The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS.


-Workmen employed in nail manu-
factories are liable to contract disease
known as nailers' consumption, caused
by the deposit of iron particles in the
cells of the lungs.
Robert Bonner has paid 1852, 900 for
thirty-eight trotting horses in the last
thirty-four years. Fourteen of them are
by sires of Hambetonian blood, and
nearly one-quarter of the entire lot are
descendants of Mambrino Chief.-St.
Louis Globe.
Papers of the City of Mexico have
recently reached New York. only twelve
days after publication. This is the short
est time ever known, and the increased
speed of transmission is due to the COM
pletion of the railroad from Mexico to
Toluca-BoSt0n Post.
Although Sarah Bernhardt, or Ma
dame Damale, has made large sum
since she left the Paris Francois, her
managers have had the lions share. In
the future her husband will be her bust
ness man himself. 1t is said that there
is not sharper man in Paris. Chicago
Journal.
An English writer, in describing the
performances of Asatics ON the opium
pipe, says: There can scarcely be
more ethereal enjoyment than sucking
chandu smoke into the throat and blow
it out again through the nose, and some
times, by finished performers, through
the inner corners of their eyes"
"A Brooklyn alderman is almost as
dignitied as aDetroit alderman; so when
a Brooklyn woman the other day spit in
an Alderman's face for interfering with
her while she was spanking her child,
was fined five dollars. In Detroit it
would have cost her fifty cents more at
least.-F'ree Press.
"A young lady, while passing up
Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn, the
other afternoon, was startled by the out
cry: ''YOur hat is all on fire." The young
lady quickly removed the hat and found
hole had been burned in it about twice
the size of a. silver dollar. It's supposed
that a match dropped from an upper
window caused the mischief.
There are over five hundred summer
hotels and clearinghouse in Greene
County, New York, by actual count, ac-
commodating from ten to one thousand
guests each, at from five to twenty-five
dollars week. The aggregate capacity
of these hotels and boarding houses is
between 10000 and 5000 persons-and
at the height of the season they are pretty
much all filled
"A little child was cut in two by "a To-
connective on North Carolina railroad,
recently, in spite of the efforts of the en-
gineer, who, in trying to rescue her, was
thrown from the engine down an en-
bankment and himself seriously injured.
| When the two parts of the child were
picked up its head continued to utter
piercing cries for two minutes, and until
death ensued.-St. Louis Globe.
-Lucius Hubbard, of Cottage, Cat
taraugus County, N. Y, some time ago
was married for a second time. His
daughter, who is fifty years of age, was
opposed to the marriage, and finally told
her father that either his wife must leave
the house or she would. The gentleman
concluded he could live better without
his wife than daughter, and so parted
from her. Both were wealthy and re-
spected.
One danger with boilers is the tear
ing away of seams, but method of
which we are inclined to think, favor
ably, suggested by an English engineer,
would dispense with riveting. In max
ing this boiler, ring of steel is cast and
heated; then it is placed upon a large
roller, and by the aid of smaller rollers
it is enlarged to the requisite dimensions.
The ring is run from one end of the roll
Ter to the other, and is returned by re-
versing the machinery. The heads nee
essary for the completion of the boiler
are subsequently put on with bolts. A
boiler of this description has been exhib-
ited.-Germantoa0n Telegraph.
"A remnant of the once powerful
Pequot race still maintains tribal or
ganization in Connecticut. Schaghti-
coke, the ancient seat of this people, is
situated in the town of Kent, under the
Schaghticoke Mountain, in the middle of
the valley of Housatonic. Schaghtieoke
now consists of six, little brown, clap
boarded, one-story houses, tenanted by
some seventeen persons, and the whole
tribe number about fifty. The reserva-
ton of three hundred acres comprises
Schaghticoke Mountain, valuable only
for timber. Winnie, the aged queen of
the tribe, is nearly white, earns her liv-
ing by discriminating, and is member
of the nearest Congregational church
N. Y. San.
An Illinois girl lately called at q
Coroners office, and addressing the soli-
tary occupant of the apartment, said:
"Be you the Coroner" 81 guess you'd
think so if you ever see an under
taker shake hands with me-" blandly
answered the official. "You amt going
anywhere in day or two. be you?"
"Not that 1 know" "Well, I'm glad
to hear it," continued the maiden with
an air of much encouragement. "John-
ME Bowles has been keepin' company
with me since Christmas, but Il hear that
he's going to take another girl to the
circus tonight, and if he does I'll swal-
Ter p'ison. "-Chicago Journal.