The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-11
MISCELLANEOUS.


year.
Although it is certain that Judge
Wilkinson, of Boston, has left over $780,
900 worth of property, no trace or evil
dence can be found thereof in any bank
or place of deposit.
"A Western editor received letter
from subscriber asking him to publish
a cure for apple tree worms. He replied
that he could not suggest cure until he
knew what allied the worms-N Y. Post.
A woman recently walked with an
infant child from Philadelphia to Chica-
go. As there were no outstanding bets
on her, and no gate money, she had to
go to the workhouSe. Detroit Free
Press.
Fat men are always the very essence
OF good nature. Nine out of ten will
only laugh when you accidentally poke
them in the stomach with your umbrella,
and the tenth will beg your pardon for
being so big.-ROchester Express.
Bismarck is a great man, but when
an English paper charges him with hav-
ing nose like a turnip dug out of the
ground after long winter, he feels the
hit just as much as if his salary was only
seven dollars q week. Detroit Free
Press.
President Arthur was first led to
feel the Importance of women having
larger and fairer opportunities by the
| sympathy he felt for sister whose
health was quite broken down through
long years of struggling as school
teacher for a woman's pay and mans
work.
-Proverbial philosophy: 1t is never
too late to mend-and to mate. A stitch
in time is economy prime. The laws
delay is the lawyer chief pay, There's
many slip after many a nip" IT'S
an i'll ''wind' that stabs one behind.
Fortune favorS the brave-and the knave
Evil communications divide close rela-
tionS.
Mrs. Daniel Webster has sent THIS
little letter to New Haven school which
celebrated her husband S birthday: ''New
Rochelle, Feb. T. 1892 Please accept
my thanks for your gratifying remem-
brance of my late husband on the Tooth
anniversary of his birth; also for your
kindly greeting to myself, Ny kind re-
| CARDS to all your scholars. Yours, very
sincerely, Caroline Leroy Webster"
Mary Washington, the mother of
Washington, was buried at Fredericks-
burg, Va In 1881 wealthy New York
man, Mr.. Burrows, proposed to erect a
monument over the grave at his own ex-
pense, and Andrew Jackson helped to
lay the cornerstone, but, as Mr.. Burrows
failed in business, work was stopped half
way. The people of Fredericksburg now
ask Congress to have the monument fin
ished.
"A Troy On. Y bell-founder has re-
caived an order for bell from Delhi,
Iowa, upon which the following inscrip-
tons are to be cast. On one side: "a
voice has gone before every great good
that has ever been achieved in this
world" The above words were taken
from President Garfield's last public adj
dress. On the other side of the bell will
be cast: ''In memory of servant of
Jesus Christ, our loved President, James
A. Garfield 1881
On the death of Chief Justice Mar
shall, nearly fifty years ago, the lawyers
of Philadelphia moved for monument.
The project failed at the time. as is often
the case, and only So. 0O0was contributed.
The matter was soon forgotten by almost
everybody. The last surviving trustee of
the fund died few days ago, and
among his papers was found careful
account of the money, showing that by
investment it had grown to 800, 900. The
monument will now be erected
Several young men went from st.
Louis ballroom to get drinks at an adjoin-
ing saloon. All took whisky, and when
it was down they looked at one another
with disgust depicted in their faces. 1t
was the very worst whisky they had ever
tasted. John Mackey, who had invited
the party out refused to pay for the stuff.
More than that he whipped the bartender
for retaliation, and undertook to empty
the bottle on the floor A policeman was
called in, who killed Mackey during the
fight that ensued.
The miracle phase of the Rev. George
0. Barnes Louisville revival has been
Investigated by the Courier-Journal.
Among those who had been anointed
with oil in the meetings were found indi-
viduals who firmly believed that they
had been cured respectively of sunstroke,
neuralgia, dyspepsia. headache, rheuma-
tism, bronchitis, malaria fever and kidney
disease. One man who had been. ill for
ten years, and was barely able to get to
the church, went away at brisk pace,
apparently in perfect health.
If the laws of hereditary hold good,
and the theories of some people don't
fall through, the manufacture of dis
titled liquors is doomed. They, the the
orists, maintain that a child may be born
in such condition as to have through
all its life fits of periodical intoxication.
without having tasted strong liquors.
Nobody is going to spend money for
intoxicating liquor, when he can have
the periods just as intoxicating, and just
as often, without. -LooUeH Journal.
"A young Brooklyn woman who has
been in the habit of reading a separate
novel every day in the year, went into
paint shop the other day. came home and
sat down to sing and play on the piano
song called "I'm so lonely" Suddenly
she stopped, and, wheeling round toward
her mother, casually remarked: Il may
as wellte you have taken Paris green.
just as l said l would. wouldn't take
the trouble to save me, for will kill my
self some other time" The doctor gave