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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
LOST PINS.

What becomes of all the pins? Can
any of our young folks inform us?
Used up" are they? and how? We
scarcely ever see 4 pin with the head
worn of, so none are wasted in this
way. Surely none are broken, nor worn
to any perceivable lesser size, nor
shortened up" so as to be thrown
away; and so where do these important
little objects hide themselves? "Get
bent" do they? Yes, come to think of
it, some do get considerably warped
in the using. But, girls, very few pins,
according to the whole number used,
get thrown aside as worthless on ac-
count of becoming bent" Somehow,
pins get out OF sight-utterly lost in a
mysterious manner Occasionally, q
pin is picked up" from the house
floor or perhaps from the door yard,
but very few, indeed. are thus gathered
up for secondary use. We are not
going to attempt to tell just
where all the pins 90, after filling
their too brief mission. Brt we are
certain that each minute, useful article
finds place in which to trust out
its slim, wiry body. Surely paper
of pins ought to last, at least, twice
as long in a household as it does. Last
ing longer, they would not get shorter,
nor lose their heads, nor become less in
thickness of body, but only little
more bent with age; and so to what
place do they go, after all? But me-
thinks one bright-eyed, tiny maiden
says: Il can tell YOU where lots of
pins 90, and so are lost; some are swept
into the dust-pan and put in the fire :;
some are brushed out of the door into
the dirt; and many are lost in the
schcol-room and church that are never
picked up, and roguish boys lose many
in the dust while playing pins, and
some are lost while we are riding out
and attending picnics; because every
few minutes some one says Give me
pin, for I've just lost one, and dom t
wish to take the trouble to find it. -
Upon reflection we willingly accept
this solution of the problem.
But before we close, allow us to fig
ure little as to the probable number
of pins used in the United States in one
year, and we wish our young mathema-
ticians to reckon after us to see if
we have made any mistake. Now let
us estimate the population of our coun-
try at 52,200O00 at the present time;
and supposing six persons on an aver
age to family, would make $500, 900
families, and three papers to family
on an average yearly, would make 70
100, papers of pins used annually.
Now, IA rows to paper would bring
365, 400, 900 rows! Again, 20 pins to
the row gives us 7,30S, 900, 900 pins
d" used up in our country every year.
Allowing an inch as the average length
of pins, long and short, and they placed
in a continuous line, would reach 609,-
600, 600 feet, or SO, 900, 090. 10-11 rods.
or 115. $40. 10-11 miles, which would
reach more than four and a half times
around the earth. Surely pins are very
ullittle articles, and people could not
well do without them. ~ ". Christian
AdUOc0te.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
gor nuung 22eaders.
MAUD'S DECISION.

! don t want to think,
And I'm tired of play;
There's everything crooked
And wrong to-day.
And the cats run off,
And Bose is fOrlOrn;
And my very best dress
Is wrinkled and torn.
And I'm not Il bit hungry,
Or I'd eat and eat;
So what can do
But swing my feet2
Iwish was big folks,
And naughty, too;
There's no one to whip them
Whatever they do.
But they must have been whipped
When little and bad,
II they stole jam and things,
And got naughty and mad
WoIl, then, who whipped them?
| can't, can't see.
Why, their fathers and mothers,
AS mine do me.
Well, the fathers and mothers
Who whipped them?
Why, Mrs. Noah did
JdpneC ana Snem.
Well, then, who whipped Eve?
Why, Adam. guess,
For she stole apples
An cried for dress.
But Adam wasn't punished,
Not single bit;
There wasn't anybody round
Who could do it.
Oh dear! my head aches
Thinking it out;
When is my turn coming
To keep Il stick bout?
Oh, | know now,
The very thing, too!
I'll grow up-Oh, awful fast,
As other folks do.
Then I'll buy little girls
An lots, an lots of boys,
An I'll whip EN- for each bad, bad thil
An every speck Of noise!
Vide AWdke.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

1T wasn't ignorance, but desire 10
tease the young man from Chicago that
made her say to him: II should think
you'd find it very gloomy living whore
there is no society, no theatres, no street
cars, no anythingr' And he foamed at
the mouth, he was SO mad,-BoStoa
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

