The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-06-06
MISC LLANEOUS.

The Popular Science Ho1Nhty, AFTER
a careful investigation, concludes that
the human race began about 2,OQO,00O
years ago.
During the recent Franco-Chinese
difficulty the latter country was for the
first time in her long history compelled
to borrow money from foreign sources.
Newport is agitated over the condi-
ton of the famous old stone mill, one
of the wonders of the world and gem
uine antique The extreme cold OF last
winter has so badly damaged the struc-
ture that extensive repairs will be re-
quired to keep it from falling to the
ground. ProUidence JOltrndI
DR.. Holmes gives q receipt for q
popular novel: observation-disclosures
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., and so on
Love-obstacles- misery - tears-des-
pair-glimmer of hope-unexpected so
luton of difficulties happy finale.
Landscape for background according
to season. Plants of each month got
up from botanical calendars.
The late Schuyler Colfax, at ameet-
ing Of the Daughters of Rebekah, in In
dianapolis, last summer, declared from
the rostrum that it was his pride to say
that the Rebekah Degree was the best
kept secret in the order. Men had been
expelled from the order (Odd Fellows)
for diyulging the secret work, but there
was no instance on record OF woman
having ever proved recreant to her OBJ
legations. Express.
The saltpetre beds of Nevada are
far better situated for the development
of their deposits than the nitre region
of South America, which is a desert en-
tirely devoid of water and all vegetable
life. Water for all purposes is con-
densed from the ocean water, and car
ried to the nitre fields, while fuel has to
be procured from the mountains in the
South of Chill. In Nevada the salt
petre deposits are in the vicinity of a
rich farming country, with an abundant
supply of water and wood close at
hand Chicago journal.
The Fenian ram that aroused con,
siderable public curiosity through the
columns of newspapers two years age
is still at New Haven, Conn, in a
wooden building on the bank of Mil
River. 1t is about thirty feet long,
cigar-shaped, burns petroleum for fuel,
and can make excellent speed under
water. 1t is said to have cost $4,000.
No one is allowed to see it except those
in whose charge it is, and they refuse
to talk about it. The building has nc
side windows and the door is strongly
barred. -NeU HaUen Register.
An angler thus tells of his own ex-
pcrimentS as to the effect that sound
produces on trout, and he assumes that
all fishes are more or less alike in this
respect: "Erequently when able to OBJ
serve a trout, while myself unseen, ]
have screamed and shouted at the top
of my voice. These demonstration have
invariably been without the slightest
effect, but when varied by conclusion
which would communicate itself to the
water this has no longer been the case,
and evidence of alarm, or at least that
the conclusion was felt, has been APP
parent. - Chicago Herald.
The use of the revolver by women
to ayenge real or supposed injuries, is
becoming very common in France. Re-
Gently Paris physician, residing in the
Rue Lafayette, had a maid servant
named Louise Chasot, whom he dis.
missed. She left, vowing vengeance,
of which he took no notice. The next
day a messenger called to ask him to &c
and see person who was i'll at Rue dc
Dunkirk. He went to the apartment
indicated, and on the door being opened
to him he found himself in the presence
of his late domestic. She Immediately
fired two shots of a revolver at him
One bullet grazed his ear. The Other
passed through his left thigh.
Some thirteen years ago Hon. Gid
con Haynes, of Massachusetts, in the
course of business mailed four Bank Of
England notes of the aggregate value
of $500 to correspondent in Brazil
The mail steamer was burned on the
passage, with her cargo, and the money
was given up as lost. Recently Mr.
Haynes discovered that each note was
stamped.with a mark and a number
and that a duplicate of this was kept
in the record of the bank. He commu.
nicated with Messrs. Kidder, Peabody
q Co., and that firm, together with its
London correspondent, Barring Brother,
& Co., soon had the matter investigated
and the lost bills replaced by new ones
Boston Journal.