The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

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In Texas the cowboys utilize steers
for steeds. One man recently rode 140
miles astride one of these animals.
"A little Austin boy saw his mother
take off her switch one day, and called
out: 20, mamma! Let us take your
scalp out in the yard, so that we can
play Indians. "-TeraS SittingS.
Scotland is to have a national por
trait gallery and museum of antiquities
through the generosity of some one I'M
known, who last year established fund
of $4,000, and now offers 100000
more for the building, The British Gov
eminent has accepted the trust and
added $4,000 to the fund.
"A few days since a Sacramento
(Cal.) merchant received a letter from
a gentleman in the State of Nevada in
quiring the price of certain articles.
The correspondent wrote that he did
not know whether the merchant was
still in business, as he could not find
his advertisement in the papers, and no
one over there could inform him. He
concluded: "If you do not get this let
ter please write and let me know"
The inquiries of United States Con-
suls in the various countries of the
world seem to establish beyond ques-
ton the fact that business is pretty gen
orally done on the credit system. In
some countries the system seems to be
carried further than in others, but all
resort to it, whether their government is
stable or unstable, and whether the
country is rich or poor.
1t often happens that clergyman
will forge the name of child at bap-
tism, but the case of a minister in South
Carolina who purposely miscalled
child is peculiar. The child's godpar-
ents had bestowed the name ''Leitia
Adelina Angelin." The parson calmly
said MARY" and so baptized her 81
hope you will not mind the alteration 1
have made. l hope it will prove useful
to the child's afterlife; so many names
are a mistake" exclaimed the clergy
man, coolly.-Chicago Times.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: mot
every one knows the fact, but Utah just
now has three mines which are yielding
more, with less noise, than any other
three mines in any other State or Terri
tory of the Republic. One of them,
too, has the best record of any mine in
the world except the Eureka CONSOLE
dated. 1t has never levied an assess
ment and has paid some $5,000,000 in
dividends.
% woman! thou knowest the hour
when the good man of the house will
return, when the heat and burden of
the day are past; do not let him at such
time, when he is weary with toll and
Jaded with diSCOuragment,t find upon
his coming to his habitation that the
foot which should hasten to meet him
is wandering at a distance; that the soft
hand which should wipe the sweat from
his brow is knocking at the door of
of other houses Washington Irving.
Professor STEELE, agricultural editor
of the Mobile Register, thinks the South
ern States admirably adapted to raising
hogs, and that by the new refrigerating
inventions pork may be saved at the
South as well as anywhere else. The
/ long-continued warm weather is favor
able to rapid fattening and cheap pork,
since hogs can not be kept up and
warmed by stoves and wood fires in
| cold weather, and it is expensive to
warm them by heat-producing food like
corn and peas. He thinks pork can be
made at less cost in the South than in
the North.
An American travelling in England
once asked the meaning of some quaint
customs, and with great difficulty OBJ
tanned information even of university
| dignitaries. "And the humor of the
whole thing" he says, ''was the fashion
in which the college dons took his in
quiries. Apparently they had accepted
those meaningless customs for an in
definite term of years without thought
of challenging them, as part of the
scheme Of things, and woke up to the
question of their origin and meaning
with as much bewilderment as though
it had been suddenly demanded of them
why two and two make four"