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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
THE FINGER NAILS.
How They should be Cared for so as to Sc
cure the Maximum of Comfort

How They should be Cared for so as to Sc
cure the Maximum of Comfort.
While serving as protection to the
extremities of the fingers, well-pnserved
nails add much to the beauty of the
hand.
On the contrary, nothing renders the
hand more unsightly than thick, irregu-
lar and soiled nails. But another CON
sideration, making proper care of
them Of the highest Importance, is the
TACT that every person who labors with
the hands is liable to gather, under the
free margin of his nails, foreign matter,
which may be very poisonous to the It's
sues of the body. Many cases have oc-
Cured in which the slightest abrasions
Of the cuticle by means of the finger
nail have resulted in malignant, even
fatal, inhammations.
If, from any cause, the nail becomes
thick and inelastic, it soon becomes
rough, and assumes the appearance of
an eXcreScenc0 rather than an orna-
ment. In this condition it is much more
difficult to keep clean. To avoid this,
the hand should not be subjected to the
action of strong alkalies, such as quick
lime, etc; neither should foreign SUBJ
stances be removed from the surface BY
scraping, as, from the peculiar manner
Of its growth, this will cause the nail to
thicken.
To cleanse the surface and the mar,
gin adjoining the skin, soft nail brush
mild soap, and soft water should be APP
piled once each day, while the foreign
matter, accumulated under the free
margin should be removed as often az
the hands are washed, by passing the
rounded point of small knife blade
once or twice beneath it.
This being done while the nail is wet,
one movement will generally be suffi-
cient to remove the substance com.
pletely; but care should be taken to de-
tach no more Of the nail, as this may, if
repeated, cause the detached margin to
recede until it is necessary to allow q
wide growth to protect the end of the
finger.
The pairing should also be done while
the nail is soft from washing, with an
instrument which will make a perfectly
smooth edge, and sufficiently often to
limit the breadth of the free margin to
about one-twelfth of an inch. This
breadth is best, especially in the case of
persons who have to do rough work
with the hands, for two reasons; it pre-
vents the breaking of the nail and also
the accumulation of much foreign sub
stance. The corners should not be very
closely cut, or the troublesome condi-
ton known as ingrown nail may be pro-
duced
TO prevent the breaking of the cuti-
Gle near the root of the nail Commonly
called hang -nail'D, the skin should be
pressed-not scraped-loose from the
nail at least once a weekly Youth s
Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
LOVE SONG TO A WIFE.

TITS the beautiful, love-breathing cleaning
hO.r,
And the breeze is rocking each sumbcriug
flower,
And meath the clustering hawthorn boughs
Lovers are breathing their tender VOWS.
Shy lids are dropping DER radiant eyes,
And the air is full of delightful signs;
Cheeks glow and dInple, and red lips part
And;O, how fOndly heart answers heart!
For very gladness young pulses sing
All, love is II wildering witChing thing;
An exquisite, tremulOus, heaven-born strain,
That fills the soul with delicious pain.
we have been lovers for forty years:
q dear cheeks faded and worn with tears
What an eloquent story of love We tell!
Your roses are dead, yet love yc well.
Q. pale brow shrined in soft silvery hair!
crowned with LIES sorrow, and lined with
care;
let me read by the light Of the stars above
Those dear, dear records of faithful love.
All, fond, fond eyes, of my own true wife!
Ye have shone so clear through my
chequered fe,
We have shed such joy on its thorny way,
That can not think yo are dim to-day.
Worn little hands, that have toiled 20 long,
Patleut and loving, and brave and strong.
Ye will never tire yc will never rest
untn you are crossed on my darlingS breast.
q, warm heart throbbing so close to minel
Time Ohiy strengthens such love rs thine,
And proves that the holicst love doth last
When summer, and beauty, and youth are
past.
Fannie FORESTER in the Qutuer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25

