The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

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he'd send free-stones next time"
-Philanthropist-" wish to found a
great university on this site. Is it de-
sirable?' Expcrtus (doubtfully)-"It
will take lot of grading before foot
ball can be played here. detroit
Tribune.
The name Indian" was given tc
the inhabitants of America by Column
bus, from his belief that the country
which he had discovered was an extern
sion of India, the country known &c
occupy the extreme of the Eastern
hemisphere.
Pa, who is dead at Mr.. Shee Cav
COS house?" asked Toozer. 81 saw Mrs.
Cawgo to-day in half mourning" Her
husband is dead" But why half
mourning"' because that is the rule
in all divorce centers, dear. "-Arkan.
saw Traveller.
The largest trees are not the
Sequoia Gigantea of California, but
certain species of eucalyptus in Aus
tralasia. One specimen in Victoria is
said to be AL feet high. These euca-
lypti are of very rapid growth. The
California big trees grow slowly.
--Wcllsville, Allegheny county, in
western New York, has forty women
agriculturists, all successful. One has
stock farm. One was was house
maid: her brother failed on the old
homestead: she had saved money; she
bought the farm few years since, and
oil its belongings are rejuvenated.
Fisher folk on the islands in Casco
Bay Me. are greatly interested over a
wonderful white whale reported rs
cruising about that vicinity. Several
fishermen are positive they have seen
the strange animal at different times
In the past, and others are inclined to
think they have, but are hardly will.
ing to swear to it.
There are yet 1000, coo acres of gov
ernment land in Kansas open to settle
ment, not little of which was tram
pied over by shippers in order to take
chances on getting land in the Chero-
kee strip that is no better, and in many
places is worse, which they had to
travel farther to reach and which is
uncertain property to its possessor.
A four-tined silver fork bearing
the name of the old steamboat 5. b.
Bavard, which went out of service
twenty years ago, was found in the
stomach of n forty-pound catfish hauled
out of the Missouri at Louisiana. Mo-.
q few days ago. Where the fork had
been for twenty years, and how long it
has been serving as ba last in the cat
fish, are matters which have been sub
mitted to the river folk for discussion.
The marble gavel used by Presi-
dent Washington at the laying of the
corner stone of the capitol a century
ago is claimed to be in the possession
of the Potomac Lodge of Masons, of
Georgetown. The gavel is of fine mar
bic, slightly yellowish, and about eight
inches long The relic is now stored
in the vault of prominent Washing
ton bank, where it cannot be removed,
except on the order of the lodge.
A Pennsylvania miner found frog
in a cavity in n lump of coal broken by
him. He placed the frog in nir-
tight pan. At first II showed no signs
of life, but after being in the pan
about six hours it began to move
about. After ten hours exposure to
the light it was as lively as any mod
ern specimen. In size the frog is much
larger than the ordinary pond frog,
and the color of the skin is brilliant
1t weighs about threc-quarters of a
pound.
1t is not for the tickling OF the pal
ate but for drunkenness thai the aver
age western Indian seeks firewater,
and the worst drink that would pro-
ducd a wilder jag he would rather have
than the finest bourbon. About Teloa,
Wash, the sale of whisky to Indians
being forbidden. the red men buy and
eagerly drink lemon extract and SINH
lar preparations. which, being largely
composed of alcohol, have much more
vivid effect than whisky.
-"On blue car in Fourteenth
street" said New York citizen. Il
saw woman who ives so beautiful
that all the people in the car sat and
looked at her. And this did not seem
lmpertinent, for she was so far beyond
the common that she was one of those
upon whom everybody is privileged to
gaze. When she left the car all the
passengers followed her with their eyes,
and even the car driver turned to look
too: no mean tribute, either: for, stand
ing as he does all day upon the front
platform and looking with an eye for
fares upon the panorama of lovely
women on either sidewalk, the car
driver is a connoisseur of beauty"
Several prominent sportsmen of
Brazoria and Matagorda counties, Tex.
are about to organize an association
for the protection of alligators an odd
sort of game which they
believe will bring good financial re-
turn. Hundreds of young alligators
are shot every month of the warm sea-
son by people who are DESTROYS to kill
something and do not know or care for
the value of alligator skins and teeth.
There are now several alligator farms
In Texas which are regarded as good
investments, for, besides devouring the
carrion that makes the water injurious
to stock. the alligators clear it of the
CARS that. are so destructive to black
bass and the fish the southerners call
trout"