The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

age of the persons who died in Dublin,
N. H., last year
One of the Washington Treasury
clerks is able to count 1000 new notes
an hour for seven hours a day WASH
Gngton Post.
investigations made by committee
of the British Association show that
man really grows in stature up to his
tiftieth year, although the growth is
very slow after twenty
Paper bags were invented by the
Pennsylvania Moravians, whose thrifty
habits would not permit the waste of
paper used in the old-fashioned method
of putting up bundles.
"A seventy two-year-old citizen of
Belfast, Me, some time ago dreamed
that he had made away with his life,
and brooded over the vision until few
days ago, when he realized it with a
razor
At Territorial fair in the North
west an Indian sent a war bonnet
fringed with human scalp locks as an
exhibit. 1t was not refused, but occu.
pied prominent position and took a
first prize.
The English ship Daphne capsized
when launched and many persons were
killed. She was raised and renamed
the Rose. but only to be sunk at her an.
Choir in harbor. Again raised, she ran
ashore, was got off with difficulty and
named afresh the Ianthe, and month
ago en- route to Smyrna she struck
ITish fa lniI
for repairs.
The discoverer of the richest OF the
Leadville silver mines sold his claim at
once for $4,000, and during the follow
ing year the two purchasers made ST.
900 each from it. Meanwhile the
discoverer squandered his $4,000 in
prospecting, and the other day, a home
less tramp, applied for a nights lodg-
ing at the Leadville Station House.
Chicago 'Heruld.
Far out at sea along both the Gull
and Atlantic coasts of Florida are sew
eral springs of fresh water. They are
well known to the spongers and fisher
men, who frequently visit them tO
replenish their water-casks. On this
same coast is an oil spring which diff.
fuses a calm over troubled waters and
affords safe refuge to small vessels
during gale.-M. Y. Sun.
An examination of 3,726 prescrip-
tons in Boston drug store showed
that 504 different drugs were called for
by the doctors. Quinine took the lead
by appearing in 292 prescriptions, NOR
phine appeared in 172, bromide of po-
taSsum in Ill, iodide of potassium in
15j, and muriate of iron in 1874. The
whole number of articles in the phar-
macopoeia is 1914, and Boston used more
than half of them. journal.
The Troy Times reports that a Troy
institute student, in returning from
visit to an island on Lake Champlain,
strapped his baggage to a hand-sled
and pair of skates to his feet and
skated twenty-eight miles to make rail
road connection, preferring this mode
OF travel to mountainous drive of
fourteen miles. His journey on the ice
was made in four hours, less time than
if he had travelled in vehicle.
The CbWrchnedn says of phenome-
non which often causes astonishment:
drunken men are said to enjoy from the
consequences of accidents is attributed
to the fact that the nerve centers which
regulate the heart and vessels are so par
alyzed in them as not to be affected by
the shock, which in sober men would
have acted in them so violently as to
stop the heart, arrest the circulation and
cause death.
The Turkish woman is supersti-
tious in the extreme. She believes in
charms. She will not live an hour be-
reft of her three-cornered bit of leather
which encloses the mystic phrase that is
potent to ward off the evil eye. She
distrusts Tuesday as the mother of i'll
luck, and win not celebrate the BIRTH
day anniversaries of her children, or
even record the date, lest some ma
gician use it to cast spell against the
child.
Compared with those of the Brit
ish isles" writes Miss Constance Feni-
more WoolsOn, medtatively, "all the
skies of the United States are blue. In
the north this blue is clear, strong,
bright; in the south a softness mingles
with the brilliancy and tempers it to a
beauty which is not surpassed. The
sky over the cotton lands of South Car
DINA is as soft as that of Tuscany; the
blue over the silver beaches of Florida
melts as dangerously as that above
Capri'S enchanted shore"