Daily Republican., 1889-02-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Telephrase Is announeed as the new
name for telephone message.
Another crank is to attempt to no
through the Niagara Rapids on May Esd.
The Chicago Clearing House has de-
cided that hereafter gold coins should be
received at the banks only at their actual
value as shown by weight.
The Grand Council of AMMAN has
elected Bunlay King. He Ia the son Of
the former sovereign, aud, as he Is only
~ years of age, regency has been
established under Prince Hwaldue.
With the death Of James Winter
bottom there occurs break in a line Of
sections at All Saints Church, Glossop,
which has reached through one family for
200 years.
INST mia Of tie British Knights Of Bath,
heretofore made of gold and extremely
costly aud paid for out OF the British
Treasury, are thing of The past. Here
after these insignia are to be made Of
silver gilt, and by contract at Birming-
ham el op In large patches.
Southern papers state that the Florida
farmers are eompl aiming of the extreme
~ wet weather OF tho past two months,
which has greitly retarded the trucking
business IN nearly every section Of the
State. Vegetable growers are much dis
cauragcd, because their crops VIII most
likely be too late In maturing to bring
the highest prices.
We should like to know which city the
Voice believes to have contendtd most
successfully with the liquor traffic =
Philadelphia under high liconse, or Pfoyi-
dsnce under prohibition, where accord
ing TO diagrams published by the Proyl-
Ideace journal, there are no less THAI SEQ
places in which liquor I, openly sold, 10
say nothing OF drug btores, which arc
drink Ing saloons In disguise, and p,actt
where liquor is sold on the sly.
A workman who had ihbaled the vspor
Of burning Goals, a Berlin correspondent
relates, was taken to the Charlie lately.
All efforts 10 res ore consciousness hay-
ing failed, Professor Leyden ordered the
Injection of $50 cubic centimetres oil
blood taken from another patient, into one
Of the veins of the right arm. The patient
owed signs OF lie five hours after the
TRANSMISSION, then slept for about ten
hours and awoke 10 excellent spirits. His
further recov ny was rapid aud he Il now
quite well.
| Recently a young girl, named Martha
MMutiiu, OF Mullahrack, Iielard, when
In bed was terrified at seeing standing
near her n person dressed as man
brandishing weapon aud crying cut, ~
am Jack the Ripper" The girl never
mentally recovered from the snock, and
the police found II necessary 10 take the
poor creature into custody. After icing
medically OK tmined he was pronounced
a dangerous lunatic aud removed to an
asylum. The perpstrator OF the "joke"
proved TO bs female friend OF the I'M
fortunate girl.
| A Cape Breton paper reports a startling
occurrence on MeQaeoa's Lake, sh RI
time since. Reliable witnesses say tha'
tho ico with which the lake was covered
suddenly cracked like boiler explosion
and something very like whale Ios1
above the turtace, showing between q
aud 20 feet of lis body. THIN It sub
sided, but the hole In the ice end tn,
, dirt cnst about were left to mark It's ap
pearance. A similar incident happened
there about 20 years ago, causing grea
excitement. A scientist advances th,
theory Of hot spring o. sort OF volcano
which is affected periodically and throw
mud, etc, from the bottom OF the lake.
OF DIR. Joseph Garret.o, of Cincin
natl, who died recea ly at the good OLE
age Of 50, the Enquirer Of that city II
lates he was remarkable I r bis strict ad
hercnce 70 q raid dietary For sixty
two y ears he tasted neither cofIes nor tea
his only driuk belpg either water or occa
slonally lemonade. For fifty yeare of hi
lie he ate no meat, For twenty. six year
OF bis life he never took SO much as
pinch OF salt. His iieas were very sim
pie, hut he believed strictly In vegeta
rian diet. Nature, he used to say, ha
, supple ed this 5od, and 1t is against natui
= when man cats meats. 10 those VIII
would eat meat, however, he insis,e
that u should be eaten boxed. lie use
, topolnt to the Insians as pro3f OF this
claiming that they we're never sick unlas
: from wounds. He trusted to 10 cooks B.
prepare his food, hut did It himself
When he went upon journey he too
his food with him, and only few week
before his death was 10 New Yorl
city, going the entire distance with hi
, food.