Daily Republican., 1884-02-21
SENSATIONAL ITEMS.


o simple and easy A dealer at unfai
II faro must be an adept In the handling
. Of cards or use fraudulent apparatus
1t Is not 80 with baccarat. The deale
= takes two cards and gives two to eaci
!. player. One cardsapiece may after
. ward be drawn. Then the holder. Of a
q card nearest to certain value wins
. The ostensib.e advantage TO the bank j.
, about five per cent, but there is no ne
| cesslty of letting the dupes off at thai
slow rate OF loss. The players sit round
: table, and at their backs stand spec,
tators, among whom may be placed
pals OF the dealers, who by private sig.
nails inform him Of the value Of tbel,
hands.
Just after Sunday school exercises in
Trinity church, Mobile, last Sunday,
the sexton began to ring for the morn
ing service. AS the bell did not sound
right he requested the boys to 90 out
OF the t0wer-l oom, and second later
down came the bell, through floor after
floor, cutting its way as neatly AZ can
non ball might have done, and landing
In the cellar, tifty.tive feet below. The
sexton lodged aside just in time to save
his head. The bell lies mouth up in the
cellar, and is uninjured.
The Rev. X. w. Summers recently
found IN the upper valley OF the Sail
mas, California, at an elevation Of 91S
tceu above the sea, n perfect bivalve
Ii l-2 inches in length, s inches broad,
and 23 inches around the thickest part.
The interior is as smooth as though the
oyster had just been taken out. These
big shells are found in beds in this val
ley. They were formerly burned for
lime but now they are noted as curl.
OsiJies.
One oyster may contain million
eggs The young one floats about for
several days, during which 1t may be
! carried by currents perhaps seventy or
eighty miles, when IL falls to the bot
tim and turns over on its eft side; one
Of its valves then becomes fastened to
the support below, aud grows thicker as
time passes on; the upper valve becomes
Hat. The oyster requires at least three
per cent OF saline matter in the water
in order to live.
Fannie b. Ward writes frem Saltillo
that at whatever hour a person dies in
Mexico, 1t is customary to appoint the
funeral just twenty four hours later,
and that as the mortality ID greatest all
Iover he world at night, the most of
he funeral ceremonies in Mexico are
performed at night, no women being
permitted to attend. The poor hire the |
cottins In which their dead are borne to |
the grave.
John Waffen, a German, residing in |
Cleveland, who had been in this coun-
try only a year, on Tuesday nis ht /
made a bet that he could swallow ff-
teen drinks in fifteen minutes. He &C
complished the feat, and on going home
was taken with violent tit of sneez.
ing, which could not be stopped. He
was dead man before morning.
The inevitable sea serpent has turned
up again. This time he has been seen
going down the British Channel to
wards the Atlantic at the rate of twen-
ty-hve miles per hour, and atterward
he was noticed Off the north coast of
Cornwall. The monster was about half
"a mile long, and lett a greasy trail be.
hind him.
There is Jewish penman in Vienna
who writes 400 Hebrew letters on one
grain of wheat. In order to furnish
the Emperor with satisfactory evidence
Of bis extraordinary skill, he has writ
ten the Jewish prayer for the imperial
family on the narrow edge of an ordi-
nary visiting card.
Two sledge dogs from Siberia, which
, of E,.,, h,r |
since IN a whaling vessel, found the
climate too warm aud were sent to the
Sierras to keep cool. 1t was necessary
IN the trip to Frisco, when they
reached warm weather, to feed them on
,racked ice.
There has been a grave conflict near
in Russia, between peasants
md official surveyors measuring land
or assessment A military force WAS
.all,d out to suppress the Disturbance
md forty of the leading rioters were
arrested and taken to Warsaw for trial. I
The coast iu the vicinity Of Schevin
gen, Holland, is strewn with casks of
powder and dynamite from wrecked
vessels. Forty thousand kiiogrammes
If powder and tive hundred ki!o-
,rammes Of dynamite have been picked
up by the custons authorities.
The gold mines recently discovered
in Idaho Territory are reported to be
very rich, and 1t is believed there will
tc fifty Thousand miners in the region
by next spring. They are now plunging
snow five feet deep to reach
he coveted treasure.
Doctor Domingo Fire, of Rio Janeiro,
claims to have discovered the yellow
fever fungus. He has named it CryI-
tococcus Iaptbogenicus, and finds that
animals inoculated with it soon show
Ill the usual signs of the disease before
death and on dissection.
A bomb was thrown into a house on
he Rue Crozatier, Paris, recently, and,
exploding, did considerable damage. 1t
y believed the bomb was intended to
njure the Police Commssary, who re-
ides in the house.
Drinking habits in India are on the
Increase, and the revenue from strong
rinks has risen in five years fifteen
er cent. Whisky has now become the
avorite stimulant, supplanting brandy
nd gin. l.
A Glendale (M. T.) jury hung for y
wo days, but when the Sheriff told
lem there would be horse race out on
10 street in an hour, they agreed in :,
xactly seven minutes by the foreman's !
atch. Il
In 1855 there we're but two total ab- o
aners in the House Of Commons, the
to Sir Edward Bsines, NJ. p tor \
eeds, and Mr.. Whitwnrth. M. p. for u
rogheda. AT present there ara thirty 81
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At Werdel (Westphalia) an aged d
risoner was at his urgent request -,
'anted permission 10 be taken to the J,
Iilway station in order to see IA loco Is
otive aud train for the fl rst time, #
St. Louis papers keep in type the a,
lank form: "The beautiful Miss
-, of -, -, has mysteriously
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