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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
What They Take.

Most of the excursionists from the in.
terror bring up in candy store, sooner
or later, after reaching the city, and the
variety of tastes manifested by their in.
quiries astonishes the confectioners. A
girl with great many pink ribbons on
leaned over the counter the other day
and gently asked:
cave you hany big sticks hof candy
scented hup with hotter hof roses?"
He hadn't, and after expressing her
deep disappointment she bought licorice
and was made comparatively happy, A
young man, who had left his girl on the
corner, brusquely inquired:
Got any hunks at cent hunk?"
The confectioner didn't deal in hunks,
and the customer continues:
"Well, gimme suthin' that will stick
to the teeth and chaw up slow. I'm a
little short to-day, an I've got TO chaw
straws while Mary chaws candy"
The third one was woman about
forty, wearing beau-catchers and trying
to look like a girl of eighteen. She
smiled and smirked and whispered:
Have you any of these little long,
fat pieces of candy with red printing on
them?"
He had.
"And can l select out such as l want
such as young lady of the respeca.
blest character might venture to pass TO
to the object of her aflections?"
She was given the opportunity, and th
confectioner turned to wait on an oil
couple about sixty years old.
Wen take some peppermint candy"
observed the husband.
You mean we'll take some sassyfriS,"
the wife protested.
Il know what we want, 1 guess, md l
say We'll take peppermint"
And say sassyfras."
and l say pep"
And say sassm
They went out without taking ither,
and block further down the stret they
compromised on California pear and a
pint of peanuts.-DetrOdt Free PrsS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

ful-looking tides; and if they want to
make what-nots" and comb.cases out
of pine cones encourage them in it. A
rev pictures will be needed, and if you
can afford an organ get one, or even
piano 1t will sound quite as sweet in
farmhouse as in city brown stone
front.
Take newspapers half-dozen of
them at least-and a popular magazine
or two, and do not think the money spent
in securing good reading for your family
wasted.
Don't look cross when party of the
neighbors' boys and girls drive up to
make your young folks visit. Be sure
and have spare stall or two for their
horses; and make them thoroughly well
come.
Encourage sociability. Ask them to
come again, and help tuck up the girls
when they go away. Nothing like Keep
ing on the right side of the women.
And when Jack and Tom and Polly saw
anything about returning the visit, help
them off; and don't grumble next morn
ing because they did not get home till
eleven o'clock. Try and remember that
when you were boy, and went sleigh
riding with the girls, eleven o'clock did
not seem to you half so late an hour az
it seems now.
And, lastly, do not sell everything eat
able off the farm, and confne your fam
lily to diet of corn bread, potatoes and
salt-pork, as too many farmers do.
We do believe that this salt pork diet
has driven more young men and women
away from FARMS tRan hard Work. !,
In great many instances, the eggs,
and butter, and cream, and fruit, and
garden vegetables are carried off to mar
ket, and the farmers, who are the pro-
ducers of almost everything in the eata.
BILE line, are the worst-fed people on the
face of the globe.
We believe that if farmers would take
one-half the pains to beautify their
homes and make them attractive that
they take in improving their breed of
sheep, that their boys would not leave
them for the close confinement of city
workshops; and we should hear a great
deal less of the familiar complaint that
"boys are not what they used to be-
Kate Thorn, in ". Y. Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

Courtney, an hour or two after he
had won the Saratoga regatta, told the
following story: 81 believed l should
win the race, for a day or two before a
hungry, half-starved kitten came on the
piazza where lot of fellows were sitting
and they made fun of the little thing
and drove it down the hill. / went and
picked it up and fed it, and the little
creature has slept on my bed ever since,
sticks close to me and has made great
friends. And yesterday another kitten
followed couple of young fellows out
from Saratoga and stayed at my head
quarters. The colored help all said that
it meant good luck, and they Rugged and
caressed it, and said would win, sure
Perhaps there was something in it, after
all.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
FOREIGN ITEMS.
CAPRI is noted for its pretty women.

