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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09
PITH AND POINT.

When two persons fall in love the
only way to get out is to fall out
Boston Transcript.
"A Pittsburgh plumber stole 500
from house in which he was working
the other day. 1t was great streak of
luck for the HORSEPOWER, as the plum
Der didn't dare to come back for his pay
| Boston Post.
-" Here's fly in my soup, wSNsS.'
eyes, sir, very sorry, sir, but you can
throw away the fly and eat the soup'
can't you?" ''Of course l can; you
didn't expect me to throw away inc
soup and eat the fly, did you! ''--A~S''"
Sitt5ngS.' ,,r
Fair book agent to venerable mer-
chant-"I've a work here to Whlch
wish to call your attention" MADAM
I blush to tell you that my education was
neglected in early life; and l am only
inst learning to read words of one sylla-
Bile. If you had primer, now
Puck.
"You wouldn't believe it, remarked
Differs, who had just returned from
" Yurrup," "but tell you it's fact.
There are plenty of little shavers in
Paris, not more than three or four years
old, who can speak French!" And
Differs wondered why we manifested so
little surprise at the remark.-Yavco
Strauss.
The Legislatures of Michigan and
Wisconsin both debated a bill entitled:
"Any person who shall, after the pass
age of this act, knowingly falsify as to
the number and size of fish taken
at any time shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and be punished by thirty
days in the county prison, without re-
lief. "-Detr0it Free Press.
In certain aristocratic Galveston
family there is young lady, and she
has beau, and the presumption is he
is not particularly bashful when he and
the apple of his affection are alone, or
think they are. What strengthens this
view of the case is the fact that the
young lady has small brother named
Tommy, and the other night there was
tea-party at the family mansion, and
the supper table was very much crowd
ed, so much so that Tommy's younger
sister was crowded up very close to
him, whereupon he made the remark
out loud: Mamma, sis trowds meO
close L can't breeve. | amt her beau,
am I?" If Tommy should become I'M
well that beau would not be the proper
man to send for the doctor in hurry
Galveston Meas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09
Our Faithful Servant.

To pass the very important matter Of
value entirely, the faithfulness and no.
bility of the horse claim our respect and
kind, considerate treatment at our hands
But it is not improbable that with most
OF us the consideration of value out
weighs every other. Let us treat the
subject, therefore, in that light, hoping,
however, that the matter of kindness is
net foreign to any of us who own horses.
At the beginning of the work-life of the
horse, most of us commit a serious err
ror. We begin to work our colts too
young, or rather begin to work them
hard when they are too young. 1t can
not be expected that very young ami
NAL can as easily perform labor as one
that is fully developed. 1t is very true
that the expense of keeping a young
horse in idleness, or comparative idle
ness, is considerable, but the question is,
Is it as great as the damage done by
working it too earlyp At four years old
the colt is not fully developed; it is still
in the process of growth, and to exact OF
it as much as we would of an older horse
would necessarily be detrimental. The
animal should be worked lightly, but not
to extremes, and if the farmer will adopt
the plan of favoring the young horse
until it is five or six years old, he will
find that he has made money by the OPP
Grafton.
The matter of proper feeding is one
OF great importance in the treatment OF
our farm horses, and yet one that some
men appear to regard as exceedingly
slight. With the vast majority OF farm
ers there is excellent system in feeding,
because there are regular hours for
going to work and regular hours for
quitting work. But this is not univer-
selly true, and if there is one thing more
reprehensible than another in the man
agement of farm horses, it is the irregu-
larity of feeding. Irregularity of feed
inc ourselves or our animals will soon
show its results. Whether in man or
beast, imperfect digestion will soon be
the consequence, and an imperfect di-
cestion is a good foundation for all kinds
Of diseases aud forerunner of perma-
nent disability. No excuse is sufficient
to relieve the irregular feeder of the re-
sponsibility which rests upon him. The
horse should be fed at certain times,
and nothing should prevent it. If so fed
he will do his work easily, will be gen
orally free from ailments, and will re-
main good horse, if he was one at the
beginning.
Of proper food. Generally the horse is
given too much bulky food. He literal
~ stuffs himself with hay, and in such
condition the most inexperienced can
not help seeing that the animal is very
uncomfortable, and that it is an effort
for it to move or breathe. The lungs
have not room to expand, the digestive
apparatus is overloaded and clogged,
and the nervous system is naturally af-
fected. Under such circumstances it is
positively dangerous to require of the
animal any heavy work or last pace
One authority states that at least one
half of the diseases to which the horse
;s liable are caused "by bad food or
GOOD food badly administered" In or
der to have a farm horse in workable
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

