Daily Republican., 1886-08-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

a note made by minor IS VOID; q
contract made by minor is void;
contract made with lunatic is void.
A gradual increase in the average
size of the skull among the natives is
believed by Bombay physician to be
taking place as an effect of civilization
in India
The longest clock pendulum in the
world is at Avignon, France. 1t is
sixty seven feet long, and requires four
and half seconds to swing through
an arc of nine and half feet.
Less than twenty years ago the
number of Irishmen in the British |
ranks was 30S per 900; now it is only |
17S to $50 Englishmen, seventy eight |
'Scotchmen and fourteen of other
nationalities.
The old war ship Niagara, recently
broken up at Charlestown (Mass) Navy
Yard, yielded III 1896 pounds of cop
per, 81, 1863 pounds of composition, 4S6
pounds of wrought iron, GAG pounds of
cast iron and 10, 600 pounds of lead.
Some Chinese miners recently found
nugget of gold in Sierra County,
Cal, that weighed 1913 ounces. They
sold it for $3.50, 900. This is the third
in size of the largest nuggets found in
the world.
Ladies should be careful to extin-
guish candle by the light of which
they have beer reading before going to
sleep. The fate of Nine. Schulz
DelitZech of Berlin, who was burned
TO death by not so doing, is a warning
to all.
Monsieur Palmieri, of the Vesuvian
observatory, has made some interest
ling experiments showing that when
steam is condensed by cold negative
electricity is developed, but that posi-
tive electricity is manifested when
Evaporation takes place.
The swelling caused by the sting of
hornets, wasps, bees and spiders may
be generally arrested by the applica-
ltion of common salt and bicarbonate OF
soda Ga teaspoonful of each) dissolved
in warm water, and well rubbed in on
the place bit or stung
! A little boy playing in an old log
house at Richwoods, NO., lost mar
BILE through the floor and craw'ed
under the house to get it He found
there a tin pail full of gold and silver
: coin. The amount proved to be ST.
1000. 1t was the property of an old
gentleman of the place, who had hid
, den il there in 1884 and afterward, not
, finding it readily, thought it had been
stolen.
The first Christian Church in Eng
Hand was built in Glastonbury (the tale
was that Joseph of Arimathea built it.,
: ldirected by the Angel Gabriel.) Glas-
tonbury was at that time y desolate
:, island full of fens and brambles, and
Z the church was built, like the British
houses, of wicker work, or rods walled
a land interviewer. 1t was sixty feet
, long and twenty-five broad. This
Twas during the reign of the Roman
: governor AgTicola, somewhere in A.
ID, IS.
The mint house" in Boston existed
a thirty four years or Whereabouts. AL
n the coins issued from it bore the dates
t 1862 or 1862, the same dies being prob
II ably used through all the time of coin
II ing there. Some coins had been made
b for Virglnians as early as 1914 Cop
I. lper coins bearing the figure of an ele-
- plant were struck in England tor thu
Carolinas and New England in 1894
!. Coins were also struck for Maryland
ls bearing the ef1igy of Lord Baltimore
4, A great nobleman of the court o
3, Maria Antoinette was once staying a
g Woburn, when a bottle OF some exqui
% site old wine was sent tor from the Gel
h lar. The French duke took "a glass O
d the precious liquid, and, in answer t
a question, announced with an lmmov
a able countenance that it was parfait
Al The Duke of Bedford then tasted ii
|, and Immediately got up splitting AM
ts spluttering, and roaring out: "Why
T. d-n it, it is castor ell"
,e Colonel Knapp. of Carson, Nevada
At going suddenly into his chicken yard
B. found Gead fox lying on the ground
10 1t was still warm. He took it into til
In house, and his wife held the body il
le her lap while the children played witt
ID it. Some one opened the window ,anI
le the fox jumped from the startled wo
~, u. mans lap and made leap for the win
~ dow. He fell short and was captured
K II was ltHlal haO4S SahicisAoh "
sd ''playing 'possum."
le The following is curious Creol
80 remedy for sore throat: In swelling O
u. W the glands of the throat the swoller
N. gland should be well rubbed with tai
i. low, and the tallow smeared on thor
n. oughly melted by holding close to tn
j, skin without actually touching it, thu
blade of knife heated in the flame c
a lamp or candle. Some say the poin
of heated blade only should approac
ne the skin, and that point only shout
he be moved so as to describe a cross i'm
MT mediately over the gland. The lat
ne ter is a purely superstitious idea.
a as The empetor's throne at San-hai is I
~ lhave its foundation and pedestal mad
NC ~. of gold bricks, and consequently tn
az sub project of Sochow has sent to Pr
" kin 1900 pieces of gold bricks 70
p ,,a the purpose under the escort of wei
u. ne yuen. The taotai of ung'chow
-. now in charge of them, and the wei
"a yuen has informed the board of work
na OF their safe arrival A deputy viii
IN soon be appointed by the board to ex
famine them. 1t is said that thes
az bricks are of the ordinary size and this
81 Ithey are of solid gold.