No climate exactly suits the constitu-
ton of the drinking man. In the hot
climate he falls an easy victim to chol-
era and kindred epidem.c5; in the cold
climate he is the first to freeze to death
when a cold wave sweeps down from
the Northwest. With every severe
storm of the past winter the daily pa
pers have made mention of poor besot-
ted drunkards found fro zen to death in
country fields or city alleys, where they
have stupidity lain down to seep. On
the other hand, temperate habits are
known to bring added power of endur-
ance against extremes of heat and cold.
1t was said at the time that the sur
yiyors of Lieutenant Grcely's explor-
ing party were men who had not in
jured their constitutions by even the
use of tobacco. And now attention is
called 10 the fact that the comparative
ly slight amount of sickness among
General Wolseley's troops in the Sou
dan, considering the climate and the
circumstances, is owing to the sparing
use Of stimulantS by the soldiers. The
dispatches state that no liquor can be
purchased south of Wady Halfa, and
that General Wolseley sternly Furnishes
any native caught selling drop to one
of his men. Ten thousand gallons of
rum We're shipped to the Commis5ariat
Department in November, but little OF
it has thus far been u>ed.-S. S. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
Chocolate Bombs.

The serpent of the still calls to his aid
the candy manufacturers and evades
the law against selling liquor to minors
by sugar-coating his poiscns. a choco-
late bomb is about the size of pigeon S
egg, and is made of a hollow shell of
crystalized candy, filled with swcetened
fusil oil and alcohol! They are coated
with chocolate and have half kernel
Of madeira nut on top. The contents
of three bombs will fill a wine-glass.
School children in some of our large
cities We're made partially drunk on
these bombs, and the rock and-Tye
drops which are permeated with the
same vile compound. Brooklyn was
flooded to such an extent with similar
candy, that the Board of Health stopped
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
MEMS HATS.
The Fashionable styles and Colors for
Mems Head Gear.

Mems Head Gear.
A Boston manufacturer is showing
with some success a bell-crowned flexi-
BILE hat in three heights, and in this con-
nection it may be as well to say that the
flexible hat is steadily gaining in popu-
larity all over the country.
In curls the fayorites are either a
half-inch Dorsey or half-inch round
curl, although two fancys' are selling
well. One is half-inch DORSEY re-
versed and ironed on to the under brim,
and the other is Dorsey curl run in
wide front and rear and narrow on the
sides; both of these curls look better
than they sound.
In colors nutria mixtures and blue
pearls seem to be the favOriteS in stiff
hats for light colors, and in soft browns,
wines and side nutrias seem to prevail.
The stitched cloth hat in round and
square crowns has lately come to the
front, the demand in New England be-
ing something remarkable. These hats
are mostly made in tweeds in prominent
patterns of checks and plaids, and have
been greeted by cloth hat manufacture
ers as something in the light of spec
ial providence.
The taper square crown bears out our
predictions as to its popularity, and will
run in light colors. As made, it is a
neat and graceful style, and will, from
present indications, form one of the
staple shapes for long time to come
Halter and F'arrier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

The zone more" drink has made a
hundred thousand drunkards- Detroit
Free Press.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America is only fourteen years old,
and numbers over forty thousand mem
berS.
The ''wct ticket''-that is what they
call the whisky ticket in Georgia. 1t
is good name for it; the "wet ticket"
wet with the tears of brokcn-hearted
women and drunkards' Children
Christian Adr0cate.
IT looks as though there could be but
little doubt AS to the ultimate accept
ance OF prohibition in Canada. SO far
during this year Lennon and Adding
ton, Lanark, Bronze, Gue,pA, Kent and
Carleton counties have added their
voices to the long roll of constituencies
which have spoken in its favor Bit
by bit in this manner will at length do
the work. 1eadjGn Baptist.
The first woman's benefit society I'M
der teetotal auspices ever organized is
known in London as the Independent
Total Abstinence Sisters of Progress.
ever, during the twenty-four years of
its existence, having but $1,000 to its
credit in bank at present 1t begins,
however, to show tokens of advance,
and branches are to be formed outside
the metropolis. - Union Signal.
IDAHO put IN its w. C. T.. u. Plea for
more scientific Temperance instruction
in the schools, and received, not "a
stone for its cry, but "half loaf"
Instead of enactng the law, the Legis-
lature inserted the word Temperance"
in that section of the School law which
cnumerates the principles to be i'm
pressed by public education. SO we go
swinging on toward the day when the
school-house shall cradle the Temper
ance reform. Union Signal.
A WRITER in the Pail MGE Gazette
says that 'intemperance is exceedingly
common among the Russians, and that
the great number of holidays contribute
much to this state of affairs. The peo-
pie become frightfully drunk, and re-
main so until their money is entirely
exhausted. They have a custom there
called Pominki-a remembrance service
forty DAYS after a persons death. Once
year they visit family graves This is
often accompanied by debauchcry. And
our own holidays are extend ng in the
same direction. We saw more men
drunk on the street last Christmas day
and evening than we have seen all the
rest of the year."
TEMPERANCE work by the young and
among the young has recently received
strong impetus in Wisconsin. The
Sunday-school workers of that State
have perfected plan for organizing
the Wisconsin Sunday-school children
into WISCONSIN Temperance Army"
the schools of each township forming
regiment and those of each county di-
vision. A gentleman interested in the
movement Is said to have offered cost
ly silk banner to that county which shall
have enrolled the largest per cent OF
its children in this total abstinence be-
fore June |. The Wisconsin Sunday
school leaders at the Monona Lake Park
Assembly last summer urged the inn
.portance of putting more emphasis
upon Temperance instruction in the re-
Ilgious training of the young-S. S.
Times
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
NO MUSIC FOR HIM.
A Gentleman Who Believed That ua
Would Look at the Sick Horse.

