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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17
A Successful but Dangerous Practical
Joke,

Seated around the fire in the Antisdel
House Office, Tuesday evening, smoking
their after-supper cigars, were half
dozen delegates to the Odd Fellows
Grand Encampment. The name of
one, whom they all seemed to know,
was mentioned, when a story, of which
he was the hero, was suggested to one
Of the party. There were four of us, "
he said, ''including John --, out to-
gether one evening, and we dropped
into the billiard room of the hotel,
where two of us engaged in game.
John had been drinking rather freely,
and soon after he sat down he was
sound asleep. One of the boys
suggested, after we had finished the
game and it was time to go home, that
we play a joke on John. Everybody
had left except our party, and the land
lord readily gave his consent. The gas
was turned off and the room was us
dark as pitch. One of us took the two
balls and knocked them together, and
we walked around the table talking
about the shots, as if the game were in
progress. Presently one of us, as if by
accident, stumbled against John and
woke him up. He reused himself long
enough to hear the click of the balls
and call out, Lets 90 home He was
told that we would as soon rs we finished
the game, and the balls were again
knocked together. This programme
was repeated at frequent intervals,
until John was quite awake. He APP
parently realized that a game of billiards
was in progress, but was confused and
then alarmed because he couldn't see.
But one of the boys shook him and
| carelessly told him to wake up and
open his eyes again, and assured him
that the game was near the end, and as
soon as it was finished we would all go
! home.
"'But l tell you | am blind he ex-
claimed. 4 can't see a thing in this
roOmn
I'VE then affected some interest in
his case, and one Of us put his hand on
his cheek with the remark. in tone of
great anxiety: why, boys, he's coldn
Then another felt his pulse; why,
good heaven, he's paralyzedn y
This was more than John could stand,
and he sprang to his feet fairly tremb-
ling with terror, and almost yelled:
"Boys, I'm ruined; for the Lords sake,
send for my Wife" Then the gas was
lighted, and you ought to have seen
that man! If ever fellow was sud
denly scared sober he was the one. He
was so thoroughly reformed by the
fright that to-day if you even point a
corkscrew at him he will run.-Uetr0it
| Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17
FARM AND PRESIDE,

Onion salad: Mix thoroughly equal
quantities of mashed potatoes and
onions boiled until they too can be
mashed almost smooth Season with
pepper and salt and butter. -ErchGnge.
Mating is not put on floors now in
straight breadths, plaid or bright col,
Ored piece being tackled all around the
floor and square of the same in the mid
die, the rest being filled with plain
white, or any individual taste is carried
out to lay it in rug-like manner
Chicago Journal.
"A little freedom in the evening,
after hard days work, is greatly en-
joyed by horses, and it certainly does
them good. Their entire system is
bent in but the one direction during the
that in the way of a good romp and
roll, when freed from the harness, can
not but be beneficial.
In the Michigan Farmer a farmer
tells how he manages to conquer Can
ada thistleS by the aid of his 200 sheep.
He puts a small handful of salt on
each thistle at the root. The sheep eat
the thistle close to the ground. The
sailing is repeated as often as may be
necessary, and the thistle seldom ap-
pears the second year.
Bread and Butter Pudding-Slice
bread, spread with butter and lay it
in deep dish with currants between
each layer: add sliced citron, orange or
lemon, if to be very nice; pour over I'M
boiled custard favored TO your taste at
Ioo CT w bnIIT.S hpfDrG IL is ff1 he baked
and dip it over to soak the bread; just
before dinner bake quickly.-N. Y.
Times.
A Tennessee woman writes: La
dies, have something to tell YOU that
Gf you dislike picking chicken as
much as l do you will be delighted to
hear. A lady told me that frying
chicken is Just as good if skinned as il
is picked. | tried it and was delighted.
As soon as the chicken is killed skin it,
beginning at the craw. After it is
Toured over and fried you cannot tell
the difference.
A Maine housewife sends this
recipe for a baked dish, a sort of what
is-it. Make nice short crust for q
deep dish, roll it thin then put in pork
cut in tiny pieces, then q layer of
potatoes, pepper and bit of salt, I'M
less your pork is quite salt. Fill the
dish, then add milk enough to cook
according to size OF dish; put on top
crust and bake, and if the grumblers
don't say it is good, it shows they don
know what is What.-BoSt01a Post.
"A writer in the Rurdl NcU Yorker
contends that ''by planting corn at the
earliest safe moment we not only in
crease the chances that the crop will
receive the necessary number of degrees
of accumulated heat during the warm
season, but the number of hours of sun
shine as well, and what is of nearly as
much Importance, we advance the
epoch of blossoming several days, and
by so doing hasten maturity by several
weeks. This is a new and surprising
statement to many, but it is, neyerthe-
less, a correct one"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

