Daily Republican., 1885-07-07
ITEMS OF InTKREsT.

There are 90 900 trees in the city of
Washington.
Now Bedford, Mass, carpenters
shingled ono side Of the roof OF house
before they discovered they were work.
Ing ON the wrong building.
An epicurean doctor says that TO
obtain the full flavor of butter the
bread upon which 1t is spread should
be introduced into the mouth with the
buttered surface downward.
An additional picture for nearly every
day In the year was placed last year in
the "' rogues' album" In the Berlin
Criminal Police Court. During the
year the collection served TO identify
124 criminals.
In noticing new medical work en-.
titled Palatabie Prescribing" a
ecieatific journal makes the curious
and highly suggestive error, for which
1t apologies Of calling the book
:" Palatable Poisoning"
The ideal Christian community would
seem to be In Iowa, where, under one
pastor, Presby terians, Baptists, Congre.
gationalists, and others are harnoni.
ously. working together. The Sunday
school superintendent and two of the
Bible class teachers are Baptists, one Of
the elders Is . CongregstioualiAt, and
another Is Lutheran.
A farmer of Peacock. N. H., while
ploughing recently, lost his watch out
of his pocket ana turned 1t under. "
He did not miss 1t until night, and next
morning he commenced plouRhing the
ground over again, and soon plOughed
1t up. The watch had been under the
ground eighteen hours, and WAS still
running.
1t ia said TO be quito tho custom now
for French ladies' to carry revolvers. At
a fashionable dinner party lately, q
gentleman was observed hesitating
whether TO sit on the right or left CT 2
handsome young widow. At length he
said, with very polite bow, . Pardon
me, madam, but will you kindly say on
which side you wear your revolver 2"
A young farmer OF Westford, Otsego
County, N. Y, was struck recently In
the face by the tail of COW which he
was milking, and became 80 enraged
thereby that he procured an axe and
chopped off the tails above the switch
of every COW In his stable-six in num-
Der. The proceeding finally came to
the ears of outsiders. and the tiller Of
the soil WAS fined ten dollars.
The birds OF Louisiana, papers of
that State say, will soon bo extermi-
mated. The colored people there not
only make birds an article of food, but
have begun TO use their eggs for the
same purpose. The eggs of partridRes,
robins, wrens, mockiDg birds, and all
others that they can get their hands on
are eaten.
Abram Hanson. a negro boy of Law.
renee, Kansas, can pick up piece of
clay and model it in q few minutes to
almost any form that suggests itself to
bis mind, with q life likeness truly as
founding. From the common clay
there found in abundance, without
tools of any kind, without models or
designs, he forms mon and beasts with
a wonderful reality and no inconsider-
able artistic talent.
The old story about q recitation OF
the Lords prayer by the elder Booth
to company of clergymen, who were
affected to the point of hysteria there
by, has started on q new round In the
religious journals. "Such . perform
apce by play actor dealing with sa.
cred language" says Edwin Booth,
" could not possibly have moved ortho
dox ministers to any other tears than
those Of regret. A recitation, to he 81
effective, must have favoring circum
stances"
Walnut, once 80 much In demand TO
furniture, bas lost its prominence, ant
dealers in wood report a large falling OF
in the demand. Mahogany is cominl
again into it's old-time prominen ce, anC
Boston dealers say that the demand i
increasing daily. Stained cherry II
much used for limitations OF Eiahogan!
In furniture, but this wood in its natu
raj color is handsome enough, and IL q
present very popular.
When a chief dies in Sitka his wive
pass to his next heir, and, unless tbes
relicts purchase their freedom witt
blankets, they are united to their grand
son or nephew as matter of course
High-strung young Siwashes sometime
scorn these legacies, and then there l
war, all tho widows resenting such al
outrage of decency and established Ell
|! quette. 1t is said, however, that hen
pecking is too small word to describ
the way in which the wives bully thei
lords. Woman's rights have reaches
o development among the Sitkins tina
would astonish the woman suffrag
leaders.
A letter from Barpum has been pull
| lished recently in an English newt
paper, In which he says that twent
years ago, when he began the manage
ment Of his travelling show with 90
persons, it was made a condition tha
they should be discharged and forfeI
/ a We dollars If they were not total ali
stainers from strong drink during tn
season of seven months. Nearly ever
one complied, and at the end Of tbs
time he offered to invest their saving
and guarantee them the principal wit
interest at six per cent. if they woul
still continue to abstain. Over 400 o.
cepted the offer, and most of them te
day have several thousand dollars safel
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