The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

announcing that Niagara Falls has en-
tered the list of lake ports In the
dredging operations at Connors' island
tae third cut has been finished. This
gives channel fifty feet wide at the
bottom and with fourteen feet depth
at mean lake level through the bar.
AT the battle of flowers at Nice no
one at first ventured TO throw any
flowers into Queen Vlctoria's carriage.
An intimation was given to the crowd
by Col Biggs that the queen would not
object and her carriage was soon filled
with small bouquets, several of which
she threw back with evident enjoy
ment.
"A house boat now being construct
ed for the clerks of the Second ma
tional bank of Saginaw will be sixteen
feet long and twelve feet wide 1t will
have cabin fitted up with berths for
sleeping, and will be furnished with
chairs, rugs and other conveniences
besides kitchen, with all the neces-
sary appliances.
old bills of the Orange county
bank, n. Y, known in by-gone years
as butter money" are occasionally
unearthed, although nearly all that
were issued have long since been re-
deemed. Justice A. B. Hulse, of Mon
roe, recently presented one of twenty
dollars and was somewhat surprised at
receiving its face value in gold.
Pittsburgh papers report that
train OF three cars, carrying officers of
the Pennsylvania company. ran from
Pittsburgh to Chicago on May in 10
hours 4 minutes. The distance is 46s
miles, making the rate of speed 46.5
miles an hour There were numerous
delays, and the actual running time is
said to have been 81 hours, equal to
So miles an hour.
"A letter received by Warden Pat
ton, OF the Indiana prison at jefferson
vile, from Attorney General Olney at
Washington asked that the rope used
by convict Thomas Shepard in scaling
the new prison wall on several oc-
casions be placed in the government
display at the cotton states exposition
The attorney general stated that
place had been provided for it in the
4 C'SA 'AiA4SAAS OAot14dS" 4uc TOpG WAS
made of bits OF cloth
To Cleveland journalist William
B. Ogden once said: Il built the first
forty miles of road out of Chicago
through wrecks of broken wagons and
dead mules and horses. | was met at
every point with opposition from the
farmers, who said that the price of
hnrcaS would No
l could haul their wheat for one-fourth
the cost at which they could haul it by
wagons was l permitted to extend my
road out into the country"
"A six-inch underground pneumatic
tube has been in use in Philadelphia
for two years between the central post
Office and one of the branch offices,
and it has been operated with a delay
of less than half an hour during the
whole time. The test has been so sue
cessful that the city council has taken
favorable action on the proposition of
a company to lay pneumatic tubes in
the principal streets, subject to strict
conditions for keeping them in repair
1t is stated that the ballasting
upon the southern Pacific roadbed. be-
tween San Antonio and Ell Paso, is
laid by hand with cheap Mexican labor
in very artistic manner The mate
rial is broken rocks from the cliffs
that inclose the track at intervals
nearly all the way, and the edges on
both sides, mile after mile, for hun.
dreds of miles, are marked with Sc
1aotal ca Ill Of Gin ,,1o
as regularly as the bricks in build
ing
Great pots of molten metal go daily
Swimming along the Erie railroad from
the Cleveland Rolling Mill company's
central blast furnace to the Newburg
mills. The plan, put into operation
recently, is a perfect success. 1t takes
just fifteen minutes for the metal,
after it is poured into the big ladle
cars, to reach the mixer in the mills,
some five miles away. Eight trips are
made a day. About five hundred tons
of hot metal are thus carried every day
over this long route.
A curious instance of the muddled
condition of administrative boundaries
in England is shown by the hamlet of
PENCE, in which the crystal palace,
and which has now twenty thousand
inhabitants. Altho part of the county
of London, it is not in the London of
the registrar general. 1t is joined to
Dulwich in the parliamentary cleo
tions, with Greenwich for the second
school board, with Rochester for the
church, with Cambeth for it's water
rates, with Lewisham for its poor
rates and 'Battersee for it's lakes. Its
police court is Remington and it's
civil court Croydon.