A Gentleman Who Believed That He
Would Look at the Sick Horse.
Old Squire Haggleson, who came to
gown the other day to urge the petition
asking that young Zeb Sailor might
not be hanged, was induced by q friend
to attend a rendition of n Trovatore -
The old gentleman put on his specta-
Giles, expecting to see a great caper, but
in disappointment, he turned to his
friend and said:
This is sort of singin' show, amt
it ?" VII '
80, yes, it is an opera"
Singing, is it Pr
Eyes, a grand opera"
'Don't they give no p'ints that fell
lar can ketch on? Suthin' that ferar
ken tell the folks when he goes home ?
A man KANT tell nothin' about song.
He ken ornly say that he heard it and
that's all. Now some time ago | went
to a thing that wuz full of pints. wy
| sot down an talked an hour about it,
an at the log-rollin' 1 showed the bows
how the whole thing went, but this
thing don't pear to have no place to
hinge on. Now look at that fellar with
the tin clothes on. He don't say nuthin',
don't do nuthin'; all | ken say about
him is that he wore tin clothes. Then
Oscar Piler will say, tin clothes p
Yes, tin clothes, will reply, then he
will say, that's a deuce of note A
fellar KANT jump with tin clothes on
That shuts me up, you see. No, I'm
afeerd that | KANT say nuthin' about
this show. Lawd a MASSEY! look at that
woman with the fine buds. My lands!
how she hollers. They call that singin',
don't they ?''
80, yes, that's singing. 1t is grand
opera"
"Yas, but when air we going to have
some music? It's strange thing that
some folks don't know what singin' is.
Now, thar's my daughter Ann. Eff she
was here it would tickle her to death to
hear that gal squeal. l allus did feel
sorry for pusson that amt got no year
for music.
Don't talk so loud. This is consid-
cred very fine music by educated
people"
Il reckin so. Tn glad they like it.
Say, did you ever see a tillv r'ar up an
squeal? Wall, that woman puts me in
mind O one. Now person that pre-
tends to be interested in this thing
would be annoyed by the squealin' of a
FLY, but blamed if | ken see much diff
ference an I've stirred round a good
bit, too. We must all give the FLY the
credit o bein' the most nachul.
Now look at them fellers singin' at each
other. Do you call that music?"
80, yes, it is the music of anger"
They air mad, l reckin?"
yes"
''Then why don't they say SOP Now,
when a man gifts mad. he don't feel
like singin'. Cussin' is more in his
line
That's all well enough, Squire, but
this is an opera"
80 l see, but kahn find out the
pin'ts o the thing. Wall, b'leve I'll
GO
Hold on, Squire, don't be in a
hurry"
20, 1 amt in q hurry. I like to
hear singin' an can put up with most
any sort O noise, but you must excuse
me. | don't like to see people dodge
music this way. Wall, goodbye. Jim
Anderson's boss is down with the bolts
an | b'leve I'll 90 round an look at
him while. "-ArkanSai0 Traveller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
TEMPERANCE.
DRINK PLAIN GOLD WATER.

