The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-23
MISCELLANE OUS.

IoldltS IuC lHClucHIS Oh his WISH WcTo
pictured on teapots and sugar bowls.
Thomas Walker, of National City,
Cal, exhibited ten big onions, the prod.
net of his farm, in the San Diego cham
Der of commerce few days ago. The
largest onion weighed five pounds, and
the aggregate weight was twenty-four
pounds.
An offensive odor came from .
trunk at railroad station in Newark,
n. j., and it was therefore supposed to
contain clews to mystery pehaps a
murder The trunk was opened. and in
it were found some wearing apparel
and dozen ancient eggs, which rough
handling of the trunk had broken.
Estimated at II pounds COW daily,
the United States produces $50, 900, OOO,-
900 pounds of milk a year. And as
three pounds of milk are equivalent to
one pound of beef in food elements,
each inhabitant has in milk one and a
half beeves annually; whereas, in beef,
each inhabitant has only four-ffths of
one beef per capita
Miss Braddon, since 1862, when her
first novel (''Lady Audley's Secretly
was published, has written fifty novels,
representing in the original editions 1856
volumes, or about 30, 900 pages of printed
matter Her average is almost two
novels a year; almost six volumes a
year: almost 1000 pages a year; and
therefore almost six pages a day for
each day during all these thirty years. :"
1t is said that between the island
of Madagascar and the coast of India
there are 10000 islands, only 900 of
which are inhabited. On any of these
islands man can live and support his
family in princely luxury, without
working more than twenty-five days in
the year In fact, on some of these isl.
ands he need not work at all as nature
provides the food and no clothes are re-
quircd.
When Louis Paulsen and Paul
Morphv became acquainted at the New
York Chess congress of 1857, they fre-
nnentlv took short trips together in
the vicinity. 1t was their custom. when
travelling, to amuse themselves by
mental games of chess. Each would
announce his move in turn, and both
would retain in their minds eye the
ever-changing positions of the chess
men. A chess board was not necessary
when they desired to engage in the
game of which they were masters.
An Augusta, Me, man. who is the
proprietor of a hair tonic, is getting up
some testimonials to spring upon the
suffering public. One of his friends who
loves joke sent him this very sweep
ing Endorsement, which may be printed
on the outside of the book cover and
may not: Dear Sir: A few days ago
! accidentally spilled some of your hair
hatcher on the straw mattress at my
lodgings, and when l returned home l
found hair mattress"
-Dolan (holding hand to nose) -
'Murther! Murther! Bat phats ailin
the cloimate! Is it mortifoyin' OF
wondher?" Woodman - "Why, you
greenhorn, don't you know a skunk
when you smell one?" Dolan-"Musha,
but it's skoonk is it that's maxim the
atmosphere so conshpickyous? Well,
now, its mes'lf as do be sayin it, that
aither me nose do be igzageratin' the
sittywation or the gintleman sadly
neglicts his BIRTH. Boston Courier.
"A genius at Muhlenberg, Pa, has
completed marvellous clock for ex-
hibition at the fair. Around the dial is
a railway track, on which a miniature
locomotive makes the round every FIVE
minutes 1t requires magnifying glass
to see the delicate machinery. The oil
cups at the journals are so small that
nothing larger than a hair can be in
serted. There is a headlight and bell,
t1agholders on the pilot, whistle, and
everything connected with locomotive
1t has link motion under the engine
to reverse it. The weight of the loco
motive is 4 pounds
A mean young man in Cheboygan
has little mirror in the corner of his
hat. Pasted beside the mirror is list
of people who have recently been poi
soned by ice cream. When he is out
strolling with young lady, he tells
her she has little specll on her face,
and takes off his hat to enable her to
view her face in the mirror. 80, now
it's gone he says: but by this time she
iao oSSli WV iOSolu Vi IllC pplSOHcu peO-
pie, and reads it. She shuns ice cream.
and the mean young man saves his
Bhellels.
The earliest reference to RAILWAYS
on the plan of making distinct surface
and track for wheels is found in Roger
North's Life of Lord Keeper North"
where it is stated that at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, in 1876, the Goals were conveyed
from the mines to the banks of the
river "by laying rails of limb exactly
straight and parallel, and bulky carts
were made with four rollers fitting
those rails, whereby the carriage was
made SO easy that one horse would
draw four or five chaldrons."
The Lewiston (Me.) journal tells a
curious after-the-fair story. A man
from Oxford county had lost railroad
coupon ticket to the fair and had in
quired at the ticket Office if one had
been found. One had been found but
how were they to know that it was his?
He asked to look at it and it was shown
to him. He said: at is mine. | can
prove it. See, the face of it has been
torn off. Look here" And he opened
his vest pocket and showed hearty
cud of gum and the face of railroad
coupon sticking to it The two matched
and the ticket was passed. over to him.