The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
MISCELt ANEOJS.

"u'Nh hoCu " MIL FTeuCHmcn EUU years
ago, and a powder flask older by CEN
fury.
1t is estimated that the amount of
gold in the world is about 6l3 cubic
yards, and it would fit in room twenty
four feet each way, if in solid cube.
In London, recently, large collie
dog saved girls life by selling her
dress and swinging her aside just as she
was about being run down by horse.
Tho craze for passing floral tributes
over the footlights to stage favorites
seems to have reached its height at Bos-
ton recently. A minstrel performer re-
ceived q life-size floral image of himself
seated in chair and playing the banjo.
Some writer has said that the aver
age number Of hairs on the human SCALP
varies from 10000 to 1900 A single
hair can support weight of two ounces,
and is SO elastic that it may be stretched
to one-third of its entire length and
then regain its former size and con-
dition.
A remarkable proceeding is reported
from Chicago, where a father, Jacob
out a theatrical license for little thea
ter which his children ran in the cellar,
charging five pins admission. He was
arrested on q warrant sworn out by a
policeman.
Tho old lighthouse which stands at
the entrance Of New Haven harbor has
been abandoned by the Government and
oil ndyvh
its destruction. 1t has been familiar
landmark for many years and was a
favorite visiting place for New Haven
people.
-Flounders replenish the ocean at a
very rapid rate. In season one founder
produces many millions of eggs, scatter
ing them broadcast through the water.
The sole produces 1000, GOO eggs, plaice
not less than 1000, 900, while turb0t
has been credited with the deposition
of II 900, OO0 or 12, 600, 900 eggs.
MIR. Smallfry-"My dear, don't you
think this would lie good time for your
mother to go on a nice long visit to her
friends in tho East? Tho rates are SO
low now, you know" Mrs. Smallfry-
y
only offered for a round trip" Mr.
Smallfry-"A h--hum-that's differ.
ent. America.
The sea serpent has been rather
late in appearing this year, but no has
been seen, with back covered with a
hard she'll of dark brown, with stripes
a few shades lighter. giving it much
the look of the lights and shades on a
corrugated iron surface. As usual, as
much as the observers desired to see
the monster, they got away as fast as
possible.
"A beech tree cut on the farm of
William Wilkinson, at Shelton, near
Middiotown, Mass, disclosed near the
hard white wood core the big letters -.
L." on a densely black background.
They were cut forty years ago by John
Leland, a sailor, and, curiously enough,
had stamped themselves all the way
from the heart OF the tree to tho bark.
Though they had been overgrown by
thirty-seven rings of wood fibre, it is
easy to read 50. L." on the outside bark
"A new "cure" has been invented in
Germany, which may be adopted as a
greater novelty than the mind cure or
the faith cure. Its basis is tho harden
ing of the human organism, which has
been disastrously enfcebled by civiliza-
ton. The patients initiate the noble
savage or the gypsy, and the system in
cludes going barefoot as one part of the
cure. One German parish contains 400
patients.
The longest parts, male and female,
IN the Shakespearan drama are Hamlet,
with 1850 lines, and Rosalind, with 749
lines. OF course, in acting, they are cut
q great deal, but even then they are, in
the odious but expressive phrase of the
boards, fat This accounts, to GER
tain extent, for the professional fond
ness for appearing as Hamlet" and
"Rosalind." Othello must be rather q
thorn in the side of the STARS" for no
has only SIS lines, while Iago has I, 1T.
"A French military surgeon has been
making researches on wind Instruments
which has been used by phthisical
bandsmen, and warns musicians of the
Importance of distinction. He recon-
mends that instruments should be filled
with a five per cent. solution Of carbolic
acid, or, in the case of metallic instru-
mcnts, that they should be dipped into
boiling water. These precautions are
of the utmost mportance when phthisic-
al persons have used the Instruments;
for it was found in such cases that
liquids used to wash them out presented
a virulence similar to that Of a pure
culture Of tuberculosis.
Miss Amanda Anderson, Of Georgia,
is sixty years Of age and has never
travelled more than mile and half
from tho spot where she was born.
Though there is railroad within three
miles OF her house she has never seen
it, She has never seen brick house,
and has seen painted house only once.
Though her nearest neighbor lives
within three hundred yards of her she
has never seen his house except once in
her lifetime. She has never been in
side of a church or listened to a sermon
or prayer, and her ideas of religion are
extremely vague. She is, nevertheless,
an intelligent WOMAN, with no eccen-
tricity except that indicated in the
above description of her.
DIR. Francis Bowling, in a paper
which he read at recent meeting of
the Cincinnati Academy Of Medicine,