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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14
The Liars Club.

The Liars Club has been in session
in the mountains near Fall CITY. Pa.
and here are some of the facts placed
on record by its members. Said \
wonderful shot, DR.. Frank Cowan If
Greensburg: "On one occasion |
killed just 400 pigeons with exactly 100
shot, at single fire, and then cot ali
the shot back again. Shall tell the
story?"
= by all means,' was the unanim ous
response. 1T used to be,'' said the
doctor, "that pigeons were very plen-
tiful over in Westmoreland. 4 hon
sand dozen to the acre was considered
a light crop. There used to be GOOD
deal of rivalry between Lieut.. Gov.
Latta and myself as to which could lin
the most pigeons at single shot until
finally we got to considering it a waste
of ammunition when we brought down
less than 100. One day Latta killed 9l3
at single shot, and went around
growing over me at great rate.
made up my mind that 1 would have
to beat that or leave Greensburc. CON
sequently one day | bought a lot of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14
A Romance OF the Border.

There passed down on the train the
other day an aged but smart looking,
lady, between sixty and seventy wears
OF age, having with her a little child
about two years old, whose dark COM
pleXion Enthusiastically betokened Indian
origin and naturally. excited some
curiosity. The lady was communica-
tive and told a story filled with ro-
nance. She was Il widow, with an
only son living in Connecticut. Her
boy grew to be young man, and, filled
with love of adventure, he forsook
the parental roof and came west. His
rOvingS at last led him to Bismarck,
Dakota Territory, where he became in
terested with Indian traders and finally
married the daughter of a chief, the
fr'sit of the union being one child. At
length in an engagement with the hos
tiles the young man was killed. The
sad news in due time reached his
mother. She was almost disconsolate
in her grief. With true maternal affec-
ton she at once resolved to search for
her sons child, and, if possible, find in
it an object upon which she might be-
stow her care and motherly love.
Forthwith she journeyed to Minnesota.
The difficulties in the way formed no
barrier to her New England energy.
Her diligent inquiries along the North
ern Pacific Railroad brought to her ac-
quaintance a man who had known her
son. For $50 he offered to find the
squaw who had been the sons wife.
Without going into the details of the
Ksnt, % al Al.
tribe of Indians was found and with it
the squaw and the child When the
lady first saw her grandchild she
thought she could discern in his feat
ures'a resemblance to her son. but
when the little one was in the midst of
a number of Indian children, it was
hard to discover much difference.
Nevertheless, the grandmother of the
dusky little half-breed was bent on
having him brought up under the gen
tie influences of Connecticut ciYiliza-
ton, and she quoted her computations
of bartering'in human flesh by the ex-
igencies of the case and the gift of six
sacks of -four to the bereaved Indian
widow. The old lady departed with
her new found treasure, as happy as a
boy with new toy. She fondled the
little Sioux with indescribable affection,
and the little chap responded by max
ing his doting grandma buy him all the
peaches and pears that the train boy
offered. The picture of youth and old
age seldom has more romance done up
in a couple than was here presented
1t will not be surprising one of these
days TO hear of that cultivated little
savage pulling with the Harvard crew.
- Winona (Minn.) Republican,.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14

son, the best players salaries not ex-
ceeding, with but one or two excep-
tons, $4,000. The League association
recently met in Providence to arrange
a permanent schedule of salaries for
league professional players. This
schedule includes four classes Of play
ers, viz: catchers, who will receive
81, 200; catchers, 81, 900; first baseman,
500; second baseman, $780, third
baseman, $780, short tielders, 800;
outfelders, $500; substitutes, $500.
Salaries will not be paid in advance, as
heretofore, and the league clubs are
pledged to pay no higher salaries than
the league schedule.-N. Y. Graphic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14

THE Chicago Inter- Ocean prints a
startling murder record for Illinois
for the last twenty years. 1t shows
that in that time 314 murderers have
been sent to Joliet Prison for the fol-
lowing terms: Ninety for life, 4 for
long terms that are practically for life,
% for 25 years and upward, 81 for from
20 to % years, and the remainder for
from one year to 10 years. OF this
number 100 have been pardoned, 62
have been released in other ways, q
have died or gone to the insane asy-
lum, while 131 remain in prison. AS
our cotemporary puts it in effective
headings Zone Hundred and Sixty
two Escape after brief Imprisonment
and Walk the Streets of Illinois as Free
Men" cover Fifty Murderers Sen
fenced to Penitentiary for Life Allowed
to 90 Free" 'Uncontrovertible Fig
ures Show that Three Years and Six
Months is the Average Punishment for
Illinois Assassins."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14