"A tricycle., propelled by steam b..
oeen made IN Geneva, Switzerland T.
accomplishes about twenty-five miles o ~
hour. I'll
M. Shvedoff endeavors to mainto;.
in the Journal of the Russian Phvs;"aII
and Chemical Society that hail is Of iI oOa
mic origin, and is variety of meteor
ties. 'cor-
"A Preach veterinary surgeon basa;.
covered remedy, by incubation e..
the disease called " charbon,n whioh
kills millions of francs worth of shaen
yearly. 'p
The Amertcan Archjtect saws +ho.
many architects, in constructing houssS
this spring, are providing them with in
sulated wires laid under the plasterin-
ready for the introduction of electr;o,
light. "
The wool clip of the world has :,
creased five times since 1880, when i
was about 320,00O,00O pounds in weirbt =
In 1878, the latest year for which there
are complete figures, the total was i :
100000 pounds. -
The beet-root sugar business in Nam
England is reported to be failnro
mainly for lack of cheap labor and other
factors necessary to produce large SIM.
ply of beets at small cost. There is m
trouble, however, in getting good sugar
from the beets that New England pro.
duces.
Prof. Bouchardst attributes to tbe
vine powerful sanitary properties. He
asserts that wherever it is cultivated IN
any considerable extent there is a
very sensible diminution Of intermittents
The virtue is attributed to the action of
the vine on the eflluvia which cause
feverS.
The Minneapolis Tribune boasts
that since the adoption of the 'new pro.
cess" of making flour in 1871 that citv
leads the market. From $4,000 barrels
in 1860 and $4,000 in 1873, the produc.
ton of 1880 reached 2,051,S41 barrels.
The capacity of the Minneapolis mills is
now %, 255 barrels day.
To Outer, of Greifswald, is attrib.
uted the first visible demonstration Of
the circulation of blood in the human
pouy. In lnlS operation, the patients
head being fixed in a frame having
continuance for supporting microscope
and a lamp, his lower lip is drawn out
and fixed on the stage of the micro
scope by means of clips, the inner sur
face being uppermost, and having
strong light thrown upon it by con
denser. This arrangement being COM
plete, all the observer has to do is to
bring the microscope to bear on the
surface of the lip, using low power
objective, and focusing small super
fetal vessel; at once he sees the endless
and wonderful procession of the blood
corpuseles through the minute capilla-
ries, the colorless ones appearing like
white specks dotting the red stream.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09
A Flunkey and a Sovereign.

Mr.. Lawrence Jerome has Just de-
parted for New York after a somewhat
extended sojourn on this side of the
water. Everybody knows of the iollv
" Larry" and will therefore be able to
appreciate the following anecdote of an
experience in London inimitably told bv
himself. His niece, Leonard Jerome's
daughter, is the wife of Lord Randolph
Churchill, who also needs no introduce
ton to American readers, and behold.
therefore, our friend Larry at the por-
tails OF their town house, accosting a
stately footman:
&C Is Mr.. Churchill at homepn
(The footman shivers.)
"Me Lud is in Ireland.''
"Humph! What's he doing in Ire.
landP"
(The footmsn is silent with horror. \
els Mrs. Churchill inP''
(The footman quivers with indigna-
tion.)
"Me Lady, sir, is not down stairs
yet"
"Not up! Humph! A pretty time
of day to be in bed! Well, you Just tell
Mrs. Churchill-n
(The footman pales and is about to
summon assistance to eject the audaci-
GUS intruder when-a silvery laugh and
a voice floats down from over the banis-
tiers, 81 hear you, Uncle Larry! Come
right I'M"
The footman, bowling low, "Oh, sir.
me Lud! pardon me. If you please, me
Lud, this way. n-LOndOfl Cor. PhtLI1eL-
obiG Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09
A Wife's Devotion to a Worthless Illus
band.

