The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-05
MISCELLANEOUS.


Victor Hugo has given 10000
francs to the Paris poor.
1t is said that women who travel IN
Egypt return to civilization confirmed
smokers. -- $500
AT his death Washington was tho
richest President we ever had. Heleft
an estate worth 100000.
The sum of money spent on ships or
abroad by Americans travelling ont Of
their own country this year is es timated
at about two hundred millions ~
money. r4
Theodore Stockman died amid filth
and dirt and in absolute want in To.
ledo, o., recently. leaving $3.50 ,OOO
which he had accumulated BY life-lone
misery habits.
DR.. Glenn the greatest wheat.
grower in California, laments the fact
that this year his crop will amount to
only 100,0 900 sacks, $4,000 of which will
be necessary for seed next wear. His
farm has $4,000 acres and the AVERAGE
crop is 10000 sacks.
"A laborer in Nevada hav6cld ro.
Gently threw his vest, in the pockets of
which were some matches, down by a
stack. A wagon was driven to the
stack, one of the wheels struck the vest
ignited the matches and fire ensued
which destroyed three hundred tons of
hay.
The Emperor of Germany is not so
strong as he was year ago. He mad
to leave the field early one day, and the
last day he did not mount his horse at
all. Still, it is wonderful what he goes
through, and the keen criticism which
he passes on every detail of the ma
neuvers.
The Romans hung coral beads on
the cradles and around the necks of in
fants to preserve their teeth and save
them from 1.-The falling disease" 1t
was considered by soothsayers as
charm against lightning, fire, etc. The
coral bells are more modern addition,
the object being to brighten away the
evil spirits.
The late Cars apartments in the
Winter Palace remain in the same con-
dition as on the day he was killed. His
private papers which deal with bust
ness of the State are to be sent to the
archive office, where they will be kept
twenty years before being made public.
His wardrobe will be distributed among
the charitable institutions of which he
was patron.
No more decay after death now. A
Berlin experimenter has produced an
imitation stone coffin which is said to
be air and water tight, and but a trife
heavier than the ordinary wooden arti-
cle 1t is claimed for the new collins
that they are durable, and can be fur
nished at cost not exceeding that of
wooden ones, and that the bodies
placed in them will become mummiied.
General Henry A. Morrow, of the
United States Army, was the first Re-
corder of Detroit, Mich, and day or
two ago he visited the Recorder Court
in that city and presented the present
incumbent with the silver badge he
wore on important occasions twenty
seven years ago, saying that in those
days he had no commission. the badge
being his only certificate of the Judicial
position he held.
There are two gay old printers in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. One of
them is seventy-nine and the other
eighty, and the most of their lives has
been spent at the ''case," in the art
preservative of all arts. A few days
since they decided to 90 off on little
sociable excursion, and took drive in
company, the horse used on the occa-
sion being twenty-five years old, the
harness twenty years old and the
buggy forty years.
OF Indian railroad laborers, a
Mexican letter to the Chicago Times
says that they toll increasingly, but ac-
complish little. On shoveling, it would
take six of them to equal one white man.
1t is new kind of work for the Indian,
and strains his weakestpart. The mus
Giles of the arms are not developed.
An Indian is strong in his back and
legs, and when it comes to carrying
heavy load white competitor is no,
where. Difficulty has been experienced
in familiarizing the Indians with the
wheelbarrow.
Smuggling on the Russan-Polish
frontiers is evidently paying BUSH
ness, judging from the elaborate and
| expensive means resorted to. 1t was
recently learned at Alexandrovo that
the locomotive leaving that station for
Warsaw had been converted into
smuggling vehicle. The furnace and
boiler were emptied, and it was delio-
erately dismembered bit by bit until
secret compartment in its interior was
discovered containing cigars and SILK
The engineers wonder and consterna-
ton were so obviously genuine that ne
was speedily released and permitted 10
return to his duties.
The unusual drought in Florida has
had the effect of drying up Sibley Lake
to such an extent as to leave only sIe~
slush spots here and there, and in THESE
alligators sought refuge in large NUN,
bers, digging huge burrows into inc
ground. This has furnished great. sport
to the settlers in the neighborhood' VINO
have gone in crowds to these spots anu
tished with fine success for the enor'
nous reptiles. The manner OF csIcll-
ing them has been to thrust long roas
with hooks at the end into one OF inc
cavernous burrows and stir up the oc,
cupants, One of the alligators woulu
snap at the rod, jerk would fasten inc
hook into the soft part of the lower Jaw
and it would then be easy to draw inc
| animal o--t apd lii Il with hotcEetS III