A BAT has been found in limestone,
opossums in slate, guinea pigs, rabbits,
rats and beavers in limestone; the
sloth, one fourteen feet long, in South
America and in limestone caves. Bears,
dogs, foxes and wolves in diluvial
soils and caves; hyenas and tigers in
limestone caves and mari; the teeth of
horses, elephants, rhinoceroses, ny
enas, bears, wolves, tigers, &c, are
found in masses in diluvial soils; oxen
in peat boys in several countries; deer
and elks in peat Dogs and mari pits;
one six feet high and nine feet long
covered with sand, then peat, and then
the vegetable soil. Rhinoceroses are
found in every part of Europe and in
the Arctic circle; the hippopotamus is
found in England, France and Ger
many. Elephants, and animals much
larger than elephants, called man.
moths, have been found in Europe,
America, and Siberia. One found near
Abingdon, now at Oxford, is sixteen
feet high, and its bones were mixed
with those of other large animals; an
other was found in Siberia in the ice,
quite perfect in its flesh, skin, hair and
eyes, with a long name and tail of stiff
black bristles; others have been found
in Hudson's Bay. The gigantic mas
todon is found in North America and
Siberia. The gigantic tapir, twelve
feet high and eighteen feet long, has
been found in different parts of Europe.
Whales are found in Essex, in London
clay, and in bath limestone.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14
Jay Gould Tells a Story.

The men of Wall street and the
stock exchange cannot always be think
ing of puts and calls in these hot
days, and frequently, by way of
variety, they tell queer stories about
each other. The latest one, in regard
to the eminent manipulation, Jay Gould,
is about as follows: One day, few
weeks ago, he and a number of friends
went on an excursion through Pennsyl-
vania, and on the way stopped at a
small town situated on a point at the
meeting of two small rivers. As the
train came to stand-still, Gould, look
ing out of the car window, said in his
own quiet way, "This is place Ire
member very we'll" Glow sop asked
a friend. ''Oh it was all along of a
lawsuit" Gould replied. . An old man
who lived in the town died and in his
will left two farms, one on the largest
river to his eldest son, and tn, other to
a boy who was younger. Tie way of
designating the farms was, o, course,
satisfactory to him, but it die not suit
the boys, and they got into big dis
pute over it, one claiming tat the
largest river was the one Which was
narrow and deep, and the otherlolding
that it was the one which was hallow
and broad. l was civil engineer and
surveyor in those days" continual Mr..
Gould reflectively, "and ! was called
in as an expert, to decide the matter !
"And how did you decide it?' asked
one of the gentlemen present. "Oh. in
favor of the best man." replied the
great tinancier, smiling; and then the
company laughed, and one Or two Of
the old operators winked approvingly
N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14

A GIRL in Trenton, New Jersey, mar
ried Hungarian nobleman, and now
she has to take in washing six days a
week instead of two, as formerly, in
order to support her new title with suf-
ficient style. Promotion in the social
scale always brings increased response
bilities with it.-HaWk-Eye.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14

SOME man in Chicago has discovered
the only remedy for the hard times.
Let everybody spend all he makes as
fast as possible. Call him before
Hewitt's Committee. Boston Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14
Homework.

