Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-01-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There are upward of 1900 cows in the
city of Brooklyn.
French emigrants are beginning to
come to America In numbers.
He who does a good deed makes
heaven his debtor.
A movement is on foot to build
railroad from Rome, Georgia, to At
lanta.
MN is the only creature that laughs;
angels donot animals cannot, and devils
will rot
Man is a two.legged, eccentric animal
that deals in politics, religion and gene
raj merchandise.
1t ia much more difieult for a man to
make circumstance than it is for cir
cumstancs to make man.
The custom OF using mistletoe at
Christmas as decoration is said to be
one OF the remains Of the religious
observances OF the Druids.
The latest new thing in London is a
hot potato of bronze or metal to keep
the hands warm. One knob unscrews
and filling it with boiling water you
can place 1t in muif.
The section hands near Rock Rapids,
| ILL.,, discovered the head of calf pro-
| truaing from a srow-drift the other day.
/ upon shoveling 1t out the Critter proved
inr oe Il g sl ss ed daritafas1ely no ass negan eas
! had BEEN tightly bound up by the oTifs
~ assiIre you, gentlemen" said the
convict, upOn entering the prison, that
the place has sought me, and not l the
place. My own affairs really demanded
all my time and attention, and | may
truly say that my selection 10 fill this
pos ition was an entire surprise. Had |
consulted my own interests | should
have peremptorily declined to serve,
but as | am in the hands of my friends
! see no other course but to submit"
And lie submitted .-B2St0n Transcript.
Paper, as every one knows, burns well
when scrunched up, but is not by any
means so infiamma1le as wood, and in
the form of books is somewhat difficult
to burn at all. In the olden time there
was considerable trouble taken in de-
stroving heretical books, which were
0laced on large wooden platforms, but
after all the care taken to annihilate them
from the face Of the earth, masses were
found in the embers sufficiently uncon-
sumed to be easily readable, and it was
thought this was brought about by the
! wiles of the evil one.
AS John Miller, tollgate-keeper In
> Adams county, Penn, went out to col
F, lect toll Of an old man who was passing
through the gate, a bgstander remarked
1t that the twomen looked enough alike to
9 be twins. lnvc cstigatinn proved that
Z. they were twin brothers born IN 1915
al who had not seen each other for sixty
wears. When they were four years OF
age their mother, poor woman, sent
he them into separate counties tos ,Mns' MSt'
OF among friends, Ials aL!llfstH Y fhi5 adventure
- Dsn;el Miller had lived within twenC
+" miles OF his brother, but hRd no knoWl
edge Of the latter's existence
re There may De people in this worl
a. who do rot know what Hardic coac
he is, but people of that sort would
nd looked on rs very ignorant in Philade
he phia The Quaker City travelling publ
he have long staggered under the burden
y. cent. Sire cars charge six cents an
se punch buff trip slip in the presence {
nv the passenger, which adds insult to ii
~ iury. This started the Hardic coache:
40 Previously a ban of walkers was inaug
urated, but Philadelphia differs yer
9s- slightly from an entire western county
,m except that the houses are little MOI
en- frequent, and so the walkers could nc
en- staEd it. The coaches hold eight or te
np passengers, charge five cents, are puIle
lie by one horse, make quicker time tina
"a tie street cars, start at $3.50 A. NJ, sto
~ ae 1880 A. NJ, and hus they are thro
~ Ting q gipantic one-cent monopoly.