The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

learn usually does most of the talking.
-Atchinson Globe.
The London Enquirer says the
United States has the best torpedo
service of any nation in the world.
"A little girl sent out to hunt eggs.
returned without success, complaining
that lots of hens were standing around
doing nothing.
This is a funny old world, anyhow,
but it is very hard to realize it when
you are reading the comic papers,
Somerville Journal.
The startling fact has been discov-
cred that 3, 200, 800 bushels of peanuts
are consumed in this country every
year. 1t is suspected that 1906
bushels of them are slain in the upper
galleries of theaters, and that PIG, 405
bushels are eaten in street cars and
court rooms.
For heroism in one of the battles
of the Mexican war, the Legislature
ofMissouri granted to Absalom Hughes
the right to keep dram shop during
his natural life without paying State,
county or municipal license. Although
over seventy years of age, he is still
engaged in the business at Cedar City.
-Merchant-"Can you bring me a
few bushels of green peas, this morn
-ingpn ~D@lxota Gardener--~sNot this
mornin'. My peas war jest blossomin
when left home an hour ago. But et
that ar cloud, drops an inch or two
SOS ter keep often the sun, I'll be here
with load this AFTERNOON. Time.
The total production of gold and
silver of the world in 1887, according
to the report of the Director of the
United States Mint for the year 1888
was, in gold, 800, S26, 800; in silver (at
United States coming value), 1925, $780,
310-or 1926, 173. 10 in all. The rea
value of the silver was, however, much
less, being about 1914, 100000.
An Easton man. homeward bound
with new carpet sweeper, was ac
costed by neighbor who is Jealous tc
be thought agricultural. and who asked
consent to try that mower on his lawn
He tried it, and finding that he coulC
not make the grass fly he passed il
back with an expression of mistrust
'these new patents. ''-Allentown pa.
Register.
"A Baltimore woman dreamed o
finding pot of gold in the cellar, ant
the next day she went down and begar
looking for it. She managed in a shor
time to run across four large sized rats
an old key that had been lost for sly
months, and a jug of whisky her ole
man had been hiding behind the potato
barrels. She is a firm believer il
dreams now.-Peck' Sun.
"A nine-year-old son of Maine, liv
ing eleven miles from Bangor, hearC
of the electric lights in that city, ant
leased his father to take him Their,
that he might see them. The fathe
said he hadn't time. A few days after
ward the boy was missed. His fathe
drove straight to Bangor, and at min,
o'clock that night found him under al
electric light, gazing in open-eyed de
light. He had walked all the way.
AN interesting innovation in tn
method of catching cod has just beel
made by the French fishermen coastin.
off Newfoundland. They catch larg
periwinkles, remove their shells, ant
use the creatures for bait. The cod
it is said, have bitten eagerly at tn,
new bait and the owners of the Frencl
vessels have caught fish so fast tina
they were able to sail for France in tn,
first week of July, instead of Octobe
as usual. In England the whelk ha
long been used for the same purpose.
One of the most interesting natur
al curiosities of Lycoming County
Pennsylvania, is situated in Rose Val
ley, about six miles from Trout Run
1t consists of seven natural wells ex
tending almost straight downward to
depth unknown. Large stones cast il
some of these wells go rumbling down
making coarse, rasping sound at frs
as they strike against the sides of tn
well, growing fainter and fainter unit
lost by the distance. Near these we'll
is cave, the mouth of which is larg
enough for horse to enter Severa
gangways lead off from the main Ell
trance to large separate chambers, ant
from these other passageways lead OF
probably to uneXplored chambers.