Daily Republican., 1885-09-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST .

German biologists estimate that The
Dead Sea will be q mass of solid .alt .
years hence.
The White House letter paper is
OF the finest quality, with beautifully
printed beading Jefferson headed his
o wn foolscap with q quill pen.
A promint Mt ph stefan OF Athens. Ga
who has had many cases OF sore throat
lately, made an investigation and found
nearly every one of them was caused by
cigarette smoking.
The "Oid Osken Bucket" was written,
says A. p. Russell In his Literary
Notes." by Wood wor'h,a jourpeyman
printer, while under the inspiration Of
brandy"
The gamblers of Omaha made a pro-
position to the city that If they are not
interfered with for one year they will
pay for all street Improvements and
k eep up the water works.
One of the evidences OF lunasy offered
in New Orleans contested will case
was that the man, while changing his
high silk hats tw ice year, invariably
had them IN ade in the fashionable shape
of prec iseIy ten years before.
Barnum Is said to have heen the
angriest in his life when he found that
the big man engaged to introduce Tom
Thumb to the spectators, had snapped
jobs with the small one who had been
selected to exhibit Col. Goshen.
Calling a man big buffoon in Naples
is considered the high honor you can
pay him. Buffoonery IL . fine art there,
requiring unlimited talents amateurs
are CHASED as the best and take no pay
hence prince may he . buffoon and
often Is. Customs differ.
According to q temperance orator at
Winthrop, Me. Of twenty seven men
who banded themselves together to op
pose the Wasbingtonian temperance
movement, eleven died OF the abuse Of
liquor, and four through accidents caus
Ga by 1t seven were lost at sea, and AT
eighth sailed and never vi as heard from
two killed themselves, and two were
hanged at the South.
The denial Is made for Edwin Bootl
that he was never a negro minstrel, sav
In the sense that he may also have beeI
a circus performer. When lad ii
Baltimore be and other boys playeo
circus, minstrelsy, tragedy, and othe
dramatic profession when he was no
more than sixteen and thereafter travel
cd with his father almost up to the tim
tof the latter's death. 1t Is q fact, how
lever, that Forrest was once rider ans
acrobat in circus.
The growth of the female populat iol
lin the large cities is q remarkable fes
lture of the censuses of the time. Ney
York has a surplus of about $4,000 VIC
linen, Boston of IL 900, Baltimore II ,00G
and 30 on through the whole list OF ci,
les in the East. Fifty years ago tn,
women stayed at home while the me
came to the city TO pursue their ca
rsers now, both in Europe and Amer
ca, the women are crowdiug TO the bus
ness centres.
A Wisconsin woman accuses her hui
baud of trying to persuade her TO con
nit suicide in manner that would er
able him to collect for their children til
amount of an insurance policy on he
life. He argued the propriety Of IL
!. project, since she WAS feeble and likel,
: to require much doctoring during tn
y rest of her natural life, thus using u
a money needlessly, whereas by dying
2 once she could leave the family In got
circumstances.
The Land wehr is a term applied
IGermauy and Austria to a militaI
a 1 III Sotuo ICSptSt ACoVbiohbe w
t militia. Every German capable
IS bearing arms ami over twenty yea
o of age, must serve three years in Il
. regular army, four in the army of T
70 Scr We, and five years in the LIandweh
He is then liable to be called upc
Twice for annual practice, and to be i
corporated in the regular army in tin
lof war. Leaving the Landwehr, he
enrolled tin the age OF fifty in u
in Land strum, which body is only CALI
az upon for service within the frontie
nr of the country in case OF Invasion.
d. The weight of DAM lei Webster
l. brain was sixtry three ounces.
u died, according to DIR. Jetferies,
'o disease of the liver, the immedia
cause of death being hemorrhage fro
1.-The bowels and stomach, owing to t
70. morbid state of the blood conseque
y. upon the above disease also dropsy
the abdomen. On making post M
~ tenn examination, it was found that
Icerebral organs were of the large
q known capacity. exceeding by thil
- per cent. the average weight or
Human brain, and with only two I
ic' ICE pi ions Cuvier ard Dupuytren),
ey lar est of which there Is any record.
b There Is a professional master
1ay character in calligra ply ut Aix'l
ted Bains, an able, dark-bearded,
ma priestly costume giving an air Of OLE
- cal dignity. He Is the hero of the no
and there are interesting seances III
of great ladies Super
tious Italians have already decla
~ him nearly allied to the evil one. l
y said that taking letter written b.
~ person utterly unknown to him. be '
Idraw an oral portrait of the writ
N Ieven to the color OF the hair and ey
III land sketch the moral aud men
y characteristics of the individual "
icon pieteness.