The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-06-14
MISCELLANY

| case was nnally decided by the Supreme
Court, and the costs were al even 5000.
While two fine coach horses were
biting at each other, in their stable in
Springfield, ILL.,, recently, one of the an
imals bit its companions tongue entire
lyoff, manning it so badly that it had to
be killed.
An extraordinary number of fires
have occurred within the past few years
in institutions committed to the care of
nuns. 1t is supposed that women are less
careful, or less competent in their in
spection as to the danger of fire, than
men.
The homes of rich Mexicans are said
to be palaces, and the grounds around
them are gardens There is an oriental
splendor around them that is not found
in the United States. There is an ex-
panse about every thing and a retinue
of servants that is bewildering
Some missionaries in Africa are
greatly troubled by the fact that the
natives are not at all eager to adopt the
dress of white men. Not even the con-
verts are willing to wear the amount of
clothing which, according to missionary
ideas, is essential to responsibility.
Amateur magicians complain that
they are no longer in demand. There
is general tendency to frown on some
| of the young performers nowadays, and
| the craze that set in some time ago over
this particular form of household amuse-
ment has quite disappeared.
An immense squid or devil fish,
which was recently stranded upon Achill
island, off the west coast of Mayo, Ire,
had arms which measured thirty feet in
length, and the body and short arms six
ty feet in circumference. Some of the
short arms were four feet in circumfer-
ence.
The largest load ever hauled over
| the Sierra Nevada Mountains by one
team consisted of $4,000 pounds of mer-
chandise, 10000 pounds of barley for
feed, $50 pounds of hay, three bales. and
100 pounds of bran, three sacks. This
immense load was safely delivered on
time at Austin, New, the other day.
Among some paper rags in Plain
we'll (Mich.) paper mill, there was lately
found an order allowing one Stephan
Stillwell to carry cloth and trimmings
for suit of clothes from New York to
Brooklyn. The order is signed by the
superintendent" and dated New
York. Oct. :, 1882" about thirty days
before the British evacuated New York.
One of the smaller country towns of
Maine that has been greatly changed by
time is Fayette, in kennebec County.
Fifty-seven years ago, according to the
Augusta Journal, at Fayette Corner
there were three churches, four stores,
two hotels,..a post-office, and nearly thir-
ty dwellings. Now only one church, the
Baptist, remains, and the stores and
hotels have burned or fallen down.
"A native convert to Christianity in
Equatorial Africa recently asked a mis-
sionary the following question: (Which
is more contrary to Christ's command
ments, to go about naked according to
the custom of our ancestors or to go in
| debt for garments which make us hot
and unhappy" The answer of the mis-
sionary is not given, but probably it was
in the line of wise compromise-if
compromises are ever wise.
"A common seashore limpet, which
without its she'll weighed a fraction less
than half an ounce, required, when
pulled according to it's plane of adhesion,
a force exceeding sixty-two pounds to
remove it from its grip upon the local
rock, or upward of nineteen hundred and
eighty-four times its own dead weight.
The force required to open an oyster APP
pears to be thirteen hundred and nine
teen and one-half times the weight of
the shell-less creature.
The photographing of caves or other
chambers underground, where a porta-
BILE camera can be easily installed, effers
no particular difficulty, and it is a COM
paratively simple matter to obtain curl
GUS and interesting views under such
circumstances, Illuminating the bowels
of the earth by burning magnesium tape,
which gives a brilliant light, by means
of which surrounding objects can be
photographed.
Josiah, said Mr.. Chugwater to the
head of the family, 81 believe our john
NY is turning over a new leaf and is
going to be a better boy. He asked mo
o little while ago if he could take the
family Bible up to his room for an nour
or two" At the same time boy of
Johnnys size was seen to enter cigar
store in the vicinity, open a big book
and lay it on the counter. "Do you soc
this entry?" he demanded addressing
the proprietor in thunder tones. You
said l wasn't sixteen. Look at this:
John, born May 5, 1874 Gimme me
five boxes of cigarettes and be quick
about it, blame your gizzard."
Tribune.
"A friend and admirer of Kelly, the
motor man, has this to say about the
mysterious alleged invention: at costs
nothing more, after the machinery is
made, than the vibratory concordant i'm
pulse which associates it with the polar
stream. The twanging of a taut string,
the agitation of tuning fork, as asso-
ciated with the resonating condition of
the sympathetic transmitter, is all that
is necessary to induce the connective
link and to produce this costless motive
power. AS long as the transmitter is in
sympathy with the sympathetic current
of the triune polar stream, the action of
the sympathetic instrument or engine
continues. N. Y. Tribune.