Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-01-04
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Large numbers of Austrian, Turkish
and Roumanian Jews are being expell-
ed from Odessa.
An Iowa boy got locked up in a
beef-cOoler for fourteen hours, and his
teeth chartered until they were worn
half down.
A colored man found $4,000 in
greenbacks between the leaves of an
old book he had bought at a second
hand store at Paris, KY.
Colorado is becoming an oil pro-
ducing state. In the valley of the Ar
kansas, near Pueblo, there are a num-
Der of wells, the yield OF which is 1000
barrels per day.
The Honorable Artillery Company of
London. which has existed in an indie
pendent form for over three hundred
and fifty years. is now to be merged
with the volunteers.
A newspaper in the little town of
Bodenbach, in Bohemia, which has
been contiscated by the government
for the three hundredth time, has Just
celebrated the event.
The company managing J. w. Gray
sons inventions has sold to the French
| Government for 2.5OO.OOO francs the
| patent for cannon throwing with
ordinary gun powder shells charged
with dynamite.
! Fourteen doctors and a squad of
medical students made descent on
the schools at Portland. Ore, and vac
cinated the unsuspecting pupils VI ct
arms. Five hundred and thirty were
disposed Of in single day.
A telegraphic wire is the last thing
one would expect to support vegeta-
ton. yet 4 traveller in Brazil writes to
a German horticultural journal de-
scribing crop of mistletoe which he
found clothing the wires not far from
Rio Janeiro.
The New York Sun records battle
between mink and an eel The
mink had the eel by the back of the
head. but the eel wound himself around
the mink. and rolled him around in
the water until he let 90. and the fight
was draw. r..
A weather plant capable of predict
ing earthquakes exists in Vienna. On
/ several occasions these predictions as
tn earthquakes have been useful in
enabling mine owners to take precau-
tions for preventing loss of life in coll
iery explosions
Lee on Lock. Celestial who owns
farm near Portland, Ore. is fond of
roast pork, in reasonable quantities.
-Ha MAS not naIfiaallaclHAyseifs iIieaSefi
however. when his baru burned down
the other day and roasted all his hogs,
loo in number.
Mr.. Gladstone is reviewing and ar
ranging his correspondence Vast
quantities have been destroyed. but
about $1,000 letters are to be preserv-
ed. aud he has built tireproof room
for them adjoining his Castle of Ha-
warden.
Miss May Noight. the young Minnea-
polls girl who won husband on the
election and was cheated out of her
prize by his cowar,lice. is now engaged
ut large salary in selling cigars in a
grocery house. The bet had its uses
after all.
Isaac '. Williamson, the wealthy |
Philadelphia bachelor Quaker, has
completed his plans for the projected |
industrial hom" and school for poor |
boys. and selected board of control |
for the institution, in which he intends |
TO invest $i2. 900.
Congressman Robertson of Louis
lana is said 10 he the greatest bear-hunt
ter IN the South. He is also an exper-
deer-hunter, and has followed more
than one panther into the Jungle. He
keeps pack of hounds and bear dogs,
and his kennels are famous all through
the South.
Queen Victoria has had monument
erected to the memory Of John Brown
at Balmoral. 1t is a colossal statue,
made by Boehm, England's best known
sculptor. Besides this ..cairn' has
been erected to the same Highlanders
memory on hill looking down upon
the castle
The Malaga grape crop is short this
year. and only 10000 barrels are COM
ing to this country, in place of the
100000 barrels that were expected. A
single storm destroyed 100000 barrels
of the fruit. The crop of native fruit
was SO large that the Malagas will not
be missed.
Fashions in visiting cards prescribe
large. almost square card for mar
iiVu itsuics, luu tIt uatue, duutoSS anu |
day on which madame is at home is
engraved upon the pasteboard. The
card of the unmarried lady is smaller.
and has merely the address. The mans
card is very small.
Ex-Empress Eugenie's physicians are
endeavoring to induce her to depart
from her present mournful existence
and to mingle to some extent in the
world. Queen Victoria and Princess
Beatrice seek to provide distraction
for her by giving musical soirees. the
invitations to which she cannot easily
decline.
Mick" according to the New York
Sun. is a corruption of Mike. in its turn
a nickname for Michael. A '.mick" is
a rowdy, tough; we presume the
name was first applied by some man. ,
who having in mind particular ne'er-
do-well Michael, likened his new &C.
quaintace to him, calling him "a reg !
ular Mick" ....-' :
Mr.. w. S. Clark. banker and edi- |
tor of Butte City, is said to be the rich !
est man in Montana. He has specu- ;
lated more in Rocky Mountain mining I
properties than any man in the Terri {
tory. and the new house he is building c
for residence in Butte City is design t
ed to surpass anything of the kind in |
,he Northwest in magniicence. {
The Finnish question is to be added t
% the complication of Russian politics, .
already so encumbered with the Polish /
md Jewish questions. A repressive
policy is to be inaugurated for the I
Grand Duchy of Finland. 1t includes
he curtailment of ancient privileges
md a radical modification of the Fin
lish constitution. This movement will
lot be made without vigorous opposi- q
ion. {
A gentleman in Brussels has shown
enthusiasm for the game OF )
Whist. In the course of game his
'artner trumped the trick which he