The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-01
MISCELLANEOUS,

dizzy JHOuSdHu plue gum trees nave
been planted this year on one ranch in
Los Angeles County, California.
"A prisoner who escaped from the
Tattnall County, Fla, Jail recently, left
note for the sheriff, saying he was
innocent, but that he would be back in
October to stand trial, and hoped to be
acquitted.
New Orleans brokers have ten-dollar
gold pieces frozen into cakes of artificial
ice and then brought around to the Ex-
change by boy. The cakes are placed
in the sun, and the last gold piece to
melt out takes all the others. It's not
quite as exciting as horse race, but it
beats penny-anJe way into the back
woods. Detroit Free Press.
The Hartford Times says that
| piece of pine woods, in an unfrequented
part of the rocky eastern hill town of
Union, on the northern border of the
State, in Tolland County, is just as the
Indians left it; but that single acre or
two is said to be the only piece OF orig
inal woods now left in Connecticut.
The unique barometer lmprovised
by Belfast sea captain-and held by
him to be as accurate as the most expen-
sive Instrumentation of thin strip
| of white pine with number of cross
pieces upon it. This is hung against
the wall of building, and the center of
the strip bulges out when damp weather
is approaching and sAnks in during tfEyst
weather.
According to the Cologne Gazette,
the German doctor Alanus, notorious for
his advocacy of vegetarian diet, has be-
come pervert and has returned to a
mixed diet of flesh and vegetable food.
He owns that one fact overturned all
his theoretical preaching that after
having been vegetarian for number
of years he suddenly observed that his
arteries began to show signs of degener-
alton.
While one trapeze performer was
holding another with his teeth fastened
into belt at San Antoria his molars
gave way at the roots and his COM
panion fell distance of twenty-five
feet to the floor and was badly injured.
Hereafter councils will not permit such
exhibitions unless the roots of the ira
pezist's teeth protrude through the back
of his neck and are securely clinched.-
Norristown Herald.
-Gentlemen whose wives are out of
town should carefully inspect the ''per-
sonal" columns of newspapers they send
to their better halves. The Washington
Star recently contained personal"
stating that a gentleman whose wife
was away for the summer wished to
meet discreet, lively young lady to
accompany him to places of amusement.
The result was the sudden return of at
least five Washington ladies whose hus-
bands had been left behind.
Talk about men not being bargain
tiends, said bright woman in down
town office. 'Why, man started a shoe
store in Nassau street last year, and
business was so poor the first fSw
months that he got discouraged. But he
filled his windows with signs saying
that he was selling out at any price on
account of going out of business, and
his doors with placards, This store to
let, and then he put the prices of all
his stock up ten per cent. higher than
they had been before and waited. In
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gest business of any man in his line on
the street, and at the end of three
months, whom he took down the signs,
he had made enough extra profit to put
his goods down, too, to regular prices
again. He is there yet, and has per-
manently established business. All his
customers were men. You couldn't catch
women that way. Y. Sun.
The West Chester, Pa, News tells
of fierce battle between two black
blooded stations at Milford Mills,
owned by Michael Murphy. They got
loose from their attendant and at once
began fight. They kicked, tore each
other with their teeth and paved one
another at a terrible rate. Mr.. Murphy,
with the assistance of several men, was
unable to part them. They were driven
from the race course into tho fields and
from there into the public roads, and
went in the direction of Glen Moore and
continued fighting each other like a
couple of bulldogs. They were followed
by several men with whips, forks, ETC.,
but with all their efforts they could not
part them. Finally one got the better
of the other by paving him down and
they we're parted, but not until they
were nearly exhausted and had inflicted
serious wounds in their flesh. They
fought for distance of three miles, and
hundreds of people turned out to Wit
ness the bloody encounter.
The Favorite Newspaper Name.
The word Gazette" seems to have
been a favorite name for newspapers
from the earliest times down. The first
newspaper in the world, printed at Nu-
remburg in 1857, was given this name.
In our own country the name was very
common in connection with the early
history of journalism. The first perma-
nent newspaper in the colonies was the
Boston News Letter, the second being
the Boston Gazette, which appeared
December 81, 1719. Six years later New
York's first paper, called the New York
Gazette, was established. This same