The Republican., 1891-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS,

q -She-''I notice that you are always
glancing at the clock" He-"Good
gracious! You don't suspect for a mo-
ment that l am weary of your com
pany?" She-"No, but l suspect that
you have pawned your watch.
morist.
The first six months during which
the Brooklyn bridge was open 100000
passengers crossed. In 1884 the total
was $500, 900; in 1885, II, 900. 600; in 1885,
"a, 600, 600; in 1887. 2S, 600, 600; in 1888,
go 600, 900; in 1889, "a, ZOO, 600; in 1890, 81,
676.411.
He had stayed and stayed the night
before until the girl was mad enough
to say anything, and she did the next
day when she met him. II had per-
fectly delightful time at your house
last night" he murmured, when he met
her. "Time?" she said curtly. 'It was
more like eternity. IN. Y. Telegram.
The elevated railroads in New York
City, which cost less than $17, 900,
are stocked and bonded for more than
500, 600, 900. The steam railroads in the
country cost, on paper SO, 931, 453, 146, of
which two-ffths represents water. The
street railroads of the country-horse,
cable and electric-have not cost over
$4,000 per mile, but they are stocked
and bonded up to about S40O, 600.
Thomas Marshall and Fred Grace,
of Newcastle, Pa, were out hunting
frogs the other day and captured a
creature not described in the books. 1t
is frog with wings and a tail some
thing like fantail pigeon. 1t weighs
exactly nine ounces. The wings are
composed of elastic-like skin, and when
stretched out measured nine inches
from tip to tip. When the frog bird is
in the water the wings and tail fit
closely to the body and are hardly no.
ticeable.
"A little oblong steel box opening
with a combination lock passed through
the Chicago custom-house recently, con-
signed to an Illinois watch company.
This insignificant looking affair con-
tanned diamonds and rubies by the hun
dreds that were intended for settings
for watches. The value of the stones
was placed at $50, 600, and the duty on
them was a small fortune. The goods
were delivered by a special messenger.
Probably the maddest race for life
that ever happened in San Francisco
was that of a sleepy old nag whose
hitching strap in some way was caught
in the cable slot of street railway.
The animal was obliged to run as fast
as the rapid transit cable pulled him,
until the strap was cut in twain by
coming in contact with a cross cable
The horse was holding back so hard
that the reaction threw him on his
lunches, and before he could recover
his equilibrium half hundred citizens
were holding him down.
, "A Baltimore freak is frog of good
size and trife light in color, but ap-
parently not different from any other
frog. The freakishness developed when
his frogship was worried, when, in
stead Of hopping off or giving utterance
to the deep, sonorous note usually
heard from frogs, he simply opened his
mouth and cried. The frog is nothing
if not human, and suggests both in tone
and volume a bad, peevish child. The
cry is not single note, but several, and
: is continued even after the annoyance
ceases.
The four cables of the Brooklyn
bridge are sixteen inches in diameter
each and consist of about 10000 single
wires. One difficulty with which the
: engineers of the Brooklyn bridge had
to contend with was the fact that the
outside or exposed wires were expanded
by the heat of the sun, while the inner
and protected ones were not so af-
fected. The pressure of the wind. too,
being of varying velocity, required such
adjustment of the wires as to prevent
displacement, even in hurricane. 1t
took fifteen months continual work to
string the wires of the bridge.
Children are born mimics, as every
body knows, but there happily is some
thing unique in the pranks of two Port
land, Me-, babies, each under five years
old, who recently got a hammer, broke
in square of glass, and crawled
: through the hole thus made into Port
land residence, and there amused them
selves by lighting matches and rum
maging over drawers and boxes, finally
emerging with gold bracelet in each
of the Juvenile pockets. When their
mothers called for an account of their
movements they calmly announced that
they had been playing burglars
q -Wellsvllle, o., has Il wonderful
monstrocity. 1t is female pig, about
eight inches in length, entirely devoid
: of hair, has double set of eyes, feet
like the hands of d human, distinct fin
ger nails, large ears and the lower part
of the face like human. The most
peculiar part of the freak is the upper
part of the face, which looks like an
: elephant. 1t has a long trunk project
: ing from the middle of the head, which
. turns backward and lays between the
two ears, and in the end of which are
r two large holes, through which the all
), or breathing takes place. The nose
proper has no holes on either side, and
, resembles human nose. The chin il
as perfect as child at birth possesses
Amazonian Vanity.
+. 1t has been thought by wise men and
:. philosophers that all women have in
s their hearts liking for furbelows anc
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