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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27
Early History Of Anthracite Coal.

THE first use of anthracite coal as a
generator of heat ever known to have
been made was by blacksmith in his
forge in the Wyoming District of Penn
sylvania in 1863, and the first shipment
for market in 1875, from where Pittston
now stands to Carlisle, for use in the
Colonial Government FORCES. But it was
not until 1903 that the future value of
the article then known as stone coal"
became assured. In February of that
year an experiment of using it in CRATE
as fuel proved successful at Wilkesbarre,
and that experiment may be said to have
been the starting point of a commodity
that is probably of greater utility and
value to-day than any other known to
commerce, being leading factor in our
manufacturing industries, as well as the
chief generator of heat throughout the
whole country. Although its value was
ascertained more than 100 years ago, it
is only about fifty years since it began
to be used to any considerable extent,
and not until 1920 was the first shipment
made to New York This was owing
more to the lack of transportation facili
ties than to any other cause. From that
year, when the annual production was
less than 1000 tons, the consumption
has so enormously increased that the an
nual production reaches upward of co.
00O,O 900 tons, to say nothing about the
production of bituminous or soft COAL
Baltimore San.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27
The New Baby.

The advent of little stranger in the
Lawrence family is the occasion of the
children being sent to the Burton fami-
ly, who are to care for them and keep
them in good order until their mamma is
about the house once more. Mrs B.
kisses them when they arrive at her
house, and inquiries as to the sex of the
new baby. ooh! that's the incest thing
about it" said Bulge; it's girl. Pm
tired of such lots of boys-Tod is as bad
as a lot, you know, when have to take
care of him. Only now we're bothered;
we don't know what to name her. Nam
ma told us to think of the loveliest thing
in all the world, so thought of squash
pie right away; but Tod thought of mo-
lasses candy, and then papa said neither
of 'em would do for the name of little
girl / don't see that they are not as
good as roses and violets, and all the
other things they name little girls after"
Toddie waits till Bulge has concluded,
and when he can get word in edge
ways says, in stammer, that he's going
to give her his first turtle, and show her
how to make mud pies, wifi currants in
'em. Huhw said Bulge, with an inef-
fable contempt "Girls don't like such
things. Pm going to give her my blue
neck-tie and take her riding in the goat
carriage" Toddie, who is not to be put
down that way, says he is going to give
her caterpillars. 81 know she'll be sure
to like them, cause they'zh got lovely
fur jackets, ali heavenly green and red
and brown, like ladies' dresses" Bulge
declares that his aunt don't know what
lots of prayin' Tod and he had to do to
get that baby. "My! 1t just makes me
ache to think about it! Whole days and
weeks and monthsp Yesh," said Tod
die. " An Budgie was sometimes goin'
to stop, cauzh he fought the Lord was
too busy to listen to US. But just told
him that the Lord was our biggest papa,
an just what papas ought to be, an lie
always listens to little boys fust, man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27
Learning Grammar.

