The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

has de''d that selling brandy peaches
without license lays the offender open
to fine of 81 ,400.-N. y. SIN.
"A boy in Alabama, four and hall
years old, was given morphine by mis-
take Realizing his danger, he pluck.
lily walked the floor twelve hours, and
was saved from death. -LoutSUttte
COugier-,jourpac
London is fast adopting American
manners. There are now seven hotels,
each to contain 1000 bedrooms. in
course of construction in that city.
Many rich London people prefer board
ING in hotels to keeping house. Ch6cd-
90 Tribune.
Last November Cotton Brown, of
Sangeryille, Me-, died leaving most of
his property to young man, Josiah
Keen, who had lived with him num-
Der of years. Recently Keen was look
inc over some old deeds of Mr. Browns
when he found a package containing
about $4,000, of which $4,000 was in
gold.
An old Louisiana fisherman, speak
ing of the millions of porpoises in the
Gulf, says: 1.-The porpOise is looked
Poland China hog, an enemy to no.
body, a peaceable and good-natured
fish. Fishermen and others have for
him a kindly feeling as the enemy and
master of the shark, which he is said
to handle as roughly as a wild boar
handles yard-dog."
Attention has been called to the
supposed changes of level of the earth's
surface in certain parts of Europe.
Villages in the Jura, which were hid
den from each other no longer than
forty years ago, have gradually risen in
sight, while in village in Bohemia the
inhabitants now see half of a distant
church spire, of which only the top was
visible thirty years ago.
"A North Carolina correspondent
tells how the moonshiners sell illicit
whisky: Son the roadside big horn is
hung to tree. You blow blast and
a girl steps out and tells you to put
your hand into her pocket. You COM
ply. You drop some money in the
pocket and take out your bottle and 60.
Flirting is at your peril; for a siX-fOot
moonshiner is in point blank range
with his hand on the trigger of his per-
suader. IN Y. SIM.
Defective hearing is growing more
prevalent in the United States. So says
Dr. Sexton. 1t produces in children at
first the appearance of stupidity and
then the reality. They do not hear
sounds distinctly, and, of course, they
can not initiate sounds accurately. De-
fleets in the teeth are great cause of
this lamentable calamity in the young,
and this is fresh reason for avoiding
quack applications of so-called dentists
and keeping to pure soap and water in
cleaning the teeth. Chicago Times
Among the various substances found
on the ''coated" human tongue after a
microscopical examination are the fol-
lowing: Fibers of wood, linen and
cotton; fibers of spira vessels, tibres of
muscle, in one case eight hours after
eating; starch grains, cheese mold, por-
tons of potato skins, scales, moths,
ETC.; hairs from legs of bees and of
spiders; pollen from various flowers and
their suamens; hairs of cats are quite
frequently found, bat of mice in only
one instance; hairs from various leaves;
in one case the wing of mosquito;
fragments OF tobacco very frequently
and of chamomile flowers, etc, occur
repeatedly. Scientific Amerjcm.
-''Fll cure any cough you ever heard
of and with one Of the simplest rene
dies you ever saw said lady vocal
list of considerable reputation on both
sides of the Atlantic. Its oysters.
just plain, simple. everyday raw oys-
tiers. I've sung fourteen years here
and in the old country, and you may
imagine that the climate has often got
the better of my lungs, but | rely upon
oysters, and they can be depended
on. My husband told me of this kind
of medicine, and | don't know how
many years he has used them. They
act just as benefcially on my children.
and the next time you have cough 90
to the oyster bar instead of the drug
store Boston Globe.
Harvey says that once on his ship
the crew agreed to lump their allow
ance on holiday and have one gigan-
tic plum duff for all hands. In default
of an adequate pudding-cloth they
boiled it in a pair of clean duck trous-
erS, and it was brought to the table I'M
broken. looking like the legs and waist
of some unfortunate gentleman mot
tied all over with purple spots. He
adds that the captain, who came to see
if the men were comfortable, arrived
just in time to be astonished by the
spectacle. Perhaps we might have
been tempted to do something of the
kind; only by the time plum duff was
revealed to us our camp could not
furnish whole pair of trousers. Cali
t0rni9 Cor. N Y Tribune.