Daily Republican., 1885-07-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

] oiikut Iou, III EnRllHnman mas Deel
compelled to pay 5000 damages,
| "a servant girl who permits NJ
familiarities on the part of the gentle
men of the house," adv ertised fol
q place in CINCINNATI and rece;y
ell $50 answers in two days-all from la
dies.
/ The Iowa Supreme Court has decided
that hotel keeper who receives guests
knowing that there is a contagious dis
ease in his house Is liable for damage te
any guest who may contract the dis
ease.
Young ostriches are warmed out Of
| their shells by iucubators In Californ la
and manifest great astonishent when
they discover they are not in an Afri.
can desert. They have not yet become
&C ccustomed to being born on this CONT.
nent.
A Chicago hotel keeper had man re-
Gently arrested for stealing cake OF
soap The man pleaded, in extenua-
tion Of his offence, that he wanted it for
his collection Of curiosities, 1t being the
first cake of soap he had ever discovered
IN a Chicago hotel.
Connecticut leads In longevity in this
country. The majority of very old
people are women. Among men,
soldiers and farmers are the longest
lived. A recent investigator found one
hundred ministers who had passed the
century limit, but he found only thirty
doctors, ten lawyers and ten actors,
According TO tradition, famines occur
in Japan every forty or fifty years.
Modern history records great famines
In 1910, 1873, 1881 and 1885. This Is the
fftieth year since the last great dearth,
and as the climatic changes have been
frequent and severe, apprehensions are
felt as to recurrence of the calamity.
Experiments by means of photo.
graphic plates in the Mediterranean
show that in the middle of a sunny day
in March the rays of the sun are unable
to penetrate the water of that sea to a
depth much beyond 100 fathoms. In
Septemb sr the distance is reduced. The
depression at this depth on the photo.
graphic plate is not equal to that made
by starlight.
Gen. r. Brinkerhoff declares that we
cannot blink the fearful fact that the
tide of crime Is rising. He would
gladly doubt it, and figure 1t away, II
he could, but the statistics are pitlless.
National, Safe and equity statistics
all concur that the flood OF crime creeps
upward year by year. at must be
checked or 1t will ovsrwhelm u.s." he
exclaims.
The Maine bird cstchers, who drive a
thriving trade in native song birds, use
q cage divided into four compartments.
In one is captive, which, when taken
into the held, utters call to his wild
brethren, one of whom is very likely,
in flying aboat the cage, to enter one OF
the open doors and set free a spring that
shuts the door. The favorite bird is the
red linnet or redfroll," which is
singer it mates with the canary and
An excellent cross breed is the result.
A young man in Brooklyn, after con-
sulting his watch, dropped 1t into his
pocket, when he was startled by an OK
plosion, which was followed by many
others in rapid succession. Before he
could remove his clothing 1t had been
burned through to the flesh and pain
full wound inflictf d. The hand in which
he held the watch was also severely
burned. An examination proved the
explosion to have been caused by
chlorate Of potash tablets, which he
was In the habit Of carrying loose In
his pocket, and which were ienited by
the watch being dropped quickly upon
them.
The picture of Washington crossing
the Delaware has popularized scene
that recurs every spring. Except for
the absence of the figures of the com.
mander and his compatriots, it has lost
none of Its picturesque features. When
the winter SHOWS are melting and the
spring rains fall, the swollen current
Of the river sweeps along with It's bur.
den of Jagged ice cakes as restlessly as
when it imperilled the lives OF the
rugged little army who dared the pas.
sage that Oh istmas night 100 years
ago. At the point where Washington
crossed the Delaware 1t is compare.
lively tans to what tits along ON the
upper courses of the river.
The Apaches have smoke signals by
day, and FIRE beacons at night, and sys.
TENS of telegrsphy understood only by
themselves. The displacement and
overturning of few stones on trail ,or
q bent or broken twig,is q note of warn
ing like the bugle call to disciplined
troops. The many crosses dotting the
ro9d sides Of Arizona and New Mexico
mark the graves of murdered men.
:" The country seems one vast grave
yard, writes Susan Z. Wallace, "if we |
may Judge by the frequency of these
rude memorials" Trained by their
to murder and theft from child.
hood, they are Injured to all extremes of |
heat and cold, hunger and thirst. They
are cunning rs the red fox, inss tiate as |
tigers, and so ingenious in preparing for |
surprises that they will envelop them
selves in gray blanket and sprinkle
1t carefully with earth 80 as to resem Bile |;
q granite boulder, 10 be passed within a |
few feet without suspicion. Again, they |
will cover themselves with fresh grass,
and, lying motionless appear as natu- |
raj portion of the field.