Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-01-25
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which initiates the human voice and
also the thrill of birds.
There are only about five thousand
elephants in the world. and the namber
is decreasing every year.
A Pennsylvania oil expert says there
is more oil under the soil Of California
than in all Pennsylvania.
An octopus weighing 250 pounds
and sixteen feet in length was caught
lately near Port Townsend. w. 7.
Ex-Warden Gafford of the Arkansas
State Prison has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for five years for whipping
three convicts to death.
An immense reservoir is in course of
construction in Egypt for the purpose
| of storing water for irrigation when the
annual overflow of the Nile fails.
George Seeholtz. OF Canton. Ohio,
punished his six-year-old daughter
Anna for telling falsehood by burn
ing her on the hand with a red hot
poker.
An ostrich escaped from one of the
California ostrich farms recently,
swan a river, and gave the horseman
a run of twentyseven miles before he
was captured.
Eleven hundred and forty-tive writer's
! have contributed articles for the ninth
edition of the Encyclopedia Britain
nica.n the last volume of which has just
been issued.
| The London hansoms are now fitted
! out with little brass clocks on the
dasher. This is. of course. for the con-
venience of gentlemen who have
promised to be home by II.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
trains kill 100 Jersey City people every
| year and don't work very hard at that.
| The average settlement is 5000 each,
which is called very liberal figure.
Ingenious San Diego. Cal. thieves
broke into saloon, rolled barrel of
whisky against the outside wall. and
then. boring hole through wall and
barrel. drew off the liquor into buckets.
A New Bedford. Mass. citizen, who
lost $40 bill several mouths ago. has
just received it from the finder, with a
note saving: Il needed it very badly
at the time and returned it AS soon as
| could"
Col. Cody, better known as Buffalo
Bill, has been raised to the dignity of
General of Nebraska Militia. He is
| now ON his ranch and is enjoying him
self hugely after his arduous wild
West" campaigns.
Nebraska has its Paradise Valley.
Milk River, Honey Greek, Thunder
Canon. Lightning Fork, Doughnut
Prairie. Bakers Reef and Cake Basket
Precinct. For variety and style Of
product, this commonwealth has no
rival.
|. Capt. Nicholas Costello of Haver-
hill. Mass, is still active and healthy at
lu6. His especial pride and great
treasure is Il black cutaway coat in
which he was married sixty years ago,
and which he still wears ON state Oc-
casions.
Judge Martin Clyatt, of Sparks. Ga,
owns IN unfortunate mule. A negro
was driving the animal, when it
stepped into \ hole and fell down. its
head striking the ground. The mules
tongue happened to be between its
teeth. and that member was nearly
bitten Oft.
Alfred NJ. Smith. half genius and half
crank. who has long been one of the
noted characters in the vicinity of
Boston. has gone to Brazil because he
thinks civilization is failure, and be-
cause being a vegetarian. Ire can live
on nuts and berries without being
obliged to work.
One of Louisiana's well-known liter
airy women is Mrs. Slaughter. who
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Pleasant Riderhood." She is a tall,
slender. gray y-haired woman, of gracious
manners. Her home is In khston,
La. in q big brown house of many
gables, covered with jasmine vines.
Emperor William of Germany is still
carrying on his crusade against all
things not Teutonic. He has ordered
the officers of his army TO discard
pointed English boots and wide creased
trousers. He has also made change
in the royal crown. which he con-
sidered too high for his style of beauty.
Maggie Wilson. of Cincinnati, who
died there short time since, left
clause in her will which read as fol-
lows: 1T is my will that the two
china dogs now in my room be
separately put in a box with glass
fronts, both alike. and one placed on
my dear husbands grave. at Spring
Grove, and the other on my grave.
and all to be paid for out of the money
leave" -s
Benjamin King. of Little Silver.
N. j.. last summer had a swarm of
bees take to the woods. He tracked
them to u tree, and. after letting them
WORE there all summer, recently cut it
down. The tree, which was hollow
for over eight feet below the knothole
where the bees went in and out, had
evidently been . bee tree for years,
and it contained over six pals Of ex-
cellent honey.
DR.. A. f. Jones of Cincinnati says
! that Bob Burlette, the humorist, was
once Il student with him for time, but
became disgusted with the profession.
abandoned it. and soon afterward
turned up in the newspaper business.
Mr.. Burdette's fun is by no means
CHASTITY. but it is>a little singular that
he'should get his first ideas of tho
humorous from the skeleton in tho
doctors closet.
The Rev. William Right, an &C.
centric English clergyman, has left
his fortune to found college for
young women, in which the pupils
shall get up early in the morning, take
cold baths, and attend "quarterly con-
vers:Niones," in which two thirds of
the persons present shall be single
men. Now. the question arises. Was
Mr.. Right devising soft snap for the
young women or the single men?
Mrs. Margaret f. Parker of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
has gone into the work of importing
servants for California families. She
recently arrived in San Francisco from
England with thirty-three English
women. from twenty live to forty years
of age, for whom she had no difficulty
in getting good places. She has al
ready brought about one hundred
young women to this country and
found employment for them.