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, 1882-07-07

OLD customs still prevail to Il great
extent in the northern and western
portions of England. In the north,
especially amid the great Black coun-
try, they are almost universal, while
in the millands and in the south they
seem to have disappeared. Many Of
these customs come within the cate
CORY of superstition. In the north
no child's nails are ever cut on Sun
day; no infants nails are cut until it
has attained the age Of l year, but
are bitten. The inside of childs
hands are never washed until three
weeks after birth; infants, before they
are carried down stairs, are always
taken up stairs, in order to insure
their course in the world upward; no
child is shown itself in the glass, or
its teething process will be painful;
cake is always given to the first per
son met on the road to the christen-
ing; marriage should never be per
formed on a Saturday, but always, if
possible, on a Wednesday; the person
who sleeps first on the wedding night
will die first, as will the person who
kneels first at the marriaSe ceremony.
In Cornwall no miner whistles under
ground; q Cornish child born after
midnight will see more Of the world
than ordinary folk, and Sunday is an
especially lucky day for birth.
, 1882-07-07

AT the mobiles school in Toxic,
Japan, is physical map of that
country 300 or 400 feet long, in the
court behind the school building
This map or model is made Of turf
androck, and is bordered with pebbles
which look at little distance like so
much water. Every inlet, river and
mountain is reproduced in this model
with a fidelity to detail which is
simply wonderful. Latitude and lon
gitude are indicated by telegraph
wires, and tablets show the position
of the cities Ingenious devices are
employed in illustrating botanical
studies also. For example, the pine
is illustrated by a picture showing
the cone, leaf and dissected flower, set
in a frame which shows the bark and
longitudinal and transverse sections
of the wood
, 1882-07-07
Looking for Wife with a Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
/" I want to find a rich wife"


This was the Introductory remark
Of a Herald representative to an old
gentleman who presides over a newly
established matrimonial bureau in
this city. The matrimonial high
functionary was German with a
brown wig, little tuft of gray hair
plastered over his bald forehead, in
nocent baby blue eyes, glowing red
cheeks and a white, thick moustache,
with imperial of equally snowy color.
Happy as he looked it was not mat
rimony, he confessed, that made him
so-for he was, alas! q widower.
"What kinda" he queried.
Il should like one with a $780,
O00," was the bold reply.
The old gentleman was very honest
about it. "A hundred thousand dol
lars" said he, speaking with a funny
German brogue, " is too much money.
We haven't got many of that sort.
You'd better come down in your ideas
little bit"
What's the very best you can
dDW
We'll, we have an old German
widow who says she is worth $4,000,
but she is awfully cross and ugly.
I'm afraid you wouldn't like her"
"Neyer mind about that. Has she
really got the S50,0O0p
This conversation took place in the
, 1882-07-07
The Best Antidote Against Injection

1t is terrible to read OF infectious
diseases with which we are still
troubled. There are whole districts
now trembling for fear that small
poX will invade them or spread
within them; towns are dreading the
coming Of malarial fevers; others are
already suffering under diphtheria,
while scarlet fever, measles, etc, are
not even mentioned
We think that a certain class OF
antidotes have never become SUI
fciently appreciated in these cases.
There is one especially which we
would wish to mention, the fumes Of
boiling malt and vinegar They dis
pei infectious particles rapidly and
kill their yirulence, particularly if
used in time. Who're these fumes
are used, windows and doors should
DO closed and not opened for about
twenty minutes. After this time the
fresh air can be freely admitted.
When these fumes are used repeat
edly, disease will assuredly be kept
off. This is also an excellent pre-
yentitive among cattle and sheep
against infection, and even a cura-
tive in certain cases. The great
power of acids to dispel and kill
malarial particles is not sufficiently
appreciated, and any one can make a
trial in the simplest form by allowing
the fumes of boiling vinegar to
spread about.
, 1882-07-07
n er Again.