One Of the most intelligent and pros
porous Michigan farmers has entirely
abandoned the practice of shooting. He
saws that,if never shod, his horses rarely
have tender feet, their feet keep ingood
shape, and he finds they are far less apt
to be lame. He even finds that those
which have never been shod have such
sharp hoofs that unless the roads are
very icy they stand to draw quite
load. When so icy as to make it dan
gerous to drive, which is seldom more
than two or three days in year, he
can well afford to let his team rest, or
draw wood or manure on the farm,
where they can almost always travel
safely.
A recent writer in a scientific journal
takes precisely the same ground in
reference to roadsters and even horses
on the race-course. He says of his own
unshod horses that after having been for
wears the victim of the farrier, it is re-
markable that he should work as he
does barefooted. "Shod, he brushed
and stumbled badly; barefoot he does
neither" He tells of q doctors horse
that in five years has travelled London
streets distance of more than 1900
miles. He was never shod, yet his
hoofs are the admiration of veterinary
surgeons, and show no sign of undue
wear. Several other cases more signif
icant are cited.
The writer has pair of rather ligh
mares which he drives on the road ex
clusively. For the past three years h
has suffered them to go barefoot. and y
more than ever satisfied with the result.
Their feet have been much improved,
and they are much more free from
lameness, or cramped gait. Possibly
horses with hoofs congenitally tender,
those whose feet have been ruined by
the sheer, and those driven continuously
on hard roads may need to be shod; but,
do not many farmers visit the black
smith more than is necessary or wise?
is'a question upon which many if not by
far the most of our farmers may profit
ably meditate.-Anateur, IN N. Y.
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17
FlOWer-Makers of Paris.

1t appears almost incredible that in
Paris no fewer than thirty thousand
women find their living by making arti-
fetal flowers. The majority of them
are asserted by a too credulous admirer
to be real artists, initiating nature almost
to perfection, with exquisite taste and
well-developed Imagination. The rose
in the workshop of the Tourist is the
masterpiece. If the art of making q
rose is acquired the maker is supposed
TO be able to initiate any other flower,
the rose being considered as particu-
larly developing the Imagination of
young artists. As in other branches of
industry there are specialists in the
flower factories, the buds, the foliage
and the mounting being done by differ
ent people. At present great num-
Der of ilower-makers are out of work.
owing partly to flowers being out of
fashion, and partly to the enormous
competition in England, Germany,
Switzerland and America, which in
creaseS with every season No country,
however, can compete with France in
elegance, delicacy and taste, although
the flowers are generally made after
French models. II is Il curious fact,
saws complacent Erenchman. that
women who in France were highly es-
teemed for their taste in the manu-
featuring and arranging of flowers lose
all their ingenuity when, as not infre-
quently happens, they 90 abroad to pur-
sue their calling, -Iuli-linB Gu:ctc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17
CURE OF RHEUMATISM.

ROCKAwAY BEACH, N. Y,
Jan. 1o 1884.
lam carpenter. A year ago was laid
up with rheumatism in my arms which
drove sleep from my pillow, and rendered
life a burden. After having tried for thrIe
months il vain all kinds of remediest {
physicians, was induced by Michael HI =
land, our Postmaster, to try BRAYDRET5s
PILLS. He said they cured him afted
year Of suffering. 1 took six pills evdF
night for three nights; then 1 took TWO
pills every night for ten days. At thT a
CT fifteen days was entirely we'll L.
casionally l have a slight twinge after H.
ing exposed to dampness or wet, but tI b
pills taken every night for four da6
drives it away. JAMES HENRYy
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

A twenty-months' old child in
Graniteville, Cal, while standing in
the doorway of its home, was charmed
by rattlesnake, which coiled itself in
front of him. 1t was but two feet away,
and was gently moving its head back
ward and forward and looking at the
child with eyes like two flames. The
child's sister. twelve years of age,
pulled her little brother away, when
the reptile glided swiftly out of sight
The child seemed stupefed for some
time afterward. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