CAPRI is noted for its pretty women
The distress of the working classes Of
Copenhagen is said to be unexampled.
RETURNS of the census of Japan for
1873 give population of 33,625,67
japanese.
In Spain and Italy movement is on
foot to colonize Mexico, but the Mexican
press discourages the idea on the ground
of hard times.
THE Womens Printing School of Ber-
lin has thirty compositrices in it's employ.
They are mostly daughters of people in
decent positions.
In the pampas of Buenos Ayres there
are Il, OOO,0 900 cows and 5000, 600 horses
that have owners, while there are also
great numbers of wild herds.
1T is reported that Germany is remon-
strating against France erecting forti-
fications on the Swiss frontier, which is
causing an uneasy feeling.
SIGN at a tavern near the cemetery of
st. Omen, at Paris "The Mourner's Re-
turn! Choice Wines and Liquors. Private
Rooms for Guests Who Wish to Weep
in Private"
Two WOMEN fought duel few days
ago in the forest of Chepultepec, near
Mexico. They were separated by two
coachmen before much damage had been
done.
THE London Times of the 18th of
August contained a seven column editori-
lal article on the. PaylisNentary session
of 1877, being the only editorial article
in the paper.
The Woman's Rights Society of Paris
has been dissolved by order of MacMa-
hons Government, and ordered to cease
holding meetings. The Government con-
sidered it a nest of radicalism.
A LONDON letter says the cab COM
panies have issued an order forbidding
their employees to swear, and they obey
it. After three weeks in the city, the
correspondent says, he hasn't heard an
oath.
A DECREE of President MacMahon has
been issued, comforting a gold medal
upon Lieut.. Fozier, commander of
the American steamer Pix, for saving
the French ship Peabody, in the Missis-
sippi River.
THE Lord Chief Justice of England,
Sir Alexander Cockburn, recently re-
preached a criminal who had cut his
barmaid's throat, for lacking courage to
commit suicide rather than "face the
disgrace he had incurred"
ENTERPRIsING photographer on an
Oriental battle. field seeks out the spot
where the dead lie most thickly, adjusts
his camera, removes the cap and-such
is the force of habit-breaks out with the
sacramental exhortation: {" Fix your eyes
on me and don't stir"
THE Queen has conferred the Albert
Medal of the first and second classes, re-
spectively, on the men who helped to re-
lieve the imprisoned miners in Welsh
mine in April last. The Victoria Cross
is restricted to naval and military heroes,
officers and privates. One peer bears it,
Lord Clifford, for valor in the Ashantee
| war.
Two LITTLE edible dogs from China
have been received at the Acclimatiza-
| ton Garden in Paris. These interesting
CANNES have heads like pugs, are vely
small and fat and short-legged, and are
eaten usually when two months old, after
being fed exclusively on rice and milk.
They are eaten roasted and served with
| SOW,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
The Diary OF a Fashionable Young Lady.

SARATOGA, Thursday, Aug 8 Such a
morning! Felt too sleepy after dancing
last night to put up my hair in crimps
Crimped it this morning with the iron.
Burnt it, Wore white and blue awful
light blue-last night. Not that horrid
dark blue that the Brown girls wear, but
nat sweet light blue that goes with pink.
ne bow on parasol, blue flowers in hair,
: sash and blue stockings. Wore
silk mitts for the first time. The
VI Minister'S wife and are the only
70 wear them. Awful stylish
we the elbow. Bound to be the
sc white mitts are. Put just a
on my cheeks and penciled
s. Auntie don't know that /
just little artificial red
d on my cheeks won't hurt
Dodge girls always do it,
rs the rose leaf. The
redrose dodge, but l
hitting!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
"THE Great Naturalist of the North

