The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

in Florida has proved failure. CHI
cdgo Times.
WALLER Dog and Raw Dog are the
names oftwo little towns south of Hepp-
ner, Oregon.
Telegraph wires were recently
worked from Chicago to London
7,0O0miles, - Chicago Journal
"A Baptist lady in Texas devotes to
the Lords cause all the eggs laid by
her hens on Sunday. Chicago Tribune.
II am so much in sympathy with
nature remarked young Gusher to
lady friend, as he plucked bunch of
grass in the Seventh ward park.
YES" she replied; ''all shades of
green do harmonize.'' Gusher saws he
can't imagine what she was driving at.
-Pecb'S Sun.
Maggie Lee, magnetic girl,
gave performance in Frankfort, KY,
the other night, in presence of Proctor
Knott and a large audience. A man
weighing 225 pounds sat in a chair. and
she easily lifted him and the chair by
touching the chair with the tip of her
nger.-LouiSvjAe Courier journal.
A painful episode of disappointed
love has Just occurred in Paris Some
watermen found the bodies of Young
man and woman, tied together, floating
in the Seine. 1t was evidently a case
OF double suicide, and, from informa-
ton afterward acquired, it appears that
the hapless couple, who belonged to
respectable class of society, had been
thwarted in their desires of union by
fhn fnfbo, Of bo IL Al.
views for his daughter.
"A regularly organized band of
young thieves, calling themselves the
Ozark Spirits" has been uneartlped in
Sumter, Ga. They have q captain.
signs and passwords. Ten boys of re-
spectacle parentage were identified as
members of the band. They have been
very successful in thieving, the pro
ceeds of which consisted of watches,
knives, cuff buttons, silk handkerchiefs.
money, etc. Some ten-cent novels were
found in their possession Chicago
Times.
"A man from the country stepped
into a gun shop on Austin Avenue to
buy gun, Several muzzle loading
guns were shown him, but he said he
preferred breech-loader. 81 suppose
you prefer breech-loader on account
OF it being easier and quicker to load?"
"No, 1t isn't that particularly. | had
an old musket that loaded at the muz-
zle, but one day it went off at the
bfeech and nearly blew my head of.
Instead of gun that loads at the
muzzle and goes off at the breech, |
want one that can load at the breech
and fire OFF at the other end. ~ Texas
SJtj'1gs.
AT the single yard of Mrs. Matilda
Seymour, on Raft River, about thirty
miles from Mobile, Ala, NAV be seer
an unusual and interesting sight in the
shape of a petalligator The petis over
nine feet long, and as gentle and docile
as kitten AT the sound of his name
called by any one of the Seymour
family, he will Immediately crawl out
OF the water and perform whatever is
required of him in the way of carrying
baskets, picking up sticks, etc. One
popularity of the saurian is his intense
fear of dogs. He cannot be induced to
come ashore if there is dog in the
vicinity, and if on shore when one APP
pears will at once take to the water. :
;St. LouiS Post.
The Treasurer of one of the coun-
ties of Maryland says it is even a won.
der to him that defalcations are not
more numerous than they are, tempta-
tions are so strong. ''When | first
took hold of the Treasurcship of our
county," says he, Il was literally be-
sieged with letters, circulars and con-
tidential communications from New
York banking firms of doubtful noto-
riety. They came in every mail. They
were marked private, personal and
all that sort of thing. They proved to
me-on paper, of ccourse-hoTw could
easily double all investments. They
showed that by putting my money up
| was absolutely certain to win, and
that it was an impossibility for me to
lose"
1t is proposed to enact a law pro
hibiting fishing with nets in the Poto-
mac for five years, in the hope of re-
storing the ancient piscatorial glory OF
the river. Three hundred thousand
shad were often caught at one good
landing on the Potomac during the
spring fishing, beginning about the
middle of March and terminating early
in May, and half q million herring
were taken during the season. Stur-
geon, rock, and other fish were cores
pondingly numerous. Shad brought
from 50 to Sl2 per hundred, herring 81
per thousand, sturgeon three cents per
pound, and rock from 50 to 81 per
thousand. The sturgeon weighed from
forty to one hundred and fifty pounds,
the rock one to seventy-tive, and shad
three to six pounds. - Washington Post.