Sharp County record., 1881-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs, Thomas A. Scott, widow OF
the railroad king, will soon 60 to Eu-
rope with her young children to re-
main several years.
Nearly a quarter of all the holders
of United States bonds live in Massa-
chusetts, and they hold seven per cent
of the whole amount.
AT the French races tits the fashion
to fling bouquets from the crowd to the
ladies, from box to box, and in TACT
flowers fly everywhere.
London milliners make their tlow-
ers so natural that even the nose IS de-
ceived as well as the eye, for they per-
fume each flower with its particular per-
fume.
The recent oil discoveries in the
southern part of Allegheny County, N
Y, have started a boom in narrow
gauce railroads, no less than five being
now under way.
The entire Chowan section OF
North Carolina is suffering incalculable
injury through the locust plague.
Whole forests of valuable timber have
been destroyed by the pests stripping
the bark and deposting their eggs,
Thomas Meyers, of Rantoul, S. c.,
is an imitator of the Massachusetts Ad-
ventist. Calling out his son, thirteen
wears old, few days ago, he sent hlm
ahead and then deliberately shot him,
saying that he did so by divine command
-Che-An, the Chinese Empress
mother, who lately died at Peking, was
an able woman, with firm will and
grea: decision of character. She con-
Quoted the Government with much pru'
dence during her long administration
as co-Regent.
Vastly Tchoomak, aged ninety-siE
wears, has Just died in the hospital OF
the Odessa prison, with the reputation
of having in the course Of his existence
committed, alone or in conjunction with
others, eighty murders, .and also
of having escaped no fewer than five
times from Siberia.
Wash Mcdaniel was convicted O1
wife murder in Georgia, but the Gov
ernor commuted his sentence to i'm
prisonment for life. A fellow convict
in the Dade County coal mines con-
cluded that Mcdaniel deserved capital
punishment, took upon himself the of
lice of executioner, and killed him with
a pickaX.
Emory Speer, of Georgia, is the
Youngest memDer of the House of Rep
resentatives. His father, the Rev. E.
w. Speer, is Professor of English Liter
ature in the University of Georgia, and
his uncle is Judge of the Supreme
Court in the same State. Mr.. Speel
studied law under Senator Ben Hill.
The Whitaker will forgery, by
means of which Philadelphan's mill
ions was all but secured by the Grim
inals, is being fully described IN their
trial by one OF their number. Seven
persons were concerned in the plot, and
the actual forging was done by an ex-
pert penman, who was hired for the
purpose, while the body of the doCu-
ment, comprising thirteen pages oI
foolscap, was written by a lawyer.
The indebtedness of France has in.
creased 81, 800, 100000 in fifteen years,
and during the same period the debt OF
Russia has increased $1,000, 0OJ, 600
that of Germany, S425,o0O,000; Spain,
1880, 900, 900; Italy, 81, l,100,000,00O,
Great Britain has reduced her debt
Sl44,000,000. The greater portion OF
the debt of European nations was in
Cured in preparing for war, in the
building of fortiications and in the con,
struction of costly and useless nayies.
james Rosendale, a native of Pal
estine, has deciphered one of the in.
scriptions on the famous sword of Miles
Standish. 1t is in Medieval Arabic,
and means: with peace God ruled
His slaves (meaning creatures), and
with the Judgment of His arm He
troubled the mighty (meaning the most
powerfuD of the wicked" Mr.. Rosen,
dale thinks the sword is among the old
est weapons in existence. 1t was ac'
quired by Standish when fighting
against the Turks.
The coming girl has been seen in
New York. She had on tight, short
check skirt, so that at little distance
it looked like abifurcated garment. The
waistcoat was white, OF the same cut as
a mans, pockets and double Albert
chain and watch complAe, and above
it white tie, with horse shoe ring, sur,
mounted by stand-up collar. The
coat was made like an ordinary shoot
ing jacket, with the usual allowance OF
buttons and pockets. Her hair was
cropped short and on top of it was worn
q small round crown hat.
A new and most ingenious speak
ing machine has lately been exhibited
by Herr Faber before the Physical So
ciety, London. 1t is designed to more
perfectly initiate, mechanic lily, the ut
terance of the human voice, by means
of artificial organs of articulation made
on the human model, and it is worked
by keys like a musical instrument. A
bellows made of wood and India rubber
serves for lungs; small windmill is
placed in front of the bellows to give
trilling sounds the larynx is made Of
q single membrane OF hippopotamus
bide and India rubber; and a mouth
with two lips, a tongue, and an India
rubber nose complete the organs of the
Fourteen distinct sounds
are uttered by it, and, by combining