The death in Jersey City of Mrs. Sa-
rah M. Hamilton recalls touching sto.
ry of wifely devotion. Mrs. Hamilton
was connected with highly respectable
family. She was married to Alexander
D. Hamilton, whose family connections
were equal to her own. Hamilton asso.
ciated with politicians, and eight or nine
years ago was made Treasurer of Jersey
City. He had been in Office trife less
than three years when he fed, and ii
was discovered that he had stolen $780,
600 worth of city bonds. He was track
ed through the country until he was
finally ascertained to be in Mexico. Pc.
lice Sergeant, now Chief Benjamin Muir
ply, was sent to that country to capture
him. Murphy found that Hamilton had
placed himself under the protection OF
Cortina, who was the leader of q pow
erful band of outlaws. He declared that
his protection would last only so long as
Hamilton's money, and he patiently
waited in Mexico till the outlaws should
turn the fugitive out from among them
penniless. He did not have to wait
many weeks. Cortina robbed his ward
of all he had and then abandoned him.
Murphy brought him back to Jersey
City. The first person to meet him was
his faithful wife. She forgave him the
disgrace he had brought upon her and
their children.
When he was arraigned he pleaded
guilty. More in response to her entreat-
les than to any circumstances mitigat-
ing his offense, the court leniently i'm
posed sentence of but three years i'm
prisonment. Mrs. Hamilton went at
once to the Governor to seek her hus-
bands pardon. When she found that
he could do nothing without the aid of q
Court of Pardons, she importuned every
body in her large circle of friends to in,
tercede with the members of the court
in her husbands behalf. She sacrificed
health and fortune in her efforts to get
him out A year before his term would
have expired he was released from con.
finement.
Mrs. Hamilton then placed the rem
nant of her little fortune in his hands,
and babe him make a new man of him.
self. His friends believed that he was
on the fair road to redemption, and gave
him lifting hand. He established
milk route that gave employment to
three men, and yielded a handsome in
come; but he soon fell back into evil
company. Selling out his milk route,
he purchased saloon on Grove street.
There he started variety show of the
very lowest character. He practically
deserted his wife for the lewd women
that performed on his stage or gathered
to witness the plays. The police raided
the place and arrested him. Mrs. Ham,
ilton sat in court during his trial, acting
the part of faithful wife, notwithstand-
ing his treachery to her. During this
time Mrs. Hamilton's family and friends
saw with anxiety that her health was
failing. They begged her to discard the
man and leave him to his fate. she
turned deaf ear to them. Several
years ago Hamilton disappeared from
his home. The faithful woman heard
nothing from him, and her death from
broken heart is the reward of her fidel-
ity.-N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09
FARMER JOHN.

"If I'd nothing to do" said farmer John,
To fret or to bother me
Were | but rid of this mountain of work,
What good man could be!
Z" The pigs get out, and the cows get in,
Where they have no right to be;
And the weeds in the garden and in the corn
Why, they fairly trighten me-
at worries me out of temper quite,
And well nigh out of my head.
What a curse it is that a man must toll
Like this for his daily bread'
But Farmer John he broke his leg,
And was kept for many week
A helpless and an idle man
Was he therefore mild and meek?
Nay; what with the pain, and what with the
OF sitting with nothing to do
And the teamwork botchedby a shiftless hand,
He got very cross and blue.
He scolded the children and cuffed the dog
That fawned about his knee;
And snarled at his wife, though she was kind
And patient as wife could be.
He grumbled, and whined, and fretted, and
fumed,
The whole of the long day through.
twill ruin me quite" cried Farmer John,
ITO sit here with nothing to dol"
His hurt got we'll, and he went work,
And buster man than he,
A happier man, or pleasanter man,
You never would wish to see.
The pigs got out, and he drove them back,
Whistling right merrily;
He mended the fence, and kept the COWS
Just where they ought to be-
Wedding the garden was jolly fun,
And ditto hoeing the corn.
" Pm happier far" said Farmer John,
THAN I've been since was born"
He learned a lesson that lasts him we'll
Twill last him his whole life through.
He frets but seldom, and never because
He has plenty of work to do.
" tell you what" says Farmer John,
"They are either knaves or fools
Who long to be idle-for idle hands
Are the DEVILS chosen tools"
Ellen p. AHerton, in Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09

In Leicester, England, many per-
sons are being daily summoned to the
police court for refusing to comply with
the compulsory vaccination act. A fine
OF ten shillings or seven days imprison-
ment is the penalty, and over 2 900 cases
remain to be tried.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-09

The Canada Pacific Railway has
sold 100000 acres of land to French
agricultural society at 1925 per acre.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-03
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.