rUos. q CoLLIRR.
Ns,cr again, thoUchHear1 may come and 80
And s,ars and sun may shine,
And blue waves boat sho shore WlS
restless low,
Will your snail hand clasp mine.
Never again ,hough orchards may grow
sweet
With blossoms pink and white,
Will come the subtle music OF your fees,
To fill mo with delight
Never again, when robins blithely sing
Songs tha; all souls rejoice,
Amid tho many melodies of spring,
For me will sound your voice.
Mover again, when through the shadows
The moaning of tho tide
Up from the sea i'll sad refrain is rolled,
Will You stand by my side,
Never again, while through the morning
mist,
The opal glory streams,
Will We, where love has sanctliied trys,
Tell over nighs'. bright dreams.
Never again. oh. love so sweet, so fair
The tides may rise and fall,
And birds sing echo through the Fragrant
air,
And you may hear my call.
Never again! The purple clovers toss,
And lilies vigil keep,
As soft south winds 90 wandering across
The grave wherein you sleep.
, 1882-07-07

A Rich TOMATO SoUP.-Take eight
good-sized tomatoes, cut them in half,
put them into a saucepan with a
bunch Of sweet herbs and an onion
stuck full of cloves, some allspice,
whole pepper and salt. Cook them
slowly until quite soft, then strain
through strsiner or hair sieve until
the skins and onions and herbs only
are left behind. Have a quart Of
plain stock boiling hot, Stir the to-
matoes into it, add the yolks Of two
eggs beaten up in a little cold water.
Serve with sippets of toast or fried
bread
, 1882-07-07
A Grand Wife.

An exchange thus tells how it was
astonished at the difference between
theory and fact in a neighbor's CON
duct, who was always praising his
wife:
We once knew man who was al =
ways praising his wife. On the cor
ner, down the street, at the post
Office, at the race track, in the skating
rink, at the theater, in the sal-that
is, the choir-meeting, he vas always
telling what happy man he was,
just because he had such a splendid
wife, and he talked every man he
met into a perfect frenzy of envy
about her. Well, one winter morn
ing when it was not yet too light to
make one appear over ostentatious,
we sneaked into that neighbor's yard
to steal fence-board for kindling, and
had to wait before we could safely
obtain it until the mans wife came
out and sawed a couple of armfuls Of
wood, shoveled out three snow paths,
fed and groomed the horse, and
cleaned the cowshed, and then when
she went into the house and we
heard her call to her husband that
the sitting-room was warm enough
for him to dress in if he wanted to
get up now, we were so amazed that
we forgot what we were waiting for,
and went back and kindled the fire
with corn-cob and a pint of kero
sene.
, 1882-07-07

SwEErBREADs.- Throw them into
cold water the moment they come
from market and let them remain an
hour. Thon throw them into salted
boiling water and lot them boil about
twenty minutes, or until tender.
Throw them into cold water and let
them remain two or three minutes.
After bleaching them in this way re-
move the skin and little pipes, and
let them remain on ice until you are
ready to cook them. Put q table
spoonful of light brown sugar and O
teaspoonful of water into porcelain
4; saucepan, and let it melt and assume
q rich brown color, taking care, how
Sever, not to let it blacken or burn.
Then add half teacupful of water
and pinch of salt. Stir this cara
mel well for a few minutes, then pour
it boiling hot over the well-beaten
yolk of an egg. Brush the sweet
breads over with this and let them
dry, and repeat this the third time.
Then put them in the oven, with a
little of the water in which they were
. boiled in the bottom of the pan. Let
them bake until nicely Drowned,
basting frequently. To fry sweet
breads, cut them into pieces the size
of an oyster, or fry them whole.
Season with pepper and salt, egg and
bread-crumb them and fry them in
boiling lard. Tomato sauce, stewed
mushrooms, asparagus, green peas,
maccaroni, etc, are favorite accom-
paniments
, 1882-07-07