Our American girls must be taught
and must practice housework; not nee
essarily or as arule that they should 90
out to service, but that they should be
able TO manage i'll sensible, prudent
and pleasant way establishments of
their own. To manage, that is to say,
through knowing just what should be
done, and when and how. 1t is not
the cost of a dinner which renders it
attractive and nourishing because di-
gestible; it is the proper cooking of it.
Many a man spends enough to live
well, who rarely has a table tastefully
set, or dinner varied and palatable.
There are good many other things
which go to making up good house
keeping. AS every young woman eX-
poets some day to be mistress of q
house, one would naturally expect on
her part some special preparation for
so important q privilege and duty.
How many of all our girls are put in
the way of doing, if need be, or of
uperintending, if that is only what is
required, the various duties which their
mothers, or at any rate their grand
mother knew so well how to perform.
And are not the fathers and the moth
ers more to blame than the children?
Making all allowances for the tran
sition state in our social and domestic
relations, are we living up to our light
in this matter of educating our girlso
NEVER before in American history
has the balance of trade between this
and foreign countries been as largely
in our favor as it is now, or anything
like 1t. The exports of merchandise
for the last fiscal year, ending June 80,
exceeded the imports by S257, 1872, 667.
Including specie, the total exports ex-
ceeded the imports by $26l, 744,579.
During the preceding year the excess of
exports over imports amounted to
Sl66, 539, Ola gain of S95, 204, 662 in
the last year.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25
Personalities.

Baron Rothschild-who dimes with
Lord Beaconsfeld every sunday-is re.
ported to have said the other day: II
do not know anything more about it
than this mustard-pot, but / believe
there is going to be war;"
A rich Russian noble, who wishes to
remain incognito, but is supposed to be
Prince straganof, has ordered the CON
struction Of cruiser, which is to have a
speed of fifteen or sixteen knots, and ia
to cost 600,000 roubles. The Russian
journals recommend his example to
other patriots who have money.
The recently assassinated Lord Leitrim
once upon pleasant time advertised for
an agent. Three hundred applicants
wrote to him, and in answer to one of
them he said that he wished to appoint
a military gentleman used to shooting
natives in Australia and New Zealand,
as he wanted d wholesome lesson given
to the tenants on his estate.
Lady Angela Burdett- Coutts cannot
be said to be handsome, unless in the
way Of sarcasm she is by no means
young, and she is troubled with a heredi-
tary skin-disease, yethundreds Of admirers
offer every year to love her for herself
alone. e. s.-she owns a bank and
many millions.)
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25

You have softened it forever" said
the old man. "But can you forgive me,
Nicholas ~
"From the bottom of my soul, sir,"
said the young man. CHAD treated
you with more confidence, our differences
would never have occurred. leone, sir,
prepared to discharge all your just de-
mands."
eff you pay me dollar, I'll cut you
off with shilling, you dog'' said the
old man, "Come, wife, and come, chill
dren; haven't had mouthful of break.
fast, and I've ridden all the way from
the Jerseys this morning. Well ratify
our treaty of peace over the chocolate
and buckwheat cakes, and from this hour
you shall find Hartmann Brinkerhoff q
changed man."
: He was as good as his word, and from
8 misery, surly old curmudgeon, Har'
mann Brinkerhof became, to the aston.
ishment of all who knew him, one of the
most genial of the Knickerbockers.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25

Man and STILL" Pig and Whistle, u
Who'd Thought tt" "The Splendid
Shilling" etc.
Col. Forney says that there are owe,
| thousand millions of dollars held in the
private banks of England, drawing moi
more than one per cent. interest, held
simply for safety.
Young Henry Leobald, of Brooklyn,
committed suicide because it seemed to
him as though he was a "step. child
among men," and BECAUSE" in society
experienced men are worsted."
New York, which includes Brooklyn,
proposes to have a law making black
mailing punishable ofense. The World
says there are 1000 cases 8 year of black
mailing in New York city. s. RI
The five thousand dollars. left by Benja-
min Franklin to the city Of Boston in 1892,
to be loaned 10 young married mechanicst
has increased at rate that promises to
make the principle s525,o0o in 1892.
This is only 500, 900 less than DIR. Frank
lin calculated upon.
The penalty for theft in Japan is grad
uated according to the amount stolen
inverting the rule common i'm England
and America. No punishment is in
ficted if the thief is able and willing TO
pay for the property stolen, or If his
friends will do it for him.
The Red Communists of New York
had mock celebration of the fast OF
Good Friday, at Blocker street restau-
rant, in which the ooarsest ribaldry and
blasphemy was INDUCED. One of the
toasts by Megy was Humiliation Of
the priests and all other rascals, and the
destruction of the church"
A brutal mother threw her five. year.
old boy from bridge into the river at
Milwaukee the other day, and leaned on
ratings to watch his death struggles,
exclaiming: eff your father won't
support you, drown!" The child's
clothing buoyed him up. until the her.
rifed bystanders could rescue him.
r A colony of Swedes have purchased a
large tract of land on the Blue mountain,
Pennsylvania, extending from the Della.
ware Water Gap down to the Wind Gap,
on which they propose to settle and de-
vote their attention to raising and grazing
goats, and from goats milk they intend
to manufacture sweitzer-kase. The coun-
try is particularly favorable for this
purpose. Ii. fs.-sal -..... r. t~4-., a.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25
Saving Postage and the Con-
81 sequences.

