The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-03-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A New York female, whose dog
lost an eye in fight with a cat, en-
ployed an occulist to put a glass eye in
the place of the member that had been
clawed out N Y. Graphic.
-Pere Hyacinthe, while speaking in
New Orleans recently, said that "by the
cession of louisiana to the United
States and England, the death war;
rant of great French empire in
America was signed. [ would almost
call this crime. IN. o. Picayune.
An advertisement from the agony
column of the London Standard:
Found in Pail Mall purse containing
money. Owner can have it by applying
to H. I. Wakefield, Chiswick, on pay
ment of advertisement and giving de-
scription Ii not claimed within week
the money will be spent and the purse
given to the poor"
Over 5000 plants are in the White
House Conservatory proper, and $4,000
more are kept in the various lighthouses.
This collection includes plants from
every quarter of the globe, and it costs
$1,000 per year to tend them. Every
room in the White House is decorated
every morning with fresh flowers, and
a huge bouquet is made for the Presi-
dent Washington Post.
The acquittal of Rowell, who shot
Lynch, reminds the Fort Worth Gazette
of coroner's verdict in Arizona. A
party of regulators captured horse
thief and hanged him to the nearest
limb. Then the Coroner, who was one
of the regulators, impaneled jury
from the ranks and, after gravely de-
liberating, they found verdict that the
deceased came to death from the bite of
a rattlesnake.
Fatal cases of trichinosis have re-
Gently occurred in Michigan and In
diana. In both instances German fam
lilies were the sufferers, and the victims
had been eating uncooked swine flesh.
The pernicious habit of eating smoked
or sailed pork, without cooking it, re-
tains its hold upon the Germans, not
Withstanding the warnings of physicians
and the frequent reports of disease and
death resulting from the practice. 1t
is this habit to which the great preva-
lence of trichinosis in Germany is to be
attributed Y SIM.
Many of the squares of the city
were lighter last night than we have
been accustomed to see them. The
ladies began where they left off, the
lesson of the flood of February last by
giving the street early in the evening
the full benefit of their psrlor lights,
and at a later hour placing brilliant
lamps in upper windows. The magni-
fcence of a double students lamp under
these circumstances was a revelation.
The lights in the windows are generally
accepted as evidence of public spirit
and private benevOlence.-C Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
Rev. DR.. Charles S. Robinson. who
is something of traveller, complains
that the smoking-room of the average
transatlantic steamer is a "noisy,
stenchful pandemonium of drinking,
betting, gambling with cards and dice,
into which no decent person can enter
without receiving an offense, and in
which no peace-loving person can stay
without evaporation. DR.. Robinson,
it may be added, is no bigot on the
subject of tobacco. He uses the weed
temporarily himself. - Philadelphia
Press.
We can state in what situation
lime has been found useful. From its
power to decompose it has been found
useful on poor granite soils. From its
caustic nature it corrects injurious mat
ter, such as sulphate of iron in soil.
Lime breaks up and pulverizes stiff
clays, improving their texture. 1t de-
composes inert vegetable matter, peat,
roots, etc. 1t hastens the decay of
stable manure and dead carcasses, pu-
crescent matter, etc, but in all such
eases if the manurial qualities are to be
made useful they must be covered with
earth during the action of the lime to
absorb the ammonia. -IOlCG Register.
An important precedent relating
to street fights has been established in
London. Two boys were detected in
such an encounter by apoliceman, and
one of them, who was summarily
Judged to be the more guilty, was
taken before magistrate. The culprit
explained that he was not the aggressor.
The other boy, he said, had been econ
verted," and struck him because he
would not ''turn religious" too. His
mother, moreover, confirmed her sons
good opinion of himself; but the Judge
decided that the converted" boy was
probably the better behaved of the two
and fined the unconverted half a
crown.
The princess of "crazy-quilt"
makers is Mollie Williams, a young
woman living near st. Joseph, Mo.
She has Just finished making silk
quilt, the blocks of which are filled in
with pieces of the dresses of more or
less distinguished women throughout
the country. The pieces in the quilt
go up in the thousands. Among the
ladies who furnished her specimens are
Mrs Grant, Mrs. Sartoris, Mrs. Gov
ernor Knott, of Kentucky, Mrs. Lang
try, Fanny Davenport, Ellen Terry,
Clara Morris, Maggie Mitchell, Kellogg,
Bernhardt, Lolita, Anna Dickinson, Mrs.
Hendricks and Phoebe Couzins, 81.
Louis Post.
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