The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24
MISCELLANEOUS,


"A New Hampshire man has Dor
rowed water from neighbours well 100
rods away for twenty-five long years.
"a very nice imported FAM" says
the Detroit Free Press, ''plenty good
enough for a woman whose husband
earns Sl2 per week, can now be pur-
chased for $500"
Judge Crosby, of Lowell, Mass, has
done a good deal of work during his
service OF thirtv-seven wears on the
bench. He has had S., 900 criminal and
10000 civil cases on the docket of his
court.
Don Carlos, the would-be KING of
Spain, and his wife have parted. The
cause of the disagreement is not given,
but the neighbors say she used the royal
sceptre to stir soup with, and set hen
on fourteen duck eggs in his Kingly
crown.-Teras Siftin9s.
Near Mount Airy, Ca, is Swiss
colony of twenty families, each one Of
which brought with it from across the
water fund of from $4,000 to $4,000,
and general prosperity prevails Sixty
thousand dollars has already been ex-
pended In improvements Chicago Her
aid.
AN owlwas killed near Yankee Hill,
Butte County, CAL, recently, attached
to one leg of which, with piece of an
nealed wire, was gold dollar of the
coinage or 1856. The bird was an aged
one, apparently, and the coin looked as
II it had been carried for many years.
-Keeley, of motor fame, has admit
ted in court in Philadelphia that, al
though by reason of the nature and quail
tiles of his mysterious force, he has
thus far failed in his efforts to bring his
inventions and discoveries into any
practical use or to arrive at the utility of
his findings, he believes that he will
ultimately succeed. ~ Y. Graphic.
"A Chelsea Mass bank teller, cross
ing the ferry to Boston, placed package
containing $500 in mutilated currency
on the seat beside him and fell to read
ing his morning paper. When the boat
reached its slip he rushed out with the
rest, forgetting his parcel. When he
bethought him of it he hurried back, but
the parcel was gone.
"A peripatetic peanut vender of Pitts
burgh, Pa, Italian of course, accumu-
lated $1,000 by dint of the most rigid
economy and unhealthy frugality and
then permitting two St Louis sharpers,
also Italians, to swindle him by repre-
senting that an unknown uncle had died
and left him an enormous fortune. The
guileless vender of the double-iointed,
camel-backed California ground-nuts is
nearly crazy over his loss. Chicago
NeWS.
"A curious wind passed over Evans
vile, Vt, recently. There was a roaring
sound high in the air, while near the sur
face of the earth everything was quiet.
At one place, near the river, the eddy
descended, picked some planks off a
long bridge, and carried them several
rods away. The next day, near Barton
Mountain, there was continuous shower
of dry leaves, which fell out of a clear
sky from great height. 1t is supposed
that they had been caught up by the
whirlwind. '
Two years ago Oscar Parker, of
Granville, Vt, while drinking from a
spring after dark, was disagreeably con-
scious of having imbibed something a
little livelier than a hemlock twig and
less pugnacious than beetle-bug. Since
then he has never enjoyed an entirely
peaceful gastronomic conscience. A
short time ago he gave himself into
physicians charge, and, after enduring
medicinal torture for ten days, presented
Esculapius with a striped snake twenty
inches in length. m FL.
"A Trenton On. j. dentist stopped at
the house of Mrs. Duffy, at Lambertsville,
few days ago, to extract some teeth for
her. When her children saw the blood
issuing from their mothers mouth they
attacked the dentist, supposing that he
was doing her severe bodily injury. The
boy seized a poker, and threw it at the
doctor. The doctor lodged just in time,
and the poker struck the window, break
ing the sash and demolishing the panes of
glass. The little girl grabbed the dentist
by the coat-tail, and nearly tore it off.
So hot was the fight that the dentist had
to get out andl cave the job unfinished.