All the BARRIERS in st. Paul, MIMI
are negroes. One of them was reiusea
a drink at a fashionable bar on accoun'
OF his color. The next time the run
seller went to a barber shop he was III VI
formed that no negro in that city wou WOW,
shave him until he abolished the COW
line at his bar. He is growing lun
beard in consequence. - Chicago NsU"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

deavor to stop the demand for ncgresses
and Circassians; for, if we succeed. the
supply must, as a.natural and inevitable
consequence, cease.-ConStantInople Cor
LnnHO1L NGlnS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

The Prince of Wales is said to be
$4,000, 900 in debt. He must have been
trying to run a newspaper in some re-
mote corner of his mammals EMPIRE
NJ T. advertiser,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
A new horror has been added to the

"A new horror has been added to The
cigarette in California. "Leprosy,"
says San Francisco physician, ''is re-
vealing itself about the lips and tongues
of boys who smoke cigarettes made by
the Chinese. The disease, though fatal,
is slow in giving tokens of its first APP
proaches. - No less than 40 cases of
infection by cigarette smoking had come
under the physicians notice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

Charles Dudley Warner saws he
likes neighbors and he likes chickens;
but he thinks they ought not to be
united near a garden ...- I'd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12

"A Chinaman was married to o.
American girl by a Christian minlsIel
the other day at Atlanta, Ga.--the seV
ond marriage of the kind in that CITY,
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25
How a Won Race Was Lost.
London World.

One Of the real trials Of racing is see
ing the horse you have backed beaten
on the post through the carelessness and
oyerweening confidence Of his rider. A
remarkable case OF this description oc-
cured last week at Worcester and as
have not seen it commented ON, think
il is worth while recording. Professor
had won the Severn Bank steeple chase
that is to say, he was coming mp the
straight alone, and his rider, Mr.. q
Love, was pulling him mp into an am
bling cantcr. Seeing this, the rider of a
borsc called Brockton. who had barely
got into the straight, began to set him
going and came on in pursnit Of Profes.
sUr. Mr.. Lowe, mistakiug as he after
wards said, the frantic shouts Of f"Go on"
for the plau9its that generally await the
winner, kept on gradually pulling up
Professor, and, never once looking be
hind him, was startled, within 100
yards fthe chair by the sudden appar-
alton Of Brockton at his girths. Bnt it
was too late. Old Professors machinery
could not be set in motion again in
moment and so the horse that had ac-
tually won the race was beaten by
neck. But the strangest thing WAS that
the winner was actually IN the same
stable with Professor, had been started
to make running for him, been thorough
ly distanced aud, il Professor had been
properly ridden, had as much chance Of
winning AZ a man in the crowd. In the
first blush Of the affair Of course every
body was very angry with poor Lowe:
but really think the popular indignation
should have vented itself ON the rider of
the winner Il am sorry 10 say forget
his namel for piece OF flash" riding
rarely equalled. As have Just said, he
had been beaten fair and square. lie
was not called upon to "pull" his horse
to let Professor win. He simply took
advantage Of A piece of gross carclessness
on the part of Mr.. Lowe. The face of
the Lad who was staying as Groome
with Lord Coventry, was a study after
the winners number went up; and the
latter noble lord was not unconcerned.
Indeed every body on Professor felt the
situation acutely. Mr.. Lowe, believe,
shed tears in the weighing room, and, as
he is not at all bad fellow after the
frst burst of indignation ne came in for
some sympathy. But at the same time
there Was n general hope expressed that
ne would not do it again.
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25
MORPH0M MANIA.
A New Horror Inadvertently Brought Into
Existence by Science.

