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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22
Figures Of Speech.

THE conscious employment of imagery
is by no means peculiar to literary peo-
pie. 1t is common with every class, and
with almost everybody in every class
Familiar in the mouths of those eccen-
trio characters in the humber walks of
life who amuse US so much by their odd
but apt comparisons, racy of daily ex-
perience, and by their quaint application
of old saws and anecdotes, it is no
stranger to the most matter-of- fact peo-
pie. The latter, indeed, have not the ex-
uberant invention and humor of Wei
Ter, Swiveller, or Tapley, but they
like to season their talk with SAVIOR of
fancy, which, however, they generally
are obliged to borrow, lacking mother
wit of their own. A SinsGle or happy
phrase hits the popular taste and be-
comes common property. We hope that
friend will "pull through" a serious
illness; if he grow decidedly worse, we
say that he is cat deaths door" A man
may be beyond his Depth" though
never in the water, "fiighty," though
never off the ground, or mot have leg to
stand on" although his limbs are sound;
it is resources, material or intellectual,
that are crippled" Wiseacres have
been called amazing shallow" and the
deep" is another name for the sea.
Spendthrifts are said to be "open-
handed" and misers "close- fisted," or
tight as the bark of tree" The last
saying must call to mind multitude of
comparisons which are in constant use,
such as "t true as steel, " straight as an
arrow, " stiff as poker" brown as
bun, " " still as a mouse" dumb as an
OYSTER" " merry as a cricket" and others
still more homely, smacking of humor
and belonging to slang, or on its con.
fines, or snug as bug in a rug" as
shining as negro's face" and happy
as a clam at high water" that is when
the tiood-tide protects him from the
spade. Proverbs, too, come in to re-
lieve the dizziness of plain talk. "Make
hay while the sun shines, "" One swallow
does not make summer" A burnt
child fears the fire." and hundred
others are every day fguratively applied
Old anecdotes, historical or pseudo his
torical, fables and jests do similar
duty. To mention two or three out of
host, there are the stories about Mrs. |
Partington's attempt to sweep out the |
ocean, Canutes bidding it retire, the fly
on the wheel, and the coon's offer to
come down if Capt. Scott would not fire.
.AuquSt GaLnru.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22
Fight for Life with a Mad Dog.

A FEARFUL encounter with mad dog
occurred in Bridgewater N. H., on
Thursday last. On the afternoon of that
day a large mastiff entered the house of
Widow Huckins and sprang at the throat
of young woman, daughter of Mrs.
Huckins. She threw up her arm and
the dog bit her in the right hand. The
mother, who was in another room, has
tened to her assistance, when the dog
sprang at her, biting her in the same
way. The dog then ran down the road
to the house of Gilman Fletcher. Here
a small pet dog was tied in front of the
house. The mastiff sprang upon him
and killed him. Mr.. Fletcher, who was
the only one at home, raised window
to ascertain what the trouble was, when
the dog bit him on the left arm, making
an ugly wound. Mr.. Fletcher then
seized pair of tongs and stepped to the
door, when the dog sprang at his throat
A blow with the tongs knocked him
back, but he instantly rallied and made
another spring, with the same result
Thus the fight continued for a long time,
the dog becoming more Infatuated at
every blow, when finally he succeeded
in driving his fangs into Fletcher's right
arm, tearing the flesh into shreds. 1t
was now fight for life, and by DIES.
perate effort the dog was given blow
that partially stunned him. This was
promptly followed up, and the dog soon
dispatched Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22

