Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-04-19

service. A foreigner, VINO recently
preached to Dutch congregation. had
among the audience the pastor of the
church, who smoked his pipe like the
rest.
Mrs. E. d. E. n Southworth has
just finished her seventy-first novel
ten more than one for every year of her
life. Bonner has an iron-clad contract
with her, binding her to write for him
alone, and on demand. at 5000 q
year.
The clerk in a real estate office in
Philadelphia who executes the hand
soonest deeds that reach the City Re-
corder's office, writes always with q
stub pen and with the head of the
blank toward him, thus writing upside
down.
Large quantities of barbed wire for
fencing purposes are now being
shipped from this country to Brazil
and Central America. A short time
ago vessel sailed for Honduras with
barbed wire as one-third of her entire
cargo.
A bridge over the Straits of Messina
has been projected. The narrowest
portion of the straits is two miles
across, but the depth there is 521i feet,
while the shallowest part, which is Sol
feet deep, runs between Cap del Pezzo
and Ganzirri.
"West Virginia." says a Wheeling
paper, "sports a lawyer who sued q
dead man, got judgment, issued an
execution, advertised his property. sold
it. got the money, and spent the money
for whisky before the court was ap-
prised of his death"
The language of letter-seals is the
latest. A seal of pink wax means con-
gratulations; one of black, coincidence;
of blue, love; of purple, friendship; of
red, business, and an invitation to
wedding or other festivity is sealed
with white wax.
An entry in Washington's diary,
dated February, 1868, shows the great
number of visitors he entertained at
that time. "Would any person be-
lieve," he says, THAT with 101 cows
actually reported at late enumeration
of my cattle l should still be obliged to
buy butter?'
Five out of the twenty-one Presi-
dents of the United States were of
Scotch-Irish lineage-Jackson, Polk
Buchanan. johnson and Arthur; two of
Scotch-Grant and Hayes; one of
Welsh-Jefferson, and one OF Dutch
Van Buren,; the remaining twelve being
Of English descent.
Carlos Augero. the Cuban who fought
bravely in the war of insurrection
against Spain, and was recently killed
in Cuba, was a mere boy, with a BOYS
rash pluck. He distinguished himself
in various ways, so much so at times
that he was more than once degraded
even by his own chiefs.
The librarian of the British Museum
was recently surprised by visitor in
quiring if there were any extant auto
graphs of the Saviour. Another asked
for books on the subject of sorcery,
and wished to know if there was any
man in the room who could raise
Beelzebub for him.
When pursued by a swift dog the
common gray rabbit jumps about nine
feet clear on level ground. In propor-
ton to length, horse, to jump as far
as a rabbit, would have to clear sixty
four feet at a jump. There is no quad
ruped that has such powerful muscles
in his quarters as the rabbit, and none
excel him in the muscles of his loin and
back.
40 render new wainscoting and oak
furniture dark and give it an antique
appearance, ammonia, says high au-
thority, is the cleanest, best and cheap
est material that can be used. The
liquid stains commonly used raise the
grain of the wood, whereas, in the use
of ammonia, it is simply the fumes that
color, and do it so completely that it is
difficult to tell whether the wood is
really new or old.
A very curious superstition is con-
nected with the origin of the horse
shoe, which is supposed to have come
from the halo surrounding the heads of
saints in old pictures. This halo was
usually composed of a shiny metal
which remained long after the picture
had faded from view, leaving only this
metallic horseshoe to still receive the
habitual reverence given sanity pict-
ures from generation to generation.
Tallahassee County, Fla, boasts of q
man who has lived on one farm and in
one house to be sixty years of age, and
yet has changed his state residence no
less than four times. The incident is
explained by the fact that no two out
of four state line surveys have been the
same, and he has alternated. therefore,
between Georgia and Florida. just
now he is Floridian, a recent survey
having run the line north of his house.
A correspondent tells this: "a pro-
fessional man in Tonawanda disciple
of Esculapius, while taking sleigh
ride, overlook, on the street, lady
full of beauty and fun. He never saw
her before, but invited her to take
ride. She accepted. Ten minutes later
he proposed. No refusal. Ten minutes
later he suggested that they go to La
Sale and get married. The lady con-
sented and he took home-to his mother
a daughter-in-law." w."-Niagara (M. Y
Courier.
A clever girl will ascertain what col
ors and shades are becoming to her,
and will stick to them. There may be
occasions when she feels like trying
something different, and perhaps in
striking contrast to what she generally
wears. Such experiments, however,
should be undertaken with caution.
We once knew man who was almost
frightened out of matrimony by seeing
his lady love at ball in yellow dress.
-NeaO York Ledger.