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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
Scenes on Russian Railroads.

NORTH or south there is scarcely any
difference between the aspect of Rus
sian station. For hundreds of versts you
have been jolting through fiat or Slight
ly undulating series of enormous snow
clad plains. Stunted birch, fir and larch
are all the flora you perceive. You never
set eyes upon q town-one, / mean, with
smoke curling from the chimneys, with
women peeping from the easements, with
children playing on the doOr-steps, with
dogs or poultry at the street ends.
For strategic reasons the railway has
been made to run straight as an arrow
from Tartar's bow from one great point
to another of military vantage. They
say that when the Gar Nicholas was
de1erentially consulted as to the direc-
tioh which the St. Petersburg & Moscow
Railway should follow, His Majesty sim
took a pencil and ruler and struck
Nei"ht line on the map from the new
Id metropolis of his empire; AID
the ~ensequefsoo of this infiexible mill
tarism as applied to civil engineering is
that the majority of Russian towns are
two or three miles distant from the rail
way stations which bear their names.
The platform and its appurtenances
are isolated in the midst of snowy
waste. Round about you are gathered "A
few sheds and wooden cabins, together
with vast piles of roughly -hewn logs for
fuel. That is all, save the signal boxes,
which look either like gibbets with pack
ing-cases instead of corpses suspended
from them, or packing cases without
gibbets.
Women are often employed in signal
ing, and wretchedly unwomanly they
appear, bundled up in hoods and gaber-
dimes of sheep-skin reaching no lower
than their knee, with their legs swathed
and mutfied to almost elephantine pro-
portions in canvas bandages, cross gar
tered with strings of untanned leather.
These, with heavy clogs of wood, com
plete the costume of the anomalous
creature, who mechanically waves tat
tered black or a ragged yellow flag as
the train passes, and makes us wonder
whether Mother Eve could ever have
realized the possibility of her daughters
being put to such base uses as these
Odessa Cor. London Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
Loves Young Dream.

THE other evening as a patient police
man was pacing his beat on Howard
street a young man passed him and ran
up flight Of stone steps and rang the
bell. The officer heard the door open,
a young lady's voice sing out, and he said
to himself:
"Tis loves young dream
He was just moving on when another
young man approached, looked up at the
house, and in a sheepish way asked the
officer if he had seen anyone 60 in. He
sRs informed of what had occurred a
\ .Smegt before, and he gasped: o.
g 1t was that sneaking chap from Cass
avenuew
He walked on, and the officer walked,
but ten minutes later the young man
climbed the stone steps with pail of
water in his hand and emptied its con-
tents over every stone. He was sitting
on the horse block opposite as the officer
came back, meaning to stay there until
his plan unfolded or until he froze to
death. He didn't freeze In about ten
minutes the door opposite opened, two
voices were heard for moment, and
then the young man from Cass avenue
came down the steps on his ear, his ell
bow, his shoulder-blade, his heel, or on
most any other part of the human make
up. He struck the sidewalk, shot across
it to the gutter, and came to stand-still
with his head in the snow. There was a
peal of laughter from the house as the
door shut, and the watcher on the horse
block chuckled and remarked:
THAT heartless laugh was not uttered
by woman who loves-I'm hunkyw
Five minutes later he carefully crawled
up the icy steps, and the good policeman
heard him cordially greeted, and unused:
Well, if there amt more'n seventeen
different ways of finding out if girl
loves you!"-DetrOtt Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