But it is asked in various quarters, in
other journals as well as by correspond
ents of this one, and even by those who
begin to see the real nature of the En-
glish language, if would have no rules
at all of English grammar taught. | an
swer, none whatever to children under
twelve years of age or thereabout; none
until the scholar has already learned
good English by hearing it and by speak
ing it. In this | have the support of so
eminent a philologist as Prof. Whitney,
who says that it is constant use and
practice under never-failing watch and
correction that make good writers and
speakers; and that good English is to
be taught not through the study of
grammar, but by 1.-THE application of di-
rect authority" The example and the
authority of parents, kinsfolk, friends
and teachers, who themselves speak cor
rectly, will lead child surely into a
right use of his mother-tongue. After
he has thus learned that use then let him
enter upon the reflective study" of his
history and structure, if he has the time,
the inclination and the ability for such a
mental exercise. This study, however,
will not help him to speak correctly or
to write well. 1t is merely knowledge,
simple of itself, barren of daily useful.
ness. In Prof. Whitney's words, "no
one ever changed from bad speaker to
a good one by applying the rules of
grammar to what he said" 1t is true, as
the Sun puts the matter, as to grammar
that without knowledge of its laws,
acquired either from actual tuition in it,
or from constant intercourse with people
who speak dramatically, or from the
reading of good writers, no man can
write correctly and eloquently." But
the force of implication in these ors is
tremendous. In my opinion the inter-
course and the reading is worth the tut
ton thousand times over.-R. Grant
White, in ~ Y. Times.
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with cloth, the whole has the appearance
of club-foot. The toes and the part of
the foot in the shoes have more or less
cloth or strips of cloth wrapped around
them. 1t is manifest that no stockings
can be worn by the ladies who sport
such small feet as have been described.
The operation of bandaging is neces-
sarily very painful. The flesh or skin
often breaks or cracks in consequence of
binding the toes underneath. Unless
proper care is taken sores are formed I'M
derneath the foot which it is difficult TO
heal, because it is desirable that the
parts should be constantly and tightly
bandaged If undue haste is endeavored
to be made by bandaging them tightly
in order to have the foot quickly become
small, the pain becomes proportionately
greater. If the girl is twelve or fifteen
years old before bandaging her feet is
attempted, it is found very difficult to
cause them to assume the requisite shape
The small-footed class cannot walk
firmly. Their gait is mipcing and totter-
ing, their steps being short and taken
quickly. They are seldom seen to stride
along. While they are often quite strong,
physically, they are generally unable to
carry heavy loads, or to manage them
selves with ease or adroitness. Small
feet are a mark, not of wealth, for the
poorest families sometimes have their
daughters feet bandaged, 1t is rather
an index of gentility; it is the fashionable
form. Small feet as they appear bandaged
are considered by most of the Chinese
beautiful. Many poor families prefer to
struggle along for precarious living,
bringing up their daughters with small
feet, rather than allow them to grow as
large as they would grow and oblige
them to carry burdens and do heavy
work in order to secure more compe-
tent support. AS has been said small feet
are not an index of wealth, but Of gentil-
ity. Families whose daughters have small
feet are enabled to marry them into more
respectable and more literary families
than though their feet were of the natural
size. The laws of the Empire are silent
on the subject of bandaging the feet of
female children. Bandaging is simply a
custom.-SGn Francisco Call.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27
Down the Back Of His Neck.

SOME BARRIERS need to be told very
plainly before they can do their work
satisfactorily to customers. Here is a
case in which man failed to make him
self understood:
"Cut my hair" said customer, as he
seated himself in a BARRIERS chair, "and
be sure you let it run down the back of
my neck" referring, Of course, to the
particular style of the cut.
The barber was Western artist, hav-
ing lately arrived in Oil City from St.
Louis.
After clipping away for some time he
concluded that perhaps the hair wasn't
running down the customers neck as
fast as that individual might desire it
although for the life of him he could not
see why he should want it to run down at
all and when aquantity had accumulated
inside his shirt-collar the accommodate
ing barber showed it down and out of
sight with the handle of the brush.
This performance was repeated two or
three times, and the customer began to
realize what was going on. Hencefor-
ward he took lively interest in the pro-
ceedings. He said:
What are you doing?"
=" 1t didn't seem to run down." said the
barber, apologetically, "and so l
crammed it down with the brush"
The customer acted like a man who
had just made the discovery that rat
had built her nest between his shoulder
blades. He yelled, and turned somer-
sault out of his chair. The barber es-
City Derrick.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27

Reader, did you ever pause and con.
template that particular and peculiar
phase of human nature developed by the
existent school boy when released from
study and discipline "school is
out, and he is on his way home?
Ordinary humanity, when released
from the tolls of the day, is prone to
seek rest and relaxation. The boy
scorns all such effeminate ideas. He is
composed of but three parts legs, arms
and yell, and the yell is the biggest part
of him. His legs and arms have been
kept in irksome compulsory quietude all
day, and must now be exercised. His
voice has been seething and swelling in
him for hours, and now must have vent.
AS soon as he is clear of the school
house steps he stops and deliberately
yells a yell that is ear-splitting, but
which has no more object, meaning or
direction than the midnight vociferation
Of mule, and then he appears at full
run with his arms flying about like the
scintillations of pin.wheel. He is no
respecter of persons and is utterly indif
ferent as to whether he runs down a
smaller boy, spins an aged citizen three
times round or mashes a girls hat over
her eyes in his headlong career.
Nervous ladies hug the sides of the
houses as he rushes by in drove like a
whirlwind and screams like steam
whistle.
Mercy on us! If that boy was only
mine I'd" just then her own boy
flies past, falls over a dry.goods box,
bounces up, kicks at another boy, and is
chased across the street and around the
corner before she can get the " You Rob-
ert" with which she intends to annihi-
late him, out of her astonished throat.
There is but one thing that has the
slightest soothing effect on the boy when
he is on the way home from school. He
can see his father farther than Prof
Hall Can see haystack with telescope,
and the moment that parent dawns upon
his vision he becomes as proper as
model letter writer, and the neatly-mod
ulated voice with which he wheedles the
author of his being out of five cents ON
the spot is lesson for future ambitious
savings bank and passenger railway
Presidents
The amount of racing, jumping, pull
ing and hauling and bowling that a
sChool-boy can concentrate into transit
of two squares is positively astonishing,
and the preternatural GOODNESS and
1uietude with which he takes his red
face and painting breath into the kitchen
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ma says. An the baby coined. Yes, an
we had to be very good, too. Why don't
gou be real good and pray lots? Then
maybe you'll get dear, sweet, little
baby!'-FrOm "Other Peoples Children"
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How Barnum Got His Wife.