"THE Great Naturalist of the North
is infesting the South and whitening
negroes at fifty dollars each, ten dollars
down, the remainder on obtaining abso-
Lutte pulchritude. The operator offers to
whiten one volunteer free, and treats him
with nitric acid, warning him that the
instantaneous process is painful. The
volunteer soon bowls and gives in, and
no one will come forward but the great
naturalist's corked confederates, who,
after much bowling and squirming, are
washed white as snow. Then the ne
groes buy the anti Ethiopic remedy
freely, and the Naturalist of the North
silently steals away before they have had
time to discover the fraud.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
Light, vveII-Raised Bread. Biscuits

to good h. alth Good health makes labor of
all kinds easier and prolongs life DooLEY's
YEAST POWDER will alwa make all these
productions liz hit and wholesome tits war
Ianted to make bet er, ligh err swee'e r, more
toothsome and nutritious biscuits, cake,
bread, etc., than any other baking powder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
DOnsI Re DrceiYed

in buying Quinine, Bitters or any of the old
remedies for Augue, Chills, Bilionsness, etc,
but insist upon getting OVENS Eucalyptus
Cordial. If your druggist does not keep it
nave it sent by express. HoRATIo K. OWEN,
z oprietor, Toledo, o. Price 81.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

AT Wauwatosa, Wis, Farmer Dingle's
hired girl would not marry Joe Oswald
and her lover revenged himself by burn
ing down Farmer Dingle's barn, which,
with its contents, was valued at several
thousand dollars.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

LIFE has within its gift grand posi-.
bilities for a Yale graduate-especially if
he has once handled the stroke oar in a
Yale boat crew Collins, the gentleman
who held that position this season, is
now handling lumber at Greenville, Mich.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

"A man can hardly be sure of his own
identity any longer. 1t is now said that
"Sitting Bull'' is one Charles Jacobs, d
half breed Ojibway, born at Fort Garry,
who graduated at st. Johns College, in
Canada.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29
Graefenberg MarshaIps CathoIIcon

Never fails to relieve and permanently cure
all those diseases commonly known as female
complaints. Sold by all druggists. Send for
almanac. Graefenberg Co., So Reade ST., NY.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

=" At what age were you married.
asked she, inquisitively. But the other
lady was equal to the emergency, and
quietly responded: "At the parsonage"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

She was ironing when her sister
came in with the news that an uncle was
dead, Dead" she gasped, nearly drop.
ping the iron from her hand Her face
was very pale, as was that of her sister,
as they both stood there looking at each
other with that awestruck expression
which death leaves upon the faces of the
living. " DeadP she repeated, in fall
tering voice. at doesn't seem possible.
1t is so sudden, so unexpected, that can
scarcely realize it. What are you going
to wear?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

kINGsFoRD's OswEGo CORN STARCH.-Pud-
dlngs, icllies, custalds, and blanc mango
made of Kingsford's Star,h ave a delicacy
anG flavor that nothing else can give.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

BURNETT's CoCoAINEis the best and cheap
es' Hair Dressing in the world. 1t kills dam
druh, allays irritation, an promotes Wig
orous growth of the Hair.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

Don't fail to procure Mrs. WINsLows SooTH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain cures wind
collie, regulates tie bowels, and, by giving relief
and health to the child gives rest to the mother.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

as-see E. browns Adv't of Foor LArnEs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-09-29

THE wool hat business is growing in
dimensions every year.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
Useful Hints for Measuring Land.

Almost every farmer has some way of
measuring land, and the most common is
to step off five PAGES for a rod, and call
sixty by sixty-tive PAGES an acre. For
ordinary purposes this mode will answer,
but when the exact measurement of q
piece of land is desired it cannot be de-
pended upon as being accurate.
A light pole, just sixteen and half
feet long, is n cheap and convenient
measure, but four-rod tape line is much
better.
An exact acre can be found by the fol-
lowing table of distances:
A plot of ground yards wide by 96S
yards long contains acre.
A plot of ground 10 yards wide by 4S4
yards long contains acre.
A plot of ground 20 yards wide by 242
yards long contains l acre.
A plot of ground 40 yards WIDE by III
yards long contains / acre.
A plot of ground so yards wide by COZ
yards long contains l acre.
A plot of ground 20 yards wide by SO
IT yards long contains l acre.
A plot of ground 900 feet long by 1873
feet wide contains acre.
A plot of ground 40 feet long by 80
feet wide contains / acre.
A plot of ground ITO feet wide by 1863
feet long contains i acre.
A plot of ground $40 feet long by 1S1
feet wide contains acre.
One acre contains 100 square rods;
1910 square yards; 43, $50 square feet.
One rod contains 1925 square yards,
272.25 square feet.
One square yard contains 9 square
feet.
To measure corn in the crib: Multiply
the length, breadth and height together,
in feet, to obtain the cubic feet multi
ply this product by four and strike of
the right figure, and the result will be
shelled bushels, nearly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
A Paper.Making Spider.

