The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

Roscoe Conkling was the other even
ing admitted to membership in the New
York Bar Association.
They begin to regard bicycles and
tricycles as pest in England, and want
toput tax on them.
"A London telegram says the people
OF an entire township on the Isle of Skye,
numbering one hundred souls, have de-
cided to emigrate to Canada.
The longest drouth that ever occur
red in America was in the summer of
1862. No rain fell from the LIST of Nav
to the lst of September. Many of the
inhabitants sent to England for hay and
grain.-Chtcdgo Journal.
In his early days, when slave,
Frederick Douglass was employed as a
shlp-calker He has recently received
from the Chesapeake and Marine Rail-
way and Dry Dock Company, of Balti-
more, finely wrought set of calker's
tools as a memento of the days when
MIR. Douglass was an employee of the COM
pany, torty-sixyearS ago. Courier-.JoNr-
nal.
"A Vermont paper relates that n
farmer living near st. Johnsbury hired
Frenchman to work for him. The first
morning the Frenchman was called at
four O. clock for breakfast. After eating
a hearty meal, he arose from the table
and remarked: "This best place 1 ever
get into. Two suppers in one night.
hurrah for bed again" and retired, not
appearing again until eight o'clock.
-Ine BaprIsr MINISTER'S or Cr. Dvuts
have come to the conclusion that re-
form is needed in the manner of conduct
ing funerals. They think that they are
unnecessarily expensive; that the prac-
tice of preaching dead people into
heaven is becoming too general, and that
if ministers conducted the services at the
house or church they were not in duty
bound to visit the grave.-Detroit Post.
"A gentleman who had been giving
description of friends wife, but
omitted all mention of her hair, was
asked the color of it. His delicacy of
feeling overcame him to such an extent
that it was several moments before he
ventured to give any answer, and then
said, in a very reluctant way: at was
that-that Undesirable shade that sug-
gests the thought that it would explode
powder. "-Br0oklyn Eagle.
The town pump was the principal
issue upon which the election in Morris
town, N. j., was decided. The Council
ordered the town pump to be removed,
physician having stated that the water
was not as pure as it might be. The
majority of the people thought different
ly. They rallied to the defense of the
pump, and the hands that would have
stricken it down are now paralyzed. The
pump had quite handle to work on
N. Y. Graphic.
With a climate which might pro-
duce an endless variety for every month
in the year, the Brazilian raises only a
little corn, n few tomatoes, squasiies
and watermclons. Common groceries
are sold at enormous prices. Fruit is
abundant and very cheap. Bananas and
the plantain or pacova can always be
had, while oranges are sold at eight cents
bushel at the trees. Many other
fruits, such as alta or custard apples,
alligator pears, pineapples, mangoes,
pajurd, guavas and copuassu. are given
away or cost almost nothing Indian
! ap0liS Journal.
I Milo. nncI talked tv {, boston Her-
aid reporter in matter uncommon to
actresses. She did not say that the CITY
she was then in was the finest she had
seen in America, but expressed prefer
ence for Washington; and she had found
nothing here at all equal to Paris. She
likes American audiences, now that she
has become accustomed to them. ''They
seemed strange to me at first" she ex-
planned, land l missed the outbursts
had become accustomed to. But soon
learned to know your audiences better
They are just as appreciative, but not so
demonstrative, that is all. think, how
ever, the actors would enjoy little
more noise. Applause always inspires
me, and believe it is so with every one
on the stage She admires our women
greatly, and their style of dressing; but
she condemns their free use of paint and
powder, of which she never uses any off
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