Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-02-12
SENSATlONAL ITEMS

laJapanese damsel when her lover prov
Oh faulse to his vows. When the w0rl'
is at rest, at two o'clock in the morning
the girl rises. She dons a white rob
and high sandals or clogs. Her Golf Is
metal tripod, in which are thrus
three lighted candles around her neck
she hangs a mirror, which falls upoI
her bosom in her left hand she carries
small straw fgure-effigy of her faith
less lover-and in her right hand grasp
a hammer and nails, with which she
fastens the figure TO one OF the sacred
trees that surround the shrine. .TheL
she prays for the death OF the traitor,
vowing that, # Der petition be heard,
she will herself pull out the nails
which now offend the god BY wound
ing the mystic tree. Whit after night
she comes to the hnitlr, and each night
she strikes in two more nails, actually
believing every nail will shorten her
lovers life, for the god, TO save this
tree, will surely strike him dead.
Very trivial matters, the New Bed
ford Mercury says. sometimes influence
jury, and nobody understands this
better than the habitues of the court
room. An officer called for young
lady, the chief witness in an assault
case, one day last week, and she ap-
pared in a hat in which bright yellow
pretominated. of you want to win
your case you will change that hat, "
said the officer. 1t will pref udice the
jury against you" The girl put on a
black hat with a red feather and got a
compromise verdict The officer said that
If the hat had been plain black, with
out the red feather, she would probably
have convicted the defendant of the
crime alleged.
Another proof has been given that
comedy underlies every tragedy. The
custom-house authorities have been
thrown into great excitement by the
discovery of what was believed to be a
large consignment to London of most
deadly explosives 1t would be really
impossible to adequa@ly picture the ex-
citement of these officials at what
they had no doubt whatever had been
"a most provdential "fnd," but iii is
impossible to picture their patriotic
emotion what shall be said Of their
astonishment when 1t TRANSFERRED that
the internal machines were nothing but
alarms?
Montana has had tradition for many
years ola ri, b mine called the Lest Cab.
in Mine, which three men had found
and lost, az two of them were murdered
and the third went crazy, and never
could find 1t again. A dispatch from
Billings says Jack Meyers has found
the lode near the head waters of the
Big Horn river. The lode is 800 feet
wide where 1t is cut by the river, and
IL IL said that it has been traced for
twenty tivemiles, Gree milling quartz"
" whether of gold or Of ores of silver is
not stated. 1t is probably in the reser-
walton OF the Crow Indians.
English society journals have dis
covered in a workman Oh the Illinois
Railway the son of Prince SalIn. Salm,
" Tho fled his country in consequence OF
IN affair of the heart. 1t appears that
another member of the family, under
similar circumstances, displayed more
sense. Count Manfred Salm Salm, hay
ng fallen in love with a shoemaker's
laughter, married her, and set up as Il
grocer In "a German watering. place,
v here he has achieved fortune and
purchased an estate.
In the neighborhood Of Agra, India,
'ixty.tive children, from u few months
% four years Old, are stated to have
,een carried of by wolves during the
'ecent hot weather and the rains. The
avin-s bordering on the Jumna and
Jhumbal rivers are infested by these
which are apparently becom-
ny more and more daring year by
,ear.
A Letter mailed in Sault Ste Marie,
Mich, for the village on the opposite |
de Of the river, a mile distant, goes
through Detroit to Windsor, where it
nters The Canadian mail. Thenceit is
ent over Canadian routes TO the Sault.
f man is in hurry, he don't write.
lie crosses the river and talks.
The Scotch have discovered the
means of artiicialfy Matching behring's,
o that there will be no trouble in catch.
ng them hepceiorth. ard they will only |
ave TO be sCooped out
An indianapolis man said not a word
0 the restaurant waiter who brought
i'm tough piece of meat, but marched
nto the kitchen and whipped the cook.
A new convert to % Whitetield GA |
hurch is one hunded and twenty-eight
ears old. Better late than never; but
etter never late.
Esthetes are tired of plates for mural
ecoration they now cover walls with
iolins and guitars.
A young man Indignantly broke off
n engagement because his girl named
pet cat after him.