The latest effort of science in the di-
rection of averages is found in the lect-
ures of DR.. Reginald Soulhey on In
dividual Hygiene" DR.. Southey divides
human life into eight periods, which en-
brace the commencement apd culmina-
ton, the beginning and the end. The
first period is babyhood, which COM
prises the first year of existence; the
second is infancy, from to Z; the third
is childhood, from to IA; the fourth is
adolescence, from IA to 81; the fifth is
maturity, from q to 49, the siXthis mid
die age, from 40 to GO; the seventh is old
age from 63 to n; the eighth is decrepi-
tude, from II to 81. Dr. Southey, like
the ancient healer Hippocrates, is wise
enough not to attempt the average of
babyhood, infancy, childhood, and ado
lescence. If the doctor is a married
man, however, he must know that the
true average of the illness of babyhood
is 20S days out of 365. In infancy and
babyhood the average depends so much
upon the condition of the green apple
crop and the proximity Of creeks and
ponds that the scientist was doubtless
puzzled to obtain a percentage of sick
ness for those periods which would not
seem either arbitrary or absurd. He has
therefore skipped over the first twenty
one years of existence and commenced
his table at a period before reaching
which goodly proportion of mortals
cease to be sick at all, and get rid of the
doctor by going into the grave. Many
scarcely start on the journey of life
before they give it up as bad Job
and return from whence they came.
Others stagger along in rickety sort
of way past. Those who attain the age
of maturity have better chance to ex-
plore the miseries of existence. These
will be interested IN the result of DR..
Southey's researches. The following is
his table showing the number of days of
sickness annually one may expect when
a ri
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
Browns Matrimonial Method.

BROWN, don't see how it is that
your girls all marry off as soon as they
get old enough, while none of mine can
marry"
"Oh, that's simple enough. l marry
my girls off on the buckwheat- straw
principle"
but what is that principle? never
heard of it before"
"Well, used to raise good deal of
buckwheat, and it puzzled me to know
how to get rid of the straw. Nothing
would eat it, and it was great bother to
me. At last l thought of a plan. l
stacked my buckwheat straw nicely and
built high rail-fence around it. My
cattle, of course, concluded that it was
something good, and at once tore down
the fence and began to eat the straw.
| logged them away and put up the
fence few times, but the more drove
them away the more anxious they be-
came to eat the straw. After this had
been repeated few times the cattle de-
termined to eat the straw, and eat il
they did, every bit of it. AS said,
marry my girls off on the same princi-
pie. When a young man l don't like be-
gins calling on my girls l encourage him
IN every way can. tell him to come
ten and stay as late as he pleases, and
AXE pains to hint to the girls that
ink they'd set their caps for him. Il
,rks tifst-rate. He don't make D
ais, Tor the girls treat MIN az =
as Veg -eens--But When young l.. ~
that like comes around, man that
think would suit me for son-in-law,
don't let him make many calls before l
give him to understand that he isn't
wanted around my house. l tell the
girls, too, that they shall have nothing
to do with him, and give them orders
never to speak to him again. The plan
always works first-rate. The young
folks begin to pity each other, and the
next thing know they are engaged to
be married. When l see that they are
determined to marry l always give in
and pretend to make the best of it.
That's the way I manage it."-Du6ugue
Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
An Hour in the HOrse-Car.

Two LADIES were talking, and seemed
not to mind that l was opposite them
One, dressed elegantly but quietly, was
perfectly a lady, and tears were in her
eyes and voice as she said
"They tell me l ought not to feel it so
keenly; ought not to let it wear upon ne
so; but cannot help it. He is a perfect
wreck, and he was all l could ask or
wish"
"And man of such fine talent"
Yes, and has been 50 honored; and
now to see him so degraded. He feels
it all, and is as mortified as his friends
are"
"Why don't he try to reform?"
He has tried again and again, but it
never lasts. And DR.. - has done all
he can to reform him"
Wasn't it the doctors fault?"
"The doctors mistake; entirely so; he
never drank until it was prescribed him. "
After hearing some little more l rose
and went to her, and said
Pardon me, but | could not help hear
ing you. l had dear friend, who was
wild in college, but soon after he left he
joined temperance club and never
drank again until he was over forty
years old. Then, recovering from Sc
we're sickness, brandy was prescribed for
him. He commenced drinking and never
left off, but at fifty-one died of delirium
tremens. Hearing you say your friend
fell from physicians prescription, l
wish to hear just as much more as you
are willing to tell me-"
He was lawyer in this city, and if
| were to give you his name you would
know it well. He commenced as partner
of -. When the war broke out he
left his large practice and went to the
field. There he contracted muscular
rheumatism. He came home and had the
best physicians of the city, but for two
years was great sufferer, much of the
time confined to his bed. Then DR.. -
prescribed whisky, telling him that he
would soon be well. In three months he
was out on crutches, and in six without
them. But he would continue the med
icine until stronger, and then refused to
stop it. So the doctor saved him and
ruined him. Body and brain are
wrecked, and he would willingly take
back the disease if he could get rid of
the appetite"
How distressingw
More, a great deal, than you can inn
agine."
81 understood you to say he never
drank before"
Never! And he was not only very
temperate, but honorable, generous and
kind, man of fine principles and es-
teemed by everybody, and one who would
have left an honored name if he had
died ten years ago. And he feels it bit
terly."
" / am growing to feel that physicians
should be very careful to whom they pre-
scribe liquor"
"They are getting to be. A lady
friend of mine seemed weak and ailing,
and | asked her physi clan if little port
wine would not give her strength, and
he replied;
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
at q certain ace:

