The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-10-18
MISCELLANEOUS.


Female telegraph operators in Ger
many receive $40 a year with no va
cation.
"A well drained farm is said to I'M
prove the health of domestic animals
that live upon it.
Owl, stuffed with sauerkraut, is a
Truckee luxury, says the Territorial
Enterprise. 1t is the result of the
united epicurian genius and taste of a
Washoe Indian brave and a big chief
of Vaterland.
"A Massachusetts man was arrested
one day recently for stealing 10000
pennies, the hoard of an old farmer in
Connecticut. The thief had purchased
horse with his plumber, paying the
price in pennies. Boston Transcript.
"A schooner which sailed from
Baltimore recently for the Spanish
main took out number of sewing ma
chimes for the Mosquito Indians, which
the dusky maidens will utilize in the
manufacture of costumes such as pre-
vail in that country.
Irish butter seems to be the best.
At the International Exposition, held
this year at Calcutta, it was awarded a
diploma and medal The samples ex-
hibited had voyaged from Ireland to
India and had withstood several
months exposure to tropical heat.
The next in merit was a sample of
American oleomargarine, but it was
thrown out by the judges on learning
It's nature.
The last section of the Asturian
Railway, in Spain, was completed a
short time ago. 1t consists of forty
four kilometers' length only, and thirty
of them are tunnels. These tunnels are
tifty-siX in number, and one is the
longest in Spain. The concession for
this line was granted twenty-four years
ago. The line is of great importance
to the enormous and undeveloped coal
fields of the Asturias.
Few young women begin married
life under such terrible disheartening
circumstances as Miss Louisa Alexan-
dra Williams Wynn, whose wedding
was publicly celebrated in Welsh vii
lagos named Llangadfan, Llanuwchil-
Ign, Llanrhaiadr, Llangedwyn, Rhydy-
croesan, Pontfadog, Llansaintiffraid,
Glyn CeriOg, Trawsfyndd, Llany
well, Llangyniew, Llanbrynmair and
Machynlleth.
"A traveller describes a Virginia
snack-the queer lunches sold BY col
ored danes at railway stations-as fol-
lows: "a nondescript-looking package
OF meat, cake and bread tied together
with strings of red, white and blue
yarn. The meat portion was a half of
chicken fried in flour. Then there
were a number of pieces of fried wheat
bread, generous slice of cold hoe
cake, and a large piece of plain cake"
Not pound of wood or coal is
consumed at Creighton, twenty miles
from Pittsburgh, where the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company have their plant
Glass factory and houses are lighted by
natural gas. Gas was struck at /, POO
feet in tive-inch bore. A torrent of
what the owners describe as 'pure nj
trogen gas" bursts out with force of
go pounds to the square inch. and
after three years is flowing with as
isasse'h g Eel=-J- as ever. The visitorsees
no coal, no wood, no cinders, no ashes,
no smoke. In the furnaces is a lurid,
steady heat, regulated by clockwork. -
Pittsburgh Post.
Among the ruins at Pompeii has
been found human relic in an ex-
ceptionally good state of preservation.
1t is described as the full length fossil
of a man who was probably struck
while in flight at the time of the de-
struction Of the city. The features are
well defined, the mouth being slightly
open, showing the teeth in either Jaw;
the hands are perfect, and one is sup
posed to have held two keys, which
were found close to it, while the legs
are spread out and slightly raised; the
left member had, however, been
broken.