Electric power is now used in Ger.
many to deliver coal at the entrance OF
mines.
DIR. Scondorff's safety lamp for col
lieries is attracting attention. The lamp
can only be opened with the help of q
strong magnet. G
The Duryee Furnace and Manufac-
turing Company, Canada, is to reported
to have introduced new and remarka.
BILE process for smelling iron ores. The
fuel used is crude petroleum, which Is
fed in the form of spray.
Sir William Armstrong, at Craig
side, near Newcastle, England, has util.
lied brook to run dynamo-electro
machine by means of turbine water
wheel, and so manages to secure elec'
tricity enough to keep 81 Swan lamps in
state of incandescence in his house. In
this case the motive power costs moth
ing, and electric lighting in this way is
an exceptional luxury.
When the rapid increase of the
earth's motion was observed, the idea
was advanced that the moons orbit was
growing shorter and would end by
coming down upon US. But more recent
calculation shows that instead of the
moon coming nearer our day is growing
Elonger, owing to the friction of the tides
upon the earth's surface, by which the
speed of the earth's rotation is slowly
diminished.
The English have admitted the sue
cess of the electric light. Lamp-posts
have been erected in Bristol. The Lam
cashire and Yorkshire Railway Compa-
ny illuminate their station platforms
with it and regard it cheaper than gas.
Alnwick Castle, the seat Of the Duke OF
Northumberland, has also been illumin-
ated. The library, a very large apart
ment, is lighted by three lamps, and the
effect is reported superior to any light
before used. ..
BY securing variety in temperature,
through planting oysters in different
depths of water, as practiced in Con-
necticut, the Scientific american says
oysters can be obtained in fit condi-
ton for the table every week in the year.
The greater the heat, the earlier the
oysters will spawn. Those in the deeper
and colder water feel the heat later and
spawn later. Some portion of the oyster
field, so to speak, will therefore be ready
for harvesting at all times.
The composition of buckwheat has
been examined by M. G. Lechartier. He
states that the proportion of nainol ai
matter in the straw increases with the
weight. The straw may indeed become
richer in phosphoric acid than the grain,
differing thus completely from that OF
the other cereals. The straw of a crop
Of buckwheat may contain more mineral
matter than does the grain. The sum
of the principal fertilizers removed
from the soil by an entire crop is much
more considerable than for crop OF
wheat containing the same quantity OF
grain.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-03
PITH AND POINT.

