Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-23
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debris that covered Pompeii 30 long re-.
mains in place.
At wedding in Bridgeport, Conn,
recently, the groom, a young man, who
appeared nervous from the start, broke
into hysterical sobs before the ceremony
was over.
A glass bed stead has been made at q
Birmingham, Eng, factory for a CAL
cutta millionaire. 1t is OF solid glass,
the legs, rails, ETC.. being richly cut.
The King Of Burman has also one.
There ia natural bridge near the
boundary line between Arizona and
New Mexico, twenty miles north Of the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which
surpassss in every way the famous one
In Virginia.
Two thousand horned toads have
been shipped from San Francisco to
China. They will be- converted into
various kinds of medicines, which sell
very high. A toad is placed In a flask
of whisky several weeks and the stuff
is sold as tonic
The largest farm in the world Ia said
to be the Bell Farm, in Canada, belong
ing to the Qu'Appelle River Farming
Co. 1t consists of "a 900 acres, OF
which some Is. COO acres are under close
cultivation. Every two hundred acres
has upon 1t cottage.
The oak, says Robert Douglas, lie
creeping out into the prsiries and cover
ing uDoccupied grounds in the West
wherever 1t is not too sandy for 1t to
grow. Thousands of acres are now
covered with young oaks where they
did not grow forty years ago.
Workmen in borax factories possess
q charm against cholera. During the
terrible epidemic OF l8o4-5 the work
men In seven contiguous factories in
Italy were free from the disease which
killed Off one-third OF the population OIL
village in their immediate neighbor
hood.
Waiting cards for dogs are the ragt
In London. They are engraved, one
inch by half inch, and put up In
packages of 100 each. miss Minnie
Black and Tan" "Mr. Suite Pug, y
Mrs. Wiloughby Pug" "Mr. Frank
Fox Terrier" and hundred Others
may be had at any stationer's.
In some parts of the African coast the
shark is still worsaippsd and offerings
of poultry and goats are made. Once a
year child il sacrificed to propitiats
1t. The littls victim 10 bound TO q pos
tide rises, minges it's shrieks anl
screams with those OF its mother unH
ldevouted by sharks.
Mexico has her financial troubles
but her condition for years past ha
been far more prosperous and pelcefu
than during any period of her history
Sine, 1890 she has had ll5 revolutions
From 1923 to 1861 JuareZ WAS the only
President who served out full term
The Drogheda Guardians have dis
covered that their coffius are mad
, without regard..to the size of the bod.
to be inferred, and the natural conse
Qnence is that many are found to be to
small. Corpses are accorpingly jamm o
into those narrow receptacles by mai
| force.
There Is a curious uniformity in th
, number of persons killed annually !
Indi. by wild animals and shaker
The Indian Medical Gazette gives III
, mum Der of those killed in Bengal alon
, by animals, for FIVE years, at from 1
264 to 302 in each year. The snake
: destroyed are from 8, 1873 to lO,064 ann
ally.
'. Prolonged freshness is secured b
! standing flowers in water some houl
before they are sent away. 1t 10 u
u greatest fallacy to. suppose that an,
u which have to be sent to distaD'
y should be treshed picked. They wi
travel better and last longer ii above
to imbibe full supply of moistul
before starting.
z The Formosarians, says NJ. Girard I
I, Rialle, are fetish worshippers. In OF
r. of their houses a traveller found sta
II on which was placed the skull OF do
l. adorned with garlands OF flowers al
herbs. This he was told was the fema
Il fetish !; the male was composed OF bar
1t boos and interlaced like a cradle.
la lar of pure water below appeared 70
- the only offering.
4. A relic of the great forests which on
covered the south OF Sweden was
Gently dug out OF a bog at Kinneved
~ the shape of . boat six feet in diamet'
:, followed out of IA log. The tree frc
~ which 1t was obtained must have be
Is twenty feet in circumference. The woo
which.was blue in color, was very hal
and the boat 30 heavy that two buiioc
IN could hardly move IT,
IL Clara Louise Kellogg freQuen,
W wears a magnific cent jewelled PIN, pl
or scented by the Duke of Newcastle
1868. During the Brighton races he
1t. vited Miss Kellogg to be the guest
IN his family, saying in the invitati
, that he had recently lost heavily, a
IS il she came it might change his luz
She went, and that day the Duke "
lie $50. 600. The pin commemorates
= event.
I'll The noted statistician, Edward .
or kinson, insists that there is an abr
dance of room yet In this world. .
oil l, 400, 900 900 persons supposed to be
70 the globe could all find easy stand
om room within the limits Of field
~; 20 IN lies square, and by the aid Of te
phone could be addressed at one ii
by a single speaker. In n aeld twel
I'm miles square they could all be &C
hu fortably seated.
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