The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06
MISCELLANEOUS.


I'm fierce gale off Cape Hatteras o
schooner was saved by towing bags Of
oil astern for two days.
The people of Atlanta, Ca, sunk,
| S26, 900 in an artesian well 1000 feet
deep, only to learn from professor of
the State University that the city stood
on granite rocE-the bedrock of the
continent Chicago Times.
The London Lancet hopes against
hope that boys who smoke will draw
lesson from the case of a twelve year
old lad in London, who died in conse-
guence of smoking a pennyworth of
double twist. 1--WE may at least" says
the venerable editor, "advise every SEN
sible boy to regard tobacco as a
poison.
Tidal observations on the eastern
coasts of America have acquired i'm
pOrtance since the Coast Survey has
confirmed by recent observations the
older suggestion that there are tidal
fiuxes in the Gulf Stream, and variations
of its velocity due to half-monthly
changes in the relative sea levels of the
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.-N. Y.
Sun.
in New York last year there wei,
IS, 696 deaths, 30,030 births and IL, ZIG
marriages, as against, in the preceding
year, 35,054 deaths, 30,527 births and
| II 800 marriages. Thus the death list
increased 662, and the number of births
fell off 497, due possibly to che sudden
cessation of foreign immigration.
| Y. Tribune.
Mr.. Bran Stoker, who accom-
| panied Henry Irving on his American
tour, is now lecturing in England,
| giving his impressions of the Ameri-
cans. He says it seemed to him as if
| the gentlemen in America, as their text
of social law and attention to the ladies,
had taken the best page of an old work
of chivalry. - Chicago Journal
The document-room clerks at the
House receive some queer requests,
says a Washington letter. A constitu-
ent of Western member. asks for the
Congressional Record FROM the date of
Its first publication. Another would
like to have revolver, while third
desires that call be made at the cen
sus Office to obtain the residence of q
certain party.
An old autograph album in WASH
ington contains the following letter
from Geeeral Winfield Scott, dated
Washington, June Is, 1860, to the pro-
prietors of the Girard House, Philadel-
phia: "Gentlemen: Expect me at the
Girard House tomorrow night at eleven
O'Clock, and please give me a bed at
least six feet six inches in length, or
one without foot-board. IN Y. Post.
An English sportsman, shooting on
the north shore of Long. Island, was
invited to dinner at farmhouse, and
was so astonished that he writes to a
London newspaper about it. Il wonder
how often in mcrrie England" he says,
"a farmer, with his family and two
men servants, sits down to roast turkey,
chicken pie, with four or five vegetables
and cranberry sauce?"-N Y. Herald.
The Hawaiian Gazette says the ma
tives of the Sandwich Islands have
"only Just reached higher civilization
than poi, the national dish, and if the
Cinnamon come into the islands all that
has been gained will be LOST Then
by all means let Chinese immigration
into the Sandwich Islands be prohib,
tied. When people have reached a
higher civilization than ''poi" they
should be assisted and encouraged in
their great and glorious advancement.
But what a ridiculous way to spell pie.
-NorriStoa0n Herald.
Writing from Mexico correspond.
ent says: mo Mexican kennel is CON-
plete without two or three pelons or
hairless dogs. They are of dirty blue
color, have sharp pointed ears, and do
nothing but loll in the sun or crouch
before fire shivering with cold. Pelon
is Mechanism meaning gift, and they
probably called these hairless creatures
| pelon dogs because you have to give a
man something to take one as pres
ent. They are ill-natured, mean, ar
rant thieves, and with not a single
good trait in their character. ~ hica-
| go Herald.