The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-28
MISCELLANE

An Australian naturalist has DIS
covered the nervous system of the
spOnges.
-Old-fashioned mirrors over the man
tel are again in style, with the addition
Of bronze or gayly-painted frames.-
N. Y. Mail.
Small tobacco pipes are frequently
unearthed in Ireland, and are supposed
to ante-date the introduction of tobacco
in Europe by Raleigh.
Any woman is too tightly dressed
who can not raise her arms straight
above her head and clasp her hands;
who can not stOop to tie her shoe or
pick up a pin without heightening color.
-BOStO31 Transcript.
Cork, when carbonized. produces
$3.50 per cent. pure charcoal, the
greatest per cent. of any known wood.
Willow, wheat straw and oak rank next
in the order named. while maple and
poplar are 80. 70 and Slip, or at the
very foot of the list Chicago Times.
Forty years ago young man bought
the hulk of an old whaling vessel in
Stonington, borrowing the ten dollars
with which to pay for it. Moving it to
an out-of-the-way place he lived in it
for twenty-five years. To-day he is a
large property owner and the heaviest
depostor in the Stonington bank
Hartford C0Urant
Several months ago Cora B.. Pr
quette of Syracuse, n. Y, witnessed
an accident to shop-mate, whose long
hair became entangled in shaft and
was entirely pulled out. Miss Piquette
has been made insane by the scene.
Standing on chair or sofa she butts her
head against the wall and then seems
relieved. She has been sent to an
asylum.-Bufalo Express.
Rev Charles g. Ames, of Philadel-
phia, speaking at Springfield, Mass.
said that a native of a Connecticut
town once told him that on returning
there after a thirteen years absence he
found that all the young men of the
place he had known in his youth as the
sons of wealthy parents had become
either sots,. paupers or criminals. And
yet Connecticut is sometimes called the
land of steady habits. Springfield Re-
Pu6ijcG11.
"A singular coincidence happened at
Ingraham's case shop, Bristol. on Friday
last. Frank Miller Slipped while sliding
"a box on the floor and fell, striking his
chin on the edge of the box, making a
bad cut Soon his brother, Joseph
Miller, was struck by piece of ioist
flying from circular saw and was quite
severely injured in the arm and side,
In less than two hours Lewis Miller,
smother brother, cut off the end of his
thumb in the joiner Hartford Times.
"A planter in Summerville, Ga, ex-
perimented successfully with tobacco
last year. He cleared about ten acres
of dense oak forest and made such a
good syield that it paid expenses of
clearing up the land and its culture, and
more than the amount of net profits
realized from the production of cotton
an middle or Southwestern Georgia. 1t
lis believed, says Southern paper, that
tobacco culture in Southeastern Georgia
will become universal in few years,
both because of the adaptation of the
soil to its successful growth and the
profits to be derived therefrom.
"A noise was heard in an empty
drawer at Williams drug store in
Thomaston by one of the clerks at a
aate hour one night last week. As it
sounded like turbulent rats fighting no
notice was taken of it. The next morn
ing, on opening the drawer, the clerk
found a fresh rat skin turned complete
ay inside out as neatly as could have
been done by a taxidermist. The skin
was perfect but all the other parts of
the physical economy of the rat were
gone except the tail 1t was evident
that this was the work of weasel which
had been seen prowling about the prem
Uses of late. Waterbury AmeaIcqn.