The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

cars and see the unequal build of them.
That is what renders safe coupling de-
vices abortiye and smashes so many
brakemen.-N. y. Times.
In Stockton, Cal, few days ago,
two policemen arrested an old man for
stealing an orange. One of the police
men ate the orange, and the old man
got twenty-five days in jail.
Claude Montefiore, one of the
ablest and most liberal of English He
brews, says that the Talmud is witty,
learned far-fetched, practical, poetic,
ahrsh, kindly, long winded."
An entire company of the Twelfth
Regiment, New York State Militia,
took the pledge few days since to
abstain during life from the use of in
toxicating liquol as beverage.-M. Y.
Times.
Says Talmage: ga lite of mere
money getting is failure. You never
get as much as you want" True, very
true, Mr. Talmage. We used to
think $4,000, 900 would be sufficient;
now wew want $40, 900, 900. Boston Post.
"A quack doctor, who was giving
testimony in San Francisco court, was
asked if he had ever performed the
Office of decapitation. so, yes" he
said; 81 have done that often" sal
ways successful?" ''Neverl lost a patient
under it,"
In a series of articles on 1.-The
Effects of Brain Overwork," DR.. Will
lam A. Hammond says: Il do not
think that any form of exercise is as
good as walking. Horseback riding
comes next; rowing next. Chicago
Journal.
AS Mrs. James Dalton, aged seventy
five years, was attempting to obtain
water from a cistern at her residence
in Rochester, N. Y, the other day, she
fell in but was rescued. About an hour
later her husband, aged seventy-eight,
a carpenter by trade, in attempting TO
repair the cistern, was precipitated
into it by the breaking of plank and
was drOwned.-ROcheSter ErpreSS.
-N0rtOn'S h1teLIigencer revives q
poetic squib written in 1907 by James
Monroe, who was afterwarG President,
as applicable to some of the votaries of
tobacco at the present day-young men
who ask permission to smoke in the
presence of ladies, knowing that re-
luctant consent may be expected:
IT'S evening now; beneath the Western star
Soft signs the lover through his sweet cigar,
And fills the ear of some consenting she
With putfs of smoke and VOWS of constancy,
We have struck a new scheme. Or
the green shade we wear over our eyes
when reading proof or grinding on.
copy we have printed, Il am busy"
When man that we don't care to talk
to comes in we stoop still lower over
the desk 50 that he can see it and take
the hint, but when the other kind of a
man, n good iovial fellow, comes in, we
push the shade up over our bald spot
where he can't read the legend, smile
benignantly at him and open the con-
versaton by asking him for cigar.
Louisville Argus.
The steady application to legiti-
mate business, with untiring industry
and economy, will give a comfortable
support, a quiet conscience and
slowly increasing ''nest egg" for old
age and gathering infrmities. The
haste to be rich, whether it leads the
seeker into Wall Street or induces reck-
less dealing in business circles, is al
most certain to end in disaster. 1t is a
great pity that so many will learn this
only by a tuition so costly that the
price overbalances the gain.-M Y.
Journal Of Commerce.
AT Western tea-garden waiter
was required who could cut sandwiches.
The successful man used an old sword
blade as knife. He cut the slices so
thin that he had covered the floor of the
hafnra ha ho1f
through the ham. As he expressed his
intention of covering the lawn and
gravel walks of the hugh tea-garden
with the rest, the proprietor engaged
him on the spot, and actually wrote his
engagement upon what he thought was
q piece of tissue paper, but which
proved to be one of the slices of ham
the waiter had cut. Boston Post.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has
the reputation of giving the most elab-
crate dinners in Washington and takes
a good deal of pride in it. His income
is large and he finds it difficult to spend
all of his money. He keeps one house
in Detroit, another in New York, and
third in Washington, and finds satisfac-
ton in entertaining his friends. His
hobby is dogs. One pet cost him ST.
600 and another $500, which was about
$3.50 q pound. The Senator has the
finest cook in Washington, French
man named Emile, to whom he pays
$4,000 year for baking griddle-cakes,
and he has another man, at wages of
$50 month, who does nothing but
look after the dogs Washington Post.
The Origin Of Dixie.