The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-04-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

-IeHIg DdIueS, HNe-yeaT-OIu boy
IN Springfield, o., recently died ter
riblc death from the effects of eating
the peel of half an orange.
Women are becoming very popu
lar in Valparaiso, Chilli, as street-cal
conductors. Travel has increased fifty
per cent. since their advent in their new
role
Many Of the Arabs captured in the
battle of Feb said they knew nothing Of
the English forces, had never heard o
their victory over Arab, had never
heard of Arab himself, and had never
heard of Tewlik.
Captain Austin, who calls himself
n crack rife shot, was cowardlv enough
to attempt recently in England the feat
of shooting a potato off his wife's head.
He succeeded in his first shot, but at the
second his bullet struck the unfortunate
wOmanin the forehead where it glanced
saving her from death, it is true, but
making frightfnl scar three inches
long. IN y. SIN.
W. 5. Cooper, employed in 4 Brook
lyn newspaper Office, has adopted a
novel plan for paying his landlady fol-
board. He took the lady to the theators
very frequently on free tickets, and
when she presented her bill for five
weeks board. he met it with another
bill charging her full rates for the en-
tertainments she visited with him,
bringing her in debt r0otJgB Eaqle.
Speaking of Mexican women, a
traveller says that 1.-The daughters of the
wealthy pass their lives in vacuity; those
of the poor are half fed and half dressed,
and nearly all look hunger-bitten and
badly developed. The health Of the
higher class of women is wretchedlv
poor. A plump, healthy woman is a
rarity. The picture so often seen on
the cigar boxes of a beautiful scnorita,
swinging in voluptuous languor in a
hammock, is pictorial fraud.
"A Comstocker, writing from Eagle
City 10 the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise,
says: "The CGur d Alenc liar is the
boss liarof the Western world. Neither
the Arizona liar, the Colorado liar, the
New Mexican liar, nor the Nevada liar
can stand before the Cmur d Alene liar
half round. He has u cold, hard
cheek of a marble mule and the eve of
a basilisk When he goes fer the poor
pilgrim it is equal to a stroke OF
paralysis
There is place in the Blue Ridge
Mountains, in West Virginia, where
snow meltS as fast as it falls, and where
the temperature Of the ground never
reaches the freezing point. Vegetation
is always u month ahead Of the sur
rounding sections. There is about one
acre OF this warm area. The State
Geologist is of the opinion that there
may be volcano slumbering few
hundred feet below the surface.-CHj-
cago Herald.
The "letter' presented to the His
torcal Society Of Pennsylvania, by r.
Coulton Davis, at the inaugural cere-
monies OF its new building on the 18th
inst, is the commission of BENJAMIN
Franklin to be Minister Plenipotentiary
TO the Court of France, directed to
Louis XVI, and signed by Henry
Laurens, President of the Continental
Congress, 1913. 1t is in Il glazed
frame, accompanying which is rare
French engraving of Franklin, in which
E'Diogenes' is represented with his
man. Philadelphia Press.
In boring for water near Snake
River, about forty-five miles from Day
ton, Ore, recently, a stratum of frozen
earth was encountered at depth OF
sifty-five feet. Passing through this for
five feet numerous cavities were found,
from which cold air came in gusts.
The escaping air at the bottom of the
well can be heard roaring at some dis
fance. 1t is not possible for anyone to
hold his hand over the well for any
length Of time without freezing it, and
81 bucket Of water let down into the well
was frozen over in q few minutes.
Work on the well has been abandoned
on account OF the cold chicago Times.
"A genuine snake hunt of considera-
bile proportions took place near Pleas
ant Plains, S. l., afew days ago. Near
the village is the ''snakc woods" A
party of young men from Pleasant
Plains entered the woods provided with
sbovels, picks and crowbars. Rotten
stumps and large stones were over
turned and mounds with snakc-holes
about them were opened In every
case hundreds of reptiles were found
coiled up and matted together. They
were chopped to pieces by the shovels
The party worked hard several hours
and left in the woods an enormous
number of dead reptiles. Several
thousand must have been slaughtered
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