Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-07-19
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The rattles off rattlesnakes fetch 81
sylvania.
1t is estimated that a rainy day in a
city of 2OO, 900 people kills So, 900 worth
of trade.
George Francis Train estimates the
wear and tear of clothes lines in this
country at SO, 900 per year.
For stealing pot of flowers from IA
grave, a colored man in Savannah has
been sent to Jail for one year.
W. S. Thompson. of East Liverpool,
Ohio, opened an old organ and found
a three-foot snake coiled inside.
Floriada has $l2, 900, 900 invested in
the orange business, and the sales this
year were fourth of that big sum.
| A mare at Pleasant Valley, Cal, has
adopted a calf two months old and
cares for it as if it were her own
progeny.
After southern Californians have
scOOped Outthe inSideS of some of their
Chill squashes they successfully use
the rind as rowboats.
A company at st. Cloud, Fla, has
$50 acres of sugar cane under cultiva-
ton and the outlook is so promising
that more land has been purchased.
| Imagine a rose as beautiful and
fragrant as Jacqueminot with the
foliage of a Rosa Rugosa. This rose
has been produced by Mr.. Carmen of
the Rural New Yorker
A woman who was caught stealing
in dry goods store at Pottstown, Pa,
confessed and was let go after the
manager had introduced her personal
ly to all the employees as precaution.
A Baltimore paper speaks of the
mysterious disappearance of citizen
as follows: ''As he was last seen in a
feed store with IS in cash in his hand
it is feared he has been foully dealt
with"
A grocer at Lexington, Ky, had
picture of the prettiest girl in town
painted on the cover of his delivery
wagon, and her brother shot it off with
shotgun. The grocer dropped to the
hint.
The proprietor Of German water
luS- pfstCts dtSiEIOuS "a CdtCIiuS Eu-
lisn custom, in his advertisement "be-
seeches note an excellent station for
friends of the fischport, ships and
riding-room in the house"
A man on Long Island has had dog
fish in pond for twenty-eight years,
and there is no sign of his being worn
out yet. He figures that the life of
dog fish who takes proper care of
himself is at least forty years.
A whale was driven ashore on the
coast of Labrador last month which
had a dozen wraps of chain around his
body and big anchor To tote around
with him. He had become poor tired
and discouraged.
To be quite English, man must
wear the single-eye glass. not the old
fashioned glass disk glued in the eve,
but glass eucircled with gold rim
and provided with spring, which,
fixed into the eyebrow, keeps the
wearer awake.
According to the German Magazine
Of Stenography the proceedings of the
Japanese Parliament are reported ver-
batim by means of stenographic sys-
TEN original in Japan. The charac-
ters are written in perpendicular rows
from right to left.
John Swift, Connecticut man lived
to the age of eighty-eight without be-
ing sick one hour in his whole life.
He never had mumps, measles, head
ache nor toothache, aud when he died
it was more because 4 tree tell upon
him than from any fault Of his.
A broom factory man in Duluth laid
off his thirteen single men and in
formed each one that he could not re-
turn to work until he was married
Eleven of them married within fort
night, and inside of six weeks there
were FIVE applications for divorce.
The saloonkeepers of New York are
making an effort TO Introduce the sys-
tenn of compartments in their estab-
lishments, with places where women
can enter for drink and where men
and women can drink together The
newspapers are already pointing out
that this will be one Of the most bale
full results of 'free rum"
That the lance is regarded in Ger
many as the proper weapon for cal
vary appeared at the military review
IN Berlin in honor of King Humbert.
The cuirassiers, who formerly were
armed with saber and carbine, now
carry lances like the uhlans, and il is
even in contemplation to give the same
weapon to the hussars.
The globe in the Paris Exposition
represents the earth on the scale Of one
millionth, and is nearly one hundred
feet in diameter. Paris occupies about
one-third of an inch. All the great
lines of communication by land and
sea are shown in detail. The earth's
daily rotation will be precisely imi-
tated by clockwork; point on the
globes equator moving an eighteenth
of an inch per second.
Captain Rigio, who recently died at
Grand Isle, La, is said to be the last
survivor of Lafitte's famous band of
pirates. He was the oldest inhabi-
tant of the island, having lived there
from the time the band was dispersed.
In his early days he participated in
most of Latitte's raids, but when the
band was broken up took to cultiva-
ting oranges and other fruits, and
made snug little fortune.
A traveller, recently returned from
Turkey, says that the dress of the la
dies of Constantinople has become so
much like that of their .'infideP' sis
ters that wife of the sultan would at
tract very little attention in an Amer
ican street. The "foridje," the large
shrouded mantle. is shaped almost
like dolman, and its flap at the back
has diminished to collar. which is
fastened by a knot of ribbons in front
and is sometimes trimmed with lace.
The "yashlnak," or veil, is very thin,
and long gloves are worn.
A new swindling scheme. said to be
very successful among reiigiously in
clined agriculturists, in thus described
by the McHenry Ptaindealer: A pretty
female solicits 10-cent subscriptions to
foreign missionary society, and those
who donate are requested to sign their
names on a piece Of paper with others