If DR.. Southey has made no mistake in
his calculations the average illness of
mankind is not alarming till the age of
seventy is reached, and, as there are very
few who attain the biblical span of three
score years and ten, then seventy-four
days of sickness attached to that period
will not add great deal to the income
of medical men. Five days of sickness
do not seem to add q great deal to the
young man of twenty, or ten days to one
who has reached fifty, and the shady
side Of life. 1t is true these figures de-
note averages, and, while some escape
altogether, others are i'll for months of
the year. Chicago Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

80 In my early practice should have
ordered it. But when look around and
see the ladies l have made drunkards, I
am appalled,; and now never order
liquor in any form. 1t is often good
thing; sometimes very good; but l dare
not take the risk of what may follow :"
Will you permit me to use this:" I
asked.
"If it will do any person good, shall
be very glad. Only omit names"
AS the truth, unadorned is the great
est power earth can know, have not
changeda sentence-I do not know that
l have one word-in the above conversa-
tion.-4nrs. lucy b. Sanford, in Con-
gregattOnaLiSt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
just Like Himself.

"Why doesn't this fire keep up?
asked Chicago husband, pettishly, as
he pranced around half dressed, and
furtively poked the stove CRATE, late one
bitter morning,
It's so much like you" piped out his
wife, from the warm bed.
"Like mew exclaimed he, stopping in
his work. How so?"
Because" said she, roguishly, {" ii
aoiU 60 out nights~
He mumbed something to himself,
and returned to his work. hicgod
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

"A mother may never find Words in
which to express the emotions which
surge through her heart on finding her
babe, Just dressed in its Sunday best
stirring the contents of bottle Of inI
into the coal ashes with the hair.bruSb
but she will try to, and try with all her
might,
The Maine Legislature is doing its
best to make men happy. 1t has Just
passed bill abolishing lotteries, includ.
ing ratfies at church fairs, and the Sen.
ate has voted in favor of the bill which
includes cider in the list of Intoxicating
drinks, the sale of which is prohibited.
An old chap, being reproached BY
his prospective mother-in-law that he
was much too old for her daughter; that
he was even baldheaded, replied:
" Madam, my badness is no indication
of my age-it runs in the family. In
fact, madam" said he, in sudden gusb
OF confidence, was born bald -headedp
The Louisville Courier journal ey.
plains the cause of recent unparliament.
airy language INDUCED in by the Gin.
cinnati editors toward each other, viz,
" Much of the rudeness and lack of cult.
ure in the West may be TRACED to the
frequent delays in the mails fTAC DOs
ton"
An Eastern debating socit
work on the question: "Is it wr,
cheat a lawyer" They are &
d I'M discussing secgf sary q
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
VARIETIES.

