The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

breast bone is said to have been success.
full.
An exchange chronicles the fact
that Mrs. Sophia Bennington, of Xenia,
Ohio, aged forty, has given birth to he
twenty-ffth child.
"A farmer in Holmes County. Ohio.
has got plucky ROSTERS. Two of them
fought prowling fox few nights ago.
and having picked out his eyes, beat
him till he died.
"A Pocahontas County. West Vir.
GINA, ghost in the shape of woman in
white wearing beltstuck full of reyol.
Vers turns out to be nothing but the
shadow Of tree thrown against wall
by street lamp.
- saw a sign this morning, UNI
prellas Recovered, remarked the horse
editor. well, if the man can really do
IT, replied the snake editor, hes on
the road to fortune. ''-Pittsburg Chron.
icle
"A horticultural journal advises:
Plant an onion beside rosebush and
increase its odor." But who wants the
door OF the onion Increased? That escu-
lent Is fragrant enough for culinary
purposes.-N. Y. Ledger.
"A Hebrew Bible in the Vatican is
said to be the most valuable book in the
world. 1t weighs more than $40 pounds
and its weight in gold, or S125, 900, has
been refused for it, when gold was worth
three times what it is now. This was
in the days Of Pope Julius, Or in 1912.
The query: docs a lightning rod
protect?" is answered from Ohio Of
the AIS buildings struck by lightning
and burned last year, 351 were barns
which had this protection" and of the
whole number only sixty were without
rods,-Detroit Free Press. .;
Whales will be more plenty than
porpoises in few years, now that the
low prices of oil make it less profitable
to destroy them. Professor True. of the
National Museum, who makes whales
specially, says they are fast multiplying
and that their numbers will increase in
definitely unless some new use for them
should be discovered.
"A cotton plant has been grown that
produces seed without lint. Mr. L. Fer
guson, planter of Spartanburg, S. c.,
has produced this novelty after many
careful experiments. He claims, and
credible men of experience in cotton
planting agree with him. that what has
been already done indicates that yield
of 400 bushels of seed to the acre can be
obtained, as against 35 bushels from
lint cotton.
The giant diamond lately discovered
in Cape Colony, and displayed at the
Paris exposition, weighs $50 carats, and
is valued at $1,000, 900. 1t is kept in q
glass case by itself, and guardians stand
around it all day. At night it is placed
in big safe, which is similarly guarded
all night. 1t is said to be of the first
water and as pure as the famous Regent
in the French crown diamonds.
An ingenious man at Ilion, this
State, has invented machine by which
pancakes may be turned hot out of
hopper at the very breakfast table. This
is an encouraging invention, but within
tho next few years it will probably be
Anticipated. Even now scientific men
are looking about them for means of
making nitrogen and carbon unite in
such manner that, with little trouble,
a hungry man may draw his food directly
from the common air.-Troy Times.
The carrying of money in the glove
is fixed habit among the female shop
pers of all large cities in this and all
other civilized countries. Glove manu-
facturers have at last recognized the
custom and made preparations to meet
its requirements. The very latest
thing" in gloves is palm pocket at
tachment, roomy enough for respecta-
BILE roll of bills or all the small change''
for the current expenses of an
afternoon among the stores.
Life in Jersey City.-A Jersey City
man was going through back yard one
day recently, trying TO make short cut
down town, and ducked his head in
lodging wire clothes line, and woman
thought he was bowling and winking at
her, and her husband came out and
finally run him under barn and then
got down and jabbed pitchfork into
his legs for half an hour. And now the
rest of the Jersey City men walk right
in the middle of the street when they
go down town.-Drakes Magazine.
"A beautiful Persian cat living in
East Ffty-ninth street, New York, was
a great pet, and until recently the queen
VI the mansion. A visitor came bring
ing parrot. Vashti saw and immedi-
ately felt a hungering desire for parrot
flesh. She approached and prepared for
a spring, when she heard in amazement
a sound as of a human voice issuing from
the cage, and her ears were shocked
with torrent of oaths such as had never
before been heard in that well-regulated
The Mortified cat fled from
the room, which she has never since
been induced to enter.
1t is a pity that so many people
suffer from insomnia when such SIM
Pile preventive is in reach. l have re-
lief which never fails. When find my
self tossing l get up, walk across the
floor once or twice, and then get an APP
pie, bit of bread, any thing to arouse
my stomach and set it to working. says
a writer in the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. The moment it commences it at
tracts the attention of the nerves, so to
speak; the nerves forget they are ION
edge" and are soon soothed in slumber.