IT makes every humanitarian sad to see
invalids seek such relief as is given them
by the use of bitters, kidney medicines,
and other noErums. The first few doses
may mako thin feel better on account of
its Supplying Ingredients, combined with
some strong cathartic and diuretic that are
used in its composition, but they eventual.
ly grow worse. The only cure for weak
ness, nervousness, debility, aches, pains,
rheumatism, sores, urinary and digestive
troubles, is to make the blood sich, red and
pure, by using DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock
and Sarsaparilla, remedy widely in
ldorsed by physicians who have examined
into its composition and eject.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

SPARTANBURG, S. c., March 13, 1884.
Your most valuable medicine (SwIFT's
sPEclFIc) has done me SO much good that
l feel like saying this for the benefit of
those who suffer like 1 did. Twas poisoned
by POISON OAK, and saw not we'll day for
SIX years, until l used SwIFT's SPXCfFIC.
In the six years used almost every kind
OF medicine, but mono ad the desired effect.
After using six bottles of SwIIr's SPECIFIC
am restored to perfect health-lUith not q
Sagn Of that 0trful poison left!
Yours Truly, DAVID NESBITT.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer 3. Atlanta. Ga.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Rev. L. A. Dunlap, of Mt. Vernon, says:
My children were afflicted with cough re-
suhing from Measles, my wife vita cough
that had prevented her from sleeping more
or less for years, and your White Wine Of
Tar Syrup has cured them all.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Mr.. D. II. BAENABY, of Owego, N. Y,
says that his daughter was taken With a
violent cold which Terminated with Pneu-
monia; the best physicians gave tho case
up, when friend recommended DR.. WEN.
HALLS BALSAN FOR THE LUNGS. She &C.
copied it as last resort, and was surprised
to find a marked change, and by persever'
ing permanent cure was effected.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

The chance connections of ignorant men
have sometimes brought disrepute not only
on their own worthless medicines that de-
serve no credit, but sometimes, with much
injustice, on really reliable preparations.
Ladies should not hesitate about Mrs. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, for this reme-
dy has been tried, proven and praised for
years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

"WHAT sort of a place is that, pap
asked little boy of his male parent while
they were out walking. ''That's a beer
garden" 81 didn't know beer grew in
gardens" ''There's q great deal of it
raised Fin gardens, my son.-Te1as SJt-
inns.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17
The Great American Chorus.

Sneezing, snuining and coughing! This
is the music all over the land just now.
And will be until June. "I'vc got such an
awful coldin my head" Cure it with Ely's
Cream Balm or it my end in the toughest
form of Catarrh. Nav be you have catarrh
now. Nothing is more nauseous and dread
ful. This remedy masters it as no other
ever did. Not snuff nor liquid. APP
Piled by the Singer to the nostrils. Pleas
ant, certain, radical.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

"THERE's one thing about me.v said
young Fastboy, "that is always on time. .
81 know" said his friend, "your clothes"
And Fastboy said that wasn't Just what he
was going to say, but it was true, never
theless.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

LET the hairy-headed citizen display Ills
charms and speak with sneers and ridicule
of his less favored brother, but let him re.
member meanwhile that the proud emblem
OF our glorious country is a bald headed
eagle.-BoStOn Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Only thousand fishing boats will
be run on the Lower Columbia River,
Oregon, this season. falling off of five
hundred boats from last season in the
salmon fisheries.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

"YoUYG man." said the landlord, 81 al
ways eat the cheese-rind." And the new
boarder replied: "Just so; l am leaving
this for YOU"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

WILL the Youngest girl in the room
please RISE" said school Superintendent
IN rural district. Every female stood
up including the teacher.-Burltngton
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

VALUABLE AND CoSvENIEYT.-BRow
BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs are safe and sure
remedy for all troubles of the Throat and
Lungs. Sold only in 60IeS. % cts.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

SOME Of our baseball players seem to
have been vaccinated. They can't catch
anything.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

'TrUsT men and they will be true to
you," said Emerson. But then this opin-
ion was not founded on keeping the sub
scription list of newspaper. OIL City
Derrick
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

LORDS are not much thought Of in this
country; but counts have q great deal to
do with American ballot boxes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

LIFE is short-only four letters in it.
Three-quarters Of it is 'lie" and half of
it is an eff" Put this on "fle" if you
would as 'lief n-Erchdnde,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