London Truth.
When physicians discovered that pain
could be subdued by inserting under the
skin small pointed instrument provid-
ed with a tube containing morphia, they
little thought that they were paving the
way for a new vice. Yet so it was.
There are in our merry England beings
who are as wholly under the domination
of morphia as ever was Chinese under
that of opium. Women have yielded
by degrees to the fatal fascination, until
at last they prick the skin dozen times
a day with the tiny syringe that has such
terrible results. The operation is almost
painless; the immediate effect pleasant.
A delicious langor supervenes. Happy
thoughts and bright imagnations fill the
mind. Some see beautiful visions, 9TH
ers feel only a pervading sensation of
comfort and well-being. On few the
effect Of morpEia is to excite to some
intellectual effort, if effors that can be
called which is pure delight, glorious
feeling Of untrammeled power or un.
crippled exercise of the highest faculties
II is as though the mind had suddenly
developed wings. But at the very height
of enchantment the influence of morphia
begins to subside. The glory fades. The
wings trail, and the feet that are their
sorry substitutes become weighted as
with lead. As with the workers, so with
the dreamers. The visions are obsCuTed.
The sensation of comfort gives place to
one Of discomfort, irritation, even pain.
The mental vision that had Just now
looked through a rosy mist sees all
things as through Grape veil or a No
vember fog. Can ii be wondered at that
the dose is renewed, that the poison is
absorbed again and again, that the in
tervals become shorter and shorter be
tween the reign of the potent drug?
And the end2 The punishment is ter
rible indeed. BY degrees the mind be-
comes darkened. Hideous halucina-
tions seize upon it. Seli-coHtrol is lost
lmbecility oyertakes the weak. Mad
ness threatens the strong.
These are the personal consequences
There are others Ia he bequeathed to
Sons and daughters and later generations
These can be guessed at. The new vice
has not reigned sufficiently long for the
world to have seen them exemElilied
but dark array of possibilities suggests
itself only too readily. The heritage of
insanity, Of inebriety, ofimbecllity, with
its future to be traced back TO those tiny
tubes which hold only a drop or two,
and TO which men once looked rs TO Il
blessed means of relieving pain, forget
ting that blessings aud curses 90 hand in
hand in a crooked world. Dipsomauia
has now powerful rival, spccdlcr in its
results thanils own revoltingpro less, and
eventually us degrading. The name of
the latter born -SiStpT-ipul il moYphO-
mania.
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25
Wise Words.

To impress We must be in earnest, to
lmuse 1t is only necessary to be kindly
ind fanciful.
Let Others do as they please. but do
Fou always act according to the dictates
pf thy own Judgment, aud take heed OF
being selfcondemued,
Health is the bed-plate on which the
Whole mental machinery must rest and
york. If this be cracked or displaced all
|he mechanism that stands on il will be
Erred and disturbed and made ineiIe,t-
ke.
Lewes, speaking OF Goethe, says: "To
bis opponents, generally, he said. III
|hey could judge me | should not be the
pan | am The barking of the ours.
e said, which follow us as we leave the
Fable, proves nothing more than that
\ e a.e on horseback
|ns private lite that governs the
eorld. N9 world talks much of power.
bal sovereigns -Ss-l great ministers, and
b being talked about1nAie one powerful
|hey would be irresstible;sul the fact
+, the more you are talked ahoNs- the
eSs powerful you sre.
Pitiful that man should so care for
Erhes as If they were his own; vet so use
|hem as if they Were auotherE; that when
\ e might be happy in spending them ht
IN be miserable in keeping them; and
BAD rather, dying. leave wealth with hi'
Enemies, than, being alive, relieve his
blends.
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25

