The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-26

He is said to have made business OF
getting on juries and selling himself.
between 1868 and 1923 there were
forty periods of famine in the provinces
of China which are now suffering with
a similar calamity. In ten of these the
record reports that human flesh was
eaten. Perhaps this accounts for the
Manchoo dynasty. Hartford Co@rant.
-" knowledge is power" Not al
ways; the boy that gathers up his fish
ing-tackle and empty basket as the sun
is sinking in the west knows that his
mother stands watching and waiting
for him at the garden gate, and the
knowledge that the kindling wood re-
mains uncut is such a source of weak
ness to him that to march along and
whistle "What is Home Without q
Mother?' is an utter impossibility.-
YonberS Gazette.
"A man, good, broad-hearted,
strong-limbed Christian man may stand
it, when he can't run fast enough to
get away, to have nine-year-old ram
help him, at short intervals, all the way
across a ten-acre field, and over a seven
about it, but it does just make his soul
rise within him when the shameless
goat, laughing derisively through the
fence, shouts after him in hooking
tones: Buttin', buttin', who's got the
buttin' ?"-Hawb-Eye.
-" Manda, is you got dem chickens
shut up in de smoke-house, like told
yerP' No, an | like to know what S
de matter wild you, dat yous so mighty
ticker bout dem chickens all at once?'
"Nebber YOU mind, know what's the
matter, and dat's huff till dem chick
ems is housed When / hears dat dem
| niggers ODER dar in de next yard gwine
to hab party tomorrow night, wants
to be shore dat my chickens doesn't
tend it; you hear me?" The chickens
were at once locked up.
They were sitting on either side of
the garden seat; silence had bossed the
occasion for several minutes, when she
finally wagged her tongue thusly:
Jim, how many miles away do you
say the moon is?'' "Well," said he
with studious gravity, astronomers
differ; | believe Heliogabberlus cal
kerlated it was bout forty-seven billion
miles, but Dan Webster didn't think it
was mOre'n a couple of million or so. "
81 wish Gab'lus was right, and was
the mOon,h was her sweet rejoinder.
And in about five minutes it would
have required an awfully clever astron-
omer to calculate Jim's remoteness.
"A young woman of Fredericton,
New Brunswick, had a narrow escape
! from drowning recently. She fell over
wharf and sunk third time, and lay
on the bottom of the river, when man
| put down a pole and fortunately touch
ed her. She describes her sensations
as not unpleasant; could distinctly see
the people on the wharf, and wondered
why they did not assist her; saw the
pole coming down, and imagined it OF
immense size and length; the moment
it touched her she grasped it, and says
| she could have climbed to the moon
on it.
Scarcely has the Akhoon of Swat
been laid among his fathers before the
Ameer OF Afghanistan appears to test
the Atlantic cable with his ill-timed
| performances; and this, too, while Gen.
Phillipovich is bombarding the Bos-
mans at Senkovics and Janovich is
whooping them up at Klobuk. Some
ideas of the terrors of a British Shindy
on the Punjaub border may be gathered
from the fact that such names as Bar
rookullen, Ghuznee, Homegrown,
Mootakhala and Muzuifarabad are
likely to be actively involved day after
day.-B0'tinl0re Gazette.
Royalty abroad travels with not halt
the comfort that is attendant upon Mr..
William H. Vanderbilt when he chooses
to be whirled over one of the many great
railways of which he is the chief owner
and absolute dictator. A recent num-
Der of the Troy Times gives this as an
example: g At half-past nine O'Clock
this morning (MOnday) a special train
from Saratoga arrived at the Union
Depot, Troy, consisting of three special
horse-cars containing the horses and
equipages of William H. Vanderbilt,
and the private drawing-room car OF
that gentleman. This superb coach is
called the Vanderbilt 1t is made with
every possible improvement, and is
| PloDdDly uie LHcSu Observation-Disclosures VI INT
kind in existence. The trucks are mount.
ed on spoked paper wheels with eX-
ceptionally fine journals. The outside
is painted light orange color. On the
outside are four scenes panelled in oil.
colors-one representing the Grand
Central Depot, another depicting the
Falls of Niagara, another the great
Fourth Avenue Tunnel, and the other
the massive river bridge between Green
bush and Albany. The car is sumptu.
ously fitted up inside with lounges
easy-chairs, desk and sleeping berths
The upholstery and furniture are rega
in style, and made of the most costly
material.
Discovery of Galvanism.