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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
New Wonders Of the Telephone.

An entirely new field of science has
been opened by the discoveries in the
line of the monograph and telephone.
The limit can hardly be guessed at
The latest thing is the invention of an
instrument that bears the same relation
to our capacity for hearing that the
microscope or telescope does to vision.
The new device magnifies sound; it is
appropriately called the microphone.
By its means, sounds so faint that they
have never before been heard by human
ears may be made of any degree of
loudness. A feathers edge, brushed
over the sounding-board of this instru-
ment, has been made to crash upon the
ears of the listeners. The touch of the
tip of a camel s-hair brush was the oc-
casion of "a cracking noise, of which
the intensity was almost painful to the
ear" The faintest whisper of the hui
man voice can be produced in the loud
est tones. Prof. ID. E. Hughes, the in
ventor of type-printing telegraph in
strument, is the inventor of a micro
phone, of which he has given full ac-
count to the Royal Society of London,
and the steps by which he was led up
to the invention. The apparatus which
he has employed for his new expert
ments is of the simplest character, and
the most trihing cost. With it he has
made the footsteps of house-fy dis
tinctly audible; and all these sounds,
after being intensified, are transmitted to
any needful distance by the ordinary
telephone. At recent exhibition of
these experiments to a few scientific
friends in London, all the astonishing
effects that have been referred to were
easily produced, except the fly perform
ance. With great difficulty (says Ma
ture) the philosophers found a fly in the
house. With yet greater difficulty they
caught the insect. But the final trouble
was insurmountable; the captured fly
would stay on the glass tumbler that
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
Fish by the Square Mile.

Some faint idea of the vast and mex
haustible number of fish on our shores
may, perhaps, be obtained by consid-
GRAFTON of the fact that yesterday no
fewer than 5000 barrels of porgies
were caught of, Newport. If the sea
through the Vineyard and Long Island
Sounds, is anywhere near as rich in
porgies, mossbunkers and other varie-
ties of the abundant kinds of fish, what
an immense teeming world of life there
must be beneath the waves! And it is
even more than the striving, pushing
world of human life, scene of rapacity
and destruction-the stronger preying
upon the weaker, and" the survival of the
fittest." Enormous as this single days
catch of porgies seems, it is surpassed
by some of the hauls of bony-fish or
mossbunkers-the whiteiish'' of the
evil-smelling fish-oil mills on the shore.
These creatures actually swarm in mill
ions, and are caught and hauled in by
the cargo. Schools of voracious blue.
fish pursue and drive them Tipping and
flashing to the surface, where they are
promptly pounced upon by the sailing
fish-haws and sea-gulls that wait for
them out of water. In the sea and on
the land the world seems to be a scene
of shark and tiger, in one or another
form of destructive rapacity Hartford
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
Another Great Invention in Telegraphy.

For several Years the transmission of
messages simultaneously in opposite
directions over single telegraph wire
has been very common thing in land
telegraphy. Indeed, the sending of two
messages in opposite directions at the
same time is now an everyday affair,
thus making one wire equal to four be-
fore this quadruplex invention. Not
until recently, however, has there been
anything attempted by which the long
Atlantic cables could be duplexed or
quadrupled, and the attempt at the out
set has been remarkable and crafty
ing success. The inventor, who is now
in Boston, is DR.. A. Muirhead,a Scotch
man, and at present a professor of
science in the London University. His
invention has already been adopted by
the Direct United States Cable Com
pany, and is now in successful practical
operation on the 600-mile cable between
Rye Beach, N. H., and Torbay, and the
2,40O-mile stretch between Torbay and
Ballinskillings, Ireland. The former
capacity of the cable was about fifteen
words per minute, but with the inven-
ton of the Scotch professor applied it
is capable of transmitting about thirty
eight words per minute. This Direct
Cable, therefore, is equal for business
to all the other Atlantic cables COM
bined.-BOSton Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
Wraps for Warm Weather.

