The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS,

strength of ordinary silk and about the
same elasticity.
One of the Berlin hotels was lately
robbed by two persons in the garb of
nuns. They were subsequently appre-
hended and one of the women was
discovered to be a man.
"A bread-buttering machine for use
in penal institutions, operating brush
fed with soft butter, is a patent lately
issued. 1t is said to save butter and
slmbs.
"A Charlestown lady became quite
sick the other day and vomited small
live fish. She does not know when 1t
passed down her throat, but supposes it
did so with drink of water.
Mr. Wick, of Chelsea, England, is
the father of peculiar infant prodigy.
His daughter Nelly, four years of age,
recently shaved five men inside of thirty
minutes for silver medal.
What sort of restaurant is this,
waiter?" he asked the first of that ex-
elusive set that deigned to approach.
'Well, sir, l know one man that's been
coming here steady for month and he's
living yet. "-Philadelphia Tilaes.
-"Tell your master that he has 9WP,,es.
mistake Of twenty marks tetten. !, =,
count he sent me- ''ImpossibfeyS
why impossible? 1t is human to make
mistakes Yes, / know that, but nv
mastor is not human. - Fliegende Blat-
ter.
South httlra. Mich, farmers planted
mustard seed. they did not expect pine
apples or r-tes, but they were wild
when the plano came up and proved to
be western mustard, which is about ten
times as hard to eradicate as the Canada
thistle.
"A valuable find has been made by a
farmer at East Cape Girardeau, Mo. A
hill on his premises is declared by an
expert from st. Louis to be composed
chiefly of the finest porcelain clay. 1t
is estimated that there are at least 1000
car loads, worth S125 per load.
--Distancrd. Yes, sir began the
distinguished looking stranger, 81 have
delivered that same lecture 200 consecu-
tive nights, sir.'' That's nothing.'' de-
clared Pcckson. my wife often de-
lverS 200 same lectures in one consecu-
tive night."-American Grocer.
"A tive-year-old child in West Camel
is of the following dimensions: Height,
feet; weight, III pounds; circumfer-
ence of abdomen, 42l5 inches; waist.
3115 inches; chest, 81 inches; neck, II
inches; head, 22l9 inches; thigh, 90
inches; calf, 49, inches; arm, ~
inches; forearm, 1917 inches. Ile is
very healthy. eats all he can get and is
fairly intelligent. The parents are by
no means corpulent, and their other
children are Of ordinary size
Samuel Elliott, of Newbury, claims
to have devised an apparatus by the
adoption of which the smoke nuisance
will cease to exist. The process re-
moves from the products of combustion
all the black carbonaceous matter of
coal smoke, and remarkable and i'm
portant thing is the entire absence of
sulphur in any form after the d1ase
volumes of smoke generally seen issuing z.
from chimney shafts have been forced
into the ''annihilator."
At the palace of Bangkok per-
forming leopard was brought in for the
amusement of one of the Siamese
princes. In one of the princes retinue
was young girl of about fourteen years
of age. The leopard jumped on her
breast 1t was merely in play, said the
animals caretakers. who begged her not
to be frightened, but in another moment
the leopard had seized the girl by the
throat and she died in sight of the hor-
ritied spectators.
-Boarding-house inmates soon learn
to appreciate tender meat, and will
eagerly sock the place whore it is fire.
quently served. A Chicago man hit
upon an ingenious plan to secure a
clearinghouse where eating would be-
come a pleasure instead of tiresome,
teeth-grinding exercise. He asked
butcher to direct him to the house where
he sold the best meat. The butcher
cheerfully did SO, and the man was soon
thereafter installed in boarding.
house where the delicacies of the table
are good and plentiful.
1t is claimed that the rain which
falls in the interior of Queensland does
not all run to waste but is stored be-
meath the surface and that the supply,
if il can be utilized, is enough to last
through a periodical drought. The local
government proposes to devote large
sum to prospecting for water by artesian
wells. The artesian we'll at Barcaldine,
700 feet deep, cost S6,OOOand yields 49,.
600 gallons of water daily. Another at
Blackall, 1,GG3 feet deep with six-inch
casing, cost 81, 200 and yields 800, 900
gallons daily.
For year a draughtsman named
Hazen, aged forty-two, with his wife
and six children, had lived in Paris in
great difficulty. Finally they resolw~a3
to commit suicide and take the children |
with them. They sent the latter out To
buy charcoal, and with the windows
closed Hazen lighted the stove and the |
whole family lay down on the floor to |
die, the mother clasping tho youngest
child in her arms. They were foun,i
two days afterward all dead but the |
mother. Upon her recovery she said
that when asphyxiation began the eldt |
est daughter began to cry, but lest she
should excite the neighbors her father
threw himself over her face, and they
were found in that position. ii
"A year ago Mrs. C. B. Pomeroy went
from Newark to Canada to live with her