Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-07-05
MISSING LINKS.
The consumption of beer and whisky
is rapidly increasing in India.


37S last year.
The authorities in Holland have de.
creed that women cannot serve on q
school board. In Sweden it has been
decided that they can.
War is being waged on mad dogs in
Franklin, Ala. Any canine that lolls
its tongue out of its mouth on hot
day is shot on the spot.
There is southern superstition tina,
any one who digs into an Indian burial
mound is sure to meet with quick and
summary vengeance.
Mrs. Mcclellan, widow of Gen.
George B. Mcclellan. has rented a
house in London. and will spend the
season there with her daughter.
Minnesota has passed law provid-
ing for executions before sunrise, and
allowing the condemned to invite three
persons to witness the execution.
A Micanopy, Fla. orange grower
says that the California spider is doing
great damage. In many instances not
more than half Il crop will be realized.
Little Annie Daily. of Syracuse. was
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beautiful complexion, and so she
sprinkled some on her bread and butter
and ate it. She died.
While jeff Graves, Leary, Ga,
| blacksmith, was at work, his anvil sud-
denly disappeared through the roof.
Some mischievous persons had put u
lot of gunpowder under it.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage re-
Gently PLAYED the banjo for the amuse-
ment of a Brooklyn reporter. 1t is not
recorded that the music was accom-
panied with a song and dance.
A Youngstown, Ohio, woman pun
ishes her little daughter by stuffing egg
shells filled with cayenne pepper and
mustard down her throat. Here is
| legitimate work for the white caps.
Louis Conlon of Montlucon. France,
has probably the longest beard in the
world. He is scarcely five feet in
hight. his beard measures seven feet.
aud he wears it wound round his neck
Mrs. j. I. Higgins, of Middle
borough. Mass. is having gown
made of silk all grown in this country
by one person. 1t is said that only
| four other dresses have been made of
silk grown in this country.
Miss Rosa Evaugeline Angel is the
sweet name of a newly tiedged Cin-
cinnati poetess. of whom local ad-
mirer SAYS: "She has caught the sub
tie charm of melody and has learned
how to weave her thought into the
sweetest of music"
Some essential oil distillsrs at Sails
bury, Pa, are now busily extracting
oil from the birch, which is very plenti-
full in the vicinity. The oil is used for
medicine, perfumery and candy flavor
ing. The raw article is favorite with
country schoolmasters.
Lewis Wunder, Superintendent of
the Inquiry Division of the Philadelphia
Post-Ofiiee, has just completed his
fortieth year of service as postal
official. He was appointed a stamp
clerk in 1919. during the Administra-
ton of President Taylor.
The decline in the Chinese tea trade
is said to have been due TO carclessness
in preparing the leaf. Last season
there was better demand, and the
Chinese merchants are hopeful that
the competition of the Indian leaf will
be less and less keenly felt.
1t is discovered that Brooklyn nurses
have habit of drugging the children
when they take their charges out for
an airing, in order TO gossip and ilirt
with the policemen. Some neighbor-
hoods which have been informed by
the druggists have become much e1.
cited.
NJ. Tirard, the French Premier. il.
said TO look Hike au orthodox preacher.
His long gray hair is brushed straight
back; his features are hard; he wears
beard. His style of speaking is almost
austere-few gestures. little ornament,
nothing but hard facts.
The Importance of the study of
hygiene is becoming recognized each
year more and more One gentleman
has offered to give $25. 900 toward the
endowment of chair of hygiene in the
University of Pennsylvania on con-
dition that like sum be raised to COM
plete the sum of $4,000.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps declares in
the Forum that lit is an undecorated
fact that if Jesus Christ were to enter
almost any of our influential churches
to-day He would be. shown into the
back gallery. and He could not obtain
admission to our parlors without a
letter of introduction to our sets"
A flustered West Chester PA. }
bridegroom slipped quarter into the
pastors hand. thinking it a $40 gold
piece. Discovering his mistake he
made reparation, and afterwsrd told
friend: HE took the $40 gold piece
with pleasure, but the mean part of it
was that he kept the quarter too"
To make boughs grow wherever they
would add to the symmetry of the bush
our modern fower-growers force
nature to do the work by tying tiny
aower-pots full of rich soil just on the
very spot where they desire to hav the
bough. Very odd is the sight of a bush
apparently bearing thumb flower-pots
as fruit.
John A. Cockerill. editor of the New
York World, who is in receipt of an
annual salary of $4,000, denies the
report that he intends to be a candi-
date for Congress. and adds: II am
still anxiously striving to fit myself
for the calling of journalism, which l
adopted some twenty-five years ago,
and which 1 consider to be superior to
any profession that / know of-politIcs
not excepted"
An immense trade is likely to be de-
veloped in the recently explored dis
tricts of central Africa The Belgian
Upper Congo Commercial Company,
although organized only three years
ago, has already fleet of ten steam
ers. ten stations and thirty general
agents, which give employment to 15.-
600 porters in transporting goods.
chiefly of English manufacture, in the
upper Congo districts.
1t is said that once in every twenty
years the common swamp cane of
Georgia blooms. w. Ii. Carpenter, of
Elbert County, says that in 1869 all the
brakes were abloom in that country,
and that now, in 1889, they are again