The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Coney Island takes in 125. OOo vic
itors on fair SUNDAYS, and disnosos 90
$4,000 dinners and 200, 900 schooners ~
beer. VI
The desk of English oak, on which
George Mason wrote the Virginia Bill If
flights, has been given by his great
grandson, Mr.. George Mason. of Alev.
andria, to tie Virginia Historical So.
ciety. '''' '0-
An irrepressible war is goinc on
between the birds and squirrels of tho
Sierras in Nevada. The latter aro
hardly out for an airing before the blue.
birds and wrens pounce upon them and
drive them to their holes.
AT the meeting of photographers
IN Chicago one of them made the state
ment that men should be taken with
their right side toward the camera and
ladies' with their left, as their noses
generally point different ways.
"A gay and festive blonde youna
man named Clarence H. Barrett of
Providence, r. l., has left for parts nm
known, and eight young women in
that region claim that he is their buS.
band. just before his wholesale mat
rlmonial proclivities were exposed. he
was counting his ninth intended victim
and she had narrow escape.
Acting on theory that human he
lngs were made to stand upright and
therefore ought never to lie down ~
Californian sleeps in an apparatus
which sustaius him comfortably in a
perpendicular position. A Nebraska
physician is equally certain that the vi
tai organs are injuriously affected by
being jolted downward in walking. and
to counteract this he gravely stands on
his head five minutes every day.
There is to be new king in Eu-
rope. The German authorities will re-
quest the Grand Duke of Baden to as
sumo the regal title on September 20.
which is the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his marriage with the only daughter of
the German Emperor. If the Grand
Duke accepts the proffered Gift. the
marriage of his daughter Victoria with
the crown Prince of Sweden and Nor
way will admit of being celebrated at
Carslruhe.
"A fish propagating company of
California is experimenting with a frog
pond. New Brunswick furnished the
material to start with, 100 frogs being
sent from there packed in fresh moss in
box plentifully supplied with perfora-
tiOns for the admission of air. The moss
was frequently moistened on the way.
On the arrival of the box at its destina-
ton only 112 frogs were found and of
these ten were dead. 1t is supposed
that the eighteen that were missing had
been eaten during the journey by their
companions in confinement.
The population of Canada, accord
ing to census taken on the 4th of last
April, is 4, $50, 933, or about that of our
single State of Pennsylvania. The in
crease during the last ten years has
been 800, 173, or q little less than a
quarter. The proportionate gain,
therefore, was not equal to that made
in the United States between 1870 and
1880, for we added to our population in
that decade something over thirty per
cent, and our increase alone was nearly
three times the total population of the
Dominion to the northward of us.
Thirty years ago Burr forbade Platt
10 walk across his land, at PlattvilIe,
Conn; but Platt could save many steps
by going that way to his milldam every
day, and so did not heed the prohibi-
ton. Recently, after Platt had worn
path unmolested during the intervening
years, Burr told him he must stop, as
the trespass had lasted long enough;
that he had, after mature deliberation,
resolved to shoot him if he walked that
way again. Platt did take the usual
route next morning and received a
charge OF buck-shot from Burrs gun.
"A cat belonging to John Pool, on
White Oak branch, says the George
town (Ky.) Times, had litter of kit
tens, which were taken from her and
drowned. The cat was determined to
have something to nurse, and went to
the woods and brought in five young
rabbits, which she proceeded to care
for in a motherly manner. Getting
tired of the rabbits, Mr.. Pool gathered
them up, took them out into the bushes
and gave them their liberty. A second
time the cat went out and brought back
three of the rabbits, all she could find
The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald
relates this incident: GA little girl
about eight years old on Wednesday
went into the house and asked her
mother for two cents. This request was
refused. whereupon the girl picked up
a revolver that was lying on the shelf,
and, raising it, pulled the trigger. The
ball went through stove funnel,
knocking ii down, and the mother
tainted. The girl was thoroughly
frightened, and, rushing out of the
house, did not return for the night.
She very evidently was ignorant of the
serious nature of the act, and did not
know the revolver was loaded"
The peculiar sickness that has pros
trated number of persons in the Hun
garian city of Pesth, is the occasion OF
an interesting letter to a journal OF
that city by a prominent physician,
stating the cause of the disease to be
the flavoring in some vanilla ice cream
that the patients had been eating. The
vanilla beans are often picked before
they are ripe, and are then liable to get
into state in which they are extremely
injudicious, producing morbid condi-
ton resembling, but not the same as,
cholera DIR HartzLo r,antiOns an emf