The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

line statue OF commodore Icrry IN
Cleveland, having acquired such a heavy
coating of smoke ard SCOT as to render
it unsightly was recently scrubbed, but
with the effect of making it look worse
than ever. The black came off the
"high lights" and the smudge is deep,
ened in the shadows
Several people in Louisville, con.
sumptives and persons of delicate con.
situations, daily visit the slaughter
houses of that city to drink the warm
blood of recently slain cattle. They
believe that it is invigorating and ex,
hilarating. At first the blood is nause.
Gus, but liking for it is soon acquired.
A half pint is the usual drink, but there
are some persons who readily imbibe a
quart within half an hour.
The duty of employers in the case
of a sick workman was tried instruct
lively in "a London city court. A tailor
engaged a man for month. He was
attacked with rheumatism and obliged
to stay away three days. When he came
back his place had been filled. He sued
for wages, and the judge found for him,
saying that when an employer engages
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ter being incapacitated by sickness
-Hop-growing is one of the remuner-
ative industries in the state of Washing
ton. The yield per acre is something
astonishing. TO obtain $50 pounds on
an acre of ground is considered fine
yield among the hop-growers on this
side of the Rocky Mountains and in En-
gland and Germany: but an acre of
ground in Oregon or Washington will
yield 1000 pounds. In 1890, $4,000 bales
of hops, equal to 1000, 900 pounds, were
sold in Washington.
-Timid farmers in the neighborhood
of Genesee, Idaho are apprehenSivc lest
their farms may sink into a subterane-
an lake. A man was recently digging
a well, and when he had gone down
sixteen feet water gushcd out filing
the well and flooding the surface of the
ground. Finally it settled back to the
earth's level. A local paper says that
peculiar sightless fish were brought to
the surface in the overflow, indicating
the existence of an underground lake.
The fragments of Il fine marble
statue of the best period of Greek art
have been found in the Tiber embanll-
ment excavations The head is of ex-
traordinary beauty and well preserved.
SO far as the fragments have been put
together, the sculptor MOnteverde and
the painter Morelli pronounce the
statue to be Il chief d'muvrc of Greek
art. 1t will shortly be exhibited to the
public in the new museum in the Bath
of Diocletian, where other important
objects lately found in the embanllment
works arc preserved.
No vegetable has undergone a
greater development in the last genera
ton than the tomato. Persons who still
esteem themselves young well remem-
Der the time when the only tomato to
be seen were the small round or oval
ones called love apples and deemed in
edible. They seem to have been appro-
priated for table use first in this cOun-
try, for an old European traveller tells
how he astonished his fellow diners at a
continental table d'hotc by eating the
tomatoes placed on the table purely as
garniture
A clinometer is an instrument for
measuring the rolling of a vessel at sea,
and it is usually in the cabin compan-
| ionway. When it indicates fifty-five
degrees any one can easily understand
that something unusual has happened.
The clinometer in the steamship Elsie
marked a roll to that extent on the
latest voyage from Funchal to Balti-
more Near Bermuda she was struck
by hurricane that shifted several
times and made Il heavy, confused sea.
During the most violent rolling glass
| decantcr on the cabin table was turned
bottom up, en%tied, and cracked from
the base up without having been rolled
off.
A few days ago two girls, both
handy with rope or gun, were riding
along the highway in Rocky Canon,
when unexpectedly they met a bear.
says the Wilbur Register. They did
not faint or even offer to run. On the
contrary, they drew straws to see which
would get the first hug. They had often
heard of the hugging qualities of a bear,
but had never had an opportunity of
testing the truth of the statement.
During the controversy, however, the
bear took a tumble and climbed u
friendly tree. OF course the girls could
not condeScend to climb tree, so one
of them rode several miles after rifle,
and in a few minutes after her return
the bear was lying on the ground dead.