Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-20
MISSING LINKS.
In the eye Of the California la,
staring at u lady Is an offense.

staring at II lady Is an offense.
The house in which General Grant
first saw the light had only two win
dows.
A rat out in Utah mistook little
girls mouth for hole, and jumped
down her throat.
A prominent criminal lawyer of San
Francisco refuses to longer defend any
of the criminal class.
The first Napoleon slept in hollands
for sheets, the BoUrbons in cambric,
and Napoleon ILL., in ordinary linen.
Edward Ball is the name of the
young man known as "the cowboy
preacher" lie adopts something of
the Sam Jones style.
An eminent physician on oath the
other day said that he had known men
who took their sixty tumblers of punch
per day and seemed no whit the worse
for the indulgence.
At a recent Socalistic meeting in
Berlin the fact was mentioned that
two prominent merchant tailors paid
girls from II to ID cents for making
complete suit of boys clothing.
The largest dock in the world is at
st. John, N. F. 1t is 600 ieet long at
the top, 55S feet long upon the line OF
keel blocking and 1872 feet wide, and
the drift over gate still % feet at high
tide.
Three hundred and fifty EIGHT crm-
mails who have escaped from Georgia
in the course of the last thirteen years
are wanted in that State The re-
wards offered for them aggregate
100000
1t costs 81, 900 to raise man from
infancy to the age of twenty lone years.
At least, that was what it cost to raise
slave on cornmeal and bacon. regard
less of such services as he could rem
der before his majority.
This astute proverb comes from In
dia: at must always be the women
who are in the wrong. and not the
men, because men have reserved to
themselves the right to decide what is
right and what wrong"
Oscar Wilde wanted to leave his son
and heir unnamed until the child
should be old enough to choose
name for himself, but learned that IN
order to have the babe christcned a
name was imperatively required.
The production of lead in Germany
has doubled since 1868 in spite OF a
simultaneous increase in the production
of Spain and in the growth of the lead
yield of North America from almost
nothing to l4O, 600 tons annually.
Tons of arsenic are being fed to the
grasshoppcrs in California. One drug
house ut San Francisco sends ton u
week into the infected districts, while
firm at Fresno sold 700 pounds in five
days, and had orders for 400 pounds
more.
In a recent review of the once de-
spised Persian army 10000 finely uni
formed and equipped soldiers were in
line. Russian instructors for the cav
airy and Austrian for the infantry and
artillery have brought the troops up to
good standard of efficiency.
The amount expended by the gov
ernment in removing He'll Gate. Dia-
mond, and Coenties, reef, in New York
harbor has been 50. 126, ,O43 81. The
last reef is about to be blown up,
leaving an uDobstructed channel and a
handsome sum of money at the dispos-
al of the engineers for further improve
ments, as the amount SO far appropri-
ated is 50, l39, l2O.
Professor Douglas. after many years
of research, says China has no such
teeming millions as are usually credit
ed to her. Two hundred and fifty
millions he thinks about the right es-
innate. Many OF the hill peoples of
China at the present day are not Chi
ncse at all. The Chinese civilization
and culture are not purely Of a native
growth; their elements were brought
from Western Asla-perhaps from the
nelghbOrhood Of the Aral-by the Chi.
uese ere they set out tor China.
A thrce-ycar old boy at Louisville
promises to be gray-headed before he
reaches his teens. The child has at
tracted much attention from the neigh
bors, who say they never saw anything
of the kind before. Physicians say
that. even in families where turning
gray during youth is hereditary. they
have not known of a case where the
peculiarly was exhibited in one so
young. The boy is a healthy and live
ly little fellow. and hispatriarchal con-
dition does not seem to annoy him in
the least.
The mortal remains of the faithful
Esther and her kinsman. Mordccai.
rest in little shrine at Hamadan, Per-
sia. They are covered each bya wood
en- ark, on which are small pieces Of
paper like labels. covered with Hebrew
characters. They are placed there by
the Hebrew pilgrims All are under a
small dome some fifty feet high. The
building is of red bricks. the walls
much patched by mud; the blue dome
is of tiles. These tombs are held
sacred by the Hebrews in Persia. and
thousands make pilgrimages annually.
Though the laws of propriety are so
vigorously strict in Mexico that a gem
tleman may not ride in the same car
riage with his lady to whom he is be-
trothed, yet most desperate firtations
are openly indulged in to an extreme
which would put to blush, New York,
Chicago, or San Francisco. Following
senorita up and down the promenade
and staring inlently in her face is an
accepted mode OF compliment, rati-
flying to the recipient, but fraught with
danger to the adorer if she happens to
have other devoted swains. and it not
unfrequently happens that duels are
the result, she being pre-eminently the
belle who can boast the greatest num-
ber of such encounters.
Somebody wants to know why all
the Biographies contain the statement
that "the earth is sphere slightly