SAYS tho Salt Lake Tribune Ct.
III. Albro is prospector who has
spent the last ten years prospecting
in New Mexico, Old Mexico and
Arizona. He has lately arrived in
this city from Arizona, coming
through from the blackberry mining
district by way of Gold Basin and
Pierce's Ferry over tho Colorado,
As Albro was crossing the Sixty
five Nile Desert on his trip, on the
10th OF May no found a double
sbarroled shot gun beside a skeleton.
The bones of the left hand were
grasping the barrels toward the
muzzle, and higher up the barrels
rested in the skeleton right hand;
the stock was broken, and sand had
drifted on the skeleton and the gun.
The whole appearance was as if the
man had been killed in fight, and
had died in the act of clubbing his
gun on his toe. Some time ago
Albro found at Turkey Tanks, A. T.,
eighty miles west Of Brigham City,
on the Little Colorado, the body Of q
white man, who, he thinks, from ap-
pearances and surroundings, was
killed by white desperadoes, The
body was lying on its back, with tho
head raised, the eye sighting along
tho barrel of a Henry rife, which no
had evidently been using to the
best advantage. This rife the finder
sold to one of party of Eastern OK
oursionists for $3.50.
, 1882-07-07

He KNEW THE HAIR.--A few days
since q party Of gentlemen were to-
gether. One man, q joker, stepped
up to q member of the party, and
holding long hair before his eye,
said,
"See here, old fellow, this looks
suspicious. Tell me, where did this
long hair come from?"
"Why, that's from my wife's headp
"Are you sure of it?"
"Sure Of it? OF course l am. You
don't suppose you would find any
other woman's hair about me, do
you?"
"No, probably not; but I am sorry
you are so sure it is your wife's hair,
for just picked it off the coat of
this gentleman" pointing to friend
near by.
, 1882-07-07

Nor long ago Mr.. Beecher's door
bell was rung by a bright-faced boy,
who seemed to be in breathless haste
rs he asked to see the clergyman. He
was admitted, and at once explained
that two gentlemen down the street
were holding a debate over the proper
spelling of word, and had sent him
for Webster's Unabridged to settle
the question. The quarto was
obligingly handed to the messenger,
who hurried off with it. Mr.. Beecher
has never learned how the ortho-
graphical difficulty was adjusted, but
he is aware that his library is minus
one dictionary. The Jealous young
collector is probably ambitious to
establish book store, as he has been
heard from in other parts of Brook
lyn prosecuting the same industry
with local variations.
, 1882-07-07

On the railroads of Continental
Europe the introduction of mineral
oil for lubricating purposes is prov
ing both efficient and economical.
, 1882-07-07

The New York Herald says editori-
ally: "The Sun and Tribune may rest
satisfied that, with or without the
action of Congress or OF the public,
care will be taken OF the widow and
children of De Long, and nof Of them
alone, but Of every widow and every
orphan OF the men who sailed with
the Jeanette and have perished We
request the Tribune and Sun to ac-
cept our acknowledgement of their
kindness in affording a suitable op-
portunity to make this statement
without being liable to the reproach
Of intruding it," 1t is understood
that Mr.. Bennett will give Mrs. De
Long and her children $4,000.
A French statistician has calculated
that il all the telegraph wires at pres
ent laid were tscked on end to end
they would reach forty-six times
around the world. Belgium has a
greater telegraph mileage in proper
ton to its superficial area than any
other country in Europe: Switzer-
land comes second and Great Britain
third Russia has the least,
, 1882-07-07

DIALOGUE between two boosters.
" LANDED estates? My dear fellow. |
have estates at Marseilles. estates so
vast that you can't see the end of
them" "Pshaw! That's nothinpl
l have estates at Toulouse, sir, that
you can't even SEQ the beginning off,
, 1882-07-07

YoUAG Bride Ito Yisitory-"Oh,
on our way to Parish I suffered SO
dreadfllly on the steamer that dear
George promised me the next time we
went ho'd take me round the other
wayw- LOndOn Punch
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
An Anonymous Letter.