FEW ladies appear on the street with
out some kind of wrap, though often
that wrap is far less for use than for
ornament. A fichu cape or mantilla
forms part of most handsome dresses
not exclusively intended for indoor
wear. These fichu capes are round,
pointed or double-pointed in the back,
and have ends more or less long knotted
in front or crossed and tied behind be-
low the waist The mantillas have
round backs and in front long square
fronts hanging plainly to the knee or
lower still. Cardinal capes are worn
by young ladies, formed of row upon
row of beaded fringe or lace. Small
three-corned lace shawls take the place
of fichu, and are favorite street
wrap. Scarfs have lost caste and ladies
adopt instead three-cornered necker-
chief of lace or lace-trimmed muslin,
black or white. The narrow, long scarf
pin has superseded all other brooches
for fastening scarf, 'kerchief or cape.
Carrick capes are much worn on the
street with polonaises, basques and
Princesse dresses. No other wrap is
required when these are used. Letters
from Paris state that plated waists with
a yoke and blouse find more favor there
than the cutaway coat which has taken
such strong hold upon the American
fancy. A style just imported has the
front of the skirt gored plainly, like
that of a small boys kilt, and trimmed
with rosettes or rather half rosettes
made of ribbon loops. The scarf
drapery is dispensed with and the cut
away coat is longer than usual and but
tons from the waist instead of sloping
away over a vest. Short Princesse
dresses, finished with a kilt-plaited
tiounce and with scarf drapery, are also
liked, especially for misses in their
teens. Lace shawls are converted into
tichu mantles by an ingenious arrange
ment of looping with bows of satin
ribbon, which can scarcely be described
upon paper, and which, when carefully
done, does not injure the shawl. Satin
takes high rank among fashionable fan
cies. Despite its heaviness it is used
both as dress material and as trimming
for dresses, hats and wraps. Worth
sends 1t over as vests, revers, panels,
cuffs, collars and pipings. One of his
new ideas consists of a small slip cut
straight and shaped on both sides; it is
then placed on the front of the skirt
and the side widths are sewed on to it,
which gives to them slight bias and
has the effect of rendering the present
tightly-ftting style of skirt more easy
and graceful in set. The piece in front
measures about four inches in its widest
part and extends the whole length of
the skirt. Worth covers it with a cas-
cade of lace or narrow loops of double
ribbon from the top to the hem of the
skirt or else by a plated plastron.-
PHILADELPHIA Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

Unable to retain any solid food. After
Ter death an autopsy showed that she
lad suffered from chronic Inflammation
If the stomach, which was badly de-
and the mucous membrane
vas entirely obliterated.
THE MAIDEN AND HER LOVER.
Far, far away, beside the foam,
little maiden had her home;
And princes wOoed her, rich and gay,
But still she lightly said them nay;
she cared not II they came or went,
Within her humble home content;
For things were not as now, you know,
Long ago, and long ago.
Her father oft would musing stand,
And hold his little maiden's hand,
And, pointing, cry: From DER the sea
One day my woe will come to me;'
And whisper as he shook his head:
What shall do when she is wed!"
he loved her so, he loved her so,
Long, and long, and long ago.
A lover came DER sea one day,
And stole her simple heart away;
But when she saw her fathers tears,
And thought of all his after years,
Go back across the sea-" she CRIED
And wept. 81 cannot be thy bride.n
For things were not as now, you know,
Long, and long, and long ago.
She watched, upon the bridge next day,
Her bonny lover sail away;
She dropped his ring into the foam,
And then at twilight wandered home;
She found her father sitting there,
She wept and kissed his silver hair:
She loved them both, she loved them so,
Long, and long, and long ago.
-Cipper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
ANDREW JOHNSON,
Seventeenth Presi-
dent, U. s. A.
Born Dec. %, 1903.
Died July 81, 1875.
" His faith in the peo-
pie never wavered."
ELIZA JOHNSON,
Born Oct. 4, 1910.
Died Jan. Is, 1876.
In memory of cur Father and Mother.

The brief epitaph expressive of Mr..
Johnson's reliance on the people is said
to have been the suggestion of Hon.
Thomas Kinsella. Months ago, when
consulted on the subject, he remarked
that the chief trait of the deceased was
an abiding conviction that the masses
of the people realized and appreciated
his efforts in their behalf. Mr.. Kin
sella offered the line as embodying the
sentiment, which the children accepted,
and it is inscribed to-day and will re-
main for all time on the tomb of Ten
ncssee's adopted and loyal son as the
reflex of his sentiments while living,
and inculcate the lesson on future gen
erations. The monument was erected
by the surviving children, Mrs. Patter-
son, Mrs. Slower, and Andrew Johnson,
Jr., at cost of between $1,000 and
$4,000. 1t was designed and put up by
Philadelphia firm, and its weight is
upward of thirty-one tons. GreenUilIe
Tenn. Dispatch TO ChicdQO Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
Andrew JOhnsOn's Monument.