SOME unknown persons recently stole
locomotive in Vermont. 1t is Supposed
they had tender attachment fori..-Nor.
TiStOlcH Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

"MAMMA, 1 want to see what is in that
box" There isn't anything in it, Tom.v
80, then want to see what there isn't in
ito
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

A YOUNG man sticking close to his girl
Ior the entire evening is very nice kind
of court-plaster. -PhiIadelohiG cal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

dout, n. W over Diseases of the Kidneys
and Bladder.
No pain which man has to endure SURPRISES
that of gravel 81 would rather die" exclaims
the patient, "than have such attacks very
often" 1t caused the death of Napoleon III.
NJ. E. Dewitt Parsons, Of 81 Plymouth
Avenue, Rochester, N. Y, recently had O. re-
markable experience with it. He is a we'll
knit, 1ne-looking, hearty-appearing gentle
man. One day he was Frustrated with pain
from the small of his back to the abdomen.
For some time previous his appetite hau been
tickle, his bowels inactive, and he had felt sore
above his hips. After voiding water he had a
severe pain and gnawing sensation. "For
some time my disorder mystifed me-" he said,
"but one day 1 read of q case very like my
own in paper. / wrote the person whose
name appeared, and he confirmed it fully.
From that little incident / discovered l had
stone in the bladder and gravel in the kidneys.
was greatly alarmed then, but the disease
has lost its terrors to me now, for l am fully
focbvered-cured by DIR. DAVID KENNE-
DY'S FAVORITE REMEDY (of Rondout,
N. W, which most cordially commend to all
persons suffering from kidney disorders, pain
IN back, stone or gravel. Ny wife also regards
It as especially excellent for women. Dr.
Kennedy has performed many surgical opera
tons for stone, when size prevented removal
through the natural channels, and he has new
err lost o easel
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Is IT dynamite or dy-namite" Take a
chunk Of it and throw it on the floor and
see.-hcRtacky State Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Rough on Coughs. 1jc.. at Druggists Com
plete cure Coughs, Hoarseness, Sore Throat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

A WESTERN paper heads an article
crumbs of Crime" They came from too
much of loaf.-N Y. Graphic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

FIGURES cannot lie, but they can stand
for great deal that is not So
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

1T is the feeblest moustache, as we'll as
the sickliest child, that gets the most fond
ling.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

samaritan Nerrine cured our child's fits. The
doctors failed" Henry Knee, Verrila, Tenn.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

A PATIENT says humor in the stomach is
MOI funny.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

y TaE maff at the wheel has stern duty to
perform. Commercial Bulletin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

"Buchu-paiba." Quick, complete cure, all
annoying Kidney and Urinary Diseases, 81.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

A BLIND man never falls in love at first
sight
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

| BEWARE of the iucipient stages of Con-
| sumption. Take Piso's Cure in time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

A BASE deceiver is 6t for nothing bu
playing ball.-N. O. Picdyune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Rough on Corns." 15c. Ask for it. Com
plete cure, hard or soft corns, warts, bunIons.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Renewer', re.
~%ores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, 81.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

The bars on the boats between
Hartford and New York are to be dis
continued, and no spirituous or malt
liquors will be sold.--N Y Iribune
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

A CONNECTICUT man has invented a
paper carpet. Of course it will be read.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

READING that is bad for the eyes-vol
umes of smoke.-Phuddelphta Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Mother Swans Worm Syrup" for few
erishness, worms, constipation asteless. 25c
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

~ search of the spring lamb-the stock
broker.-BoStoR Courier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

"PARALYzEDpersonsp permanently cured"
Guaranteed by the proprietors of ,SQmQri-
tan Nervine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar
Quickly silences distressing cough. Pixies
toothache drops cure in one minute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17
RoCKAwAY BEACH, N. Y, I
To-, 1r 1907

The statement in the foregoing letter
made by James Henry, know to be true,
as l, also, know it to be true that BRAND
RETH's PILLS cured me of a terrible at
tack of rheumatism which had confined
me to the house for several months. l,
however, took two pills every night for q
month.
MICHAEL HOLLAND, Postmaster,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17
some PLAIN FACTS.

Statement of a Gentleman of Rochester,
n. Y, Showing the Power of DIR. David
Kennedys Favorite Remedy (of Ron
dout, n. W over Diseases of the Kidneys
and Bladder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-17

MICHAEL HOLLAND, Postmaster,
Oceanus POST Office.