Carlyle frequently made mistakes in
spelling. 1t is the same way with Josh
Billings.-N. o. Picayune.
When you reach the plane of man
hood it is quite natural that you should
indulge in q little shaving.-Bostoa
Courier. .f
In some of the Western. cities the
papers pay so much attention to society
matters that a man can't 60 home sober
without having the incident mentioned.
-Philadelphia NeeoS.
Inquirer: Does mans size varyf
Yes, sir; we've seen q man in a bar.
room treating the crowd, and he was
the biggest man in the town till his
mother-in-law came in and took him by
the ear, and then he was very little
fellow.-Boston Post.
-"You are the worst boy ever sawl"
exclaimed Brown to his son. sWhy will
YOU 90 on as you do? / should think
YOU would have some respect for your
father" elbow can l, dad, have any
respect for a man with such rascallJ
son?" asked the young reprobate.-
ton Transcript.
in a couple of hundred years from
this, if the Bible is again revised to suit
the times, the passage in the parable OF
the ten virgins which reads thus, "Give
us of your oil, for our lamps have gone
out" will be changed to, "Give us OF
your electric lights, for our circuit is
temporarily broken. ."-Son1errste Jour-
nal.
DIR. Risley, of Philadelphia, speak
inc of the condition OF the eyes OF school
children, says, "Hypermetropic eyes are
more numerous than both myopic and
emmetropic; that next to myopic astig-
matism, distinct LESSONS are most preva-
lent in eyes with hypermetropic astig-
matism.'' From this it appears that
sthe eyes have it'-but what it is they
have is conundrum to us, and we re-
gret that they have it.-Norrtstown Her.
aid.
She was Boston woman; tall, thin,
with false curls and sour visage. BE-
side her sat her husband, little, meek,
demure-looking man, who seemed inca
pable of boldness of speech or action.
Presently guest at the other end ofthe
table bawled out at the top Of his voice,
"Waiter! fetch the vinegar cruet. F"
Then the demure-looking little man
turned to her and said, 'Dovey, some
body wants you .''-Brooktyrs Eagle.
Two gentlemen were seated upon
the steps Of the house of one of them, on
a mild evening this summer, when
very large woman, with rustic OF volu-
minous silks and roll of voluminous per-
son, entered the next dwelling. "Who
is that?n asked the visitor. "That,"
answered the master of the house, sis
my neighbor Webster's wife" ooh,
see," was the ready rejoinder, "Web'
ster's Unabridged. ."-Bost0a Courier
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE feature in the Guiteau case on
the 29th was the Introduction Of letters to
prove the prisoners insanity. They were
all written by Guiteau to his father and
other members OF his family and covered a
period Of fifteen or twenty years. AS the
reading of the letters progressed Guiteau
occasionally commented upon them or sug-
gested the proper word when Scovlle hesi-
tated. At noon Guiteau was questioned by
Scoville relative to his early life. He re-
sponded promptly and intelligently, appar-
emily enjoying the situation and his freedom
to talk. He said he did not believe in any
religion until his conversion-''that's the
word they use, you know"-which was in
$50, when he came under the influence Of
Beecher and the Young Mems Christian AS.
sociation.
THE first indictments in the star route
cases found by the Grand Jury are one
against star Route Contractor Brett for
bribing Government officials and defrauding
the Government, and another against Dep
uty Auditor Lilley for accepting bribe.
THE National Butter, Cheese and Egg
Convention held its first meeting at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, on the Goth, with 600 dele
gates from twenty-five States present.
Large delegations from New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago, 81. Louis,
Milwaukee and other points, and nearly a
thousOd visitors, prominent business men
from Adirections, were in attendance.
In the recent furious storm on the
Australian coast the steamer Boisbone was
wrecked on reef, the steamer Balelutha
foundered between Melbourne and Sydney,
and the schooner Schoolboy, with all on
board, was lost near Jewes Bay.
DIR. JOHN BACON, Professor of Chem
istry at Harvard College, is dead.
THE Prince Edward Island Bank, the
chief financial institution on the little Cana
dian Island OF that name, has furnished a
rival to Baldwin in its cashier, Becker by
name, who lent between 500, 900 and 81 ,00O,-
600 to unsubstantial parties and then fled to
avoid arrest when disclosure became in
evitable. The bank has suspended for three
months. The Directors and stockholders
will be called upon to make good the claims
or depositors.
THE Wise County Courthouse, at
Decatur, Texas, burned on the 9th, h,with all
its records and other contents. Loss on
building $4,000, with no insurance. The
fire WAS ncendiary in its origin, and as the
question Of building new courthouse has
been agita.ed considerably Of late, it is be-
lieyed to have been the work of interested
parties.
The business portion of Kosciusko,
Miss, has been destroyed by fire. Aggre-
gate losses estimated At $4,000, partially in
snrsdI -.
Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-03
THE DOCTOR.

He has been through the college,
And captured all knowledge,
He has an NJ. ID. to his name;
His talk is of healing
OF pills and pulse feeling,
He smiles on the sick and the lame.
See you his diploma?
Scent yOu the aroma
OF culture and drugs he exhaleS?
His slow shake of head
Fills the sick full of dread,
To bring handsome fee seldom fails.
His wise diagnoses
Are followed by doses
For which the poor patient must pay
He will bleed you and carve you,
Or stuff you, or starve you
The patient must never say nay.
His fame firmly rooted,
His cures widely mooted,
His failings hid safely under ground,
The idol of woman,
And secuted by no man,
None so happy as he can be found.
-Boston Transcript.