..-....
An aged farmer in Turner, Me-,
disagreed with a neighbor about d
boundary line fifty years ago, and on
certain rock that marked it, as he
claimed, he solemhly placed his we'll
worn family bible, covered it with fiat
stone, and charged his descendants to
letIit lie there forever 1t has not been
touched since then until few days ago,
when sacrilegious man from Auburn
lifted up the stone and found the old B.
book still well preserved, .a~ 80
1t is said that President Garfield,
walking with Colonel Rockwell on the g
beach near Elberon, just before, the3
shooting, said: "Now, is itnot strange,
and is it not a striking commentary on
the protection and security afforded by
free institutions, that the President Of
the United States can go about in this
way, practically unattended and with
out body guard, and without the par
aphernalia that encompasses other
rulers. L am as secure in travelling this
way as any other citizen of the coun-
try" .atEflt& rUu
The people of Sutro, New, have a
good thing in the large artificial lake
near the town. About five million gal
Ions of hot water flow into it daily from
the tunnel, thus keeping the tempera-
ture at all seasons Just right for bathing
purposes. BY analysis it is found that
the water flowing from the great ore
channel of the Comsteck contains both
gold and silver in solution, therefore
people bathing IN this lake absorb more
or less of the precious metals. Thus a
poor man may in few months become
regular bonanza in himself, assaying
high in the hundreds. '..'F
Few people know that in bad sea-
sons honey is apt to be poisonous. This
arises from the fact that in such sea-
sons the bees are often obliged to gath
er it from poisonous flowers. Great
care should be taken to remove all
poisonous plants from the neighbor-
hood of hives. A specimen of honey
from Trebizppd, ,Ngathered from the u
ponttcuns, which is com
mon IN that neighborhood, was sent in y
1884 by MIR. Keith f. Abbott, to the
Geological Society of London, and in
1859 it still retained its poisonous quail /,
ties. In 1890 great many people in
Philadelphia died from eating honey
gathered from the flowers of the kalmlO
Iatyoltd. In good seasons the bees ,
avoid poisonous plants, a., ..o. ,t,.ag >
, Reports of trouble in the armies Of
Germany and Austria, caused by the Z
cruelty of the subordinate officers to-
ward the private soldiery, continue 70
be heard, Notwithstanding the efforts
made by the higher military Officials to
put an end to- the barbarities. On the
18th of July a corporal was shotin
Vienna by q private who entered the
service some months ago, having pre-
viously been atailor's apprentice. This
man had been ordered by the corporal
toreport to him, In fuflldress uniform
during the evening" Instead OF doing