The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

There are some drugs which are
said to be worth S., 900 bottle, and the
druggists say they don't make much on
them either.
The Italian Admiral Albini thinks
that the future man-of-war will have
double screws and a helm at each end,
so that in battle it need waste no time
in turning around. Its sides will be I'M
armored.
Tho Lewiston Journal says the
woman who bought a paper of needles
when she was married and set up house
keeping, and forty years after had used
only half of them, may have been a
relative of an Aroostook man who
moved to Massachusetts a while ago.
He sent back the other day for his cap,
which is forty-four years old, and which
he had left behind. He said he felt
lonesome without it.
An American electrician who hap
pened to visit the Paris patent office
claims to have unearthed the fact from
some old records that barbed wire IS not
an American invention. He says the
invention was first conceived and pat
ented by Frenchman, Louis Francis
Janin, about five years before the first
patent was granted by this Government
Peter Jennings, an old saihS re-
Gently turned up in San Francisco and
claimed to bI-e been a passenger mari
years ago with an Old pirate, who, OF
his deathbed, divulged the secret hiding
place of S25O,O0O treasure in Spanish
doubloons. The place is Wall Island,
in the Pacific Ocean, three degrees south
of the equator. He has succeeded in
interesting eastern capitalists to look
for the treasure and the moneyed men
went to San Francisco lately for the
purpose of organizing an expedition to
hunt for the doubloons.
1t is said that one $500 share in the
New River Company, which was founded
in 1912 to supply the Clerkenwen dis
trict of London with water, sold recently
at auction for SG14,00O. The last annual
dividend on the share was $3.50 The
purchaser was an insurance company,
which took the stock as permanent in
vestment. The great disparity between
the price paid and tho earning power of
the stock may throw some light on the
eagerness Of English capital to seek in
vestment in American enterprises.
"A good story is told about young
Rockland, Me-, couple recently married.
They were plentifully beshowered with
rice as they left for tho noon train after
the wedding, but on the cars they as
sumed the airs of an old married couple,
hoping to escape detection. They got
out at the Union Station, Portland, and
as it was raining the groom spread the
protecting folds of his new umbrella
over his bride. As the umbrella went
up, two quarts of rice which had been
carefully slowed within came down.
The hurrying throng saw the rice, the
blushing couple, and caught on"
"A very queer custom in Oconee
County, South Carolina, is the manner
of burial so often practiced. Instead of
elaborate marble headstones or other
such memorials to the dead the Caro-
linian will build over the mound shed
or small house to protect the grave from
the inclemcncy of tfrow-atircr.- f fine
one is likely to take these little struct-
ures for baby houses. In the case of the
better class of mountaineer he will
paint this wooden mausoleum. The less
favored will content themselves with a
shed arrangement, which is made by
driving two forked sticks in the ground
and then placing on these rail, which
forms ridge pole, upon which the plank
is laid, shedding to the ground.
"A San Francisco paper illustrates
the contempt of Californians for pennies
by the following: "Give me silver for
this, please" said an Eastern tourist
yesterday, as he dumped double hand
full of one cent pieces on the counter of
prominent money broker. Il don't
want them. They're not worth count
ing. l wouldn't give fifty cents on the
dollar for Them" was the reply. 81
never took them but once, and then
had to. A fellow owed me five dollars,
and, after repeated duns, offered pay
ment in coppers. Indignantly refused.
The next day he came in, and showing a
copper cent in my hand, asked me to
give him credit for that amount upon
tho debt. He kept that up, making a
payment of one cent every morning,
noon and night-three cents every day
until ] accumulated cigar box full of
coppers. They're here yet, and they'll
stay here until some one comes along
who has more time than money. I
won't count them"