This little mountain town will al
ways be held in pleasant recollection
not only by the tourist, but by the
American people, associated as it is
with the name of Andrew johnson, who
made it his home in his early youth,
and whose citizens first aided him in
his onward strides to the proud position
he afterward occupied. There are men
yet living who remember when he piled
the needle on the tailor's bench, and
can recount step by step his steady and
onward progress from an insignificant
municipal Office to the Presidency of
the Republic. His early efforts showed
the indomitable will of the man, and
the same resolute spirit carried him for
ward to triumphant success during his
entire life. Obstacles that would have
daunted most men appeared rather as
incentives to more determined effort,
and his dauntless courage rose superior
to the difficulties that stood in his path
way. The people of Greenville honored
Andrew johnson living and mourn him
dead, and when his body was brought
home for burial their grief was as sim
cere as it was manifest, and to-day
forms another epoch in their lives, for
to-day was unveiled the monument that
marks his last resting place. While
efligies of stone were not needed to keep
his memory green in their hearts, vet
1t was fitting that his tomb should be
designated by suitable entablature.
But it is not in the crowded churchyatSa
where the grass grows rank with the
vapors of decaying mortality that An
drew johnson rests. On the summit
of the lofty hill, famed by the mountain
breezes, surrounded by verdant forest
and smiling fields, carpeted with grass
where wild flowers bloom, and the air
is redolent with their perfume and
musical with the song of birds. there
he chose his place of sepulcher, and
After life's ftful fever he sleeps we'll.
The monument is of colossal size,
and on the crest of a lofty emnence
half a mile southwest of town, and can
be seen for miles around. The base is
of granite, with a plinth die, the base
being nine feet six inches square. Piers
of granite rest on each side Of the
graves-for the devoted wife Of the
great commoner sleeps by his side
over which springs granite arch upon
which the monument rests, leaving an
opening underneath through which the
graves are visible. The arch and base
are four feet six inches high, and the
plinth, which is marble, four feet six
inches square, and three feet six inches
high, with pilasters on either side sup
porting funeral urns, each three feet
three inches in height. The dieis three
feet six inches square at the base, and
three feet two inches high, upon the
front of which is carved a scroll repre-
senting the Constitution of the United
States, and an open book upon which
a hand is resting, representing the TAX
ing of the oath of Office. The shaft is
thirteen feet high, and two feet ten
inches at the base, tapering to the apex,
over which falls the American flag in
graceful folds, and surmounting the
whole is an eagle with outstretched
wings.
The monument bears
THE DUAL INSCRIPTION:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
An Old Mans Sorrow.

After two boys had been brought out
and placed in strategical positions be-
fore the desk, His Honor lifted his voice
and inquired:
" Is Mr.. Croft in court?''
81 pellet am dot man," remarked
a citizen with gray hair and a careworn
expression, as he came forward.
"Well, now, do you know these
boys?'
Il hat seen doze poys one hoonered
times, Mr.. Shudge."
"Well, what have they been doingP''
"Efer since spring comes dis pig boy
here has peen throwing stones nit my
front door. Sometimes he hits der
door, sometimes der windows, und
sometimes me. l calls for der bolice,
but he makes up faces-shust so! |
runs after him init a Club, und he calls
me badt names und whistles like vhas
some dog. l drinks dat poy shall end
his days NIT der gallose."
"And about this other boy?"
"Vhell, he comes aroundt, too. He
makes some faces at me oafer der fence,
und when runs behindt him he sings
nit his mouf:
Wouldn't pc Dutchman,
For foofty cents day.
1t makes me awful madt, Mr.. Shudge,
und if | git my hands on him he shall
be holdings poody queek! Ihave tried
like dunder to make dose badt poys 90
home und let me alone, und now /
WANTS some law to shtop all dis before
| am kilt nit big stone"
Boys" began His Honor, " do you
realize the seriousness of this case?''
They did
"Do you fully realize that a sharp
lawyer could make conspiracy case
of this-a plain case of conspiracy
against property, garden truck and hui
man life?'
They probably did, as tears came to
their eyes, and they wiped their noses
with great earnestness.
"What shall be done with them?''
asked the Court of complainant.
go dear!" sighed one.
go bones!" walled the other.
Mr.. Croft looked from one to the
other. Their fearful eyes, red noses
and repentant looks touched his heart,
and he replied:
"Vhell, if dey shall be sorry, den l
shall be sorry, too!'
cit is a grave offense," suggested
His Honor. Both snuffled in a manner
indicating that they wouldn't do so
again for two shillings.
dot ish so," unused Mr.. Croft, "but
l drinks l shall forgif DEM"
"Boys?' sharply remarked His Honor,
"you deserve to be sent up for month,
but the man whom you have abused
asks for mercy for you. You can go,
but if either of you come here again
I'll make you think you've stuck hun
dred slivers into those flat, bare feet!
Do you hear me?'
"Guess we dor' they whispered, in
unison.
"Und do you hears me?" added Mr.
Croft.
They did.
"And," remarked Bijah as he con-
Quoted them to the door, 81 have just
invented a spanking-machine which |
am longing to try. A hint to the wise
if sut1ish--go home. "-Detroit Free
Press
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

