Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-14


but nobody would buy even at so cents
on the dollar. Some shopkeepers in
timated that he might have been rob
bing poor boxes, and tn agony of the
young man is not 10 be measured by
boxful of cents.
They say that on Moosehead Lake,
Maine, an angler recently was fishin
with a steel rod during a thunder
storm and struck trout at the same
instant that thnnderbolt dallied with
his rod. The cork handle prevented
the angler feeling anything more than
a slight shock, bnt when he hauled it
in he found the TO It stone dead. He
figured it out that the lightning bolt
followed the rod and the enameled
line down to where the trout had Just
taken hold of the hook, and there
killed him.
A workman drove wagon loaded
with sixty gallons of nitro-g -glycerine
into Van Buren, Ind, the other day
and dismounted to transact some busl
ness. The horses became frightened
and ran down the principal stee3t of
the town, causing panic. Citizens
ran from their offices and stores, de-
serting their business and seeking
safety by getting distance from the
wagon, which was expected to explode
every second. Finally the horses
broke loose from the wagon and left
it standing in the street.
English police report the strange
death of valuable horse belonging
to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Rail
way company, which had been placed
in field under suspil ion of madness.
At midnight it escaped from the fl Id
and kno ckel up the landlord of the
Fielden Arms by battering his front
door with its forefeet. Driven thence,
it was seen to try to scale several cot
tage bedroom windows, and being at
length captured by the village con-
stable and sundry helpers, and placed
in another field, it dashed away at
gallop and leaped madly into the
swamp, breaking its neck against
brick culvert.
1t has Just been made public that
find of incalculable value to science
was made a stone quarry near Akron,
Ohio. The find consists of the skele
ton of gigantic man, believed to
have lived in prehistoric times. and
relics of time when civilization was
Just beginning to dawn. In clearing
away refuse quarrymen found the
almost complete skeleton of man.
The skull was entire and the lower jaw
bone of such proportions as to easily
fit over the outside of the jaw of the
largest modern man. Vertebrie were
found, as were $50 ribs and femurs
anil the large pelvis bone, which was
broken in two. 1t is believed the man
must have been at least ten feet in
height.
Gwanlu in Africa, which contains
between 1c, coo and 15, 900 inhabitants,
is surrounded by palisade of tree
poles. the top of every POLE Icing
crowned with human skull. There
are six gates, and the approach of each
gate IS laid with pavement OF human
skulls, the tops being the only part
that shows above ground. More than
1000 skulls are used in the pavement
leading up to the gate. Tie pave
ment is of snowy whiteness, polished
to the smoothness of ivory by the
dai y passage of hundreds of naked feet.
Among other curious materials which
have been used for r,avements may be
mentioned molasses mixed with sand
aud compressed into blocks; horses
teeth set in cement, granulated cork,
India rubber, shells. steel and glass.
A pave .nent of grass blocks has been
laid in the city of Lyons, France.
The costliest macadam on record is
that viii Ii once paved the streets of
Kimberley, South Africa. 1t was SO
thickly studded with diamonds that
gems worth millions were taken from