Eminent English Doctors Singing the
Praises of Temperance.
At an annual dinner of the ROYAL COLLEGE of
Physicians, Edinburgh, instead of such songs
as THE Glasses Sparkle on the Board" or.
willie Brewed Peck O. Malt the following
1itty was sung:
AIR-''LOUe's Y0lEpg Dream"
Oh! the days are gone when Curet bright
Inspired my strain,
When l sang on every festive night
About Champagne.
Prime "IuFty-fOur'
In Hoods may pour.
And glasses guilr after
But there's nothing half so safe to drink
As plain cold water.
Though the bard may make greater noise
over his wine,
When with other bacchanalian boys
tie chances to dine;
Yet IL he wake
With headache
And wonders what's the matter,
he learns there nought so safe to drink
AS plain cod water.
There's DR.. Hassan, he proclalms
That waters fun
Of curious brutes with curious names
In every pool.
Now you VIII see
That this must be
most important matter;
For it's clear there meat as well as drink
In plain cold water.
Professor Clark of Aberdeen
Says chalk is there,
Ard Monsieur Chatin, iodine
Finds everywhere.
If this be true
It's clear to you
It's just so much the better,
For there's meat and drink and physic, too,
In PLAIN cold water.
So If your health you would keep good,
With wine have done,
And Ike that wise man, with your food
Drink water alone.
About he drives
And well ne thriVes
And every day grows fatter,
Which shows that folk can 1.-Two quite well
On plain cold water
Irish World
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
A TOUCHING SCENE.
Deaf Mutes Repeating the Lords Prayer
In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.

Deaf Mutes Repeating the Lords Prayer
In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
A roguish-looking little fellow, prob
ably twelve years old, stood on the car
peted platform near Mr.. Beecher's arm
chair at Plymouth Church the other
night and repeated the Lords Prayer
with such infinite pathos-so touching
because it was wholly unconscious
that fifty people in the large audience
| devoutly joined in his Amen" and
nearly POO more wiped the tears from
their eyes. But little more than
year ago the boy was street waif in
Danbury, Conn. People pitied him and
gave him pennies because he was deaf
and dumb. A benevolent gentleman
sent him to an oral school for deaf
mutes in Mystic. He watched the lips
of people in the audience fifty feet
away, and repeated words after them.
Maggie, Herman, Hartford, -"
boy, horse" and several other words
were spoken as plainly as four out of
five school children of his age would
have pronounced them. Brooklyn"
bothered him. He called it Brugln.
The boy could not hear a sound. He
never has since he was born. So keen
was his observation that he repeated
words by watching the shadow on the
white wall of the person who uttered
them. He did not shirk a syllable of
the Lords Prayer, nor stumble once in
his articulation. His pronunciation of
some words was peculiar, but the whole
was rendered with such plaintive sim
plicity and peculiar falling infection at
the termination of sentences that many
ladies who heard him sobbed.
Another boy stepped on the platform,
sharp little fellow in short trousers.
He watched peoples lips with eyes like
a lynx and shouted the words after them
as vociferously as a newsboy Some
body tried him with hard words, such
as Nebuchednezzar, but he pronounced
them before the tones of the first speak
er's voice had died away People
pointed to articles of clothing, such as a
cuff collar, glove or coat, and the boy
told them what they were doing. He
never dreamed of the applause that
followed him to the seat.-N. Y. Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25

I can not describe the scene of terror
and excitement that followed. Imaoine
how it would be if you saw the dead
come to life. For months after that
many looked at me with frightened
faces, as if they could not rid themselves
of the impression that had really been
dead and that they beheld my ghost.
Do you wonder my hair is whitep
What | wonder at most is that NV
mind stood the strain of that terrible
xperience.-N y journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25

its manufacture. Papers of Now York
are calling attention to the matter. 1t
is an evil that, unchecked, will spread
into all our cities and towns, and pa
rents and teachers must be on. the alert
for the foe that hides himself in sweet
disguise. National W. c. r. IT, Bulletin
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25

