Sharp County record., 1881-03-17
MISCELLANEOUS.


"A great manymen are cottage.bpTt.
that is to say, they have but one story
And they are forever telling it. Boston
Transcript. They, doubtless, look unor
such a one as telling story.
"A travelling party lost their dog at
Leipzig, and ten days afterward, when
at Berlin, about one hundred miles die
tant, the animal joined them again
ragged and gaunt. The dog had moi
before been over the road.
1t is said that the new trunk lima
known as the Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western Railway, will touch two hum
dred and eight towns between Bali.
more and Cincinnati, of which onlv
twenty have now any railroad connec
ton.
Vice President Wheeler has pr
sided nearly four years over the orderIv
Senate and has never broken q spcI.
gavel. When Mr.. Blaine was SpeaSg
of the more turbulent House it is sail
he used to break several gavels at each
session.
An elegant picture of Mrs, Pres.
dent Hayes is soon to be placed in th,
White House. 1t is the donation of tb,
friends of the temperance cause wb ,
thus honor the recipient for her devp !
ton to their principles. The pictur :
and frame are to cost $4,000. =
The threadbare conundrum: "Wha h
is cent more than a CENT? was prsp fl
tically answered in Baltimore a feV j
DAYS since, at an auction sale of ran il
and curious coins. A United State N
cent of 1898 proved to be worth, b N
somebody, S2S, and three Others Of t j
same date, but mutilated, aggregate b,
S16.25. Half-dollars of various dats M
from 1895 to 1852, sold at from S3.5Ot al
to 81. 20 each. Dimes of 1886 brOug iff
S4.O0 and $3.50. One dollar was pal pa
for an uncirculated half-cent of ISL at
while half-cents of 1894 to 1911 brOugs de
prices ranging from tifty-five cents iii
seventy cents. An 1904 cent was cage fol
ly taken at S11.75. ev
oor+;on of orous ,ro, wi
messed by James Hillman, of OrWg .al ;''i
burg, Pa. As he entered the woods lnss n..s
eral thousand crows were perched int NJ NJ
trees. Soon sentinels took their plsa ~ ~ =
on the outskirts of the woods. sa uno
crows seemed engaged in an earn Mo- Mo-
debate. Some appeared to argueG s;o,
way and some another. They sepanl tba M
in groups of dozen or so, cawedq ,yao :
chartered for while, and then met cot =
great tlocks. This continued for wos :
days, during which time none Of al;v
corn in the neighborhood fields rev;
touched. On the SlXth day tGeyS had
denly flew away TO the northward II deci
went in tlocks of about 300 each a Con
terVals OF hVe minutes anu eacn was
had leader. vivo
San Francisco has not yet hfor {
cured of its love of titled aristOn that
and therefore continues to be a viz inqu
of pretenders. The latest of thea serte
a clever rogue who called himself u there
Won Schiller. He made acquainta missi
in snobbish society and then preieS set a!
to fall dangerously i'll. He dictat deere
letter to his father, directing him The !
to make a remittance of $4,000, an on th
duced the young man who acteds McIlr
amanuensis to lend him 81, 900 unit accep
money came. Then he feigned asorigir
that he was about to die and madeI case I
in which his San Francisco friend; couns
literally remembered. On the stu and Il
of these bequests he borrowed NUM- OF rev
small amounts. He has at last bee ment
posed and arrested. the or
r,D, n....o .o,,. ,o,, will ii
nc Dupu4uo '"''' Voiio " ~ of the
that city dreamed thrice that she aoen5
this city and met here in big Moran
very attractive gentleman, whoI aoa;n
subsequently married; of how SIX vanced
laIer She uiu VlslC thiS cl'y an farm.
dehtaly met al the rooln session
1rlend IN one OF our nVl'A the sta
very man who had been the in his {
ana suolecC OF ner dreallSi VI ,ress all
were indeed married, ana llVeu binary
ever afterward. A Chicago glrl pronop,
the Tribune, had somewhat only no
experience. She dreamed olsSprobabl
she visited Dubuque, and marred first he,
there. The next morning she lshave al
never to eat mince-pie again OeNThe soil
firing. She lived happily evd changed
ward. twenty-s
1t is said that pencil draWlnsappeare'
be rendered inehaceable by thS plaintiff
process: Slightly warm shee'alappearet
ary drawing paper, then place ssriii In Il
fully on the surface of sou Inc only
white rosin in alcohol, leaving out are \
lone enough to become thGthe defer
moistened. Afterward dry itn
rent of air. PaperpreparednY Ostt
has a very smooth surface,
to fix the drawing the an EN-
is to be warmed for few severely
This method may prove uSelu Ion;aSlon Ioat;a'
preservation of plans or deslgp prvY.vns' naSa;s
not not allow s y, Of f the draughtsuSthrough t
G dro;na n tl,o,, ~ " ;rl, ( simp'was unsc
"U than F. ''I nbnra -, hnwevor % is tobrgiving ou
h .hoI hnI .,lJ "oetI, w. "nor contatwithout
honoooE o DIH VI ~. ,u ona;l gakatcb veappeal to
tdaioeI, ti ~ ponC pehoiIo" IN acobol to put his
'ioii Vi "ii''0 'ii0i'''' " ltion in h
"A girl of fifteen, conVIea"people tina
lawful begging within lne their dona
cincts, was cast into prison to two. la
Hungary. During the very placed for
of her incarceration, hoWew' vestibules.
only contrived to escape made of ste
but to abstract the key ol and would