The Republican., 1889-04-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

wants it changed to John the Baptist
Smith in order that he may inherit ten
acres of land.
An old black cat, smelling mis-
chief. saved the lives of eight families.
in New York tenement. A defective
gas main was slowly suffocating the
sleepers.
Peach stones find ready sale at six
dollars per ton in Vaca Valley, Cal.
They are used as fuel, burning as
long as coal and giving more heat"
Apricot stones are also burned.
Their grotesque alphabet is max
ing the Germans nation of near
sighted people. Defective vision is;
not only acquired, but it appears to be
handed down to offspring.
"A Baltimore barber makes the as
sertion that mans beard grows faster
in bright weather than in cloudy. He
thinks that the sunlight has the same
effect on the hair of mans head and
face as it has on plants.
"A Canadian paper wants to know
why 100000 Canadians should pay
more to be governed than 60,000, 900
Americans pay. The thirteen Cabinet
officers of Ottawa receive $105.00 a
year, while the eight Cabinet officers
ot1the United States receive $64, 900.
Cowboys in Franklin County,
Texas, frightened wild pony into
dashing blindly over precipice into a.
river thirty feet below. After the lapse
of few moments the pony appeared,
climbed on the opposite bank, and
dashed away, apparently uninjured by
his big dive.
Two men in Tioga County, Pennsyl-
vania, who had jointly bought COW,
quarreled about dividing the milk, one
claiming that the other owned only the
front half of the animal. Subse-
quently the owner of tho rear half was
lifted by the cows horns, and he
wanted damages of the front" part
ner.
In Evansville, Ind, recently, dur
ing the progress of divorce suit, in
which a woman was trying to gain
possession of her children, her little
girl recognized her and sprang crying
into her arms. The court granted a
recess for the mother to see her child
in an ante-room, but when the recess
was over neither could be found.
In Ware, N. H., q siX-pound cat
saw an owl in tree and decided to eat
it. So it scrambled up tho tree, and,
after a short, sharp fight, fell to the
ground dead. The OWLS big claws had
been too much for it. The bird was
captured, and found to measure six
feet from tip to tip of its extended
wings.
An official report on the agricul-
ture of Colombia states that there are
no farm horses in that country, all the
heavy work being done by oxen. The
ordinary riding horses are small, sell
dom being over fourteen hands, but
they are very strong apd enduring. A
good saddle horse costs from $3.50 to
$500 in Bogota.
According to the Macon, Ca, Tele-
graph, ore day not long ago man by
the name of Coon called at the Way
Cross post-officc for his mail. He was
followed by Mr.. Fox, and that gentle
man had barely cleared the door be-
fore Jim Wolf wanted his mail. Next
day Lamb and Lyon marched in to
see if there were any letters for their
folks. 1t was great day for game.
"A hawk made O. dash at some
chickens in. a colored mans yard near
Americus, recently, and the old hen in
terfered. The two fowls got into
furious fight, when daughter of the
man thought she would capture the
hawk, and grabbed it by the tail. The
infuriated bird turned on tho girl, tore
her hand severely with its talons, cut
up her face badly and went off with a
chicken and ate it within hundred
yards of the house. When the old man
got home and seized his gun the hawk
rose in the air and sailed off.
The Carthusian monks have refused
100000 for the secret of their
liqueur. This secret no one has been
able to reach, although time and money
have been wasted in the effort. Exper-
iments without number have been
made, but they were as futile as the
search to discover the mysteries of the
polar regions. There are, it is said,
about fifty different plants in the prep
aration of the liqueur. Each monk has
his own grounds to cultivate, his own
workshop to himself, and in them he
pursues his daily manual occupation
without conversation with any one, and
alone to his self-communings
The Oldest of all the ohelisks is the
beautiful one OF rosy granite which
stands alone among the green fields on
the banks of the Nile, not far from
Cairo. 1t is the gravestone Of great
ancient city which has vanished and
left only this relic behind. The city
was the Bethshemesh of the Scripture.
the famous On, which is memorable to
all Bible readers as the residence of
the priest of Potipherah, whose daugh-
ter. Asenath, Joseph married. The
Greeks called it Heliopolis. the city of
the sun, because there the worship of
the sun had its chief center and its
,,,oot eoorad Shri,ac !.