The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.


and then the father paid the fine. A
hickory switch would come cheaper
N y Graphic.
The New York Real Estate Record
expresses an opinion, based upon actual
statistics. that more houses will be con-
+s&ructed during the present year than
any preceding twelve months in the
history of the country.
"A bolt of lightning struck the
ground near East Thompson, Mass, in
front of pair of horses. One was
killed, and the other, bay, is now
coal black and much faster.-BoSt0n
Post.
-Terse account of a prize fight in
the Socorro[3(N. M News: Harry
Dougherty, our city circulator, broke
his arm yesterday afternoon. The
Mexican porter at the Sturgis House
fell on his arm"
"A couple from Alexandria, Scot
Hand. came to this country to be mar
ried. They did so because the woman
was deceased wife's sister, and they
could not be married under the absurd
English law. This is one solution of
She difficulty. Y. independent.
Portland, Oregon, has a trouble
.some amazon. whose most recent arrest
was for entering a house not her own
and for carrying concealed weapons.
Her armory comprised pistol of the
pattern known as the Rocky Mountain
giant, which is conceded to be quite as
effective in the hand-to-hand encounter
of two western pioneers as a Calling
Gun.-DenUer Tribune.
"A fifteen-pound cannon ball has
been found on Chimney Island, St.
Lawrence River. 1t bears the marks
of great age, and was probably used in
Che engagement at the capture of Fort
Levi, on that Island in 1850. Israel
Putnam, so conspicuous in the Revolu-
: zion. was Lieutenant Colonel with the
English army under Lord Amherst,
and led in the capture of the fort.
Rev. E. E. Hale pointedly says:
ff0nc can get news now from Pekin
quicker than Dan could hear from
Beersheba. Which shows how the
world has changed land the change has
happened in the last few years. Even
in this country we knew nothing of the
electric telegraph as a working force
some forty years since. Chicago Jour-
aaGI
"A correspondent in FL Paso writes
al sat on the Plaza this afternoon and
saw approaching a Chinaman whose
face was disfgured by long, CHASTITY
looking scar. 1t was Sam Hing, the
richest Chinaman in America, who is
said to have sailed down $4,00O,OOO.
Rumor has it that all the Cinnamon
employed in constructing the Mexican
and Texas railroads get their employ
ment through Sam Hing, and that each
Chinaman (about 100000 pays him
one dollar a month, besides bonus for
Che job of work obtained through Sam.
Chicago 1nter-Oce0n.
An American lady was travelling in
Europe. She stopped at French inn
in Normandy, and being the best French
scholar in the party she was deputed
by the others to arrange for lodgings,
etc. In vain she aired her best lin
guisGc entertainments. Not word
could the clerk understand, and for
aught she knew his replies were in
''heathen Chinee." In desperation she
said, with great distinctness: "DC-
you-speak- English?" He frightened
at once and said: Gland sakes! | guess
i do; l was brought up ten miles from
Bangor, Maine!"
On the high road to the capital
from the Caspian the members of the
expedition sent by the German Govern
ment TO observe the transit of Venus,
met q lovely vision in habit and hat on
"a prancing steed. They halted, saluted,
and declared their errand "To observe
the transit of Venus ah, well, you can
go home now, gentlemen, your duty is
done; good-bye;" and the pretty vision
disappears at smart canter ''away in
the ewigkeit," as Hans Breitmann saws.
That coke dawned on those Germans
after some hours. W3WS ''Modern
Persia"
In Scotland they have narrow, open
bitches, which they call sheep-drains.
A man was riding donkey one dav
across sheep pasture, but when the
animal came to the sheep-drain he
would not go over it. So the man rode
him back TO short distance, turned
him around. and applied the whip,
thinking, of course, that the donkey,
when going at the top of his speed,
would jump the drain before he knew
) it. But it was not so. When the don
key got to the drain he stopped all of
:. a Sudden and the man went over Mr..
lSeddy's head. No sooner had he
fonched the ground than he got up, and
hooking his beast straight in the face.
said: ''Verra wecl pitched; but then
Moo are ye going to get over yersel?"
"A parrot has been the means of
presenting u young lady who lives near
Boston in very peculiar light. This
y0ung lady sits on the lower front
piazza with her work or book a LARGE
part of the time, but was out of town
for a week, during which time a parrot
had been hung in the upper piazza,
fact OF which she was ignorant, as she
! Is iittac hard of hearing. Resuming
! her old seat on her return, she became
very much annoyed at the attention of
passers-by, especially the young gentle
lnen, and is now astonished to learn
Ghat the parrot, hidden from view, has
been addressing everybody in the street
with tbc free-and-easy invitation, kiss
HDe. kiss me, kiss me quick ~ given in
perfect imitation of the human voice.
Boston Post