The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-06-16

The most useful war map yet issued
is furnished as a supplement to Harper'S
BG=Gr. 1t is so popular with the ladies
that they cut costly fabrics in conformity
to the dotted lines and make them into
garments, which they wear with an ex-
preston of great satisfaction orces
ter Press.
An, invention has been patented
which may produce almost as marked an
effect as the cotton-gin. 1t is a wagon
like machine called the picker, and when
driven through the ripened fields picks
clean every scrap of cotton, and saves
the labor of 100 hands.
The crude, embryonic condition of
society in the West is shown in the fact
that they have fairs out there where
kisses sell for forty cents apiece with no
wholesale rates. This explains why so
many Norwich men who have gone West
with fortunes ranging from 100000 to
| $500, 900 have returned in a few months
| bankrupt. -NOraoGch Bulletin.
In the annual report of the Michigan
State Board of Health, DR.. Scott de-
scribes disease that he thinks is a re-
suit of using tobacco. The patient feels
violent pain in the left side, and be-
lieves that his heart is affected. The
trouble is a rheumatic condition of the
wall of the chest. Abstinence from to-
baCco cures.
Quite recently a short-sighted hus-
band saw large bouquet of flowers on a
chair, and wishing to preserve them from
| fading placed them in basin of water.
When his wife saw the bouquet, half an
hour afterward, she gave one piercing
scream and tainted on the spot. Her
detective visioned husband had mistaken
her new bonnet, with its abundance of
flowers, for a freshly culled bouquet.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe writes
that, in presenting the character of I'm
Gle Tom, she did not describe Rev. j.
Henson or any other one person, but
combined traits and incidents in the lives
of various people. Mr.. Henson repre-
sented himself abroad as the original
Uncle Tom of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
and put money in his purse thereby.
The New York Graphic finds
moral for DR.. Aver. 1t is that, when
mind is showed, pressed and crammed
AiioO OIS lNlCot, tG luSG JudU luCd
and masters the man" The doctor had
accumulated $15, 000,00 by unremitting
industry and now he wanders about the
grounds of private asylum, vainly beg
ging the loan of $40, while the guard
ians" of his property receive SIS, 900 or
$50, 900 year for taking care of it.
If the Gar only knew how many
distinguished strategists there are on this
side of the Atlantic who can take
newspaper map and tell you exactly what
the Russian armies are going to do, and
just how and when, we are inclined to
think that His Imperial Highness would
want to send for dozen or two of them
as samples to have on hand in case the
brand Duke Nicholas should get sick or
want to take vacation.
"A claim ninetyseven years old was
paid by the United States Treasury De-
partment recently. 1t was originally for
$4,000 worth of supplies furnished the
Revolutionary army, and has been pend
ing before Congress and the courts since
that time. Finally the courts had to give
up, and ninety-seven years interest on
$4,000 was computed, which with the
PlInolPdl uduc nearly S0S,UuU. Inc
amount was paid to the grandsons of the
original claimant.
Women who apply for positions as
public school teachers in Boston are
asked: DO you expect to be married
soon?" The object of the question is to
ascertain whether she will be likely to
devote herself to teaching, as married
women are not employed. The answer
often causes embarrassment to the APP
plicant, because few women are not with
out matrimonial expectations, however
slight their chances may be.