The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

"I'll keep perfectly still, for l suppose 1
can't help myself. Exchange.
There is large lake in Hutchinson
county, S. D., well filed with corn-fed
fish (bullheads). They got away with
seven acres of corn which was left in
the field, shocked but not husked.
E. E. Dicllerson, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, claiming to be champion lather
OF America, is in Chicago He laid sew
enty bunches-3.20O laths requiring H.
800 nails-ir eight hours and thirty
eight minutes, in Grand Rapids last De-
toher He is now prepared to work
against the record of any living man.
The New York public is daily sup
piled with long words from the German
press, in which such combinations APP
pear as MISUNDERSTANDING
SAINT insurance office of state rail-
ways: tcncmcnthausbrand
| disastrous tenement house fire.; Nea-
politanersdude lsack pfeifer gesell
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Benefit AS
ISOLATION of Neapolitan Bagpipe Play
ers).
"A report comes from Leadville of
the discovery of an arrow head, made of
| tempered copper, and a number of hui
man bones, in the Rocky Point mines,
near Gilman, Col. The relics were dis
closed 400 feet below the surface of the
earth, imbedded in vein of silver-bear-
ing ore. More than 500 worth of ore
chung to the bones when they We're re-
moved from the mine. Here is puzzle
for the biologists.
In 1889 ten railway clerks We're
killed and 1856 were more or less seri-
ously injured. In 1890 four were killed
and ninety-four injured, and since this
year came in eight postal clerks have
been killed while engaged in their duties
on the mail trains. In case of injury,
the government pays the salary of the
railway postal employee until he recov-
crs, but in case of his death no provision
is made for his family
"A French editor recently published
this notice: THE wine merchant who
sold me last week bottle of lemonade
favored with vitriol for bottle OF
champagne is requested to send me
within twenty-four hours bottle of
genuine champagne, failing which his
name and address will be made public
The result was that he received almost
unlimited contributions of frst-class
wine forthwith.
In Brooklyn, n. V, last January,
Michael Lee. lad of thirteen, was run
over and killed. When his mother,
Ellen Lee. saw the mangled body OF
her boy she became hysterical and had
TO take to her bed. Although strong,
healthy woman of thirty-four years,
she began to grow worse, although her
attending physician could find no phxsi-
cal ailment. She pinned away from day
to day. and was continually asking for
My pet boy" She died this week I'M
doubtedly OF a broken heart
"A famous bear hunter, named H.
Braithwlite, has returned from a long
sOiourn i'll the woods, where he has
been adding to the big list of the slain
previously made by him, writes Fred
crictOn. y. r.. correspondent The
whole number killed this spring has
been seyenty-five, but this is not the
remarkable part Of the story. He
opened the seasons slaughter by dis
covering in den in rocky valley
twenty bears, old and young, which,
with some outside aid, he succeeded in
killing.
The girl that does not already pos
scss an electric pin has something to
save her pin money for. \ daisy with
Il center of flashing light, heart or
true lovers knot emitting dazzling rays
OF light, would attract attention to
the plainest Of walltiowers The only
disadvantage about it is the neces-
sity OF carrying about an accumulation,
which resembles spirit flask, and is
carried by Il man in his waistcoat
pocket. But woman's pocket, if it
isn't d myth altogether, belongs among
the lost arts, and is past finding out,
even by the woman herself.
A. c. Thomas, who lives in Gadsden
County Florida, and is only thirty-tive
years old. is reported to be the father
of thirty-two children, all of whom are
alive. His wife is three years younger
than himself and they were married
only fifteen years ago. Twenty months
after marriage they found themselves
the parents OF four bright and beautiful
children. With almost unvarying rcgu-
larity ever since the family has been
increased by the addition of sometimes
twins. sometimes of triplets until the
number has reached thirty-two. So re-
lates correspondent OF the St. Louis
GlobeDemocrat.
The marks upon the horns of COW
indicate her age. At two years old a
wrinkle may be found forming at the
base of the horn, and as the horn grows
the next year this wrinkle is easily
seen. This marks three years growth.
AT five years second wrinkle appears.
After that, one appears every year
until at the age of eleven or twelve the
wrinkles are smaller and closer and
less conspicuous, and some of the earliest
will have been worn away. The horns
are no guide to the age after thirteen
years, nor are the teeth, as the condi-
ton of these depend on the amount of
pasturing done, the goodness or the
badness of the pasture, and the sandy
or clayey character of the soil.
PenuriOus Won Moltke.
1t is related of Won Moltke that. after
the equalization in Paris in 1871, he
went to Colmar and, meaning to stay