About ten days ago q newspaper was
sent TO the postofice to be mailed to New
York, but as q revenue stamp instead OF
. postage stamp was attached 70 the
envelope, It was laid aside as 9 unmail~
able. 2 When examined two letters were
found concealed within the paper, with
q message from the sender that !. this ID
done 20 save postage The package was
transmitted 70 the Postoffce Department
1t Washington; and two days ago it was
returned with instructions to bring the
matter TO the attention OF the district
attorney Yesterday the sender of The
package q. young woman) appeared b.
fore District Attorney Lewis and Post.
master Forbes, and entreateeI % earnestly
and tearfully to be excused that ier a.
peal Was complied with. This incident
should serve as warning 10 that lares
class Of persons who are ever intent oa
avoiding the payment of proper postage
on matter sent through the mails. I4st
ters Or notes are often found secreted la
newspapers and packages, and whom 10
found The persons for whom they are
intended never receive them. Rich
moDd Va Dispatch.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.

Variegated marble from East Tennes
see is shipped to New York.
The number of hogs packed in the
west last winter was 6,5O5, 900, a gain o.
l,4O4, 600 over the previous year
Professor Cope, of Philadelphia, the
geologist, has found specimens of verte.
brates in northern Texas heretofore I'm.
known. ......
A lady in Texas saw an advertisement
ina New York paper of an opium cure.
She sent for it, took it, and died in con-
WILSON'S in less than an hour. The New
York physician has been arrested.
Engineers have just examined ten
thousand acre. of prairie land, heretofore
considered worthless, in St. Mary's and
Terrebonne parishes, Louisiana, and
report the land reclaimable. The exper.
imeDt will be tried. ~ ..
A man named A. J. Coshow, while
gathering pecan nuts in Gonzales county,
Texas, few days ago, saw from his perch
on the limb of tree something glittering
on the ground below. It turned out to
be Mexican silver dollar, and, digging
at the root of the tree, he unearthed
$4,000 worth of the coin. w.. ,,....
Jacksonville, (Fla.) Sun and Press:
The largest sale Of private lands in the
state has just been negotiated by Mr.. M.
A. Williams, state land agent. The
purchasers are Messrs. D. G.. Amber and
J.P. Taliaferro, residents of Jacksonville.
The tract consists of 80 900 acres. lying
between this place and Lake City, ada
cent to the railroad. 1t was purchased
principally for the timber, yet there is q
large portion of the land well adapted to
cultivation. There are many localities
on it which, for health Of location, pro.
ductiveness of the soil and convenience
to transportation, are rot excelled any.
where in Florida.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25
THE BRICK OVEN.

remember the pasture bespangled with posies
remember the field gay with tassels of corn;
The hedge where in childhood sought the wild
roses,
And the old-fashioned farmhouse In which yves
born.
I remember the dresser, the quaint, high-backed
settle ..rt
Whereon the whole family sat In a row;
The pet-hooks and trammels, the crane and the
kettle,
And the famous brick oven we had long ago.
I'm sick of the sight OF those new-fangled ranges;
Each dealer in stoves from the east to the west,
On his stock is eternally ringing the changes.
And every one vows that his own Is the best.
I'm sick of the cities, of people mendactous,
Whose ricketty bakers carts rush to and fro;
And sigh for the farmhouse, the fireplace spa
cious
And the famous brick oven we had long ago.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25

Holland has 10000 wind-mills.

