The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

Pug dogs are no longer the fashion,
and the poor, discarded creatures go
about with an injured innocence cast oil
conntenance, as if realizing the truth
of the remark that lone might as well
be out of the world as out of the fash
ion. ~ Chicago Journal.
Lightning cut up curious caper re.
Gently at Lawrenceville, Ga. The cleo
trio fluid struck small tree in the grave
yard at that place and circled around
it until it reached the ground, when 1t
scooped the earth from grave down
to the coffin and promiscuously scat
tered the bones on top of the ground.
Pensacola, Fla, is a great fishing
mart, being exceptionally well 81 tuated
for the trade. As many as $500 fish
ermen make it their market. BY means
of refrigerator cars their catches are
sent to all parts of the country. The
trade at present is worth 100000
and is increasing at the rate of fifty
per cent annually.
An amusing incident happened
when the band of the Seventh New
York regiment was serenading General
Sheridan lately. In one of the pauses
of music loud voice said; SHERIDAN
twenty miles away" Immediately
the whole two hundred of the Sew
enth's boys who were in front of the
house shouted in chorus; "But-he-got-
there-all-the-same. " - Washington Post.
"A new kind of beggar is loose on
the streets of New York. He sat on
dirt pile and repeated with great unc-
ton: Sirius, Orion, Jupiter, the
Great Bear, Venus, Mars, Gemini, :"
etc., until he had gone through the list
of stars, planets and consultations.
Then he began in scripture, and ran
along: "Moses. Ezekiel, Solomon, Ben
jamin, Peter, Elijah, Noah, Aaron"
and so on indefinitely.-M Y, Sun.
During the season of 1885 there
were packed in New York State factor
les 2,464,S00 cans of tomatoes, an in
crease over 1884 of over twenty-six per
cent. This places New York third. in
the list of tomato-picking States, New
Jersey being first and Maryland sec
ond. The total pack of the United
States for the season of 1855 was
4,416, 900 cans.-Troy Times.
AT recent meeting of the Paris
Academy of Sciences some remarks on
the danger of fire arising from the use
of nitric acid in the manufacture of
certain industrial objects, and espe-
cially of explosive substances, such as
gun-cotton and dynamite. were made
by NJ. G. Lechartier Several instances
are mentioned of straw and other or
ganic substances when heated, and
even at a low temperature, taking fire
by accidental contact with this acid.
"A curious suit has recently been
settled in Wilkes County, Georgia. The
case was that of Mr.. Barksdale against
Mr.. Anderson. Mr.. Barksdale claimed
that the backwater from Anderson's
mill-pond had greatly injured his bot
tom land above, and suit was instituted
for the recovery of damages. A YER
dict of $500 was given in the Superior
Court and the case was carried to the
Supreme Court, which sustained the
verdict.
"A new arrival at Castle Garden re-
fused employment as coachman, be-
cause he had not come three thousand
miles to be servant. When asked
what he wanted he said he had come
out, sure, to be plumber, for, in
coorse, he didn't know anything about
plumbing, ''but they write home to say
to send out all the men they can, as the
plumbers in New York make fortunes. "
In a few months he will probably adj
vertise to do sanitary plumbing. N. Y.
Tribune
eve submit, " says the New Haven
NeaCs, ''that dead bird is not good
decoration for a hat. 1t is not in good
taste, to say the least, and, save that
the present fashion blinds the eyes of
many, no one would think for an in
slant that it was in any way seemly to
put stuffed songster on bonnet. 1t
ought to make any decently sensitive
person ashamed of his race to consider
this illustration of how far the vanity
of fashion can make respectable people
forget their own primitive instincts of
humanity.