The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

1orK gave LOCO newsboys a free rida
to Boynton Beach.
"A Georgia farmer mistook his rap-
ged son for scarecrow at distance
and playfully shot bullet into him.
Only two grandchildren of Dame,
Webster are now living-Mrs. james
Geddes Day and Mrs. Samuel Apple,
ton.
Nineteen apple-pies of ordiaarv
size in half an hour was the achieve.
ment OF the victor in Louisville eatino
match.
William E. Films ranch, near San
Diego, CAL, boasts grape vine which
bore five tons of grapes last year and
broke down an oak two and one-haN
feet in diameter and sixty feet hioh
which supported it.
Two men digging on the Cape. M,
far from Dover, Del, the other day
found an old zinc box containing 81 .00i
in doubloons. Many years ago an En-.
lish ship supposed to contain 81, 900, DOC
In gold was wrecked there.
There are ladies who should he
careful when they eat corn from the
cob. At a watering place hotel the
other day a lady at dinner made Sc
frightful bite at the ear that, when
she released it, her upper set of false
teeth came with it,
Caroline and Mary Clark. dauphters
OF wealthy Kentucky lawyer al
planter who was bankrupted by tn
war, went to work i'll q Pittsburgh Pa)
hotel eleven years ago, labored faith.
fully and accumulated several thousand
dollars. Now an uncle in California
has left them 100000.
Henry Ward Beecher's brother
James says: II don't believe light
ming rods are any protection. The insu-
lar theory is exploded. If did put one
up | should lay it direct upon the house
without any insulators. But if | am
ever going to be killed, | had rather
die by lightning than any other way"
Madras, the so-called benighted
| Presidency of India, is the first to rec
ognize the claims of women to import
ant offices. The Gazette announces the
| appointment of lady, Miss Pogson, to
be Meteorological Reporter to the Gov
Oil III buell i lCSiNkCuCNs MISS i o.
son has for some years discharged with
great ability the duties of Assistant
Government Astronomer.
In addition to the 800 which
Thomas Harrison, the popular revival
list, receives for weeks services at a
camp meeting, he makes profit from
the sale OF his photographs, hymn books
and biography. The managers of the
camp at Acton, Ind, say they were well
pleased with these terms, and volun.
tarily provided him with a tent fur
nished in the most luxuriant manner.
AT Newcastle, Pa, a lime stone Cal
was started down 2, 800 foot incline by
a mule catching his harness in the
brake. Half way down, going like
cannon ball, it reformed an eXtraordi-
nary leap to the other track, which it
kept to the foot of the hill, where it
knocked limestone train into kind
lings, cut a mule in two and so seri-
ously bombarded with limestone three
men who were fleeing that one died.
In most of the cities of the United
States the placard, ''Mishts," has late
" become common in the windows of
clothing stores. 1t appears that Phil
adelphia dealer found that he was car
rying larger stock than he could sell
during the season by ordinary methods,
and to avoid ruin he tried the wellworn
tricks of Sheriff's foreclosure and
damage by fire, but in vain. Then he
advertised his stock as lot of ennis
fits" purchased from fashionable tailOrs
at nominal prices. He had run, and
the news of his success has spread.
A Hollander named RAINBOW, living
in Paterson, N. j., recently determined
to visit his daughter in Holland and die
in his old home. He sold his house in
Paterson, converted all his property in
to cash, and looked forward to the
meeting with his daughter with child.
like anticipation. A few days before
he was to sail message came that
made him heartbroken. His daughter
and her husband had both been drowned
by break in one of the dykes, causing
a sudden flood that swept them and the
carriage in which they We're riding out
to sea.
The statement is just made public
that IUni Ewing met General Sherman
in New Orleans just before the war and
told him he had better go home and get
to be made Major-General by Ewings
father. General Sherman shook his
head and said: "No, Tom; | don't
want to go in as a Major-General; |
want to be Brigadier- General. There
will be mistakes committed in the first
part of the war, and they will turn out
all their original Maior-Generals, and
then the Brigadiers will come to the
front. l am for a Brigadier-Generalcy
to begin WITH
When you wish to know what the
weather is to be 90 out and select the
smallest cloud you see. Keep your eye
upon it, and if it decreases and dissP-
pears it shows a state of the air when
is sure to be followed by fine weather;
but if it increases in size, take your
great coat with you if you are gong
from home, for falling weather is not
far off. The reason is this: When inc
air is becoming charged with electricity
you will see every cloud attracting all
lesser ones towards it. until it gathers
into q shower; and, on the contrary
when the fluid is passing off, or diffuslng
itself, then a large cloud will be seen
breaking into pieces and dissolving'
Mr.. Drummond Hunt, of Lexing-
ton, ky., is eiuhty.seven wears OF age,