HERE is little romance: 1t will be re-
membered that when Barnum's show was
here several years ago his treasurer took
sick and was left at the Massasoit House.
He died there and was buried here, we
believe. He was engaged to be married
to Miss Fish, sister of Barnum's
present treasurer. After mis- death it be.
came necessary for Miss Fish to write
several letters to Mr.. Barnum in refer.
ence to her dead lover. Barnum admired
the lady because of her well-written let
tiers, sought an acquaintance-an &C.
quaintance which soon ripened into love,
and, to make a long story short, the then
Miss Fish is now Mrs. p. T. Barnum.
Barnum is twenty seven years Older than
his fe.-Atchison (Ran.) Patriot.
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and asks if supper amt most ready is
human conundrum that calls for unquali-
fed admiration. -EGStOn Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27

An occasional sprinkling of water,
in which a small quantity of ammonia or
alcohol is mixed, will go a great way if
not entirely remove lice or scale insects
from house plants; the mealy bug can be
removed by touching it with alcohol.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27

WRITING of the battles of Schipka
Pass the correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph says: "Let this fact
be noted that all the Turks found
killed had their Threats cut clearly show
ing that the men were wounded first and
slaughtered afterward.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-10-27

THE following advertisement appears
in an English paper: For disposal,
the remnant of the stake to which Bishop
Hooper was confined at his martyrdom,
and dug up some years since on the
spot in St Mary's Square. For particu.
lars, apply" etc.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-29
A Great Offer For Holidays

WI L will during these hard times and
w the holidays dispose of 100 NEW
PIANOS and ORGANS, Of tirst-cass
makers ut lower prices for cash, or in
Stallmcnts, than ever before offered
WATERS Pinosand Organs arc the best
made, warranted for five years. lllustra-
ted Catalogues mailed. Greet induce
mcnts to tho trade. Pianos 7 octave Sl40;
y octave, $ 80 Organs, 2 stops, SiS; 4
stops, $33; stops, $c5; stops, $70; 10
stops, $50; u stops. $50; III perfect order
not used II year. Sheet Music at hni i
Price. HORACE WATERS Il SONS,
Manufacturers and Dealers, 10 Enst 14th
Street, New York.
nov 3O-iw
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Read Ills Statement.
SPRINGNALE, Me, oct 12.

-, :, , . HTI'INNN NIII, Me-, VCI. II, ISIG
Mr.. II. 4. STEVENS :
pear Sir :--tiIircn years ago last fall | was
taken sick with rllcumatism, was un,b,r 10
move until the next April From LlIat limc
untl three years ago THIS fall suffered every
thing with rllrumatiSm. SOinc;Glnr ,hcro
would De weeks nL Il time that could no, S,rn
one step; these attacks were quite Oi,cn. I
SuhcTcl everything that q man could Over
inIcc wears ago last spring commenced tar ,nt
NEGETlNE and Followed lLup uni! | had taE, =,
seven bottles have had no rheumatism since
troubled with rhcllmatism to trE VIi;I;'TINE
ana not Slilcr Tor years It's have done This
statement Is g;ltut0uS as far as Mr. Stcy, ~; is
concerned. Yours, etc,
ALBERT CROOKER,
AnOilrCnriCS. 9s' WV
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-29