small of her back, while the bat, being
on its own hook, and seeing stone
figure holding vase of flowers, neatly
clipped off its arm at the elbow and let
the flowers to the ground.
There was chorus of screams, and
some confusion of skirts, and then the
following dialogue took place:
No. l. Let's give up the nasty thing.
No. 2. Let's.
No. 3. So say.
No. 4. It's just horrid
This being a majority, the adjourn
ment was made.
The game was merely an experiment.
And it is just as we'll it was. Had it
been real game it is likely that some
one would have been killed outright
Danbury NeWs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

imprisoned him; nothing could induce
him to walk on the sounding-board
which the tumbler covered. Nature
states that Prof. Hughes has discovered
that the vibrations of sound are repro
duced, with the greatest delicacy and
increased force, by certain materials
interposed in an electric circuit. The
reproduced sounds gain their increase
of power, doubtless, at the expense of
the current. After a large number of
experiments, he gives the preference to
carbon for this purpose-especially to
pieces of charcoal that have been heated
to whiteness, and then plunged into
mercury. These pieces, in one of his
experiments, he placed in glass tube,
and brought pressure upon them that
squeezed their ends together. This ap-
paratus was made part of closed cleo
trio circuit of three small cups. A Bell
telephone was then introduced into the
circuit, and the whole thing was com
plte. All that was necessary to do
was to talk to the tube, even at re-
spectful distance from it, and the tele-
phone repeated the sound, at any dis
lance yet tried, with a loudness depend
ent only on the pressure in the tube.
This invention will enable the telephone
to do all that was hoped for it, and
what it was feared it never could ac-
complish. AS an exchange remarks:
'This disposes at once of the fear that
the telephone was nearing the end of its
usefulness as an instrument of convey
ing speech. 1t is only at the beginning.
With such means there will be no OBJ
stacle to reporting a public speaker or
singer; no difficulty, in fact, in hearing
whispers inaudible to unassisted ears. ="
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
Gone to Meet the Angels.

We hate to have lawyer die. Not
that we think any more of lawyers than
we do of any other class of people, but
we know there has got to be meet
ing of the bar" and resolutions are
going to be drawn up (they ought to
be drawn up, clear out of sight, and
left there), and speeches made eulogiz-
ing the deceased, principally by rival
attorneys, who hated him like sin when
he was alive, and who were never
known to say anything good of him I'M
til he was laid away under the sod.
Then these resolutions and speeches
must be printed in all the daily papers,
and the community discovers, when too
late, what a jewel they have had among
them. - Cincinnati SATURDAY Night.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29
"A man in New Orleans has invented

process of manufacturing mirrors
which, it is claimed, is destined to take
the place of the quicksilver process.
In only ten or fifteen minutes the sub
stance used in place of quicksilver is
made to adhere to the glass, and the
cost of the substance is not more than
one-tenth that of quicksilver. Anyone
can convert an ordinary piece of glass
into mirror after acquainting himself
with the process.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

The omission of the word "while"
from the following sentence, uttered by
one of the members of the Farmers
Club yesterday, made it appear to be
somewhat extravaganza statement: 81
saw some potato-bugs, few days ago,
digging post-hole. Rochester Demo
crdt,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

