The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

Smith is opposed to the delivery of let
tiers by carriers on Sunday.
Two Philadelphia wheelers arrived
travelled three hundred miles on bicycles
Dog meat and willow tea, poor De
Longs bill of fare, should be the diet of
the next Congressman who votes for an
appropriation for another arctic expedi-
tion.-BaLtinnore Herald.
Madison, Fla, has its sensation. A
party of five children while out berrying
heard noise in the air above them, and
looking up beheld man sitting astride
huge fowl which flew slowly along.
The wonder was also seen by two
negroes.
--Dennie Fulcher is a Georgia young
lady of refinement and excellent social
connections. She has Just married Will
lie Loo Chong, Chinaman. But he has
lived in Augusta ten years, is prosper
GUS merchant, wears American clothes,
has cut off his cue, and belongs to q
church.-N. Y. Sun.
Mayor Wilson, of New Bedford,
Mass, gave some homely advice to the
graduating class of the high school, tell
ing the boys that trade was desirable
requirement, and the girls that house
work ought to be included in their accom-
| plishments. Some of the boys and girls
listened with manifest scorn.
No sooner does the big hat craze
retire from the stage than the hoopskirt
madness made its appearance ON the
street. This sad fact proves that if
woman can't look like mushroom she's
bound to have more than her share of
the sidewalk, captious criticism to the
contrary notwithstanding.-M Y. Her.
| aid.
The farmhouses where summer
board can be had are so numerous in
the vicinity of New York that railroad
has issued directory containing the
names, situation, height above tide wa
ter, etc., of those farmers who will take
in ''city folks" The prices range from
five to ten dollars week and six dollars
is the common figure.-N T. Times.
People who wonder how ballet
dancers can stand and whirl around on
their toes will become less excited when
they know that the shoes worn on such
occasions are not flimsy satin, but blocks
of solid wood, gouged out, so that the
weight of the body comes upon the
ankles instead of the toes.-4St. Louis
Post.
DIR. William A. Hammond says he
considers the new Medical Code '.illogi-
cal, absurd, sophistical, fallacious, spe-
cious, evasive, irrelevant heretical, I'M
reasonable, unscientific, narrow-minded,
visionary and futile" "But then," he
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and that no code could be any better"
An impecunious young man in
Cleveland, Ohio, to escape an annoying
interview on the subject of his bill for
board, lowered his trunk at dead of night
from his bedroom window, and then slid
down the rope. When he reached the
ground, however, he found his landlord
and policeman sitting on his trunk,
waiting to receive him and disposed to
make the interview very lively one.
An amateur of statistics has discov-
cred that the smallest sovereign in the
world is the Emperor of China, who
measures only four feet six inches. The
tallest men are in the Hohenzollern fam
lily. The Emperor William is five feet
: ten inches; the German prince imperial,
five feet six inches; Prince Frederick
Charles, brother of the Emperor, five feet
nine inches, and Prince Albert, nephew
of the Emperor, six feet four inches.
"A San Francisco paper, that has so
long opposed Chinese immigration that
it feels nothing but enmity for all for
eigners, says savagely: TWENTY-FIVE
thousand greasy and unkempt immi-
grants are the daily average now land
,, ing at Castle Garden for distribution
throughout our country. The land and
. government that can digest the igno-
rance, crime, squalor, disease and dirt
that is embraced in an annual million of
immigrants must have the stomach of an
ostrich.
"A leading New England newspaper,
, many years ago, having accused Daniel
{ Webster of looseness in his money affairs,
he wrote the editor private note admit
ting his carelessness, both in paying
what he owed and collecting what was
, due him. "And, as an illustration of
, that" he added, " l inclose two notes on
? money which LOANED your father to aid
him in giving you and your brother an
education" That newspaper never
: troubled him any more on the money
OueStiOn.