Daily Republican., 1883-10-17
SENSATIONAL IrE Ms.


quake at CararnicciOla has brought
light many strange secrets, ,amOngwhi1
that revealed by the well-hllsd pocke
of the bishop who fell a victim to II
ldisas er, Is not the least curious.
the year 1881 an immense subscriptio
was SGT On foot to afford relief to the s,l
ferers from the foundations. The none
poured in with the greatest abundanc,
for the misfortune was considered M
tional one, and affected every individl
al throughout the kingdom. The bisl
Op so suddenly deceased was at III
head Of the committee for recei
, ing subscriptions. He was n gool man
but indolent, and on examining hi
pockets, after he had been dug from tn
ruins beneath which he had been buri
oil, the astonishment of the authoritie
was great to find them filled with check
from numbers of wealthy parsonage
who had sent them for the relief of sui
ferers on the occasion referred to. tn
reverend prelats had never even cashe'
them, 80 great was his Incidence.
Among the Kasia Hills, in the cas-,
ern part of Bengal, the men are said t
be the interiors, even in the eye of tn
law. Property descends only through
women. The latter have the suprem
command and every where assert them
selves asthe superiors OF their husbands
who are represented by ira velers as lit
tie better than domestic drudge., win
mind the baby and 60 the errands AM
perform other little duties of the kind
while the wives attend to the more seri
Gus affairs Of daily life. The girls of
family are held in high esteem, the boy
being nobodies'
Professor Verga, in a paper read be-
fore the Lom hardy Institute Of Science
said that serious dangers threaten tht
Italian people on account of their recen
large substitution of alcohol for wine a.
4 beverage. He told a curious story, by
the way, Of distiler who died insane
fIom alcoholism, yet had not drank a
drop Of liquor. He had been largel,
exposed to the fumes of impure alcohol
while strengthening poor wine that his
system had absorbed enough Of it tc
poison him.
Mulay- Hassan, the Sultan of Mproc-
co.'s one Of the richest sovereigns in the
world, and he doesn't draw interest on
his money either. Large vaults have
been built a hundred feet under ground
surrounded by wall fifty feet thick,
com posed of alternate layers Of metal
and stone. The approach to these
vaults is through subterranean laby.
rintl, and is defended by armed meD,
who, after entering the service Of the
Sultan, never see the light Of day again.
There is a man living near Walton
County, Georgia, who is 80 years old,
and has never ridden in carriage or q
railway car, and has never ridden
across bridge in any vehicle. He
lives in Il house sixteen feet wide and
seventy feet long, and 80 low between
floors that full.grown man cannot
stand upright In it. The furniture OF
the sitting-room consists chiefly of a
bed and IL barrel of home. made syrup.
From some notes on the state of the
atrical enterprise in Mexico We learn
the curious fact that when person
wishes to take tickets for the theatre, a
plan of the house is shown him, on
which little pegs mark the places. If
and handed To him az q voucher, which
he in turn delivers to the stal!-keeper.
From recent investigation into the
mortality referabe to alcohol, conducted
by a committee of the Narveian Society
it appears thai the rate in London is
fourteen per cent. of the total number
of deaths in the adult population.
About twic" as many occur among men
as among wO ner.
Baboo Masoon lar is coming to this
country. The popular impression tha
BabOo Magoomdar is new kind of ape
who will travel with circus is wrong.
He i. one Of the most eminent preach
ers and lecturers of India, and has been
drawing immense audiences in Eng
land.
Andrew II. Smith of Rohrersville,
Md, while searching for potatoes in his
garden, noticing a hole of peculiar
shape, thrust his hand into it and was
bitten. Acute pain was followed by
copious flow of blood. He had been
bitten by large copperhead.
There was hodcarrying contest
near Washington few days ago be-
tween an expert Of that city and one
from Baltimore. The Washington man
won by filing and carrying four hods
a certain distance while his competitor
was disposing of two.
German law courts are not over polite
to the fair sex. A lady witness in IA
Strashurg court, who had sworn to the
ownership p of only twenty. six summers,
when, in reality, she was the happy
possessor Of twice that number, was in
dicted for perjury.
Team, was stunS On the nose by bee
recently, and died from The effects in
few minutes, although having been
otherwise in apparent good health.
To feel as we'll ir.,sst, rs the other
women around her is to set any woman
at her ease, whencsoevrr she may have
come to feel much better dressed is to
add radiance to the case.
A young nun in the Hochelaga Con-
vent, Montreal, who was anxious to be
released from her vows, Las had her
prayer granted by the Pope, and has re-
turned to her family.
Nine girls in ST. Louis organized
base ball club. While playing prac-
tice game the miss at the bit refused to
play because the pitcher wouldn't throw
the ball "real hard"
A street car conductor carelessly car
rie,l his bell punch home and allowed
his children tOplay with it, The next
day the com mDany informed him that he
was $500 800 fares short.
A woman while moving became so
exaspeyated at the truckman that she
fired a toy gun at them and then went
iuto Mysteries because she thought she
had killed some one.
The windows of houses In the Phillip
pine Isles are made Of pellucid oyster
shells that admit light, but cannot be
seen through.
Nine young women of Huntvi,le,
Ala, beat nine young men at baseball
by a score Of 20 to II, Such iA Alabama