The bored of managers Editors.
Blue lamp chimneys are recon.
mended for weak eyes.
Ha1 an 81" to your toilet or twill
le k bellies consider it ill-bred
lrprise at anything.
escribes bald man as one
lmself with the towel.
nteen States and Territories
railway was laid in 1876.
amp does not make a sum-
- makes very good swallow
ddent New Workers. are burying
pitt dogs where the grape vines
hdgkins says: Make your home
even if you have to stay away
t." ""'
overly depends upon wealth, but
mes the rich man liens on the
he Maine Legislature has reduced
Il rate of inter tt State To
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

ing the population; but kegs of branvin
are still occasionally struggled across
the borders, and produced on the oc-
cssion of fetes and holidays. The Laps
have shrewd, almost cunning, faces, and,
though small in stature, possess great
bodily strength and endurance. Their
habits are extremely dirty, and they APP
pear never to change their clothes till
they fall to pieces.-FOrtnightIy Re
nieln
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03
FROM THE PRESIDENT or THE
NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS
ASSOCIATIONS

FROM THE PRESIDENT or THE
NEW YORK STATE TEACHERS
ASSOCIATIONS.
DR.. Fenner's Improved Cough Honey: ~
VIII break up cold in the head, before any
cough has yet formed, in two to three hours.
(2) 1t will relieve any cough in one hour or
less. (3) 1t is the best remedy known for
the relief of irritable and worrisome chill
dren. 1t is pleasant TO take, handsome in
appearance, safe in its action and certain in
its effect. 1t does not dry the cough but
loosens and heals. From the lowly cottage
to the princely palace and offices Of State
come orders and concentrations:
From Prof. II. r. Sanford President of the New
York State Teachers Association. Supt. of
Public Schools at hiddletOwn. y. Y. etc.
From repeated and present use of Dr. Fenners
Improved Cough Honey in my family. | am free to
say that l consider it the best remedy now known
for coughs. Its action is prompt and reliable. Ia
the frequent colds so common among children
the use of the Cough Honey will prove great
boon. H. r. SANFORD
From John B. Miner. wealthy banker of Ere
donia, n. Y: was afflicted with harassing
cough. Three doses of DR.. Fenner's Improved
Cough Honey entirely relieved me-
J. B. MINER.
PAINTED Posi-, N. Y, Aug. 26, 1875.
DIR. NJ. NJ. FENNRR, Fredonia, N. Y.-Dedr Sir:
have used your Improved Cough Honey for the
past two years for asthma and colds and find IL
the best remedy ever triedS 1t is a real Veasu-z
to recommend it. Yours truly,
j. ". BohsT.
For sale by dealers in medicine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

To CURE FIDGETs-Take subject in
the act-from behind, and unawares, if
possible. Throw him down. Trample
on him well. Then call him names
Then make faces at him. Then pull him
up again. Then kick him well. Then
slap his head for several minutes. Then
pull his nose six times. Then throw him
down again, andrepeat the process as be,
fore. Then fix him with your eagle eye
sternly for the space of one-quarter of a
whole hour. By that time he will be a
perfect cure. N.B.-If he isn't he ought
to be.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

THE dangers arising from Irish wakes
have seldom been more clearly illustrated
than by DR.. Goldie, the medical officer
of health for Leeds, England, in report
presented by him to the local authority.
He says that every one of thirty people
who attended the wake of girl who
recently died in that town from typhus
fever have been Frustrated by the same
cases have already had fatal termina-
ton
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

The Welsh language contains only
eighty thousand words, but after you
have tried to pronounce four or five of the
easiest and shortest you will wonder how
Welshman ever keeps his feet while
talking.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

THE Dutch Society of Sciences at
HARLEM has offered gold medal for the
best answer to the following question:
"What are the meteorological and mag.
netical periodic changes which may be
considered to be in well-established
relation with the period of the solar
spots?" The answers must have motto
and be accompanied with a sealed letter
containing the name of the author. They
should be sent before Jan 1, 1878, to the
Secretary, Prof. Won Baumhauer, Haar-
lem
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

THERE are only two officers in the
German army who have served longer in
it than the Emperor-Field Marshal Won
Wrangel whose time of service some
what exceeds eighty years, and Lieut.
Gen. Won Malszewski, commandant Of
the House of Invalides, who has seen
seventy. TWO wears of service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

