Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-02-22
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~ SIluSle HILL WAS louuu Ill pei
fectlv fresh egg recently by farmer
near Niles. Mich.
Nine knots made in black wooler
thread formerly served as charm in
the case of Il sprain.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Alabama, declares itself op'
posed to female suffrage.
A big oil find has created excitement
at Gallup, N. NJ. 1t is asserted that
the oil runs in rivulets" in many
places.
There is in Berlin one drinking sa.
loon for every 112 Inhabitants, but al
Heidelberg there is one to every eighty
seven.
Shawnee county. Kansas, claiming q
population of 10000, has not one
said.
\ prominent citizen of Fresno. Cal.
has started a 'possum farm. He has
procured a car load of the animals
from Missouri.
Cherry county, Nebraska, with an
area larger than several Eastern States,
hasn't practicing physician within
its borders.
A negress is reported to be living
near Sandersonville, Ga, who has
four generations of descendants. Hell
age is said to be ninety-nine years.
An alum mine has been discovered
in Utah. 1t yields so to 80 per cent.
pure alum. which can be extracted by
simply placing the crude material in
boiling water.
ST. Simon's Island. Ga, holds the
championship in one particular at
least. Some chap has stolen a whole
house. 3SN36. and moved it off without
the owners finding it out.
LET me eat the mince pies of ma.
ton and | care not who sings its songs
or makes its laws" says Ben Butler.
and it is the most sensible thing he has
said in ten long years.
A grizzly bear that weighed LOO
pounds was killed at Big Horn Basin,
Wyo. T.. short time ago. One hun
dred aud nine shots We're fired from
nine rifles before the brute was killed.
A poet is allowed a heap of licenses
but when Mrs. kershan, of Cairo,
threw hot water on 4 neighbor who
made fun of her rhymes, the judge
said that license had gone beyond the
limit.
Persons sending postal cards who
write upon the address side of them
..in haste" or other words uuconnect.
ed with their delivery. subject them &c
letter postage, and they are held as un.
mailable.
The Philadelphia woman who died
of tight lacing was au old maid, homo,
", and angular. and never had beau.
And vet she said she laced to please
the men. All men should chip in for q
monument to her.
A Sioux chief named Lame Wolf saws
that Bill Cody is the biggest coward OF
a white man that ever rode over the
plains. and William says he will have
the blood of that Lame Wolf before the
violets bloom again.
An agent for the Rothschilds has
purchased for a nominal sum a newly
discovered gold mine in the Batapolis
district in Mexico. Advance rumors
say that there is 81. 1000 900 worth OF
gold waiting TO be uncovered.
Some one called upon the people OF
Poughkeepsie to spell the name of the
town as they pronounce it-Pkepsy.
But it is safe to say that the citizens
would rather die than give up a single
l., La laa,. ,l1
A new dynamo with capacity to
run eight iucandescent lights has been
invented by Vermont electrician. 1t
has some novel features. one being \
slow current obviating all danger.
while one light can be cut off without
effecting the others on the same cir
cult.
A London paper says that the art VI
the goldsmith is disappearing, owing
to the cheapness of diamonds. The
value of jewelry now depends upon
the precious stones it contains, rather
than upon the beauty of workmanship
Since Little Lord Fauntleroy." tn.
play. has been success. no less than
fifty stage-struck children have Offered
themselves to play the part of the
hero. And the manager saws that mos
OF them were thoroughly conpeten
for the part
A thief at Dubuque stole n barrel oi
eggs. but because the warrant did no,
specify that they were hens eggs in
stead of goose or bird or alligator egg.
he was turned loose and allowed to go
Law and common sense were alway:
strangers.
A diamond owned in Buffalo, ant
known as the Buffalo Gem" weigh.
60 carats. and is supposed to be the
largest in the United States. 1t i,
supposed to be about the size of an
almond. and before cutting weighed
95 carats. 1t was bought in Amster
dam for $4,000.
When Jules Verne wrote his cele.
brated Around the World in Eighty
Days" it was supposed that he had
reached the limit of Imagination. Blu,
an English postal card actually per
formed the journey in seventy five
days, thus beating Ferne's best time by
almost a week
A recent novelty is an invention de
signed to facilitate the manufacture O
durable bootheels. By its use q heel
shaped leather shell is made and filled
with solid body. 1t has also move
device for pressing the leather into the
approximate form and for molding anC
working it.
Ira Paine. the American pistol shot
is exhibiting his powers at the Folie.
Bergeries. in Paris. He claims t.
have discovered a process for the
manufacture of gold from an alloy o.
silver and copper, and is trying tt
raise funds to start workshop fol
the transmutation of the preciou.
metal.
On the subject of electricity for ex,
ecutions the Scientific american says
The law has been passed and no pro
vision has been made to carry it out
Apparatus has not been provided. no
competent specialists have been ap
pointed to superintend its administra
ton, and in the present state of affairs
the law appears to amount to but little
more than an indefinite suspension o.
the death penalty for murder.
Says the San Diego Bee: IF we are
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