The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

Louis Kossuth 5 bonds, issued while \
the famous Hungarian was in this coun-
try, are kept as curiosities in many fam
lilies
In Western Nevada prospectors
pile up vast quantities of Snow on the
mountains and cover it with brush, in
order to provide a water supply for
summer use.
Such thingas fashionable young
man making evening calls nowadays is
said to be unheard of, and it is asked
whittier are we socially drifting.-M I.
Null and Express.
If any person who is liable to poison
with poison-ivy will take pure olive oil
after being exposed to it he will feel no
bad effects, and the oil will neutralize
the evils of the poison if few doses be
taken even after the poison has broken
out Chicago Herald.
The whale feeds by opening its ca
pacious mouth and allowing the sea
water, with its multitudinous tenants,
to fill the oval cavity. Then it shuts
its lower jaw upon its horny plates, and,
straining out the water through them,
swallows the prey stranded upon its vast
tongue.
Patients suffering from whooping
cough are taken in great numbers to
the Albany Gas-Light Works to inAale
the gas which comes from what is
known as the purifying tank. The Su-
perintendent says that five hundred per
sons underwent this novel treatme1S
last summer. -Alb0ny Journal
The editor in the East sits down
with malice in his heart and writes of
"our esteemed co-worker in Journal
ism. " The Western editor, leaving his
fellow-publisher with hearty grasp at
the nearest ''coffin- factory" seizes
his brilliant pen and fires half the town
against his ''loathsome contemporary"
! Current.
All the ice that is used in Mexico
comes from the top of Popocatapetl, is
brought down the mountain on the
backs of the natives and then sixty
miles on the cars to the city, where it is
sold at wholesale at ten cents pound.
At the bar-rooms iced drinks are very
expensive, and ice is seldom seen any
where else.
The thimble is a Dutch invention,
first brought to England in 1926, by
John Lofting, who began its manufac-
ture at Islington, near London, gaining
thereby both honor and profit, Its
name was derived from the words
thumb and bell, being for long time
called humble, and only lately thimble.
Old records say that thimbles were first
worn on the thumbs.-N. Y. Sun.
Several years ago very aged man
died in the State of New York. Mr..
Schoonmaker, the man who often took
charge Of funerals, managed this, and,
in giving out the invitation at the close
| of the services, said: "All who desire
can now have the opportunity of be-
holding the remains of the Oldest man
living in Ulster County.-M Y. Graphic.
The preparations for the cold
weather in the Northwest are a sur
prise to visitors. Fur coats and caps
are the rule for everybody; the houses
have duplicate sets of windows, with
few inches of air between; the stoves
are of enormous size, often reaching
nearly to the ceiling; and such diver
sion as sleighing is scarcely known,
nobody thinks of spending time out OF
doors for fun in winter. Chicago Times.
I do not call healthy young man,
cheerful in his mind and vigorous in
| his arms, can not call such a man
poor. [ can not pity my kind as a
kind, merely because they are men.
This affected pity only tends to dissat-
isfv them with their condition, and to
| teach them to seek resources where no
resources are to be found, in something
else than their own industry and frugal
ity and sobriety-Burke.
Terrible havoc, both to life and
property, has been reported from the
recent typhoon in Japan, and especially
on the west coast. At a place called
Kurashiki 500 houses were DESTROYED
and 1900 persons killed. At Tamashi-
ma the sea walls were carried away, 100
lives lost and 430 houses blown down;
while at lmabari, Matsuyama and Iyo
151 houses were wrecked, 112 junks
sunk and 10 persons drowned.
The force with which the gas issues
from some of the gas-wells in Pittsburgh
is tremendous, and in one instance a
drilling machine, weighing three thou
sand pounds was thrown high in the air.
The pressure is irregular, too, and there
in lies the chief difficulty in utilizing the
gas for household purposes, as the dan
ger of leakage and explosion can hardly
be overcome, though various contriv-
ances are employed to lessen it. The
gas-bearing stratum is in bed of soft
pebbly sandstone, at a depth of LOGO
feet underneath solid rock. The rush
of gas is weaker in the morning and
stronger in the afternoon, and there is
also a general fluctuation correspond
ing with the changes of the moon
Pittsburgh Post.
Origin of the Amulet.