A new safety cannon that shoots
an anchor from ships in distress has
latoly been tried at Bremerhaven.
From a cannon with q diameter OF
five inches, m anchor weighin e
seventeen pounds was shot, at
tached to q double ropo two thou>
sand four hundred feet in length
and weighing thirty-two pounds, to
q distance of three hundred yards,
by which stronger ropo WAS pulled
out to tho ship with which ship and
mon could DO drawn ashore.
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When the Russians sent word to
Osman Pasha that they intended to
send back tho 5000 prisoners they
had taken at Dubnil1 and Tells tho
Turkish commander-in- n-chief said
that if they did send them back he
would NOV them down with grapes
shot, seize tho coward Haiku Pasha,
who was with them, and have him
shot on tho spot Ho told tho
Grand Dukes messenger in so,ne~
bombastic manner that he might as
well prepare for u regular siege, as
he had provisions for eight months,
statement utterly untrue. He
doubtloss said this to attempt to
deceive the Russians. At this time
tho daily ration to the troops had
bcen reduced by one-third.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-29

Tommy came home from school
and handed to his father the teach
ers report on his progress during
during the month. "This is very
unsatisfactory, Tom; you've a very
small number Of gooG marks, TIM
not all pleased with it," 81 told tho
teacher you wouldn't be, but he
wouldn't alter ii"
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TOO MANY HOMES.

Besides these expenses tho king
is tho possessor of three hundred
and forty-threo palaces more or
less magnificent and expensive. It
is said that merely to keep them in
order and pay tho officers and scr.
wants attached to them costs two
hundred thousand dollars annually.
Imagine what an encumbrance it
must be to own SO many homes that
the whole yoar would not be long
enough to pass more than day in
oach OF them For Victor Enman-
uol, whose tastes are simple, and
who seems to be always anxious to
fly from the pomp and ceremony of
court life, it must be an especial
burden.
During tho papal and Bourbonio
roigns, when Italy was divided into
it's seven different states, the riches
and power of the kingdom wero in
tho hands of tho priests and aristo-
Gratis, who built churches and pala-
COS while tho poor lived without
houses, the sick without hospitals,
orphans without asylums and chill :
dren without schools. The King
has fallen heir to the palaces of his
predecessors, but it is doubtful
whethor it was q goodly heritage,
as ho seems anxious to part with
some of them. These PALACES are
famous all over the world. There
is one at Venice looking out upon
the water and upon the Piazzotta
San Marco, one at Milan, one at
Turin, tho Pitti palace at Florence,
famous for it's treasures of ancient
and modern art; the Quirinal at
Rome, once occupied by the popes
the magnificent palace at Naples {;
others at Palermo, Parma, Bologna.
Indeed almost evory city Of Italy
has one or more royal palaces. The
wealth of carving, gliding, statues,
pictures, tapestries and all the luxu-
ries Of life gathered in these three
hundred and forty three PALACES is
immense, and yet the king is poor,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-29

'i'o !l''iillllatlllS necessity or asking
parliament to increase his allowance.
ROYAL POVERTY.
The ministry presented the bill,
which was supported by the majori-
ty OF the moro influential members
Of the house, but no less than thir-
ty-one independent spirits opposed
the measure and desired to place
the direction Of what is called tho
-List@ CtOile, or the expenses of tho
court, except tho private expenses
Of the king under tho control of
parliament. This party, however,
is not tho most influential in parlia-
mont, anda number of tho opposite
opinion said that their proposition
was one of immense improprioty."
The antiquity Of the House of Savoy
was called to mind by those NOM
bers who advocated giving tho king
fourteen million francs (more than
two and half million of dollars)
annually. That royal house has
existed thousand years, and
during that time, with every op.
portunity to do SO, it has mover en~
riched itself and has remained cons
paratively poor while many of the
noble families havo grown rich.
Tho bravo and noble history of this
roval family, the traditions of their
courage and generosity, were 70.
called, as we'll MS tho patriotism and
generosity Of Victor Emmanuel
himself. Many of those palaces,
which were in fact museums of art,
have been presented by the king to
the nation, and they arc now open
to the public. This bill also onu-
meratcd ten or twelve palaces
which tho king, finding them more
expensive and troublesome than
useful, would like to make ovor to
the government or to cities where
thoy are, These arc small villas
and parks held really for the good
Of the villages near them, which he
was obliged to keep in order. Of
these were tho park and hill adjoin-
ing tho royal palace ut Caserta,
"illSll ue "lS1lCu TO fCCClfn TO That
town. The lovely green hill called
San Leucio, on the right of the
cascade when you enter the royal
park, is the only one of the Appen-
mines near Caserta which is not
bleak and gray and deserted, and
.he inhabitants did not wish it to
be given to tho city, divided into
small lots and shorn of all it's beauty.
Upon this hill is the delightful park
of Caserta, and tho rest of it is
divided into parks attended by
forcstors, where several hundred
boars arc kept for the chase. The
other hill is San Sylvestro, down
which falls q stream, conducted for
miles to Caserta, and which forms
the delight and wonder of the place.
The people of this town therefore
made complaints and parliament has
sustained them, so that the king
will be obliged to keep this incon-
venient possession for the good Of
the commonwealth.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-29