working revolveT the largest 300 and
the smallest $50 per minute. This mo.
ton causes the loose edges of the skin
to fly off and rub the grain against the
wire screen, driving any flour on it
rice. AS it is brushed according to its
grade of whole, middling, or small, as
previously separated by the screens, it
so passes by spouts to tierces prepared
for its reception, standing each on a
platform to itself, so arranged on shaft
underneath as to give them slight jerk
up and down, which packs the grain as
it falls into the tierce. AS soon as it
is full, it is removed, ready to be sent to
market. This completes the process of
milling. The speed of the different
parts of the machinery is, with slight
variations, as follows: Pestle shaft, ~
revolutions per minute; millstones, 1870;
brushes, from 800 to 400, according to
size; fans, from 100 to 800, according to
size; elevators, 40. 1t is therefore evil
dent that there should be no danger from
friction, if ordinary attention is paid to
lubricating. The rough rice, and moth
ing that comes from it during the process
of pounding, is at all infammable, but,
on the contrary, is slow of combustion;
but as these mills work at night, care
lessness in the system of illumination
should be avoided. All lights should,
asfar as practicable, be fixed, and no hand
lamps allowed, except lanterns fully pro-
tected under glass; and where coal gas is
not used, lard or whale oil should be.
In case of partial loss, the greatest
damage would be from water, as fresh
water softens the grain so much that, if
saved from heating and sprouting, it
never RECEIVERS its original frmness, and
is therefore very seriously deteriorated
in value; and if with salt water, it soon
becomes inoffensive as decayed flesh,
and is valueless.
The mills are costly, and generally
pay well, and every precaution is used
by those in charge 70 protect them from
accidents; but still they are classed as
extra hazardous, and some companies,
particularly the English, write only very
small lines on them, or decline them alto
gether. This can only attribute to
want of knowledge of the risk. The
writer has been familiar with the rice in
terest of South Carolina for over thirty.
five years, and can remember the burn
ing of only three pounding mills in that
time, and therefore cannot regard them
as extra hazardous.
The particulars as to speed of machin-
cry, and much other valuable informa.
ton, have been kindly furnished me by
two of the most experienced practical
millers in the State.-COI. C. X. Huger,
IN Scientific Anericnn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22
California Celery.

LAST spring Mr.. Cooley received from
the Agricultural Department in Wash
ington some seeds of what professed to
be new variety of celery from Cali
fOrnia. He planted large bed in his
garden with it, and after while it began
to come up nicely. In few days he
noticed that the number of cats around
the place began to increase and that they
were very fond of congregating in the
garden. He counted fifteen ON the celery
bed one day, and the next day there
were thirtyfour. Two days later he saw
over forty hanging about in various
places, and the number constantly en-
larged until in few weeks six or seven
hundred cats had taken up permanent
residence in the garden. There were
white cats and black cats, tortoise shell
cats, yellow cats, gray cats, tiger cats,
cream colored cats, Maltese cats, speckled
cats, long-tailed cats, short-t tailed cats,
and cats without any tails. At night
they would range themselves along the
fence and send up prolonged and awful
noise that an orphan asylum might make
under the influence of a powerful cpl
demic stomach-ache. Then they would
spit and yowl and turn handsprings and
put up their backs and 60 tearing around
over the California celery in manner
calculated to fill the soul of an agricult.
urist with utter dismay.
1t was useless to try to drive them off.
No dog dared put his nose in the gate,
and shooting them did no good, because
whenever Cooley killed six cats, fifteen
or twenty more arrived next day. The
entire country around was drained to
keep up the supply. Cooley at first
thought that his farm had been selected
as the place for holding general CEN
vention, or a synod, or ratification
meeting, or something; but he was struck
after awhile by the fact that the cats ate
all the California celery as fast as it
came up; so he began to have misgivings
and after being kept awake all one night
by the screeching of the synod out in
the garden he took some of the celery
seed over to Butterwick's and asked him
if he could tell him what kind of celery
that was. Butterwick looked at it,
smelled it, and said:
"You didn't buy that for celery, did
you?"
" No; l got it from Washington"
"And planted ity"
"Of course; whole bed full. And
what gets me is that all the cats around
the neighborhood made Decline for
that bed as soon as the celery came up"
NOW I'll tell you what to do. Ifyou
really want to make collection of cats,
you SOW an acre with that seed; and the
first thing you know cats II be emigrating
from Peru, and Sweden, and Japan, and
Canada East, and Cochin China, and
Terra del Fuego, in order to get at your
place. They'll swim the Atlantic Ocean
and walk thousands of miles, and fight
Bengal tigers, to reach you. That
celery of yours is catnip. That's what
it is. Chuck some more of it in the
ground, and youll soon have the biggest
cattery in the world-millions of 'em.
And then you can start a fine muff
factory" ..... 20"
1t U1S catnip; and Cooley he went
home and plowed up the bed. Then he
sat down and wrote TO the Agricultural
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22
Autumn Making OF Lawns.

