Daily Republican., 1885-12-01

William Nefi, of Denver, went =
his cabin, lay down on the floor an,
placed stick of giant powder will
leap and fuse attached under his head
While in this position he lighted thu
fuse. The shot blew his head en-
Itirely from his body.
4 In Colusa County, Cal. about veal
|ag0, youth shot himself because ,
young woman refused his offer of mar
rage. The girl said he was fool, bu
the boy recovered. The other day the
girl committed suicide because the
same boy refused to marry her.
i A Michigan farmer hurried to TIM
assistance of man whose team hat
broken down in the road, and received
six hens for his kindness. On return
ing home it was found that the fowl
were his own property, and that al
their mates were missing.
Il A Belgian has invented coffin t.
Ieffectually prevent the possibility o
being buried alive. The pressure o
the earth thrown upon the coffin liber-
ates sort of stiletto, which is so PLACED
that on being disengaged it pierces the
heart of the occupant.
| Prof. Galloway has noticed that the
Junior classes of boys in schools under
stand and profit by lessons in chemis-
TRY better than their seniors, whose OBJ.
servant faculties and power of learning
iron things had been relatively weak
ened by their longer course of gram
Imar school training.
A st. Louis drug company recently
received package of aloes tied up in q
monkey skin. A writer in a Western
paper thinks this method of packing
rather rough on the monkeys. for il
takes thirty or more of the little fellow;
10 furnish wrappings for single hun
ldredweight of the drug.
u In Australasia singular but beauti
full tree has been named in honor Of
Prof Owen. It. propagates only by
suckers. The seeds will not germi,
nate. Thay are contained in solid
stone, so dense thatit cannot be broker
with hammer. Two years pass be
/ fore the stone decays, and then the
: kernels have persisted also.
When the present Capitol at Wash
!. Iington was opened,in 1918, the old on,
Twas let to business tenants. One OF
!, Them, Anne Royal, ran two weekl,
Irresponsible Paul Pry and thu
Huntress--on the premises, and wa.
the originator OF the American system
lof interviewing. She was indicted al
common scold in 1859. She lived t.
the age of ninety-two.
81 A bee-keeper having been told tina
a lad, through being repeatedly stuns
by bees, had become impervious to any
. Unpleasant sensation when attacked by
them, resolved to experiment on hi'
own person. He kept record Of thu
. number of times he was stung, ant
| when he began to cease feeling thu
effects ofthe stings. The result wa
that all sense of feeling had gone whel
0 he had been stung thirty times within
ola few weeks.
II A Boston man in England has beer
Examining the original charter map o
|, Massachusetts, and finds that the littl
rocky islet called Middle Brewster
loft Boston Harbor, lies outside of TIN
8 boundary, and was never claimed b,
( Massachusetts colony. 1t was, there
8 fore, not a part of the United States
and must now be deemed the propert,
! lot Great Britain, from which. ap
] parently, it has never been cut off.
II The Roman dwelling house was il
. the earliest ages identical with tina
\ of Etruria, and, indeed, of all Contra
i Italy. Although related to Helleni
j, prototypes the peculiarly Italian
i atrium, without columnar supports 70
= the roof,remained in use even after tn
general introduction OF the Gree
: iperistyle. AT Pompeii Il combination
J., of these two varieties OF court is me
rtwith, the front space being simpl
4 atrium, and that further within
!. lperistyle. Each inclosure was sui
grounded with chambers.
Il There is talk in England of an in
d tention to tax bachelors, and the al
}. surdity of the proposition affords muc
elamusement. But the matter is not S
eloutrageously novel. 1t has been don
. before. Who does not know tina
n such tax was resorted to in old Rom
and Greece =? Bachelors were heavil
taxed, widows were compelled t
marry after one year of mourning
VI sOHlC vi tliClll may udNC tuOuSL
II eleven months too long-and at ON
's time a legatee, ifunmarried, could nc
!, lobtain a bequest unless within tn
of one hundred days he foun
q Isome woman to join him in holy wee
!. lock. But we need not go so far back
I William III. taxed the bachelors i
IS order to carry on his war with France
b.. The art of opening letters addresse
!, to other people and refastening ther
e so that no one will know is profes
y sion in Spain. In the post-office the
. have dark chamber, where expert
elinquire into things, and these hay
n long since given up the use of stear
d for opening gummed communications
d Even red hot platinum wire for letter
10 sealed with wax is out of date. Til
Q lfavorite means is with a knife sharpe
ethan a razor, which is run along tn
y bottom of the envelope. The lette
eIhaving been extracted and then re
u lplaccd after the officials of the post
= office have learned what is going on
I. la fine line of liquid cement is draw
). Ialong the opening, the slightest pres
nIsure conceivable is applied, and tn
letter is as whole as ever. The systel
Ionly tails when too many letters al
Iopened at time and put hurriedly il
| O the wrong envelopes.
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al New styles ON Hand.