The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

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The Russians drink too much vod
ka, which means ''little water" that j.
to say, ''much brandy" and a sneciaI
commission has been appointed to er'
anime into the matter. VA
Tombstone, Arizona, is to have i.
supply of water from the Huacbnoa
Mountains, a distance of twenty-two
miles, to be carried there THROUGH .
seven-inch main, and expects TO 6avs
it completed by January, 1882.
"A Bridgeport Conn. } Manufac
turing company has received an orde,
from the United States Government ~,
$500 buffalo overcoats for the usn ot
soldiers on the plains, and is turninc
them out at the rate of forty a dav.
Mrs. Marion Lauter of Newport, XIV
saw two immense black snakes attack
ing her poultry, and succeeded in kin
ing both with hoe, but. upon enterino
her house, tainted with fright. The
snakes were nearly seven feet long.
1T is remarkable that the agricul.
tural depression SO widespread in Emo.
land has been little felt in Wales. The
most prosperous English counties acr;.
culturally at the present time arc
Devon and Cornwall, Northumberland
and Cornwall. The extremes meet.
"A white girl was once captured bv
the Indians, and she became the souaw
OF a brave. Afterward she refused 10
leave them, although by $50 doing she
might have become rich. She said.
white people may become Indians, but
Indians can never become white peo-
pie"
-Sparrows have become such intol-
cradle nuisances in Australia that the
Government has been requested to au-
thorize the destruction of the birds by
law, and pending the passage of an act,
to appoint an honorary Sparrow Board,
to prepare and distribute poisoned
wheat and give advice.
The lodges in the vicinity of the
flume at Franconia, N. H., are found to
be composed largely of rs fine quality
of Scotch granite as can be found any
where in the world, and there is pros
pect that the building of the Pemige.
wasset Valley railroad will develop an
immense quarrying business in that To-
cality.
"A snow-capped mountain q little
northwest of Strawberry valley, Cali
fornia, is the fountain head of four
streams originating in Siskiyou County,
known as the Sacramento, Shasta, Trim
ity and Scott rivers, the three latter
emptying into the Klamath and the
former the main fork of the upper Sac
ramento river.
1t has been supposed that ancient
sculptures could not be produced with.
out iron tools; but recently very fine
work has been done on granite with
stone tools, diorite cutting better than
flint. Stonecutters now use softer tools
for granite than for sandstone. The
sculptured stone of Montezuma was
cut with stone axes.
The French Government having Of
fered large subsidies to shipbuilders
upon French soil, one of the great
Clyde shipmakers has bought large
tract of land near Havre, and will take
5000 Scotch mechanics thither. He
will, probably, be followed by others,
so that canny Scots will absorb a large
amount of French taxes.
"A saloon-keeper of New Haven,
Conn.,, wishing to make good sale OF
his place to q stranger, got him to test
its value by observing that days sales.
Then he stationed man outside who
gave half dollar to every one who
would 90 in and spend it for liquor.
But friend of the buyer explained the
situation to him and there was no sale.
-Baltimore's cold Defenders are
passing away. Only eleven are left
now. The last to die was William G.
Keener, aged 81 years, who was buried
few days ago. He often remarked
that he had lived under the Admins
tration of every President of the United
States and he survived just one day
after the taking of the oath of Office by
President Arthur.
Recent studies in West Virginia
have led to the inference that forests
which have grown within the memory
of man have sprung up on plains where
extraordinary pains has been taken to
prevent the annual destruction of grass
by fire. 1t is an endorsement of the
theory that the trecless character Of
the prairies of the west is due to the
annual burning of the grass by the In
dams. tIii4kt
In Savannah the annual death rate
for 1000 whites for the year 1880 was
1885, and for the colored 45.47. In the
Mayors opinion the disparity is due to
a non-observance of sanitary laws on
the part of a portion of the colored peo-
Pile and to their unintentional neglect OF
the necessities of the sick. The author
tiles provide medical attendance and
dispensaries for them, but they have
not yet learned to take full advantage
of the city's liberality.
"A wolf, like tiger, having once
eaten man, prefers him TO all else forS
dinner, and if he attacks man IL
proof that he has already dined oil one
or had hydrophobia. In the Franco.
German war of 1870 troops of wolves
followed the army in Alsace-Lorralhe.
Hydrophobia is not an uncommon EVEN
among wolves. The committee lately
appointed in France to consider the
question of Notwithstanding are in favor
of abolishing the force supposed to pt
maintained for that purpose, known q.
the louvetirie, which had reallya dlrecs
interest in maintaining the wolves. lhey
think that the extirpation of them may
now be left to the land owners, who
suffer from their ravages, and 10 Ine