The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT Omemee, Canada, they have s.
curious plant grown from seed sup
posed to have been turned up with the
earth taken from well at the depth of
fifty feet. 1t resembles century plant.
and is nearly seven feet in height.
-Ah-wa-ga-hah Blackface, aged 1O5
years, the Oldest squaw on the Tona-
wanda reservation, near Buffalo, N. Y.
has just received from the Government
her pension of eight dollars per month
on account of her husbands services in
the war of 1912.
"A policeman saw woman digging
in her garden at Paris, KY, before day
light She was not noted for industri-
Gus habits, and therefore he covertly
watched her until she brought out a
box containing $4,000, the proceeds of
recent bank robbery
An old and excellent engineer on
the Central Pacific got new fireman
the other day, who after throwing the
big pine blocks for an hour or so, got
very tired of it and thought it no more
than fair to take change. He looked
up to the engineer sitting on his COM
Portable seat and said: Z" Here, YOU
throw chunks for a while, and will
look out for cows"
The will of the late David X. Car
roll, a millionaire manufacturer, who
died at Baltimore few DAYS ago, has
been admitted to probate in the Balti-
more County Court, and in one re-
spect is a remarkable document. After
bequeathing all his property, estimated
to be worth several million dollars, to
his large family about equally, he places
the sum of 100000 in the hands of his
executors to defend the will in case of
litigation.
Australia has added to it's other
natural anomalies fish on legs. A re-
cent expedition has dredged up one of
them, and, placed upon the decks, the
creature raised itself on it's four legs
and walked! Yet to all intents and
purposes the thing was fish, with fins
and tail and gills. Another wonder
of the same expedition was the rats
The voyagers stopped on small island
which was overrun with rats-but the
rats were yellow, chestnut and tortoise
shell.
Conductors on the New York Cen
trail Railroad are bitterly complaining
of overwork put upon them by the man
agement, they allege. out of considera-
lions of economy in money and time.
The Utica Herald satirizes the present
system by saying that plan is under
consideration whereby the train en-
ployes' meals are to be condensed into
the form of cartridges and fired into
the open mouths of hungry conductors
and others as they rush past the lunch
counters.
"A Rhenish regiment of artillery,
quartered at Metz, were thirty-six days
absent from barracks on an excursion.
Upon opening one of the rooms dog
belonging to the regiment was found
still alive, but in state of extreme
weakness and emaciation. OF ordinary
food, or even water, it can have had
none. There were evidences that the
poor brute had gnawed some pieces OF
wood lying in the room. 1t was so weak
that it could not even lap, and for two
days it was fed with milk through
tube, but it quickly rallied.
"A British officers wife in Burmah
describes the climate by this incident:
ga friend gave my husband some OWLS
eggs, which he left in place in the
drawing room, the coolest place in the
house, being in the center and sur
rounded by other rooms. The eggs were
on table in the corner, and were for
gotten. Some days after l saw one of
the eggs moving, and slightly Clipped.
Presently out came little owlet. The
other eggs followed suit, till they were
oil hofohoA This i,,,,1aScibIa
to any one who has not lived where the
thermometer is generally 105 degrees"
"A little son of Abraham May, of
Miller Township, Blair County, Pa,
was bitten by a copperhead snake few
days since. After biting, the reptile
kept fastening and coiling around the
lads legs, and it was only torn from its
coil by the brave little brother of the
boy, who, Selling it with his hands, re-
leased the sufferer and killed the snake.
The boys leg was greatly swollen,
though the free flow of blood from the
wound perhaps washed away much OF
the virus of the copperhead. The usual
home remedies were employed, and at
last accounts the lad was in fair way
of recovery.
"A baby's grave at Glasgow, Md,
received for nine years the most care
full attentions, flowers being frequently
planted on it, and the sod always kept
in perfect order. Mr.. Brown and Mrs.
Ellison, each unknown to the other,
were doing this work of love. Each
had lost an infant, and supposed this
was its grave. Brown erected tomb
stone lately, and then controversy
arose, Mrs. Ellison insisting that Y
must be taken down. The church au-
thorities held several meetings of in
vestigation without reaching any con-
clusion, and then somebody suggested
that a neglected grave near the disputed
one be opened. This was done, and
Brown conceded that the coffin was the
one that had enclosed his child. The
stone has been removed.
The village of Patchogue is the
largest on the south side of Long Island,
and its original site was won in lot
terry. The deed which records this fact
was made on the 18th of July, 1853,
"t the thirty-second year of the reign OF