Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-11-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t Pa remarkable circumstance in
connection with the recent taking of the
census in British Burmah, that al.
though the whole population is devoted
10 cock lighting, ouly one man was re-
turned ms cock fighter.
Masses OF dsep sea coral, many tons
in weight, which were torn from their
ocean bed nv the volcanic explosion In
Sunda Straits two years ago, may now
be seen two or three miles inward,
whittier they were borne by the tidal
wave.
A Justice In Georgia recently under
took to marry two couples at once, and
married both women TO one OF the men
before he was aware Of the fact. He
after ward got the matter Strengthened
out TO the satisfaction OF the contract tin z
parties.
A Providence woman gave birth To
four children recently the new Corners
lived but few hours. The husband
took advantage of the sensation II caused
and got an admission fec Of ten cents
from each OF the 500 people who viewed
the little ones todies.
The history OF Vermont mountain
tOru lb tHuS Wy kOoa ob
server 1.-THE early settlers c cared up
from .hem. The grandchildren ran
debts. The next generation skipped
away TO the West.
A strip of Arabian paper dating from
the ninth century, and containing a
woodcut with ornaments and initials,
has just been found among the papers
/ OF the Austrian Archduke Rainier. This
relic shows that the art of woodcutting
was probably OF Arabian origin, or tina,
IL war, at all events, known to the
Arabs in the ninth century.
| Late measurements give the heigh,
of the great Mexican volcano, Popo-
cstepeli, As II, 500 feet above the sea
The crater, which is completely OBJ
scured within by sulphurous vapor, IL
about two and one-hslf miles ia Circuit,
and 900 fset deep. The centre of the
top of the mountain seems 70 be solid
sulphur, which is deposited at the ratt
of about q ton q day.
A colony of lepers Ia Located at Trac
ladie, New Brunswick, in Gloucester
County, on the shores OF the Gulf O.
st. Lawrence. There Is another small
settlement of lepers in the British pro
vinces which IL almost entirely I'M
known. IL Is situated in the wes.err
Ipart of Cape Breton, near Lake Aiuslie
tho mem bers being natives of the High
lands Of Scotland.
1.-THE gold and scarlet of the sum
Is rivaled In the cupoias of st. Peter
at Moscow. There are five OF the cupo
Has, and no less than 900 pounds of Rol,
were used in OVERLAPPING them. TIL,
ldoors of the temple cost S3i0, 600, an,
upon the marble floors were expende,
Isl, SOC, 900. Ten thousand worshiper
can be com Portable, II their souls le
them, within this BIZ, sec, 900 temple.
l A writer In the Eastrrn Medica
Journal sayH that the medical idea Of 4
teaspoonful Is one fluid drachm. Til
IL, in fact, about the measurement .
that article as used by our grandmoth
lers. But this and the dessert spoon ar
lnow made 30 much larger than former
lily that they hold nearly two drachms
land people vino measure medicine b,
Them overdose themselves. The table.
Ispoon remains as In old days.
l. One minutes imprisonment In jail
was the punishment imposed on q mai
charged in c Clarendon (Ark.) cour
with having sold the products of land
for vhich he had failed TO pay rent
The trial occupied several days, and
upon the verdict being pronounced the
condemned i man walked across the
lcourt room and placsd himself In char
Ice of the sheriff, who took him to jail
where he served out one minutes time
1 Ono hundred and five years agt
Nicholas Thomas and Lucy Somes
lived In Mt De3erf, Me-, and wanted
to be married. There was no minister
within thirty miles and so they mar.
rled themselves. On this town records,
under date of 1880, Ia the contract
(which they drew up and signed-agree
ling, In "the presence Of God, the an
lPels, aud these witnesses, TO love. TO
Icherish and nourish," and to love
honor, and obey him." as husband and
wife, 20 long as God should continue
their lives.
Five hundred years B. G. the Etrus
lean ladies fastened their cole and
braids with spear-shaped pins, ss beau
ltiiul as they were useful. Some Of them
were made of ivory and some of bronze
land silver. They were ornamated IN
lvar,ous ways, some with busts carved
upon them, aud some with fu.l.lonRtl
Ireclining figures. Venus rising out Ct
1.-The sea and stroking back her wet hall
y as q favorite design.
| A custom Of tho days gone by still
iob 5ains In the District of Columbia
icour,s. According to an Old Marylan
law, the foreman OF each jury is pre-
sented with pound of TOBACCO on
rendering the verdict III each case A,
this is far In excess OF the demand fol
the weed, the cash equivalent of 81 81
5substituted. The tobacco fund amounts
to considerable sum during term
lof court, aud Is usually devoted to tn,
purchase of q cana for the foreman
bouquets for tho judge, and minor com