Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24
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Bits Of Good Reading Clipped from the
Newspapers-stray Paragraphs.
Mott Haven, N. Y, has q female horse

Bits Of Good Reading Clipped from the
Newspapers-stray Paragraphs.
Mott Haven, N. Y, has female horse
shoer.
The latest freak among Englishwomen who
go to concerts is to sit and knit.
Switzerland advertises accommodations
for about 10000 guests over night during
the summer season.
Large volumes Of smoke are seen to issue
from the summit Of st. Helen's, Oregon.
In Altoona, Pa, they can build loco
motive in eighteen hours and ffty-fve
minutes
"The Kings Daughters" now number co.
900 in the United States The society is to
have monthly paper.
The Burns county, D. T., commissioners
have this season paid bounty of three cents
each on 67,OO0 gopher tails.
We are importing onions from Egypt.
They come in about thirty days via Liver
pool, and are Of superior quality to the Ber-
muda
California is going In for silk culture with
enthusiasm. The state board of silk culture
sent Il, 900 mulberry trees and cuttings to
silk cultiyators, and this season viii put out
5000 more.
The French are acknowledged to have the
finest guns and projectiles in Europa Their
Ferminy shell has been shot through an
armor plate twenty inches thick, and come
out with its steel point uninjured.
A resident of Sorrento, Fla, who recently
recovered from a severe illness, has since re-
fused to eat meat unless it is raw. He fire.
quently kills a chicken or a rabbit, and de-
YOURS it almost before it becomes cold
A low down chap Is travelling. through
Georgia and softly laying wagers that no
one IN the crowd can name the twelve apos-
ties Chaps put up $40 that they can, but
few are able to name over eight or nine.
The Indiana ststute contains an act which
forfeits, after March O. 1890, all land In the
state held by aliens who have not become
American citizens. Years ago an English
gentleman named McDaniels Accumulated
considerable property in that city.
1t is strange that the devisers of open air
shows cannot think of something else than
the destruction of something to repro
duce on their immense stages. Babylon,
Rome and Pompeif have been used in turn
for these pyrotechnic dramas. The list may
be exhausted soon, and then they may work
In another field.
The announcement that the home OF the
late Louisa NJ. Aicott, at Concord, Mass, is
to be sold, leads to the suggestion that 1t be
bought by subscription and appropriately
converted into home for poor children as .
memorial to the authoress so well beloved by
young readers.
An Albany family has 3-year-old boy,
whose bump Of mischief is phenomenal. His
mother took him in his carriage to market
and bought some potatoes, which were put In
the carriage at his feet. As she had walked
along conversing with another the boy had
dropped them all out unnoticed, and the fact
was not discovered until they were home.
There are u number of warm sulphur
springs in Elsinore, CAL, and Q citizen Of
that town Is utilizing them for incubating
purposes He puts tin pail full of eggs 10
a spring whose temperature is l02 degrees,
and in three weeks the chicks come out. A
the temperature of the spring does not vary,
the eggs require no attention This beats the
patent incubators all hollow.
AHo iaeSSe Ocucu Vi TctilSIu IN newspaper
work u to print all the oaths used by the
people figuring In an enecdote. Often these
oaths are but the outcome OF thoughtless
hnbit, and add no point to tho anecdote.
The custom seems to have originated In those
papers which are conducted ON the plan Of
finding out the lowest intellectual level Of
their readers, and then going lower.
A man Of IS, with face smoothly shaven,
with the exception Of pair of small side
whiskers, dressed in q modest suit Of gray
tweed, stood in the betting ring ar Jerome
park the other afternoon and checked of his
mutual tickets with lead pencil. He had
nothing Of the swagger and loudness so prev
alent on all sides Of him. It was W. z. Van
darbilt. He was practically unknown in that
throng Of gambling men.
The women who have lately begun to act
as caterers In London are accused of being
stingy, not only in the quantity OF the food
which they allow for each guest at meal,
but also in incurring expense In its prepara-
tion, permitting themselves to substitute In
ferior ingredients for those which are more
costly, and thus spelling their dishes. or all
faults, these are the ones which women are
most likely to commit in preparing dishes for
themselves, but one would hardly expect
them in q trained graduate of cooking class
at work for other persons.