The EXPERIMENT. Of educating boys.
for the navy has proved of such
marked benefit in increasing the eff.
cheney of the service that Congress:
will be asked to improve and exte nd
the system.
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" ,N.: 3 3 II fiSaEa Il \ l.IisSa .YM nj
HAS ENTItELY CURED ME-

A., ~ ;, ,,. BOSTON, October, 1870.
Dear Sir Ny daughter, after having II severe
attack or WhoopnG Cough, was lett in a feeble
state Oh hcAilh. Brin" advised BY Il friend she
tried the NEGErINE, aud attCr using II few
botIicS was fully restored TO health
nave Dcrn Il great sufferer from Rhc,l,no
iiSm nave taken several battles or The Vrrr-
tine Tor This complaint, and am happy to SAY #
mas cnilrtly cured me. ] have rcC0lnInc nCicI
tilc Nc!!Hrllnc to others With the same GOOD re-
SUITS: IL Is great cleanser and purifier OF the
blood H. Is pleasant 10 take and can cheer
fully recommend IL.
JAMES MORSE
Sjl Athens Street
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VE: G 1'l'A9IEg;
WILL CURE RHEUNIATISNT.

MIR. ALBERT CROOKER, the wc,l-known
druggist and apothccary, OF Sprtngyalr, Me,
always advises every one troubled with Rncu.
1naLi$n to Try NEGETlNE,
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THE COST OF A KING.
-0--
TICTOR EMMANUEE'S pRI-
V1IE PURSE.

poor on Two and q Half Million Dollars
Hear--Three Hundred and Forty
three Palaces and Countless Bono
factions.
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v EGHI'E'HNV VE
NOTHING EQUAL TO TT.

49,, - SOUTH SALEM, MACS, Nov. If, 1876.
ME. IT. Il. STEVENS ~ '
Dear Sir Il have boon troubled with Scrof-
@ VA CankGr ana LAYER Complaint for three
commenced using the VEGErINE I am ow
GclllnS along iirSL-rate, and still using the
FcGcttne. ! consider thcrc Is nothing CuuuI
to il for such comp!nints Can heartily recon-
lnehdit to everyday. YonrS truly.
Mrs. LIZZIE VI. PACKARD,
NO. 10 Lagrange Street, South Salem, Mass,
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| The only combination Of
Ithc true jamaica Ginger
with choice Anomalies aud
French Brandy, Is a deli
c1clS, harmless, strength
icnihs substitute tor an
KINDS or Stiin,llantS. II
promptly relieves pySpoD-
Sla, oppression after eating
Iand every species OF indi-
lEcStion, c0rrcclS al. diSiur-
DanccS or the stomach and
Bowels, and cures CrampS,
ChillS, FcvcrS, and Malaria.
ASk Tor SANEORD'S GIN
iHEK.
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S.INFORD'S :
JAMAICA
CINCE|l,
R u p T I u h ,

IhoSe wishing relief ami cure for R,lplurc
Sn0uia consult Dr. j. a. SHERMAN, 25S Broad
hcnd lhctS. for his new book, with
pnotograph1c iEcncSscS OF bad cases before and
1ulntSh pr. ShcrmahS treatment
ono Or THESE fellows, Il German cicrx, now
caliilS hlMSclf Or, W. G. CrCmpr!i, Is int!.rlc,!
Hu ComplhlIt or Dr. ). ana AWAITS trial for
forgery and cmbcZZlcmcnl