The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-27
MISCELLANEOUS,

--Colored gems in bridal jewelry are
no longer considered fashionable
The past season on the Erie Canal
has been the dullest for twenty years.
Bu9ai0 Express.
The foreign kilograms to the Lon
don Times, including a long letter from
khartoum, cost on single day recently
$1,000
The French transport Isere viii sail
for New York about May Is next with
Bartholdi's statue of Liberty Enlighten-
ing the World"
At the burning of the Brickett
House, in Hayerhill, Mass, baby was
thrown out of the window and feather
beds were carefully carried downstairs.
Boston Globe.
Gloves do not appear to have been
worn in England before the end of the
tenth century, and their manufacture
was at that time confined almost eXclu-
sivcly to Germany.
A most inopportune dislocation of
the jaw is recorded at recent wedding.
1t seems that during the performance
of the ceremony the bride sneezed so
violently as to dislocate her jaw at the
critical moment when she should have
pronounced the solemn oai As she was
unable to articulate the word it was
found necessary for the whole party to
repair to 4 surgeon before the ceremony
could be completed. Il Union Musicale.
-Mulhall, in his Progress of tho
World" writes that in effect the inyen-
ton of machinery has given mankind
an accession of power beyond calcuIa-
ton. The United States, for example,
make y million of sewing machines
yearly, which can do as much work as
formerly required 100000 women
working by hand. A single shoe factory
in Massachusetts turns out IS many
pairs of boots as 10000 bootmakers in
Paris. Boston JOurnDi.
"A writer. in the Detroit NeWS states
that the great Lake Mistassini. which a
Canadian explorer claims to have dis
covered, was visited by Charles Albauel,
a Jesuit father, in 1872, and described
by him in his letters to his superior.
As the letters are quoted there does not
seem to be any doubt about the matter.
The Canadian explorer is too subsequent
by two centuries. Besides the lake is
not quarter as large as he says it is.
james Harnett, lunatic much Civ
ing to sing Sweet Violets," escaped
from Ward island, New York, the other
morning He opened the outer door
with a key he had manufactured out of
a comb. Reaching the shore he made u
raft out Of few floating logs and en-
barked for a perilous ride over Hell
Gate. He landed on Long Island, near
Astoria, and rushed through the streets
yelling at the top of his voice. He was
recaptured.-N Y HerqM.
One of the most startling features
in the Pennsylvania oil regions is the
number OF deserted villages, which has
been caused by the exhaustion of oil
wells. Pithole is remarkable exam
pie Of the oil excitement. Barely eigh-
teen ears ago stood a city of 20, 900 in
habitanLs, with churches, theaters, no.
tells, daily newspapers, pipe lines, rail
road and telegraph offices, all the appli-
anceS of busy city; "now," says a re-
cent traveller through that region, "all
that remains is a log cabin, the dis
mantled wing of an old hotel, some de-
caying timbers, and little clearing in
the forest, 50 saturated with oil and salt
water that nothing will grow upon it.
A poor, demented old man is now the
only inhabitant.-BoStOn J0u1Hal