Daily Republican., 1886-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Rome nearly all the hod-carriers
are women.
In Paris the surgeons make dimples
on women's faces by cutting out bit
OF flesh and grating skin over It.
Laboratories for the use OF physi-
clans are to be built in Paris at the in
stance OF the International Society of
Electricians.
There are no newsboys in the city
OF Mexico. Thepapers are all sold by
women, who hold them out to passers-
by, but never say word.
A st. Louis popcorn man is going
TO England to introduce the great
American luxury, and will take over
5000 bushels of corn in the spring.
A book containing the coats of arms
used by American families will soon
be published by a firm in Rochester,
N. Y, under the title of American
Heraldics."
The piles of old London bridge, put
down In the year 900, are still sound.
the water and blue mud of the Thames
having preserved them.
1t is proposed to purchase from Mr..
OsgOod the Healy portrait of the poet
Longfellow, and present it to Harvard
College. The price asked is 81, 500.
More than eighty applications were
made for the apartments in Hampton
Court Palace which became vacant on
the death of Miss Walpole, grand
draughter Of the great Lord Give.
A gentleman of Calais, Me-, has
Masonic jewel worn by the Scotch
poet, Robert Burns, as Master of Tar
holton Lodge, Ayrshire. The jewel
is of solid silver and of elaborate and
beautiful workmanship.
1t is the custom of all the royal
princes of Germany to learn trades.
The Crown Prince is an expert Jew
eler. Prince William understands
glove-making, and Prince Henry is a
skilled sailor and watch maker.
A citizen of Minneapolis is building
a genuine Lighthouse right in the city.
II will be big, rambling dwelling,
with queer corners and quaint WIN
dows, but it will have all the modern
improvements and will cost 800, 900.
An oak that was cut before Shakes
pearc's day furnished a bit of timber
now in use as bench in an English
farmers kitchen. The timber did
duty as roof beam in q church for
364 years. 1t is still as sound as can
be.
Mr.. J. 7. Trowbridge will persist in
running his tricycle. on the sidewalk
in violation of an ordinace, and the
Arlington police say, "Oh, he's one O.
them literary fellers and it amt no
use TO say anything to him about it."
Within the lat few years $4,000
trees have been planted in the streets
of Berlin, Prussia. This means of
identifying the city has engaged the
especial attention of the authorities,
and the work is still being carried on
whenever possible.
Washington Irving's grave in Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, has suffered good
deal from visiting admirers this sum-
mer. 1t is trampled down fiat, regu-
lar footpath cutting through it. 1t looks
as if it might have been a playground
for romping children all the summer
through. The plain white slab that
marks the grave Is hacked and chop
ped all around, the work of relic
hunters.
Said girl of II, who works in the
coal mines in Belgium: my work
begins at O'Clock in the morning, and
ends between 8 and II at night. |
load from go to 20 cars every day, and
| earn two francs (forty cents)a day! |
went regular to school from my eighth
to my twelfth year. / could read once
but | have forgotten il all now. Pit
work ought to be prohibited to girls. I"