The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

I'VE are told that the corn stalks oi
this country contain more sugar than the
whole world produces.
Arab Pasha has been exiied for life,
This is considered light punishment
many people having thong that he
would be sent to st. Louis. Chicago
Tribune.
Women can now buy kid gloves
reaching clear to the shoulder, and il
they are not perfectly satisfactory they
can order full kid suit with buttons all
over it.-Dctro6 Free Press.
"A warming-pan engraved with sun
flowers has been bought at auction by a
French Duke. A man will purchase at a
round price at auction what he wouldn't
accept as a gift under other Icircum-
stances.
The telephone has been tried in a
lunatic asylum with the greatest success.
1t Gains 'em right down, or if not exactly
that, they don't act any crazier than the
average sane man while using it,-F'ree
Press.
Five amateur hunters recently fired
at rabbit and then fought savagely to
decide who hit the beast, and when they
came to examine it, found it must have
died of fright as there were no marks of
shot on it..
The Pullman Palace Car Company
will not allow locks on the doors of the
ladies' dressing They argue that
if one woman ever got in there to do up
her hair in the morning, and locked up,
the next would never have any chance
The Boston health authorities recent
ly issued an order forbidding public
funerals of victims of smallpox typhus
fever, scarlet fever or diphtheria, pre-
cautionary measure which most cities
have in effect at all times. There is said
to be no smallpox, however, in the city.
Il guess there is no need of my
naming the value of this parcel" said a
sharp countryman to the clerk of the ex-
press office; ''if it is lost you have enough
provisos on the back of this receipt to
hinder dozen lawyers from recovering
anything from the company"
"A man at Wheatland, Cal, requested
Rev. Mr.. Stroball to come and pray with
a member of his family who was sick.
After the clergyman had accompanied
him short distance the man compelled
him at the muzzle of pistol to deliver
over his watch and chain and the little
money he had.
"A California train came into sta
ton the other day with two wheels miss
ing from one truck of passenger car.
Nobody on the train knew when, where
OR how they were lost; but we do not
think that the bicycle form of railway
trucks will ever grow popular. Detroit
Free Press.
At a recent funeral in New Hamp-
shire or Whereabouts, doctor of divinity
prayed the Almighty ''that our lives
may not be in a parabola, meandering
farther and farther from Thee, until they
are lost in the infinite darkness, but may
their orbits be in an ellipse, that we may
ever draw near to Thee.
"A widow at Kenosha. Wis, gave out
that she had drawn $4,000 in lottery,
and in five days she found q man who
had been looking for just such woman
and five children for ever so many Years
past. When he found out that She had
lied he skipped the town." and thus two
lies came to naught.
Oriental carpets themselves symbol
lze space and eternity. The pattern or
''filling," done in the seven perfect
colors, symbolizes tlceting, finite beauty.
The Oriental pile carpets OF to-day are
the same in make and design, with the
knop and flower as those made by the
earliest Egyptians, Indians, Babylonians
and Assyrians.
Warren Fairbanks, of Walpole, N.
H, was taken to the poor house the
other day where in gloomy retrospect of
the past, it occurred to him that forty
five years ago he hid 81 $50 in silver
under rock on the farm he used to own.
He visited the place, found the cash in
tact, deposited his money in the bank,
and postponed his return to pauperism
until it becomes necessary.
The lynching of horse thieves is one
of the recognized methods of admins
tering justice in some frontier COM
but lynching man for steal
ing hogs, as was done in Catalonia
Parish, La, a few days ago, is certainly
a novelty. The friends of the lynched
man evidently do not mean to submit
tamely to such innovation, for they
have threatened to lynch the lynchers.
George S. Greyson, paymaster's
clerk in the Navy Department, and now
stationed at Mare Island, was recently
arrested for presenting q fraudulent
claim for mileage. The accused had
been granted furlough, and left
for his home in Cairo, Ill.
The specific charge is made that on the
18th of last January he fraudulently
caused to be presented for allowance to
the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury a
claim for mileage between San Francisco
to Cairo, amounting to 5000, when, as
meter of fact. no part of this travel
had been performed, Greyson never
going any nearer Cairo than Vallejo,
where he has since remained. Greyson
claims that his course has the sanction
OF usage at least.