The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

1.-THE chicken of progress cannot b.
crowded back into the egg-shell of the
past" is the latest paraphrase of tn,
saying that resolutions never go back
wards"
The fish laws OF Canada are becom
ing more strict year by year, and 8
notable increase in the supply is being
afforded, the fish also being of much
better quality and size.-MontreaL W.T.
ness.
Two hundred and fifty leeches es-
capped from jar in Portland (Ore.
drug store and crawled into neigh
boring piano wareroom, where they
were all captured after search lasting
twenty-fOur hours.
The body of the wife of L. G.
WEIGH, buried near Pomeroy, w. T.,
was lately exhumed and found to have
turned to stone. The hair had grown
several inches and turned snow white,
The body looked like beautiful mar
BILE statue enUer Tribune.
Poetry is the flour of literature;
prose is the corn, potatoes and meat;
satire is the aqua forts; wit is the spice
and pepper; love letters are the honey
and sugar; and letters containing re-
mittances are the apple-dumplings.-
Detroit Post.
Fastened TO the riding gig of an &C.
centric individual who paraded the
streets of Key West, Fla, one day re-
Gently, were eighty-four Mexican silver
dollars. They were placed on the sad
die, bride, martingale and crupper in
a very artistic manner - Cticdg0 Times
Lord Coleridge declined all the
numerous invitations extended to him
by photographers to sit for his picture.
The men of the camera then sent to
England for one to make copies of, but
were disappointed to find that Cole
ridge had not been photographed for
twenty years.-N Y. Times.
The Mayor af San Antonio has for
hidden transient beggars, or those who
make an exhibition OF their intrmities
and misfortunes, to appear upon the
streets, Hes aside Saturday as the only
occasion when resident mendicants, in
a proper manner, can solicit aims
San francisco CGll.
-Kwang Lee, the young Emperor of
u
studying the language of his country,
but otherwise does nothing except ride
in the Imperial Gardens. He will as
sumo the reins of government person
ally on the 31st of next July, his fiji
teenth birthday.
An Notwithstanding and pretty
young girl kissed middle-aged West
ern man as he stood on a street corner,
and then, with little shrek and the
words 80, you aren'tmy papan' darted
away. When the man was done enjoy
ing the mistake he found that the art
less creature had abstractedly taken his
diamond breast-pin with her. In fu-
ture paste jewelry will be popular among
Western men.-ButGlO EGPresS.
The Fillmore will case, in which
Mrs. Willard Fillmores sanity is in dis
pute, recalls the fact the Buffalo Er-
press says, that Mrs. President Lincoln
became insane before she died, and that
Martha Washington acted very queerly,
shutting herself up in room at Mount
Vernon, without a fire, for eighteen
months, and letting no one see her eX-
cept the cat, which came through hole
which she cut in the door for this pur-
pose.
"A New York physician says that
italian opera is increasing the death
rate. He has attended score of cases
of pneumonia brought on by exposure
in ,dress-coats. Men take off their
heavy business suits in the evening and
go to the opera with their breasts COW
cred only by few folds of linen. They
rush out heedlessly between the acts,
stand in the draught of the doors, or
run out to the nearest cafe The next
day they are in bed. The dress coat
prescription is one to be taken with the
greatest care in this climate.-N Y.
Herald.
The Earl of Devon, who owns a
large estate in Southern Ireland, offers
TO sell out to his tenantry. For such
part of the purchase money as they are
unable to pay, by borrowing from Gov
eminent under the act to assist tenants
to buy their holdings, he proposes that
they should pay him four per cent. I'M
till they can pay it off, he, of course,
having lien on their farms until that
is done. The tenants are of a superior
order, the estate has been eXcellently
managed for the last fifty years, and
the relations between landlord and ten
ant continue to be most satisfactory.