The Evening critic., 1882-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS Notes.

Mother Shipton will go ont with the Old
year.
An ex;iudge is keeping an apple stand in
Washington. Witnesses can now take their
turn and be insolent to Kim.
The NorweGans put their dinner knives
far down their throats, pick their teeth
with their forks, and don't keep a butter
knife.
l.ecturing can't be so unproftable as IL is
represpnted. 4 lady lecturer has Just gre
sented IL Chicago man with an elegant gol Il
watch.
You can get cranbcrres for two cents
quart in Erie. Pa, but there happen to be
no excursion trains running TO that point
just now.
4 little New Hampshire girl tried to
telephone to Santa Claus and was greatly
disappointed ON finding that the old gentle
man had no wire.
There is not n single New England states
man in the Cabinet, but it must he remem-
bered that the President shared his butter
nut candy with Mr.. Edmunds.
The whip with which Gov. Blue Jeans
Williams drove the oxen at q Hendricks
country log-rolling is TO be presented TO the
agricultural museum at Indianapolis.
man in Kansas has subscribed for the
COdgFessi0Hdi Record, which publishes all
the speeches made in Congress. The aver
age kansan, it should be explained, is the
toughest citizen known to the Republic.
Queen Victoria, like President Arthur.
is giving her subjects mild winter, and
the English flowers have been blooming in
December. In Ireland the old lady has
gone still further and made it hot for some
localities.
II is q regular custom of the Chinese in
| Utah to turn the aged and sick ont 10 die
| whenever they are unable TO support them
selves. When they become more Christian
| ized, they will send their aged parents TO
| the alms-house.
4 correspondent Of the Cncinaate "a
| q,'iicr recently had an interview with Mr..
| John W. 1ookwalter, the late Democratic
candidate for governor of Ohio. lie foInd
| him calm and resigned. but tine impression
prevails that he will never smile again
except when lie appears as l'leader before
| the bar
Mis-. Logan. the wife of the senator, be.
| longs 10 the Methodist Church and believes
| in total abstinence. II is reported, by the
way, that a number ofadies in Washington
--some of them prominent in society have
! organized Il secrete association called "
| Guardian Angels" hi purpose is the eXer-
! tion OF social influences for the reform of
Congro ,Sncn and others vino are inclined
to the cup that mebrales
The town ofWayuesvillc, ohio, ha, been
thrown into state Of excitement and dis
may by the discovery that the mysterious
| disappearance, during several years past, Of
innumelable articles Oh every description
belonging TO citizens of the place is due to
| the midnight lnaraudlugs of venerable
maiden lady whose peputation has always
been above reproach. IN, under and
| around hen house have been found stores Of
movable property, iDcludlug scart-plns,
bricks, lumber, carpets plasterers' hair,
shingles, crockcry, carriage, aprons and a
hOst of other things ofall values aud no
value al all. No one can Conceive what
the womau's object was for she does not
seem to have sold or used any Of her steal
ings, If there is such q disease ~ kleplp-
mania this would appear to be case OF
| IL.
Dr. Vincent Richards, who is expert
mentiug on tue efficacy OfpermangauAte of
potash as an antdote for the poison OF the
| cobra, writes 10 the HtdiGIi MdditH GI."iic
that he has obtained some very remarkable
results. When pernangaAate Of potash was
mixed with cobra poison ani hYpolorhl-
cally uniectcd no fatal result followed,
although q fatal dOle of cobra poison was
feud and the mixture eujeoteI iEtD the
! vein. lie adds, however. that before any
definite opinion can be formed many ex'
pcrimcnts will have 10 be performed, not
only with COBRA bul also with wipes poison
rhe 4. lamfs's GN.dtc remarks that under
the NiyisCctiOn Act, Dr. Vincent Richards
could Eot perform these experiments H.
England without - couple of licences from
the Home secretary and running the FISK
Of q crnainal prosecution and public yitupe-
ration al the hands of the anti-yivisa0tiOn-
lists The importance of sach investiga-
ti0ns j. shown in the statement that ba-
tween twenty and thirty thonsand people
die from snake-hlte every year IN India.