CAN gain anything by sowing grass
seed, for lawn, in the autumn? If so,
state the best time" Thus writes gen.
tleman who feels disappointed because
he did not get ready to make lawn in
the spring, and who hardly felt satisfied
at the advice we gave, not to attempt to
SOW grass seed, for lawn, late in MAY.
Grass seed needs moisture, and will
hardly terminate in hot, dry weather,
while the weeds will get such a start over
the slow growing grass seed that even
that which terminates will be choked.
Our soils are thickly seeded with coarse,
hardy weeds, and we must give the grass
seed good chance and fair start or
they will lose the game. We have known
some people to get the land designed for
a lawn raked off nicely before they OBJ
tain grass seed, causing delay of sew
eral days, and during all this time the
weeds were getting good start. One of
the quickest and best lawns we have ever
known made was on the estate of Thomas
Leighton, of this city. The grass seed
was sown about the list of September,
and made full growth. A light dress
ing of wellrotted manure was thrown
over for winter protection, and by the
middle of the next May the grass was as
nearly perfect as could be desired. On
account of the occupation of the ground
we were unable to SOW grass on what we
designed for lawn until November of
last year, but thought we would try it.
Winter set in very early. The heavy
snow of winter and the spring rains made
a naturally tenacious soil too hard for
anything" we thought, and we hardly
knew whetherit was best to pillow the whole
up and SOW again, or wait ans run the risk
of losing the spring time for sowing. The
weather had been exceedingly dry, but
just as we were about to break up the
hard soil and SOW again two .days' rain
gladdened our hearts, the grass started
up thick and strong, and our lawn will
be pretty good. Still, we would not
recommend late sowing. The seed
should be sown early enough to make a
good growth and become well rooted be-
fore heavy frosts. Four bushels of seed
to the acre for a heavy, quick sod
VickS Guide.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22
Starvation in England.

IT is extremely gratifying to learn that,
in the year 1876, no man, woman or child
died of starvation, so far as the Metro.
pOlitan Coroners were aware, within the
precincts OF Middlesex and Surrey nor
tions of the Duchy of Lancaster, Her
Majesty's Tower of London, the verge of
the royal palaces, or the Greenwich and
New Wadsworth divisions. The returns
from the Coroners of all the above-men-
toned districts are comprised in the
pithy word mil" This immunity from
death accelerated by deprival of food
did not, unhappily, extend to the central
division of Middlesex, in which twenty
verdicts of starvation" we're returned;
while nineteen cases of the same kind
took place in East Middlesex. In the
western division there were three cases;
in the city of London and borough of
Southwark only one; and there was SOL
itary instance likewise in the Getty and
liberty of Westminster" Nevertheless,
the figures which we have culled from a
curious return, lately submitted to the
House of Copmons, are practically delu-
sive. The inquests held ON people who
die of starvation cannot constitute a
1.-THE of the deaths which are really
fastened by the want of nourishing
food. Many of the poor creatures com
prised in this melancholy list were mere
babies ranging in age from three weeks
to three months. For example, one in
FAINT, only fifteen days old, died of "effu.
sion on the brain, restitution and priva.
ton" This can hardly be qualified as
a case of " starvation" The people
who were really starved were sixty,
seventy, and even eighty years old. To
poor woman of seventy-one, who
was in the receipt of three shillings
a week, outdoor relief had been
offered, and she had been refused
admission to the workhouse. She died
of " fatal fainting, accelerated by
want" but how much of her weekly
three shillings possibly went in gin is
not limited at. An old man of eighty
with half crown, and another old
woman of sixty seven, with three shil.
lings a week and loaf, also died of
" exhaustion and want of food" In St.
Luke's Union widow of seventy-One,
who had been in receipt of outdoor re-
lief, was deprived of her weekly pit.
lance because she declined to come into
the workhouse. Two months afterward
she died of " exposure and restitution"
a deplorable end but surely the parish
authorities cannot be blamed for the OBJ
stinacy Of this old woman in refusing the
shelter and the food offered her in the
Union. AT her age she would not have
been compelled to work. She would
have regular and sufficing, if not luxu-
rious, food but she would not have
been permitted to prowl about and drink
gin. 1t is owing to such regulations that
so many aged and infrm persons object
to the workhouse and when they are
found dying on doorsteps the parish
authorities are often charged with neg
lect or inhumanity. Yet there are vast
numbers of people who die in London
every year of sheer starvation who have
never troubled the parish one way or
the other, and on whose remains no
Coroners' inquests are held. They starve
and die and make no sign.-LOndOn
Daily Telegraph.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22

