The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-04-14

at point where five doors interviewed
! without such an indispensable con-
venience"
The steam sled invented up in Min
nesOta has proved more wonderful than
useful. Says the Milwaukee Sentinel:
1.-The inventor was not able to control
his sled after full steam was on. When
last seen it was tearing through fences
and corn cribs, and over millions of I'M
ripe grasshopper eggs, apparently bent
for Lake Superior"
| The product of wax in the United
States is stated to be 10000, 600 pounds
annually and increasing-worthi in money
at least 5000, 600 OF this about S7OO,-
900 worth are exported, and 81 100000
worth of honey goes abroad. The total
product of honey and wax is worth at
/ present in the United States nearly Sl5,-
100000
A young man writes us from Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, to know if there is any
! good opening out here for light bust
ness, requiring only small capital. Well,
yes. He might open an office aud hang
out sign: Money borrowed here
We don't believe he'd have enough to do
to worry him, and he could start on as
small capital in that as in any business
we know of.-HaOk- Eye.
DELAYING THE TRAIN.
-" Good FRIEND" said Blinks to a gentle
man,
"l beg of you sir, to refrain,
For by your stepping on my wifc's dress
You are delaying the train"
:" Dear sir" the gentleman blandly said,
/ q" think you'd find it well
| To ask the conductor of your train
TO gently pull the belle"
Boston Globe
james ?. O'Brien, one of the New
Orleans men arrested for completely IN
the whisky frauds nine months ago,
coolly walked out Of the United States
Commissioners office in search of bail,
and was heard of no more. A day or
two ago. however, he stepped into the
office again, said he had found bonds
man, and gave bail in So 900 for his APP
pearance at st. Louis.
In New York city whenever a law
yer gets up and says; " Your Honor, |
rise to move ror the appointment of
receiver" the Court says: Never
mind going into particulars What in
surance company is it for?" And at
Albany, whenever member of the Leg
islature has a note coming due, he intro
duces {" An Act to Regulate Fire and
Life Insurance Companies" and doesn't
have to renew the note.
-Jocko, pet monkey in the United
States Arsenal atSummerville, Ga, came
to anuntoward end the other day. Jocko
had been in the habit of watching the
artillerymen. One morning he slyly APP
preached the piece used for firing salutes
and pulled the lanyard. The charge did
not explode at once. Jocko darted to
the mouth to see what the matter was,
when suddenly a report was heard, and
Jocko's remains were scattered over the
sward.
"A young lady out on North Hill has
been trying for three weeks to get u
photograph of her pet poodle, but the
hdgety little animal wouldn't be taken.
SO she just had the artist take photo
graph OF her incest young man, whiten
the mustache and Burnsdes, and paint
the ears up little, and the resemblance
is so perfect that the innocent young
man himself admired it, and begged for
a copy as - sOovneer of the Spacious
animal. "-Hawk Eye.
lished in the United States was in Phila-
delpbia, in 1901. The census of 1910,
less than twenty years after, reported the
whole product of the United States in
this class of goods at 10000 yards, of
which $500 yards were made in Phila-
delphia. The census of 1870 shows that
there were then SS9 carpet factories in
the United States employing $4,000 per-
sons and S13,000,0O0 capital, paying
annually 100000 in wages, and pro-
ducing annually goods to the value of
S22, 100000
OUR DAILY RECKONING.
If we sit down at set of sun,
And count the things that we have done,
And, counting, find
One selfdenying act, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard;
One glance most kind,
That fell like sunshine where it went
Then we may count the day well spent,
But if through all the ife-long day
We've eased no heart by yea or nay;
If through all
We've done nothing that we can trace,
That brought the sunshine to face;
No act, most small,
That helped some soul, and nothing cost
Then count that day as worse than lost
Such marvellous effects as are pro-
duced by blue glass. In fact, the only
recorded instance of failure to cure by
the blue-gass treatment is the following:
\ man who said he had been lame for
some time, and walked with cane, was
placed in blue-Slass un-bath, and left
to himself IN the room for an hour, at
the expiration of which he was found by
an attendant fast asleep, and with one leg
OF his pantaloons rolled up. The leg
was wooden one, and the patient
stumped off, muttering that he knew it
was a COMPOUNDED humbug all the time"
-Ha9per'S Baz0
"a barrister-at-law" writes to the
London Telegraph a letter on Russian
barbarity, in which he says: 81 have
seen the knout,' so let me explain what
it is. 1t is a lash of leather, dipped in
glue and then quickly incrusted with
iron filings and powdered glass. 1t is
not so very long since the knout was APP
piled to Russian man-of-war sailor in
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