y
sgaInsI surface formed Of number .
movable cards or plates pecularly |
punched. Unlike the cards of the iacI
guard loom my cards are superposed ont
upon the other and are ten in number
A number Of holes are perforated i'll
each"
These holes are so distributed tha
upon each motion of the operating con
trivance one perfect hole will be pre-
sented quite through the entire set 0 |
cards or plates, and only one. II, now
the thrust pin which passes through tha
hole establishes electrical contact with l
wire leading 10 magnet operating ont
of the levers Of a type writer. If it b,I
understood that there are eighty-fou
holes thus provided it will be understoo,
that eghty-iour distinct motions can b. |
controlled in the type writer. As II
matter of fact less than fifty are re
Quired TO operate that useful machine
IL il be understood that the operate
with his keyboard sits in New York ,ant
the selecting machine and type write
are in Washington the full scope of th,l
invention as applied to telegraphy viii
be made evident.
With ten properly perforated plate |
operated by ten keys total number o /
l,025 changes Mr. Muuson claims, caI
be mAde3iy using the ten keys in ever,
possible combination. Limiting tho
combinations 10 one key or two ant
three keys at time he makes eighty
four changes. The ten plates are hel,
suspended ON a level. On pressing
&l. the corresponding plste is depressed
h A., anarfttrn hafar. tha tb,,s,l
pin, which sc,s- through the ten plates
By pressing any two>Ssys the Two ger
responding plates are depfessea Win th'
same result. By pressing d6~NSay
three KEYS the same result is obtained>l
single hole left open for single pin
The model machine which Mr. Munsor
has had constructed does not perform
all that has been previously laid down
as demonstrahly possible. IL illustrate
| the principle. however, TO nicely. III,
/ ten keys, with their combinations
/ which he uses, will in a later machin,
give way TO keyboard, each key bear|
/ ing letter of the alphabet, numeral
punctuation mark, or other sign. Thes6l
KEYS will themselves, when depressed
make the combinations needed to oper|
the slides. lie may, he says, even pro
vide mechanism by which any of the
twenty-five words oitenest used in tho
English language can be produced BY
depressing single key. He proposes, ,in
his next machine, to use eleven plates
orslides instead of ten, which will give
him the command Of los Holes, made BY
depressioas of no more than three plates
at time. 'tis hardly necessary 10 s;a.s
the manner in which the impulses givera
by the keys are communicated electfil
cally 10 the perforated slides, nor ID
show the method by which the electric
current can be made 10 operate so sim
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25

pie matter as the lever of type write
These details are among the commonr
places OF the electrician of to day. The
operating key y5oard may, and probably
will be made part of type writing ma
chine, so that the messages sent from
New York TO Washington will be
printed in both places at the same in.
slant.
A further possible application Of the
invention is more curious still, and may
in time prove of some account as saving
of labor and time. 1t is to apply the
invention TO the best type setting ma
chine known. BY its means an operator
in Washington could actually "set up"
the type in New York, although, OF
course, the task Of 'justifying' would
remain. At present an operator sends a
dispatch, another operator receives il, a
messenger takes il to the newspaper, an
editor puts it into proper form for print
a messenger takes it to the composing
room. where a printer puts it in type.
BY Mr.. Munson's plan a single operator
would put il in type and youth would
Justify it. II may, however, be sug.
gested that the difficulty of correcting
errors made by the operator would be
very great, and that to "pi' line would
be disastrous, since there would be
nothing in the printing Office by which to
detect the one or supply the other
Operators would, like printers, be hu-
man, and therefore, as we know, liable
to error. Mr.. Munson is native Of
New York state, photographer by
profession, and has been, in that capaci.
ty, attached TO one of our courts for a
number of years He has patented his
invention in the United States, England,
France, Germany and Belgium.
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25
A Courageous Struggle.
rInrLrraLI C-mmlrcInl.


Those familiar with the release Of
Ferdinlnl Sai;z from the Ohio peniten-
tiary nine or ten months agn after thirty
three years confinement will feel some
interest in bis career Of freedom. II will
be remembered that he was committed
for lie when quite Young man, and
soon after he came 10 this country, on the
suppo,iton that he was guilty of man
slaughter. lie bad friendsin this country
10 inlercede in his behalf, but as time
wore on the fee persons living who were
familiar with the trial began to wonder
what had become OF him. Ascertaining
that he WAS still in the penitentiary, and
that he had made an excellent record
there, successful effort was made to se-
cure lis release. Among others Joining
in the application for his pardon was
Ephraim Stout, the only surviving mem
Der of the jury that convicted him. It
WAS questioned by many whether, after
SO long term of confinement, it would
not be more cruel 20 turn the prisoner
loose into the world, Of which he knew
practically nothing, and without friends
or knowledge Of the means OF making a
livelihood, than it would be to keen him
inside the walls for the remainder of his
DAYS. Either case seemed hard enough,
but when Mr.. Stout volunteered to see
that he was cared for the side of mercy
seemed to be that for his release. In
conversation with Mr. Stout Cincinnati
Commercial reporter was informed that
after the first feeling of strangeness had
pa sej away, Sciizs first desire was to
obtain work. Mr.. Slout obtained posi-.
ton for him in foundry in the city,
and he has been working as a moIder
ever snce, without the loss of single
day, and with the respect of his employ
crs and associates lie also found for
him a comfortable lodging-house and a
boarding place, where he has continued
cOntcntediy ever since he came TO the
city. lie pays his bills promptly, lives
economically has no bad or expensive
habits, and is dong well in every way,
and living as happily probably, as any
! etson in the city. Those who sympa.
thized with him sympathize with him
still, and are glad that their kindness
was not misplaced.
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25
sIuyfsibIe Fire"