A GERMAN writer advises American
girls to marry American men, for true
happiness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

and all people who appreciate the value OF
keeping a memorandum of business trans
actions, daily events, and items of interest
or importance, for future reference, should
call on their druggists and get DR.. Pierce's
Memorandum book free. The Doctors
Grand Invalids' Hotel at Buffalo, which costs,
when finished, two hundred thousand dol
lars, will be opened early in June next, for
the reception of patients afflicted with
chronic diseases and deformities. 1t will
afford the most perfect facilities for the cure
OF such affections, and its Faculty of physi-
clans and surgeons will embrace graduates
from both American and European Medical
Schools who have become distinguished for
their skill The Peoples Common Sense
Medical Adviser, by DR.. r. V. Pierce, a work
Of over nine hundred large pages, illustrated
by two hundred and eighty.two engravings,
and elegantly bound in cloth and gilt, is
sent to any address by the Author on re-
ceipt Of one dollar and fifty cents. Almost
one hundred thousand copies have already
been sold.
s A. CRAIG, Esq, druggist, of West Alex
ander, Pa, says: ] sell more Of DIR. Pierce's
preparations than all Others combined. They
give satisfaction in every case and / can
cheerfully recommend them to the public"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-03

RHEUMATIsM QUIcKLY CURED-f any
reader of this papersufIers from rheumatism,
let him get his druggist to order t,ro bottles of
"Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" from his
wholesale druggist in Cincinnati, Philadel-
phia, New York, and i'tSt as certain as the sun
shines to-ROrro1C, just as sure will cure follow.
1t is taken internally, and cures at once. 81.
PATENTEEs and inventors should read adver-
tisement of Edison Bros, in another column.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-17

been waited for, they proceeded at once
to the vacant pulpit, and, after brief
pause and glance at the congregation,
one of them rose, read a chapter in the
Bible, and said he had selected it as the
foundation of few remarks. Tie Rev.
Mr.. Bevan, pastor of the church, who was
a little behind tine, walked in at this~n-
terestlng juncture, and much to his sur
prise found his pulpit already occupied
He did not make demonstration like
Robert of Sicily, when that monarch
found an angel in his place, but proceed
ed softly up and took his seat inside the
railing to await further developments.
The young preacher mssS ~,n~--. .n uo on
with his discourse, unconscious of the
sensation he was creating, when a lady
from the church on the opposite side of
the street entered, and, walking straight
up to the pulpit, beckoned TO the young
man, who was about TO hold forth. Her
conduct seemed somewhat strange to him,
but he stopped to listen, and she whis-
pered something in his ear that made
him change color quickly. She told him
that he was in the wrong pulpit, and that
the congregation over the way was wait
ing somewhat impatiently for his arrival.
The two young men were very much dis
comfited, but after a moment they mast
cred the situation and sought short in
terview with Elder Bevan, to whom they
made suitable apology. They then pro
ceeded to the church across the road, but
as they left the congregation smiled
audibly over their mistake.-Scrdnt0n
(Pa) ReDEbIicdn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-17

| RoUMANIA, says a Bucharest special of the
9th, had decided to proclaim her independence
and issue declaration of war.
| A FANATICAL uprising had, according to a st.
Petersburg special of the 9th, taken place in
the Tchetchensin country. The Russian troops
dispersed one band of 500 insurgents, with a
loss of ninety-nine killed and $50 wounded
| The Russian loss was small.
| A SPECIAL from Bucharest of the 10th, saws
| that Oltenitza had been bombarded for four
hours on that day. The Roumanians responded,
silencing the gunboats and firing Turtukuai, on
the opposite side of the Danube.
THE Russian Government, according to a Con-
stantinople telegram of the 10th. in consequence
of the Mnssnlrnan uprising, had declared the
AUSTRIA, says a dispatch of the 10th, has been
formally assured, by Prince Milan and his Cabi-
net, that Servia will not disturb the peace.
ACCORDING to a telegram of the 10th, defense
works were being constructed around CONSTANT
nople.
IN Paris, on the 10th, news was received that
the Sultan had signed an trade, deposing the
Prince of Roumania. Typhus-fever and dysen-
terry were raging in the Turkish Army opposing
the Montenegrins, 5000 troops being sick in
Mostar alone.
THE Poles in Austria, says a telegram of the
10th, were raising legion to aid the Turks.
A DISPATCH of the 10th says the Village of
Eyschoff, in Valois was destroyed by fire, and
200 people were rendered homeless.