A day or two ago widow living on
Sixteenth Street called the policeman on
that beat into the house and informed
him that she had very serious case on
hand. Some one had written her an
anonymous letter, and she wanted the
officer to trace out the guilty party if it
took him until January, 1892.
"What was in the letter." he asked.
81 will read it. 1t begins: MY dear
friend and goes on to say that the
writer has fallen in love with my red
cheeks, sparkling eyes and dimpled
chin"
ale must be blind man." bluntly
observed the officer. 81 don't see any
red cheeks or dimDles."
perhaps you don't, SIR" she coldly
replied, "but | will read further. He
says that my image is constantly before
his eyes, and that l am the subject of his
dreams"
"Well, that's all right" said the Off
Ger, ''unless he lets the image bother his
eyes when a butcher-cart is around. He
is evidently mashed"
"And further down he says that the
sight of me getting off the street car sends
a thrill through his whole system.n
every likely, madam-that is, if you
catch your foot and sprawl on the ground.
| think l know the old coon who wrote
that letter"
"Old coonm
Eyes, an old Goldfish down here who
has had three wives and seventeen chill
dren."
"Sir! how dare you imagine that he
would write to me?n
"And I'll see that he is arrested"
mo, you won't! | warn you not to
interfere in this case in any manner"
"But thought you wanted the guilty
punished?'
"Who said I did? I simply wanted
you to trace it out and give me the name
of the writer"
$50 that you could prosecu tie himP"
"No, sir! | wanted to know if he was
in earnest, and if he was-you see-you
know would"
you'd write him that il his conduct
was repeated you'd appeal to the law?"
81 think you needn't bother with the
case at allr' she remarked, as she swal-
lowed lump in her throat you don't
seem-tha& is you appear-that is, good
day, sir!'
"And what she wanted of me,n said
the officer as he went back to his beat,
twas to assure her that some one really
wrote the letter in earnest, and that he
probably meant all he said. Once sure
of that she would have answered it. -
Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
What it Meant.

When Billy Root was little boy he
was of philosophical and investigating
turn of mind, and wanted to know al
most everything. He also desired to
know it Immediately. He could not
wait for time to envelop his intellect, but
he crowded things and wore out the pa
tience of his father, learned savant, who
was president of a livery stable in Chica-
60. One day Billy ran across the grand
mailing sign which is generally represent
ed as tape worm in the beak of the
American eagle, on which is inscribed
"E Pluribus Unum." Billy, of course.
asked his father what "E Pluribus
Unum" meant. He wanted to gather in
all the knowledge he could, so that when
he came out west he could associate with
some of our best men.
81 admire your strong appetite for
knowledge, Billy" said Mr.. Root, ''you
have morbid craving for cold hunks of
ancient history and cyclopedia that does
my soul good, and am glad, too, that
you come to your father to get accurate
data for your collection. That is right.
Your father will always lay aside his
work at any time and gorge your young
mind with knowledge that will be as use
full to you as farrow COW. ''E Pluribus
Unum' is an old Greek inscription that
has been handed down from generation
to generation, preserved in brine, and
signifies that 1.-THE tail goes with the
hide. "-Nye'S boomerang.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
The Drift Towards Prohibition.

Few people realize the progress that
Temperance cause. Dr. Daniel Dor
chester shows by facts in the Christian
AdCocate how strong is the drift to-
wards Prohibition. He cites, first, the
long record for Prohibition of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, the shorter
record of Kansas. and the recent Pro-
hibition victory in Iowa. Probably not
less than ten other States, he adds, are
moving for q Constitutional Amend
ment similar to that lately adopted by
Iowa. Under "local option" Prohibi-
ton obtains in quite a number of towns
and cities in New Jersey; in Logan
County, Media, and other places in
Pennsylvania; in nearly all the rural
districts of South Carolina; in forty-tw
counties, besides church and school
he; ghborhoods in Georgia, equal in all
to one-half the area of the State; in ten
to fifteen counties and numerous dis
tricts in Alabama; in large districts in
Mississippi; in many parishes in Louisi-
ana; in about one-half the State, under
the "Four Mile law" in Tennessee; in
large sections in Arkansas; in several
counties in Texas. The votes given in
various State Legislatures in 1881, cited
by Dr. Dorchester also, are significant.
In Wisconsin the vote in the House
! stood 81 yeas to 80 nays. In that State
in 1878, $1,000 people petitioned for
Prohibition; in 1879, 10000; in 1890,
100, 900; and still larger number in
1881. In Pennsylvania the vote in the
House was 109 to SO, the measure fail
ing in the Senate. In Michigan the
House voted 63 to 80. the Senate 81 to
10-the necessary two thirds being
wanting by only one vote in the House
and by three votes in the Senate.
In Nebraska the record was 40 to %; in
Ohio, in the House II to 16, in the
Senate 20 to II (lost by four votes)
in Illinois, House Sc to 81, Senate 16 to
81; in Nebraska, 40 to %; in West
Virginia, 40 to 20 in the House; in
Arkansas, House 66 to II; in Texas,
House 81 to 81, Senate % to 7. Here
are large number of majoritIeS that
bid fair before long to increase to the
requisite two-thirds. The Temper
ance skies evidently are frightening. -
S. S. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
Temperance Items.