! F 3 !, 4ssfs =
Holland has 10000 wind-mills.
Deadwood is !, 1923 feet above the sea,
Austin, the capital Of Texas, has 1888
lawyers.
Church tithing in Mormondom
amounts to $500 900 annually.
The latest official census gives Italy a
population of q, 801, 154 souls.E
India rubber tires for wheels are be-
coming quite common in England.
The Texas wool>clip this season il es-
timated at three million pounds.
Jacksonville, Fla, has population Of
1900.
There were packed 6S2, 900 hogs in
Cincinnati during the season ending
March /.
At the English whipping-post the
convicts writhe and twist at frst. and
then howl continuously, making very
pleasant entertainment.
A snpshade composed entirely Of
pansies with solid gold handle, ID q
novelty exhibited In q New York jewelers.
window.
A tax on proiane language would raise
more revenue than the Mofatt drink
register. and the more man was tarad
the more be would swear.
Washington has Che only collega far
deaf mntes In the world. There are IL
present forty.aix students ID this institu-
tion. Thirteen different states have
representatives, the western predonin-
ating.
Charles Reade declares that everybody
should Be ambidaxtrous. But what i
most needed in this country il the ability
10 rob Il bank with one hand and pack
your trunk for Europe az the same time
with the other.
II ii said that the losses or sheep we're
enormous last winter, ii California, and
that many Wool,growers are becoming
Disguised with the business.
North usrolina still includes burglary
among the capital oaenses, and young
man Of Newborn county bus just been
sentenced % be hung for the crime.
The Maxicans dc their counting ID
public. You sec couples WALKING about
the crowded plaza with their arms about
each Others necka
Some signs III taverns II London are
curious, viz Goat and Oonpasses,
4 Salmon and Com asses' I Anchor and
Bodies, Bull and Mouth Green
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25
A. T.. Stewards Hotel a Failure.
New York Correspondence Detroit Free Press.J

New York Correspondence Detroit Free Press.J
Thus far there has not been any
tumultuous rush for admission to the
Woman's hotel. Not to put too fine
point on it, as Guppy used to say Git it
wasn't Guppy perhaps you can supply
the right nancy, there is no rush at all;
but. on the contrary, quite the reverse.
The building can accommodate about
one thousand. 1t is now accommodating
about fifty. Possibly it will do better
some day, but the woman who ought to
90 there are 20 backward in coming for
ward that both Judge Hilton and Mrs.
Stewart are considerably disappointed
The two score and odd ladies who have
availed themselves of The comforts and
luxuries provided there are quite enthu-
siastic in its praise, but their recommends
alton does not induce others to join in.
Alphabetically speaking, most of these
ladies are not success. In passing the
hotel the other day, / noticed some of
them going in and out, and it struck me
quite torcibly that they were not built
on 8 good plan. There was too much
gothic style about them, and most of it
ran to points and corners. A woman in
whose general design there is q prepon-
derance of angels is, sesthetically, fail.
ure, Whatever she may be intellectually.
There is no doubt at all about the intel
leetual qualities of the ladies who have
taken up their abode in the Women's
Hotel, but when you come down to
Hogarth' 3 line of beauty, the curve, faint
there. One lady who spent week in
the hotel says there il no trouble about
seeing gentlemen in the parlors in the
evening, and intimates that facilities for
counting are just as good as in any
Possibly. But the
trigh sort of material 70 practice on
seems To be rather scarce. doubt ii
there i. the slightest danger of matri-
nony making the least infoad on the
Of the hote! in the next five
years.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25
WAITS AND WHIMS.
Nobody.

II nobody's noticed you, you must be small
Ifnobody US slighted you, you must DE tai
it nobody's bowed to YOU, you must be low;
II nobody kissed you, you're ugly, we Know
If nobody's envied you, you're poor elf
If nobody's fattered you -hatter yourself;
If nobody's cheated you, you are knaVef
II nobody hates you, you are 81 ave.
Hnobedy's called ysu fool to your face.
Somebody's wished for your back in its place.
Ii nobedy's called you "tyrant" or " scold.'
SOMEBODY thinks you of spiritless ould.
II nobody knows of your faults but a frie
Nobody will miss them at the worlds en-
II nobody cfings to your purse like lawn,
Nobody'Il run like hound when it's gone.
II nobody's eaten his bread from your store,
Nobody'll call you a misery bore;
il nobody's slandered you-here is our pen,
Sign Yourself Nobody quick as you cans