The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-03-10
MISCELLANE OUS,

kota were found to be much warmer
during the recent cold spell than
houses made of wood or brick.
If there is anybody who wants
COPYRIGHT it is the editor SO much
copy wrong is what is wearing out his
life.-Boston Post
-She-''Excuse me, sir l did not
catch your name" French Visitor
Octave, Mademoiselle, Octave"
She-'In the piano business?" T0wn
Topics.
The California papers report that
on account of vandalism of the Amcri-
can tourists the ancient adobe church
at Paso del Norte has been closed to
them.
"A waiter in New York club was
discharged the other day because he
declined to recognize the swapping Of
the fingers as a summons in the res
taurant
The Minneapolis Womans Ex-
change pays some $4,000 a year into
the hands of needy women who could
not, probably, without it find market
for their work.
Tho number of tigers killed in In
.dia last year was 1, 499. As three hur-
rahs go with every ''tiger," the hunters
must have had great blowout
Rochester Post Express.
The cost of compiling and publish
ing the reports of the Challenger eX-
petition, the last three volumes of
which are about to be issued, has
already exceeded 81 100000.
In Northern Alaska the sun shines
emily four hours out of the twenty-four
in winter, and the Alaskans ought to
be duly thankful. Base ball clubs can
only play one game Il day. -NOrriSto10n
Herald.
M-A man living near Macon, Ga. was
attacked few days ago by Il Texas
pony which he was leading, and would
have been killed if his wife had not run
to his assistance and stunned the ami
NAL by striking it with an axe.
"A $4,000 lighthouse lens made
in Paris for the United States Govern
ment is now in Washington. 1t is the
largest lantern lens in the country.
The glasswork, or lens proper, meas
ures fifteen feet in height, while the
internal diameter is eight feet eight
inches.
"A new invention for schools is the
electric birch" This new instrument
of discipline does not leave marks upon
the skin and regulates blows to IL nicely.
Electricity was never put to a more
curious use, but it is to be doubted
whether schoolboys will take to it
kindly.
Miss Minnie Freeman, the brave
Nebraska school teacher who tied the
pupils together and led them through
the blizzard, is nineteen years old and
very pretty. She is an Eastern girl,
and was educated at the York Metho-
dist College, where she graduated with
distinction in 1856.
AT recent trial for hog-stealing
in Mount Pleasant, Tex, the court de-
,clared that the marks by which the ami
NAL could be identified had not been
clearly described to the jury, and the
hog was thereupon dragged into the
courtroom and placed in the witness
box on exhibition.
Experiments are to be made at AL
bany, Ga, in the cultivation of the
pyrethrum rogeums, a species of fever
few, from which the insect powder
known as Dalmation, now SO much
used, is manufactured 1t is now cul-
tivatcd largely in California, but the
supply is not equal to the demand.
"A young lady in Xenia, O., had
new pocketbook in which she placed
a sum of money for safe-keeping Her
mother, thinking the book might be
stolen. hid it in the rag bag. The
young lady, ignorant of this fact, sold
the contents of the rag bag for seven
cents, and is now looking vainly for the
return of that rag picker.
Thomas Becket's bones have ut
last been found in rough-hewn stone
coffin under Canterbury Cathedral,
where heretofore their existence was
only legendary. The skull is we'll pre-
served, and is said to he magnificent in
size and proportons-in fact. one of
the finest ever seen. Its crown bears
unmistakable marks of sword-cut
which the chroniclers relate took off
the top of his scalp.
New York is the largest and deep
est waterway penetrating the Atlantic
coast of North America. Sixty miles
from its mouth at the junction of the
Mattapony and Pamunkey, the two
rivers which form it, it is forty feet
deep, and opening down toward its
mouth, approaching the Chesapeake
bay and the capes, it is largely over
hundred feet deep. The river is really
an arm of the sea.
"A Maine fur dealer says that it is
astonishing the uses to which musk
rats fur are put. The skins are taken
at the city establishments, clipped, col
pred and put into such shape that they
very closely resemble otter, and, if not
sold for that, are at least represented
TO be much better than they really are
The fur is never sold for what it really
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