he consented to return. Again appear
ing before the notary, the bridegroom
said: GIVE thought it over and changed
my mind" Good" said the notary, de-
lighted. "But now let's have no non
sense. N. N, are you willing to take,
etc., ETC., as your wife?" yes" said
the bridegroom. IN. N, are you willing
to take, etc, etc, as your husband."
Yes" said the bride. "No! nor cried
the bridegroom. THAT won't do"
But the notary turns tiercely upon him:
What is said is said. Here, subscribe
your names and begoner And before
the outwitted groom can collect his
thoughts the thing is done.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22

Department to say that, if it was estab-
lished for the purpose of promoting the
use of profanity among American farm
ers, he believed that its efforts were like
ly to be crowned with extraordinary sue
cess.-Mdr Adeler.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22

THE Geneva Courier tells of man in
that place who in one week courted,
married and had a honeymoon; forged a
note; obtained horse by false pretenses;
borrowed wagon, and stole out of town
with out his wife; was arrested, brought
back and put into the lookup, where he
remains.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22

The aerial quickstep is what they
call a hanging in Arkansas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-22

Who does not love the beautiful water
lily, the Nympha 0dorata of our ponds
and lakes? No one, not even he of whom
the poet said
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-12-20
1878. MONEY SAVED 1873.
VAN MATTRESS
Newspaper ClubAgency.

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we would call attention tothe reduced pri-
ces, as well as TO the many other induce
ments which we offer TO all who desire TO
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trail Law Journal, ISL, Frank Leslie's Illus
trated Newspaper, lS4l, Gleasons Pictorial,
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ders to buy, and five separate risks to run.
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A pleasant Christmas gift to an
editor will be to pay your subscrip-
ton and renew for another year

"GERMAY SYRup."-No other med
icine in the world was ever given
such a test of its curative qualities
as Boschcc's German Syrup. In
three years two million four hun.
dred thousand small bottles Of this
medicine were distributed free Of
charge by Druggists in this country
to those afflicted with Consumption,
Asthma, Group, severe Coughs, Pneu-
monia and other diseases of tho
Throat and Lungs, giving tho Amer
lean people undeniable proof that
German Syrup will cure them. The
result has been that Druggists in
every town and village in tho Uni
tad States are recommending it to
their customers. Go to your Drug
gist, and ask what they know about
II. Sample Bottles 10 cents, Rogu-
lar size 70 cents. Three doses will
relieve any case. For sale at the
Point Pleasant Drug Store, jos $,
Miller, supt
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-12-20

Our school closed for tho VACATION
on Friday and win open again on
the Slst of December All who are
going to enter tho school rorthe next
term of three months, are requested
to report on tho first day, The Prin-
cipal of the school will petition the
Board of Education not allow any
now scholar to be enrolled, especially
for his department, after the first day
of the torn, This he will do in jus.
ticc to those who have been already
enrolled,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-12-20
valuable stock for sale.

T'HE undersigned has two valuable horses
which no proposes TO soil NJ y reasona.
BE price, or trade for oxen, or nice young
cattle. Also fine young bull.
Nv. NEWMAN.
nov92.t
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-12-20

We received a letter from Mr.
Richard Spence, Saturday, stating
that he arrived safe at New Orleans
on tho 10th inst, that he went into
the market with his hay which is
selling at $40 and sls per ton; 'Pota'
toes arc dull, selling from si'O5 to
sl75 per barrel. We hope our old
fricnd.will como out NIL right with
his produce; and mako plenty OF
money ON his venture.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-12-20
Steam-Engines.

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