The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Big Sandy, in Kentucky, was
So called on account of its sandbars
The Indian name Chatteroi has SINH
lar meaning. One tribe called it We
pe-po-co-ne-ce-pe-we another the Si-ke-
a-ce-pe, or salt river"
AS a flower giving greatest divers
ity in shades of color the carnation is
perhaps unique, having flowers of
self or single color in pure white, lem
on, yellow, buff, terra Gotta, pink, rose,
crimson, brilliant scarlet, red, maroon,
brown, blush purple, grey and all in
termediate shades.
"A woman moonshiner from the
mountains of Polk county, n. c., was
brought before the Unite States court
at Charlotte some time ago. 1t was
shown that she had been doing an ex-
tensive business in distilling and sell
ing moonshine whisky. She was fined
one hundred dollars and sent to jail for
three months.
Boston ladies leaving the city for
the summer have keenly felt the need
of place where they could, as it were,
store their husbands, Now comes a
refined widow lady" who can give the
highest references, who offers for
consideration to lodge and board
respectable husbands, look after their
linen and Civ them a mothers care if
ILL.,"
-Hicksville, o., boasts of having the
oldest bicycle rider of any town in the
state in tx person of Joseph Boulton.
Although in his SEVENTEEN year he is
as spry as a cricket and an all-around
athlete, and can easily out-distance
many riders ore-third his age Mr.
BouIton has never entered u race, hut
would gladly 90 SO if he could find
anyone eligible to his class
Under a new ordinance in Griffin,
GA, barroom in that town may not
connect with another room, and must
have but one doorway, for entrance
and exit. Even if the proprietor Of the
bar lives in the building in which it is
situated, he must have a separate en-
trance to his house, and from his bar
must go out into the street in order to
get into his home. The object Of the
ordinance is obvious.
Little Flossie Slosoco, the eight
year-old daughter of the turnpike
superintendent of Yonlzers, who saved
the life of the infant son of Millionaire
Doolittle by pushing him off the rail
road track, where he mad wandered
while his nurse was shopping, has just
received the odd reward she asked for.
1t consists of a white pony, a white
goat, white dog, a white cat, a white
rat and a white mouse.
Proceedings have been instituted
to condemn two strips of land belong
ing to the Gettysburg Electric Railway
company which are wanted by the
government as an addition to the Get
tysburg Battlefield park. The judg-
ment in the condemnation proceedings
that were once before instituted was
set aside by the United States supreme
court on the ground that no authority
had been given by congress for the con-
domination OF the land.
The Chicago & Northern Pacific
road, having tried for several years to
build up paying suburban business
between Chicago and frequent stations
on it's three or four lines to the west
and south, is now going to see if ex-
tremely low fares will do what ordi-
nary rates have failed to accomplish.
Under new schedule one-way and
round-trip fares have been cut in two
and corresponding reductions have
been made in commutatiOn tickets.
-George Dunbar killed tree snake
five and one-half feet long and five
inches in diameter not long ago i'll
Willow Springs, Wis Georges young
err brother was with him and had
climbed tree to rob crows nest,
when limb broke ana the commotiOn
caused the reptile to poke its head out
of its hole in such close proximity to
the boys face that he changed his
plans and slid down the tree in less
than half the time he expended in 60
ing up. Then George raised his rife
and fired bullet through the snakes
head and it dropped to the ground.
The snake was sold to a Darlington
jeweler, who turned it over to tax
idermist for preservation.