Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-04-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

We always find wit and merit in those
who look at us with admiration.
The price of ice has been retiuced in
f,uslipatop. W n~rlaaf'- s's,s,aei,s,s,S ,,siil
chrey uic news TO contpnnies in other
cities.
No man can be brave who considers
pain the greatest evil of life nor tenn
perate who considers pleasure to be the
highest good.
LondCn newspapers are adopting the
American paragraphic systems gradually.
That is, they sometimes have two ar
ticles on page.
1t is said that Vennor keeps one secre-
tary at work writing out his weather
predictions and another explaining why
they were not fulfilled
Joubert, the Boer, is claimed by Penn
sylvania If this turns out to be the
case, it will be the saddest blow that
Ohio has yet received.
New York consumers have complain
ed so bitterly of the high price of coal
that the dealers have kindly reduced
the wages of coal shovelers
DR. Glenn, the largest wheat grower in
California, pronounces the wheat profit
50 small that he must seek diversity of
culture for his $4,000 acres
The editor of the jamestown, (N.Yl
JouwH displays the Characteristic Of
cand0r, to say the least. He soherly re
marks: april fools day is the next day
we celebrate"
Mr. and Mrs. T. Nokes and Miss Vokes
and the Vokes Comedy Company, ar
rived at New York from England on
Sunday We are glad to see the "Old
Volses at Home.
i The 11aryard gir says it SIS not fair
we can't have gymnasium, too" and,
SO says rumor, one will be built for
them.
ooh, dear r exclaimed Edith to her
doll, II do wish you would sit still.
never saw such an uneasy thing in all
my life. Why don't you act like grown
folks and be still and stupid for awhile?"
Whatever your sex or position, life is
a battle i'll which you are to show you
pluck, and woe be to the coward Des-
pair and postponement are cowardice
and defeat Men were born to succeed
and not fail.
Discrimination An old Scotch lady
gave a pointed reply to minister who
knew he had offended her, and who ex-
pressed surprise that she should come
so regularly to hear him preach Said
she "My quarrcls wi you, mon; it's
no vi the gospel"
A cigarette machine, making over one
hundred thousand per dav-the work of
sixty hands-has been invented bv ].
Cowman, of New York. The machine
is so perfect that it is estimated four
/ teen of them would suffice to supply the
entire demand for this country.
"Here, lend us a hand, somebody y
cried good little Billy, struggling to
climb over the back fence to run away
to the circus. And his kind father, who
happened to be near and heard him
came up and lent him hand about the
size of a sugar-cured ham, sixteen or
seventeen times And the next time he
runs away to the circus Billy will try to
get along alone.
The distance from New Orleans TO
San Francisco by the Tehuantepec route
is 1884 miles by the Panama route s.,
rs miles difference in favor of Tehu-
antepec one way, 2,334 miles; difference
in round trip, 4,66S miles AS the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec is but lG2 miles
wide it is easily to be seen that this is
the best route for the South.
In France it is generally recognized
as a rule, that the sugar beet SHOULD
never be cultivated upon fresh man&
or ba1nyard manure, because this system
of culture gives larger yield in weight,
but roots so rich in foreign matters that
they cannot be worked with profit. The
beet should always form the second 70
, tation when the manure is strong.
! The power of receiving vivid and acute
. impressions is called sensitiveness. L
, these impressions, however, are not min
gled with activity of soul, if they are moi
vitaiized by thought and embodied IL
the life, they cease to be of any value tc
the character, and even lose the beauty
which we are in the habit of according
to them For only that is truly beauti-
full which either has within it the ele-
, ment Of growth OF suggests vital energy
as its cause.