The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

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lie Moyne of crematorv fame, never
allows the use of preserved fruits in his
household. He says they were intended
to be eaten only in season. Rhiiddelp bjG
Press.
There are now in the United States
$40 Young Mems Christian Associa-
tons, with a membership of 10S, 1877.
They own eighty buildings and So, $780,
675 worth OF real estate.--M. Y Erdnl-
Gner.
The Edison Electric Light Com
pany has three farms in Northern ia
pan, comprising three hundred acres,
devoted to raising the bamboo which,
splintered and carbonized, are used in
the incandescent lamps.
1t may not be generally known
that soft-shell crabs are caught and
then Systematically fattened. As an
old crabber said: 'Crabs, like most
folks, can't live on nothin', and so we
mashes up some CLANS, some fish, or
some meat, or horse feed, or almost
anything we get right handy. If we
don t feed 'em, they'll eat one another
up. "-Neo0 HaUen Register.
james Gordon Bennett has a
greater number of houses awaiting his
occupation than any other American.
He has one in Fifth avenue and an
other in Fort Washington, and then his
rooms at the Herald establishment are
snug place for bachelor. His New
port villa is always in readiness, and he
has also fine establishment in Paris
Chicago Herald.
1t is common thing for profess
sional crabbers in New York and around
Long Island to get caught by the nose
by savage crabs while STOPPING down
in their boats. They never attempt to
break the animals hold. They imme-
diately Jump overheard in then clothes,
and the moment he feels salt water the
crab says good-by and sails away smi-
ling. Y. Sun.
"A Northumberland man sought the
roof of three-story house in Boston
some days ago for relief from the heat
and managed to roll off into the street.
but escaped without injury. Under
somewhat similar circumstances two
New Haven wOrkmen fell over a
seyenty-fve-foot cliff at Meriden, Conn,
on the same night, but neither, it is re-
ported, had any bones broken. - Boston
Journal.
The famous Dwight life insurance
case has not been heard of for some
time, but It's still in the courts. When
Colonel Dwight, of Binghamton. died
in 1873 he had S240, 00) on his life, but
less than one-half has been recovered.
The remainder, divided between thir-
teen companies, is still in litigation,
and, like many historic cases. may be
continueduntil ''the money is all gone"
1t IS alleged, as may be remembered,
that the insurance was deliberate at
tempt at fraud. Troy Times
A Louisiana man, Judge Watkins.
of Shreveport, has solved the road
problem in a novel and rather expensive
way. He has erected a LIGHT and mex
pensiye but du able roof over four miles
of roadway in the Red River bottom,
at cost of 50, 800 per mile This
keeps the road dry and hard through
out the year. The roadbed is raised
enough to keep off the surface water,
and the dust is kept down by the rain
that blows in from the sides.-N. O.
Times
The Mexican Government seems to
be vieing with Spain in the ingenuity
and burdensomeness of its taxation.
All incomes over $1,000 are taxed
twelve per cent. According to the pro-
visions of the stamp tax, adopted last
April, nearly all articles above ninety
nine cents must have stamp affixed. !
These articles include nearly all wear
ing apparel and many kinds of food, |
canned goods, as well as tobacco, oils,
medicines, brushes, clocks, iewelry, etc.
The whole of a mans stock must be
stamped, and at the end of year the |
articles unsold must be rcstamped.
AT the wedding breakfast in En-
gland recently one of the bridesmaids |
expressed wish to see that mystic
document, a wedding license, which
she had never beheid. The request
occasioned a fearful discovery The
clergymen had quite forgotten to ask
for the license; the bridegroom had
left it to his chest man" to procure it,
and this the chest man" had forgotten
to do. Of course, the marriage was no
legal marriage at all. The wedding
party broke up in dismay, and the cere-
mony was performed again the next
day.