Little boy, if you have any relics
about, keep them. Perhaps some day
you may be the father of your country,
when that old pair of pants with the
baggy knees and that torn coat with
the worn-out pockets will be hung up
in glass case beside your once-prized
popgun and your favorite alley-tor.
N. Y. Commercial advertiser.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

To LEND man "a quarter politely
requires considerable GOODNESS and self
control. To be slow and ceremonious
about it implies distrust; to slap down
the coin with a g bang indicates irri-
tation; while to search all your pockets
IN succession conveys the impression
that you will be left penniless by the
transaction. A smiling, quiet prompt
ness marks the gentleman in this crisis
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

The Woman's Hotel in New York
"busted up'' because no men were al
lowed thereat. The women could not
endure the absence of all that makes
them bright and happy. And so their
splendid hotel had to be shut up. Too
bad; too bad! We are such fascinating
fellows, but we can't help it, can we?
-HdCk-Eye.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

81 MEAN business" said burglar
who entered Mr.. Patterson's house, in
Sterling, Ill. $50 do l." said Mr..
Patterson, and shot him through the
head
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

ALAS! the book agent and lightning
rod man will not visit the Paris EXPOSE
ton. They will remain right here in
Bridgeport and ply their sweet trade
and whisper their seductive tales in the
ears of a desperate but helpless popu-
lace. The Paris Exposition is generally
regarded as failure in this section.-
B3.idOeIOTE ,Stn7ldnrd
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-06-29

IT is noticed that when a merchant is
figuring for the lowest possible number
OF cents on which to fail for the dollar
he all the more vigorously holds on to
his place in the exercises of the regular
weekday prayer-meeting ~ Y Her.
aid.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-10-19
Hayes's Title.

However varied may be the opin-
ions concerning the validity of Hayes's
title to the presidency, there is not a
question in the minds of either demo-
Gratis or republicans upon one import
ant point, viz: the unquestionable
right of DR.. Pierce Family Medicines
to the title of the Standard Remedies
Of the age. Listen to the voice Of the
sovereign people.
NEW ORLEANS, June 10th, 1878.
DR.. r, V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Ssr-Your Pleasant Purgative Pei
lets seem to be particularly adapted to the
wants of the people of this warm climate,
where bilious affections are particularly
prevalent. Iregard them as the best cathar-
tic have ever tried. Yours truly,
JOHN G. HENDERSON.
BosToN, Mass. May 18th, 1878,
DR. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y;
Dear Sar-Your Golden Medical Discov-
cry has cured my boy of Fever Sore of
two years standing. Please accept our
gratitude. Yours truly
HENRY WHITING.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-10-19
A Few Prophecies.

We are no prophet, but in common
with every resident OF this land of
liberty, we claim the liberty to make
prophecies when we wish to. Here
are few ; take them with as many
grains of allowance as you please, but
file them away for reference, and when
the date of their accom- plishment
comes we will say "We told you SO"
Provided there is no. change in the
tarif:-Pig iron will be slightly high
er in price in September, 1879, than
in September, 1878. Wrought iron
will also be slightly higher. ''t'
Steel will be either the same price
as at present or lower. ..3
In 1879 the production Of pig iron
will exceed that of 1878, 2,868, ,279
tons .DI
In 1879 the production Of wrought
iron, including rails, will be less than
that of any year since 1870, but ex-
cluding rails it will be greater than
that of any year since 1870.
In 1879 the production of steel of
all kinds will be greater 10 per cent.
than in 1878, and in 1873 10 per cent.
greater than in l977.-American
Mnnatfnct1Lrer. r-'
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1878-10-19
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

The regular sessions Of the County Com
mssloners commence on the first Monday
in January, April, June, July and October.
Oommassioners-Wm Y. McCuloh, Pres
ident; J. G. Cookery, a. G. Greene, f. NJ
Gramlich, ST., James Wilson.
Clerk-F NJ. Gramlich, Jr.
County Ireasurer-Daniel Amman.
County Snrueyor-John Schaidt.
Collectors Of State and County 7ares-
First Collection District, Orleans, Oldtown
and Flintstone,) Joseph b. Stottlemeyer.-
second Collection District (Nos. 16 and 10
-Cumberland,) ,)J B Humbird Third Collec-
tion District, Mt. Savage and Frostburg
John b. McCulloh. Fourth Collection
district, Homecoming and Westcrnport,)
Patrick Mullen.