Daily Republican., 1885-05-27
Items ofIuteresf.

1 Trade is not wholly depressed ; q
| writing master advertises that his bust
ness is fourishipg.
A bid OF i've cents more than his CON-
lpetitor secured q house and lot for a
man at recent Sheriff's sale in Eart-
we'll, Ga.
The pendulum of tie new clock in
the Chicago Board Of Trade building
/, weighs 75O pounds. The dials are 10
feet 10 inches In diam ter.
| a theory new and novel is that the
| vast depressions of the ocesn beds are
to be accounted for by suppoeing that
the moon broke away from the earth
more than 50,000,O0O years ago. The
basins are the scars then made.
A couple who had been married
thirty. three years W as divorced recent
ly In Pittsfield, Mass, while In four
other cases exactly quarter of GEN.
tury had elapsed since the nuptials were
tied.
1t is stated that the practice among
| reformed inebriates is to take advan-
tage of the bracing properties of tea,
thus repudiating says a medical
paper, " absolute teetotalism and
adopting the plan of tota tea ism"
An Englishman who lately visited Ant
"ohP OoohcuAol uoCihrco Jnab huD6n' 8
masterpiece, 1.-THE descent from tba
Cross, is such wonderful picture that
it is worthy Of Miss Tn omson, the paint
er of the " Roll Call"
Two girls in Sacramento, CAL. who
thought it would be fun to black their
faces, unfortunately got a coloring
preparation that won't wash off. It
acts like dye on the skin, and chemists
say 1t will probably not wear off for
months.
A plant called by the Mexicans son-
agra, indigenous to the deserts and M
lands of Arizona, has been found to nos.
sess superior tanning qualities, and ia
coming into extensive use for that mr.
pose. 1t is an annual growth, and has a
root resembling beet.
The question whether women can sit
as delegates in a religious convention
was decided aversely by the Southern
Baptists, who recently met in Augusta,
Ga. Two women representatives were
accredited from Arkansas, but their ad-
mission was 30 strongly opposed that
they voluntarily withdrew.
Col. Matthew s. Quay is the owner of
the site of o.d Fort Mcintosh, the fur
thest American outpost among the In
dians during the Revolutionary war.
situated in a commanding position on
the bauk OF the Ohio River at Beaver.
The old picket beat whereon the sentrv
made his roundsis yet we'll defined and
along this Mr.. Quay has planted forty
shade trees.
A young millionaire husband has
been discovered whose bride has a
basis of positive fairness on which to
put supeystructure of Embellishments. -
but the husband insists that no sucb
Improvement shall be made. He super-
vises her wardrobe, and not with n
view to making her attractive, but ex-
aetly the reverse. If special style or
bonnet increases her comeliness of
head, he won't let her have it; if a par
ticular kind of gown is becoming to
her, he puts it under taboo-in short.
ne takes all imaginary pains to render
her as little bewitching as possible.
One of the DO ldest of the French char.
iatans-the widow Noel-has lately
been fined ard imprisoned for trickery.
Hot content with prescribing nostrums,
she used to insist upon residing with
her patients, whom she thus robbed at
her Leisure. Her last victim was a man
with heart disease. She reiaaintd q with
nm sixty days, and received her
poard and $3.50. Her chief medicament
was an ointment" made by boiling
onli pups for nine days in a mixturs
OF red earth, and for this foul stuff She
charged "a per pot. Strange to saw.
seven with nesses of good character tes-
! Tined to the efficiency of the woman IS
| remedies.