Daily Republican., 1886-07-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An artesian well at Pesth, Hungary,
is 5000 feet deep and supplies 175, 000
gallons OF hot water per day.
For burns, DR.. Mosley declares that
balsam Of copaiba Is an application
very preferable TO bicarbonate of soda
or other remedies which have been ad-
vocated.
A Chicago good liver says that Wor.
cestershire sauce is made from the for.
mula of noted English doctor, who
prescribed 1t for noble patient whose
| digestion was bad. He says that one
OF the ingredients is assafntida.
Erastus, mentioned in Romans. six
teenth chapter and twenty-third verse.
was convert of st. paul's,a at Corinth
ne was public treasurer of that CITY:
the same name is mentioned in two
other places in the New Testament.
Between New York and the Gulf of
Mexico there are only four natural en-
frances to harbors where the depth at
mean low water lis over sixteen feet.
while the largest ships draw from 26
TO 2S4 feet.
IL Is calculated that the disestablish-
ment OF the Church of England would
set free funds equal to $917, 50O, 600, of
which, after the payment all claims by
the clergy for compensation and SINH
lar demands, there would remain a net
gain of $500, 000, 900.
A blind man attracted considerable
attention playing whist on o New
England railroad train the other day
Cards with raised spots were used, the
three players had their eyesight nam
ing their cards as they played them
The blind man and his partner easily
beat the other two.
The fourteen miles of street railway
in Glasgow are owned by the CITY.
and bring to the treasury a rental of
$4,000 annually. There is no uni
form rate of fare, but penny a mile
is charged, with reduced rates morn
ing and evening, when the working
people travel.
When no time is fixed by agreement
as to the continuance of partnership.
either partner may determine the rela-
ton at any time, and his co-partner
cannot claim prospective profits which
might have been realized if the firm
had not been so dissolved.
A man in Jasper County, Illinois,
according to the newspapers, has ap-
piled for patent on a contrivance to
keep railroad trains from killing hogs.
lie reasons that an engineer never
runs over red flag, and his invention
consists OF attaching red flag to the
tail OF every hog along the line of
The reduced officers and discharged
soldiers who had served in the Ameri-
can colonies during the French and
Indian wars received grants of land
from the British Government in 1868.
Field officers received 5000 acres
each, captains 5000, subaltern and
staff officers 1000, non. commissioned
officers 200, private soldiers so.
The natives OF Fiji suffer so much
from the wild pigs getting into their
plantations through the Entertainments
of the jungle in which these animals
here, caused by the prohibition against
burning of, as was their former Gus
tom, that it is now becoming frequent
thing for town to agree to keep a
mans family while he is undergoing
sentence if he will start a fire on
windy day and plead guilty to it as an
ict of carelessness.
The Scotch in old times reckoned.
he value of man in cows. A kip/l
vas worth 1000 cows, a kings sop6r
IN earl $50. The lowest mentiond is
orty-fou cows, and little mopy as
veil. Even this man must haV/ been
escended from thane, so wgdo not
now the value of plain m6. ANY
ne who killed man of NIX had to {
ny forfeits in according with the 9
bove- mentioned figures 0
The Empress of Auyfia's taste for q
cid sports is by no mehs exceptional q
nong ladies of ranyin Austria and Il
hungary. A little wife ago the crown IL
rincess accompanN her husband on b
shooting exhibibn, and proved her fe
If to be an excellent shot. The inn
eral hunts iD/Hungary are always Q,
by< number of ladies be. ~ ~
nging to thghigher court circles. AS ~ -
matter of bact, the prediction of a,
e empress br hunting is fully shared ID
: the LADIES of the Austro- Hungary b.
istocracy III
One oGthe small, rocky islands of a,
'ramid AXE, Nevada, is alive with m
ttlesnskes. 1t is supposed that the hi
ogeniors of these snakes were OF
afted to the island on punches of
'atipg reads or RATS of driftwood. B
heye are thousands if not millions TO
e people about the lake say millions g
q rattlers on the island, and their S "
lht TO it there are "none to dispute" u
le reptiles have their homes among y
, rocks, and feed upon the eggs and
Jung of water fowl and dead fish thu I
, cast on the island. yes
or looseness of skin, use ION
'inly from attenuation, or the idcc- 8
n in the bulk Of flesh u3iyng X
, skin. They are often tt result OF troi
g-continued bad healy anxiety, 3
dy or general emacilon ana OLD L
>. Cleanliness, good1od, vigorous mo,
srcise and agreeable ccupation tend y
remove them "A increase the iyn1,
oothness and betty of the skin. 70. =
@ free and viz use of warm '"v
ter and soap. Flowed by daily use scr,
mild stimns'ng cosmetic lotion, or '''
lion wirglycerine or oil, and cod
Or oil Zen internally, tend to re- A
We ~ 10 gam In hesh, eat trip
ary Sod, milk and eggs. and retire "
" time
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What the Blind Can Do II