In the heart of the American continent,
where no other paper is manufactured,
the spider paper-maker does her quiet
work. Back and forth, over a flat sur
face about an inch and half square, on
the inside wall of hut, the spider slowly
moves in many lines until the square is
covered with pure white paper. Under
this she places from forty to fifty eggs;
and then, to fasten the square of paper
more securely to the wall, she makes a
strip of paper about quarter of an inch
broad, and with this CLUES the square
carefully around the edges. When all is
done, the spider-which is quite large
one-places herself on the center of the
outside of the little fiat bag so carefully
made, and begins watch which is to
last three weeks without intermission
Apparently, the young spiders would
have many dangers to fear did not their
anxious mamma wage fierce war upon
the cockroaches and other insects that
come near. After three weeks of unre-
hitting watchfulness, the mother-spider
leaves her nest in the daytime to hunt
food, but see always returns at night,
until her young are strong enough to
take care of themselves.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
The Newspaper.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, in his adj
mirable papers on Intellectual Life"
thus talks of the paper: Newspapers
are to the civilized world what the daily
house talk is to the members of the fam
ily-they keep our daily interest in each
other, they save us from the evils of
isolation. To live as a member of the
great white race that has filed Europe
and America and colonized or conquered
whatever territory it has been pleased
to occupy, to share from day to cay its
thought, its cares, its inspiration, it is
necessary that every man should read
his paper. Why are the French peas
ants SO bewildered at sea? 1t is because
they never read newspaper. And why
are the inhabitants of the United States,
though scattered over a territory four
teen times the area of France, so much
more capable of concerted action, so
much more alive and modern, so much
more interested in new discoveries of all
kinds and capable of selecting and util-
izing the best of them2 1t is because
the newspapers penetrate everywhere.
and even the lonely dweller on the prai-
RE or the forest is not intellectually iso-
lated from the great currents of public
life which flow through the telegraph
and press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
The SutrO Tunnel.

A correspondent of the Engineering
and Mining Journal declares the Sutro
tunnel second to no enterprise in the
West. He says, Its mouth is in the
valley of the Carson river, stream
Washoe range, in which the Comstock
lies. 1t has been driven total distance
of 1900 feet up to date, and is making
progress at the rate of 800 feet per
month. Not more than $500 feet now
intervenes between the breast and the
nearest mine on the Comstock, the Say
age, so that, if the present rate of pro-
gression be maintained, about ten months
more will suffice to complete the connec-
ton. The lode will be cut at depth of
about 1880 feet perpendicularly below
the surface, and very nearly the center,
measuring by the extent Of the surface
workings. 1t has been proposed, either
by the Sutro Company or by a combina-
ton of owners along the vein, to run a
drift north and south through each claim
until the ends of the veins literally are
reached. This will connect every mine
on the vein with the tunnel; will drain
the entire workings; and, should these
lateral drifts be put under one manage
ment and made common highway, will
afford the means of working the entire
vein through one opening. 1t is now
eight years since work was first begun at
the town of Sutro, on the Carson river.
The expense of prosecuting the work has
averaged about $1,000 per day, and,
when the Comstock is reached, the total
cost will have amountedto about SO 900,
600 "
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
A Tragic Test.