SIR GARNET WoLsELEY is 4 Temper
ance man, never touching liquor of any
kind.
ILLINOIS has over 100000 people
and 900 liquor saloons-an average
of 272 to each saloon
Most of the 900 inmates of the Geor-
gia insane asylum are said to be there
through the agency of strong drink.
CALIFORNIA brandy is good to keep.
The longer you keep it, without drink
ing any of it, the better it is for you.
A SYRACUSE woman sent her grand
daughter, aged four years, to the near
est groggery for whisky. The child.
while returning, drank some of the vii
famous compound, fell unconscious and
shortly afterward died. And now pub
lie opinion is divided as to the cuipa-
bility of the grandmother and the sa-
loon-keeper.
CHIEF-JUsTICE CoLERIDGF, of En-
gland, reports that the records show
that seventy per cent. of the patients
in the hospitals of Great Britain, eight
tcnths of the criminals brought before
the British Courts, and scyenty-five per
cent. of the inmates of the British poor
houses, a"e made so by liquor drinking.
In more emphatic man er it may be
put that seven hospitals ont OF every
ten, eight ials out of every ten, and
seyenty-iive poor-houses out of every
hundred would be disp nscd with if it
were not for the liquor traffic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-10-21
Newfoundland FOgS,

Next to its dogs, Newfoundland fame
rests on its fogs. The Arctic current,
driving southwark and along the coast.
meets the Gulf Stream and condenses
the warmer vapors, just as glass of ice
water gathers drops. The mists COM
paratively seldom penetrate inland, but
in one direction or another they hang
around the island with weird darkness
like that of smoke, and closing ina
"sea turn" they call it here-make navi-
CATION on the cruel coast as dangerous
as on any waters OF the globe. Hundreds
of stout ships have steered to wreck in
the mists on the rock-ribbed shores, and
winters journey to st. Johns is more
perilous than trip to Europe, the Allan
steamships sometimes using eleven DAYS
for the $40 miles from Halifax to St.
Johns. A spot traditional with disaster
is mistaken Point" a little west of Cape
Race, so called because of the difficulty
of distinguishing it in the fog from the
cape itself. Here, within few days of
each other, the steamships Washington
and Cromwell, in 1877, ran ashore and
were lost, with some seventy lives, not q
soul escaping. From the heights above
churning against the lower cliffs, but
only two bodies were secured by an
adventurous seaman, who went down
the face of the rocks by a rope.
Internally and as a whole-eXcept, per-
haps, in the track yet to be penetra-
ted by the acknowledgements is an
unpromising region-a land of continu-
Gus rock, here and there covered with
DOGGY wastes, and with vast areas where
old frs, killing the low frs, have left
wastes of dead trees that tire the eye
with their monotony and expanse. The
summers are brief and moderately warm
the springs marked by marvellousg
sudden burst of vegetation, the winters
about as cold as those of New England,
and attended by deep snowfalls. Along
some of the roads are seen now lines of
stakes rs tall as small telegraph poles,
placed at short intervals, to make out
the winter path. The Vermont toll
house keeper who, after the big snowfall,
put out the notice, Toll taken at the
second story window; after the next
storm please drop the change down the
chimney" would have found rare field
for his drollery on these semi-Arctic
winter roads. Newfoundland has lakes
without number, some of them sixty
miles long, and teeming with trout
She has wilderness where game are
abundant; she raises fine vegetables, and
she, late in August, placed fresh straw
berries on our table. But as yet she
yields to commerce little except copper,
ore, seals and Goldfish. Her people, as a
rule, are so backward as almost to be
archaic, and here, at st. Johns, the
watchmen from ten o'clock to daylight
call the hours. Excluding the Weather
classes, and decidedly including the al
legged hotels of St. Johns, the country
still lacks essentially those prime ele-
ments of civilization, clean bed and
square" meals, Cor. N. Y. Post.