Daily Republican., 1885-08-25
ITEMS OF rEREsT.

New named Post Officers at Ethel,
Sarah, Edith, Eve, May and Violet.
There are also Wayback, Wildcat, Snor-
tervie and Onion.
The salary of the First Lord of the
Treasury of England is $500 year.
The salary OF the President of the United
States is $50 900.
Ganja is an intoxE'ant made from
hemp, and some of the Asiatics who
drink it are distinguishing themselves by
the widest atrocities.
A fool in Kansas village brushed his
hair upriQh and stood for a not, d marks
man to shoot of the ends of it. A scalp
wound as the consequence.
A bottle of purple ink was mistakenly |
opened for port wine at a Detroit sup
per, and fourteen guests filled their
mouths with the liquid in pledginz the
host.
Three hundred and fifty-eight crimi- |
nails, 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 500,
900.
An old fancy of a Michigan man isl
l 10 Duliu Ills ltoiuShSS III VIC
shape of a huge lantern. The site is on 3
bluff overlooking Lake Huron, and when
at night the house is well lighted up the
effect is curious.
J An African elephant will be extinct In
another years uuless q stop is put to|
the discriminate massacre now going on.
SO says Josef kenges, the great importer
of African wild beasts, and probably
the most emirent authority on such sub
ljects.
A Texas girl accidentally fell into the
water and was'eo nearly drowned that
resuscitation was difficult. She declared
THAT her sensations had been delightful,
and she blsmeG her friends for revivlDg
her A few days later she deliberately
drowned herself.
A Georgia physician took the plecau
ton to secure certificate from woman
whom he had treated, stating that 1t was
his services wb!ch had given relief When
soMe praying visitors announced that
their petitions to Heaven had brought
al out the resrit, the doctor triumph
antk shook the document in their faces,
and they retired from the scene discoin-
ftted.
The superstition connected with the
horseshoe is supposed to have its rise In
the halo which is made to surround the
heatls of saint In pictures. In early
times the halos were often made of shiny
. metal, in the form which one may see In
j. Old engraviDgs. By degrees the colors OF
|. the picture "a. ed, leaving the metal,
which was shaped almost exactly like a
horseshoe.
Pvof. J. A. Harrison of Virginia, says
tina the fertility of the negro dialect
is really wonderful, not only in the In
genious distortion of words by which
new and startling significance is given to
common English words, but more es-
pecially In the kl,tation of animal ut
/. terances. 1t iE ar early language alto
q negro could hsYe SO truly caught the
|, swiftly uttered sol nds about him.
8 TIE results of c series of observations
r carried out by the photographic Bureau
q at Washington, In order to determine the
: length, depth and duration of ocean
a waves have been IN blished. Ia e largest
Q wave observed rs SAID to have had II
d length of half m;le and to have spent
!. itself liz twenty-three seconds. During
N storms on he Atlantic waves sometimes
Il extend h00 feet anG last FROM ten to
t eleven seconds. The, most caref, meas
g urements of the heigats of waves give
! from forty four to fort eight feet as al
II extreme iimit
Stanley says that African sua:lighti
with ali its great heat, appeared t. him
|. as a superior moonli.1n Judging from
its effects on scenery. Ee attributes the
apparent @ solemn-ioQk.ng bills OF
q which he 40 often speaks 10 this uliar
: sunshine. "' 1t deepens tie shadowS,2nd
darkens the dark green foliage of he
forest, while it imparts wan appearance
or cold rejection of lieht to ma ed
slopes and woodless top b.ls Its etss1t
8 chill austerity. an indescrih'
G Bile solmeniy, repeling unsoci
. liability.
The most recent volcanic eruption IN
;. the United States was that which hall
: : filcd Feather Lake, Northesr California
: in CT about the year 1850. This locality
!; ha0 lately been "3sited by tie eminent
q plutonist, U. L. Dutton, who says that
Z the lava sheet poured out was over 100
! feet thick, and covers space ABOUT one
a by three and a half miles in extent, In the
d centre of which cin.ler cone 600 feet
. high oorers the rent. The lava sheet lie
= rough and Jagged IL the extreire, he
~ saws, but shows as yet 10 trace of wealth
erine. For space of four hundred to
five hundred yards fro!a the cone the
: trees wer5 all killed.
Minute instructions are given to af.e
officers of the Salvation Army how 20
behave, what to read, what to wear, and
= as 10 marriage. They may rot marry OF
ioourt the iirsl year, aud may not become
engaged at any '.mc without the ronsen,
of the General. a. to reading, they are
! told that it r. beuLer not to read secular
new,pupers but s. they do look at
!: them, ii i, Ia De ouly look. They are
!. to read ae novels, 10 avoid all the ordi-
nary religious hooks, az the twaddie and
:. trash, and eoody eoody, milk-aud water
|, stuff, and to conlne thelnselyes to The
:, Bible, general orders, The hymn book iend
y the War Cry.