A singular murder case awaiting trial
in India has given rise to much legal
discussion as to whether the circum-
stances justify the charge. A iuggler,
who alleged that he possessed some
power which rendered him "bullet-
proof" invited the prisoner in the case
to aim at him with loaded musket, as
surfing him that he might Go so without
the slightest fear of producing any pain
full results. The prisoner accepted the
kind invitation, and, with a loaded mus
ket presented to him by the juggler, i'm
mediately sent bullet through his head.
1t is urged that. as there was no inten
ton on the part of the prisoner to kill
the deceased, the charge of murder cam
not be maintained. The juggler was
thoroughly confident of his own invul-
nerability, and several of his relations
who were to be called as witnesses for
the defense were prepared to prove that,
although several times shot at before, he
was never hurt. A similar case occurred
in England few years ago. A wizard
at one of the theaters begged one of the
audience as favor to fire gun Mt him.
The spectator, thus invited, loaded the
gun with charge of shot he had brought
with him for the express purpose of test
ing crucially the alleged invulnerability
OF the wizard. The result was painful
in the extreme-the wizards face was
peppered with shot, and the spectator
who fired the gun was given in the GUS
tody of the police. Both narrowly es-
capped death-one by the gun and the
other by the gallows.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
An Ill.Starred Youth.

A local paper in Pennsylvania tells of
a youth living in the vicinity who has
undergone varied experience in cas-
ualties of character almost sufficient to
ruin any accident insurance company in
which he might hold policy. He COM
menced the world deaf and dumb. After
attaining sufficient growth to engage
in the usual sports of childhood, he fell
from a swing and received an injury
from splinter, which resulted ir the
loss of an eye. Subsequently horse
stepped on his face, inficting serious
pain and Disagreement. Venturing too
near the railroad, he was knocked down
by a train of cars, and considerably
bruised and injured thereby. Last FRI
day, while playing in the road, he was
run over by team and had an arm
broken.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03

A Turk thinks he can do nothing 80
grateful to God and man as the setting
up of fountain by the roadside or in
the streets of the city, where the way
farer and his animals may appease their
thirst and bless the name of him who
provided for their wants. Often in my
travels in the interior of Turkey, writes
a correspondent. have halted beneath
the shade of wide-spreading plane tree
to slack my thirst at the limpid waters of
a marble fountain, and to repose from
the MONDAY heat. There is always some
edifying distich from the Koran, that
"Water is the gift of God, and blessed
is he who distributes it," or that ''Water
is the source of life and health" etc.
There is practical piety in these monu-
ments of charity that speaks well for the
benevolent disposition of the Mussul-
man. The Turks are great consumers of
water, and they are good judges of its
quality and nice in that they use. The
favofite water that is sold at para a
glass in the streets is from Asia either
from Tchamildja, on the mountain about
Scutari, or from Karakoulak, some ten
miles up the Bosphorus, several miles
inward from Belcos. This is brought to
the landing in barrels, on horses backs,
put in barges, and in this way carried to
Constantinople before daylight. Not
withstanding the length of the journey,
it is as pure as crystal. The vendors cry
it as "Bowz guibi;" Gas good as ice. u
A Pasha will drain two goblets at swal-
low. AS water is said to have fattening
properties, the large draughts they take
of it may be the cause, in part, of the
obesity to which both sexes of the Turks
are subject.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03

mining, and by this order some 400
colliery hands are furloughed. The
striking Golfers are still contesting the
reduction of wages with the operators,
and, as extensive arrangements are being
made by the Miners Union, it looks very
much as if there would be a general and
widespread strike in the near future.
The entire number of unemployed min
ers and laborers in the coal fields is be-
tween 10, 900 and 10000. Hundreds OF
these men and their families are i'll very
destitute condition, and it is feared their
situation will cause some OF the more
desperate spirits to attempt serious and
riotous demonstration. Lawlessness has
been started at several points, and house
and highway robberies are of daily oc-
currence
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
Pennsylvania Coal-Miners, Strike.

News comes from Wilkesbarre, Pa,
that general suspension of coal-mining
is imminent, in consequence of the
strikes of the miners. The Schuylkill
county coilieries have mostly shut down;
the mines of the Reading Coal and Iron
Company are only partially, operated !;
and the Shamokin coal men reduced the
miners wages, causing a strike, in which
some three thousand are engaged. This
latter strike will most likely result in a
lockout" as the operatives seem de-
termined to have their terms complied
with, which will draw several more
thousand workmen to the ranks of the
disaffected.
The Wyoming region operators have
followed the example set by the Schuyl-
kill county producers, and every day re-
cords the closing of some colliery. The
prominent companies, the Susquehanna
and Lehigh, and Wilkesbarre coal COM
panies have announced suspension of