The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A young lady of Dutchess County,,
New York, has been made insane by the
knowledge that her betrothed, bank
book keeper, is a defaulter. Ian
The Greek language is very easy to
understand when you once get the cue.
The cue is band of brigands who want
$4,000 for your ransom.
The Philadelphia Ne,os says: "Dr.
Mary Walker thinks of marrying and
settling down, but the name of the pros
pective bride is not given"
There are 1000 telegraph poles in
the Quaker City, and the Bulletin wants
to know why they can't be grated with
peach sprouts, so as to make them use
full as well as ornamental.
Judge Hilton, in giving to re-
porter his reasons for disseminating the
business of the A. L. Stewart dry-goods
house, states that the business was in a
prosperous condition, but is too exacting
upon man of his years. Y. Graphic.
Sara Bernhardt was coldly received
during her late performance at Milan.
and coolly walked off the stage and went
to her hotel in the middle of the play.
The Italian papers have Indignantly re-
sented the insult.
The highest price ever paid for
horse in England is believed to have been
paid by the Duke of Westminster, the
richest man in that country, who paid
the extraordinary sum of $3.50, 900 for
an animal he desired to possess.
Henry James, Jr., the English nov
elist, says that Poe's verses are every
valueless." Mr.. James is evidently pre-
JUDGED. For holding up window or
lengthening table leg there is nothing
superior to strongly bound volume of
Pce's works. s. Chicago Tribune.
"A noted physician says many per-
sons, simply by deep and rapid inhala-
tions of pure air can become as intoxi-
Gated on oxygen as if they had taken
draught of alcoholic stimulants. Here
is a point for the man who has been
walking rapidly home from the club in
the night air.
The three well-known, venerable
citizens of New York, Thurlow Weed,
General James Watson Webb and Peter
Cooper, have been interviewed by the
New York Times as to the habits of life
by which they have been enabled to re-
tain their mental and bodily vigor. Dat
meal, milk and regular living is the pre-
scription.
In a conversation about grave robber-
les by medical students, leading ply
stefan of Syracuse, N. Y, said that
student in the medical college of that city
few days ago graduated in neat suit
Of broadcloth taken from the body of
well-to-do citizen which was removed
from the grave Immediately after burial
1t fitted him very well, except that the
coat was a little too long. All the med
ical students knew whose clothes they
were, but as the graduate was poor moth
ing was said about it. Chicago Times.
The Canadian Government with a
little force of 500 mounted men success
fully controls Indian tribes numbering
100000 souls-half as many as are in the
United States-and the cost of maintain
ing this service is only three-quarters of
of million. Indian outbreaks are I'M
known there. A large part of our army
of 1S, 600, which costs us 1922, 600, 900. is
used in attempting to control the Indians.
Utica IN. ~ Herald.
The English are growing because
they find sand in American cotton. They
are as unreasonable as the man who
raised row because he found suspen-
der button in his hash. The waiter to
whom he complained was very indig-
nant. He said to the customer: "Did
you expect to find silk umbrella, linen
buster and palm-leaf fan in a two bit
dish of hash?'' Do the English expect
to find layers of gold dust in American
cotton?-TeraG Settings.
In the mountains of western North
Carolina and east Tennessee, there is a
| curious industry quite extensively car
ried on, namely: The collection of ivy
roots. The roots are shipped to Phila-
delphia and Boston, where they are used
for making door knobs and pipe bowls.
They are found principally along the
line of the Cranberry Branch Railroad
and in the vicinity of Rome Mountain.
where they grow in great abundance and
attain an enormous size. A root weigh
ing eight hundred pounds was dug from
the ground and shipped to market. This
is supposed to be the largest ivy root
ever found. but roots weighing from rs
to $50 pounds are frequently found.
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