The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-04-29
MISCELLANEOUS.


paper business, it might have been the
source of some surprise.-O& City Der
rick.
Christine Nilsson authorizes the
statement that her husbands madness
was produced by no monetary loss what
ever, but was something hereditary in
his family.
The King of Siam wants new treaty
with this country. He will admit our
plug tobacco free of duty if manufacture
ers will use less tarred rope in making it.
Free Press.
Connecticut has raked up law 100
years old to stop Sunday excursions, and
when the excursionists swear about it
a law ninety-seven years old fines them
five dollars each.
old Tom Ransom, of Virginia. has
been in jail or prison for thirty-three
years out of his fifty-two of life, and the
other day Judge sent him back to help
make it toward an even half century.
Men in responsible situations cannot,
like those in private life, be governed
solely by the dictates of their own incli-
nations, or by such motives as can only
All Sam, of st. Louis, having ac-
cumulated $4,000 in the washee- washee
line, is about to return to China to mar
~ his old sweetheart, who-has been wri-
ting him letters in tea-chest characters,
but who refused to marry him until he
had made fortune. 40 p
William Thompson, of Glen Cove,
bo fiNyn doll
for attempting to kiss Mrs. Susie A.
Morefoot She slapped his face in addi-
ton, and a ring on her finger cut him
under the eye, the scar from which will
be lasting. That speculation PANIED out
well for William. ,.t, --l. WI,
The Sheriff of Portsmouth authorizes
the statement that the alleged missing
man-George W. Davis, of Lynn-whO
has been supposed to be in some way
connected with the Bell tragedy in Bos-
ton, was killed about year ago by be-
ing run over by train at Point of Pines.
This would seem to relieve him of any
reasonable suspicion of being the muir
derer. Boston Post.
William H. Deibert, of Leadingville,
Pa, is wonderfully deliberate and i'm
perturbable. After eating a dinner in
usual slow manner, he pushed his chair
back from the table and remarked: Gun
Gle Abe. is hanging in the barn" The
family rushed out and found that Abra-
ham Debert had indeed committed sui
eide. William SAID that he had not
thought it best to spoil the meal for them,
considering that the man was already
M ct ha1n w hon 1icoOuaroJ
Among some autographs sold recent
ly in London were these, at the prices
named: Queen Elizabeth's, SIG; Charles
Dickens, $l2; Franklin's, 1924; Garrick's
{relating to his power to mimic King
George III.0 1927; DR.. Johnson's, S12;
Lord Nelson's Ga letter to Lady Hamil-
ton,) $43; Pope's, $35, and Prior's Ga
letter,) S68. The gem of the collection
was the autograph manuscrip pit of Thack-
eray's Chronicles of the Drum which
fetched $780, a.s.I
In neighboring town the other day
two boys left the school-yard during the
recess to inform man that his barn was
on fire. The timely warning saved the
building and perhaps the town, but the
boys got five discredit marks all the
same. That teacher is probably related
TO the one out West who took dyna-
mite torpedo from a boy and broke it
with hammer to see if it contained
chewing gum. Philadelphia NeUs.
The body of Frank Small, who was
executed at Pittsburgh, Pa, recently,
was put on exhibition by the aunt of the
deceased. Twenty-Five cents admission
was charged to view the remains, and
for seven hours a continuous stream of
people gratiiied horrible curiosity.
The Mayor at last heard of the affair and
ordered the police to take charge of the
corpse When they reached the scene
nearly 10000 people had gathered in the
vicinity. About 5000 ofthe assemblage
followed Smalls body to the grave
Chicago Nesos.
Seventeen years ago William Trim
bic, a farmer living near Mansfield, O.,
sholrldered hisgun and started out for a
hunt, and was never, seen again. But
he was rather eccentric, and did not 90
10 California and take sick of a slow
fever, finally recover, grow rich and
come back to his old home with a ''pock
ct full of rocks" That's the regulation
way. But William did neither of these.
And on Sunday last wicked boy who
was hunting rabbits found a mans skel-
eton in swamp there, with the rusty
remains Of a gun. beside it, and it is
thought that the leng-lost Trimble was
their owner. But whether his death was
by accident, suicide or murder will prob
ably never be known. - Chicago NewS.
Eugene ". Chad, an expert Young
Jeweler, of Philadelphia, when arrested
last week, was turning down S. piece
on a lathe. His plan was ingenious. He
sawed the top plate off a coin, and then
fastening the remaining piece to the
lathe chuck proceeded to drill out the
interior, leaving the back and edge in
tact, but only mere shell. He filed
this shell with fine steel wire, copper,
silver and platinum, and then soldered
the top on by the aid of the blowpipe.
leaving the debased, plundered coin at
about its original weights Another plan
was to bore holes diagonally through the
coin from Che sides and extract the gold
and replace with silver or platinum. The
nefarious trick yielded Chad, so he adj
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