The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-08-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT the comforting of degrees at
Oxford the other day the Dean of Chi
chester, who has opposed women enter
ing the university, was loudly Kissed by
the students.
"A microscopic describes the bill of
a mosquito as consisting of lance, two
meat saws, a pump, and small-sized
Corliss engine. No wonder it hurts.
Chicago Times.
"A society has been organized at
Utica, N. Y, for the reformation of the
circus and the revival of the clown, and
a convention will be held there to de-
wise ways and means to secure these.
The question whether pictures
hanged upon the walls of room are to
be classed as .'household furniture"
and also liable to taxation, came before
a Philadelphia court and the Judge de-
cided it in the negative.
In Holland cattle appear to be the
leading interest, forty per cent. of the
land being devoted to meadow and
grass land. The number of cattle is
estimated at 100000, sheep 1000, 200,
swine 100000, aud horses 5000, 900.
Cattle and sheep have increased during
the last twenty years, but swine have
fallen off.
One of the latest gifts from gem
tleman to lady is a handsome case
containing a nail-polisher, scissors and
the various instruments and cosmetics
in use for the hands. These cases are
now so elegant in design that even the
most fastidious of fashions beauties
need not scorn to accept these SOU
venirs.
! The other day Conrad Bretthoner,
of New York City, was sent to the pen
nitentiary for one year for bigamy, and
on the same day five hundred Mormons
left the same city for Utah. This is
free country, my son, for some people,
and the laws which govern us are fixed,
regular and harmonious as a March
wind. Burlington HaUbeye.
Another thing that should be urged
as the most evident method of making
money easy is promptness in paving
bills. Many people will be apt to make
bank failures and hard times an excuse
for putting off their creditors Yet the
surest way to restore good times is for
every man to put what money he has
jim circulation for the cancellation of
debts Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The potato can be grown in Alaska
i'm favorable seasons only. The ground
is dug up and covered with a layer OF
,ikelp, and after this fertilizer has been
Exposed to the air for week or two it
us dug under, and the soil shaped into
high. narrow beds, and planted in
shallow drills. The suns heat alone
Fis depended upon, and every opportu
nifty given it to penetrate the ground,
which in that frigid country not only
gives out no warmth of its own, but
frequently remains frozen throughout
the year at a depth beyond the inhu.
ance of the suns rays Chicago Times.
That the Indians are year by veal
becoming more accustomed to civil.
lied ways, and are discarding many OF
their old, superstitious customs, is an
encouraging fact. Especially is this
observable on the reservations, where
the children of both sexes show them.
selves good students, and where the en-.
llghtened ideas of the young people dc
not fail of good effect upon their elders.
dian children in the towns contiguous
to the reservations in California and
Oregon are highly commended by the
press OF those States as proving the
great progress which they have made
In education from books and in manual
work. - Chicago Journal.
I M. Vrignot, smart young Partisan
thief, finding himself discovered when
intent on lead stealing, promptly entered
"a house by skylight and requested a
young woman at her sewing machine
ito save him I'm sit here and peel
these potatoes, and when the police
come they will conclude that | am your
lover" AT this interesting iuncture
the police came, and one collared him
ton ''spec," eXclaiming: "Got YOU at
last, my boy" 'You hear, my pet"
said Vrignot, ''these gentlemen mis-
take me for some other fellow" Miss
Melanie, however, who was not fasci-
mated with her impromptu adorer,
maintained an ominous silence, and the
would-be lover was led off to jail
/ "A strange loss of voice. A boy ten
years old can stand out in the street of
a quiet village on a calm summer after
noon and make the air culver, and
startle the doing population out of
years peace, by shrieking to boy
three-quarters of a mile away: so,
:Skinnee! Comm nout tafter supper?"
And the other lad will yell back, with
awful distinctness and care: "Yesi
has not changed it; and :
when our correspondent tells us that I
Cleveland and Hendricks will carry {
the November election, we receive /
his assurance with much more inter- ,
,st than confidence.