The Republican., 1892-08-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

-HdJleDt Olu LtUN NO clcVdtOE oUy
reading dime novel D-''How often does
the elevator go up, boy?" Elevator Boy
1t goes up at the end of every chap
ter. ma am. Time.
DO you see that remarkably tall
young man over there, Miss Keenwit?
Well, he was originally intended for
the church" Indeed | should have
supposed him to have been intended for
the steeple."
Needed Rest-"Ah, Duebill, old
boy, where are you going to spend the
summer?" II can make no definite ar
rangements until | know where my
tailor and other creditors are going to
spend theirs. One goes to the seashOre
for rest, you know. Boston Post
The parish prison of New Orleans,
the scene of the late Italian lynching
and one of the oldest in the country,
was put up at auction recently and the
highest bid was only 81, 500. The prison
is after the Spanish type, four stories
high and covers an entire square. More
than 100 persons have been hanged in it.
On taking off the roof of house
near Cambridge, which had been on
fire, it was found that a quantity of
straw had been carried by birds be-
tween the roof and the ceiling, and
this had been ignited from hole in the
chimney. Altogether the birds had
taken up three or four sacks of rubbish.
10, yes, writes Harlem man who
believes that his own home is the cool
est place on earth in midsummer, 1T is
all very well for you to ask me to come
down to your Long Branch hotel for
sest and change. ! tried it once; the
porter got all the change and the land
lord took the rest"
Mrs. Blank was good, l1ind-hearted
woman, but she talked very little, and
had sort of detected, mournful air
about her that was trying to a hostess
when she was subjected to a whole af
ternoon of it. One lady in speaking OF
Mhs. Blanks visits, which were always
lengthy. very aptly said: "Well, she is
what might be called lonesome com,
pany "-Harper's Bazar.
Alcohol VS.. Water-H What
did they do to-day in the way of ar
rests?' casually inquired the city editor
of the police reporter" Twelve vic
tins, but nobody had any money"
''Sort of a water-haul, wasn't it?'
Hardly that, sir, replied the reporter
as innocent as a lamb; they were all
drunk. Detroit Free Press.
Here, Lucian," shouted Allad in
the press room OF the Daily News last
Monday, bring me something to pry
up the end of this press with quick-a
crowbar or a piece of scantling or any
thing" When Lucian brought one of
the towels that had been hung up and
used week, Lew grabbed it and re-
marked thatit was ''just the thing"
The Esquimau when he goes fishing
uses funny-looking boat made of seal
skins stretched over wooden frame.
He calls this craft kayak. On the
upper side of the kayak, directly in the
middle, is an opening through which
the fisherman climbs into the boat
wrapping himself up in a flap of seal
skin, which he laces tightly about the
opening so as to keep out the water.
"A novel plan for training trotting
horses is being tried in San Teancho,
Col. Instead of trotting them around q
track they are made to swim around a
course in tank ninety feet long, twen-
ty feet wide and eight feet deep. The
water is tepid and strongly imprsg-
mated with salt to prevent the horse
from taking cold. Four times around
the course gives che horse as much ex-
ercise as, a mile of trotting.
"A gentleman travelling in Japan
broke the handspring of his watch,
which he took to a native village Jew
eller. The watch was returned appar-
emily in as good order as ever, and kept
good time until the rainy season set in,
when it stopped. Being in the city of
Toxic at that time. the traveller took
the watch to an English workman, who
was astonished to find that the cum
ming Jap had put in spring made out
of bamboo, which, so long as it kept
dry, remained elastic, but during wet
weather had gathered dampness and
lost it's power.
-Seventy-five miles an hour is l1O
feet second, and the energy of 400 tons
or train of cars, moving at that rate is
nearly twice as great as that of 1000
pound shot fired from 1OO-ton Arm
strong gun. This is the extreme weight
and speed now reached in passenger
service, and, indeed is very rarely at
tanned, and then but for short dis
tances; but sixty miles is common
speed, and rate of forty or fifty miles
is attained daily on almost every rail-
way in the country.
Says the Philadelphia Ledger: cone
of the finest object lessons in sanitary
plumbing in the United States is the
new institute of hygiene at the Unive.-
sity of Pennsylvania Throughout the
building the pipes have been left out
side the walls, and each painted a dis
tinctive color. Thus maroon pipe.
whenever found, is steam pipe, red
always denotes hot water, blue stands
for cold water, white means gas and
yellow shows drainage This makes it
possible TO trace each system in all its
branches and test it at will, from the
cellar to the roof. About everything in
the way of drainage devices now known
is in the building, and anything put in
the market will be given fair trial"