An English gentleman discovered that
the fame of electricity rs curative pow
or had penetrated Persia.
While tarrying at Shiraz, on business
connected with the overland telegraph,
he was visited by Il Persian noble. Hav.
ing received a paralytc stroke in his
left shoulder and arm, the nobleman
came 10 inquire il the Engishman's in
visible fire electricity would not cure
him
He had heard that there were magi-
clans in England, who cured all diseases
by the aid of this fire. The English
man, having moderated the Persian's
expectations by remarking that the
statement was an exaggeration, accom-
panied him TO the office of the tele-
graph.
4 powerful battery had just been pre-
pared, sd the officer in charge readily
consentedN<sverate upon the paralyzed
arm. To theNp poles of the battery a
copper wire Was Nached, and at the ex-
tremlty of each wire dampened
sponge. The Persi.p was instructed to
tightly grasp one Of the sponges in the
paralyzcd arm. Gmidly complying,
he was astouished y feel no sensa-
tion.
"Wait 2 moment" said the English-
man. clapping the other sponge ON the
mans shoulder. With leap and ven.
ne bounded ont Of the room, amid the
uproarous laughter Of the officials.
| All Shirsz vas excited, the next day al
! the shock the nobleman had received
Though it effected a partial cure, the
/ frightened man refused TO submit TO
second application OF the invisible
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25
teen lninui

ALrHouoH nothing whatever has oc-
cured at Cbiselhurst to confirm the
suspicion that an attempt would be made
to steal the remains of The late Emperor
Napoleon and the Princess Imperial
from ST. Mary's church, policemen con-
tinue TO watch the place day and night
On the recent ninth anniversary lJaRu-
AIRY 81 of the emperor's death, solemn
mass was celebrated in the church with
the empress present. Similar services
are held there on the 9th of each month,
as well as on the lst, the latter being the
day on which the prince was killed in
yululand.
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25

fire." One shock was sufficient, for, he
declared, all the stars of the heav-
ems were visible to him at that awful
moment
He would visit the office and look
with awe at the sire" machines. Mourn
fully shaking his head, he would depart
without uttering word.
Another Persian, whose curiosity con-
quered his fear, while examining the tel
egraph, touched one of the terminals of
the machine. AS he felt no sensation,
he laid his hand on the other terminal.
A sudden yell and backward jump was
the result
The man told his companions in an
awe struck tone, that he had been bitten
by the genii of the machine. The Eng
lishman attempted to explain the oper-
alton, but his words did not disturb, in
the least, the Persian's credulity.
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25

ACCORDING TO the Philadelphia Ciy
Hcn', the admission of Harry Bascom to
the Forrest home for actors has been re-
fused by the trustees on the ground that
there is no physician attached to the
home, and because the eight inmates are
too old to take care of any one.
The Osceola times., 1882-02-25
The samson of the West.
Hnnne LInwnl slandnrl.


Jonas Johnson, or Big jonas" is the
Goliah of this region, and some of the
stories Of his strength and endurance
sound fabulous In 1855 he yained q
uationsl reputation by walking from
Illinois t. California, pushing his pro-
visions before him in a wheeharrow
lie was living in Knox county, Illinois,
when the gold fever swept over the
country, and, being in the early twenties
of his life, was fired with an ambition
to Join the Arsonauts. lie was imper-
iectly acquainted with English and had
but $40 in cash, so he walked across
Illinois and Iows to Omaha, making the
distance in two weeks There he bought
wheelharrov and laid in stock of
provisionA With these, on the 10th day
of April, ODtishcd boldly ont, and nine
ty dsys thefeafter he Handed" safely at
the diggines, eome fifty miles northeast of
Sacra nento, the first successful placer
mines. Here BE went to work in the
same independent way he made the
Ourncy-alone-aud was successful. He
WAS able 10 earn from $40 to $50 per day,
according to the number of hours he put
in. A year satisfied him, and with bag
well filled with dust" he returned by