The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-03-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

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firmly imbedded in the back of a whale
captured off San Diego the other day.
Chicago Herald.
The compilers of the Australian cen
sus report that Australia could furnish
5000 men from twenty to forty, ca
pable of bearing arms.
The meanest man in the United
States lives in Pennsylvania. His wife
hit him with a rolling pin, and he had
her arrested for stealing wood.-N 7.
Herald
In recent parade at Hartford one
of the drum-majors gracefully tossed
his stick over an electric lamp wire,
thirty feet from the ground, and caught
it when iecame down without losing
step or iostling his lordly bearing
Hartford Post
The man who started the restau-
rant in Paris at which workingman
can get good dinner for half franc
is M, Ruel He began life by selling
matches, and later on became the
largest manufactnrer of them in France.
His wealth is estimated at $4,000, 900
francs (S5,000,00O).
The diamonds said to be an anti
dote to Satanic temptation. The ruby
makes its possessor brave. The topaz
is a preservative against poison. The
amethyst is a preservative against
drunkenness. The turquoise acts as a
charm against the evil eye and from
looks foreboding misfortune. The en-
erald promotes piety.-Detroit Post.
"A st. Louis doctor saws that bon
bons, sweetmeats, ice cream, ETC., cause
Indigestion, headache, congestion of
the liver, and is great source of boils
and pimples. Cut this out and show
it to your girl. Philadelphia call. And
get turned out for limiting at such a
falsehood as that she is 50 afflicted Not
much!-N. Y. Post.
-Apropos of the recent gloomy
weather in London, a correspondent
communicates the following stanzas tC
the P0Ll4lfGy Gazette;
Old England is afraid of none.
She fears no fOeman's threats
For on her mighty empire
The sun it never sets.
He who retails this axiom in
His generation wise is:
Inc sun 1t never sets because
The sun it never rises.
The Hudson River will soon be a.
picturesque as the Rhine Baronial
castles, turreted towers, lordly man
slons and splendid homes of every style
of architectural beauty and maenifi-
cence are rapidly studding its banks.
1t is there that New York millionaires
live when they retire from contact with
the common people," and pass their
leisure in luxurious enjoyment and
seClusion. Residences costing S15O,O00
to 100000 are numerous, while every
where one finds beautiful grounds, ex-
tensive lawns, Conservatives and parks.
N. 7. Tribune.
There is still much room for geo.
logical investigation in Iceland; large
part of the island is, scientifically speak
ing, unexplored, and, in spite of the
researches of the late DR.. Hjaltalin,
and the various foreign biologists who
have from time to time visited Iceland,
its mineral resources are but little
known and very partially developed.
The sulphur deposits have of late years
been exploited by enterprising English
men, and are now being worked with
every prospect of success by an English
company. But, besides sulphur, the
island contains other valuable minerals,
such as Iceland spar, coal, Ignite,
borax and copper, none of which is at
present worked to any practical extent.
An English paper says that penal
servitude is, as now carried out in En-,
gland, very dreadful punishment in
deed. From the dock the convict is
carted away in the prison van, and on
his arrival at the jail the heavy gates
are shut to with a horrible sound, be-
hind him. He is thrust into narrow
CELL there to remain without com,
partnership for nine months. Scarcely
ever hearing a human voice, save the
warder's, fed on coarse food, his fate is
sealed for thirty-six weeks, and after
that he will probably be sent to another
establishment where the discipline is
somewhat less severe. The nine months
solitary confinement of a five years
convict is hard to bear.