"A mans education is not complete
until he runs a newspaper for while
Then he learns good deal that he did
not know before. -GaJUeStOn Tea. J
NetOS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25

There are said to be 534 seams
tresses in New York City, each of whom
earns only one dollar week.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06

DO you keep arsenic for ratss'
she asked in Woodward eyenue
drug store.
'Yes'm.'
'I'll take a dimes worth
When it was weighed out and
paid for she stood for a moment in
deep thought and then said:
Lots of people mistake arsenic
for baking powder aud pnt it in the
biscuitY
'Yes'm.'
'Well, don't want TO commit
any such toolishness. Here is a
half pound can of baking powder.
You may empty it out and do it up
in paper and put the arsenic in the
box. When | see the words bak-
ing powder on the box l can re-
member that it's arsenic, and II
you'll write poison on the baking
powder | won't forget that it's all
right for biscuit. Nothing like be-
ing leetle keerful about handling
dangerous things
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
He Was Unfortunate

A venerable tramp entered an
Austin business house and said to
the proprietor:
Il am the most unfortunate man
in the world. Please do something
tor me-"
81 don't know who you are" re-
piled the merchant. "You may be
an imposter."
Here is certificate from Parson
Jordan, Of Galveston, that | am a
hardworkiDg, honest man, who has
been unfortunate
a certificate from Parson Jor.
dan, Of Galveston 7 asked the mer-
chant.
Yes, sir; here it is,' replied the
mendIcant, handing the merchant
paper. The merchant looked at
the paper aud said:
ParsOn Jordan, of Galveston, is
my brother. | know his signature
very we'll and his signature on that
certificate is forged
Just as | expected whined the
mendicant. Il told you l was the
most unfortunate man in the world.
Just think of me coming to the
brother of Parson Jordan, Of all the
people in the town, and showing
him that forged certificate, when
there is not another man in Austin
who knows his signature. Texas
Siftings.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06
Two Pictures.

A young lady, newly married, being
obliged TO show her husband sll the letters
she wrote, sent the following to a friene.
The key is to read the first and then every
alternate line only'
g | cannot be satisfied, my dearest friend ;
blest a. am in the matrimonial state,
unless pour into your friendly bosom,
which has ever been in unison with mine,
the various sensations which swell
with the liveliest emotions of pleasure,
my almost bursting heart. I tell you my
dear
husband is the most amiable Of men.
I have now been married seven weeks, and
have never found the least re sson to
repent the day that joined us. My hus-
band is
both in person aud manner far from re-
sembling
an ugly. cross, old and disagreeble man.
An ancient maiden aunt, near 20,
acheorful, venerable and pleasant old lady,
lives in the house with us; she is the de-
hight of both young and old she is CT
| vii to all the neighborhood round,
generous and charitable to the poor
| | am convinced my husband loves nothing
more
| than he does me he aatters me more
than a glass; and his intoxication
(for so must call the excess Of his love)
often makes me blush for the unworthines'
OF it's object, and wish I could be more
deserving
of the man whose name bear To
say all in one word, my dear, and to
crown the whole-my former gallant love-
is now my indulgent husbandi my husband
is returned, and might have had
a prince without the felicity find in
him. Alden may you be blest as am un
able to wish than could be more
happy
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-06

One of the most stupendous en-.
gineering feats Of modern times
will be the bridge designed to span
the Indus at Sukkur, OH the At
ghanistan Frontier Railway, which
Is now being constructed by
Messrs. NestwOod & Bailey,o Pop.
lar, England, for the Indian gov
ernment. The Indus at this point
is about sixty feet deep, and has a
current howing at the rate Of nine
miles an hour, making it impracti-
cable to build supporting piers in
the middle, and the bridge is there
fore to have but single span cover
ing the nine hundred feet be-
tween banks. For this purpose q
rather novel combination of sus.
pension and straight span features
has been designed as follows {:
From either bank rise uprights of
masonry to the height of l70 feet,
over the top Of which pass suspen-
sion wires running on the one hand
to an anchorage, on the other to
the outer end of the cantilever
truss, $50 feet from the shore, This
Is also supported by struts from
beneath, aud itself supports a
straight span of 200 feet in length
bridging the gap between the
cantilevers. The bridge is to be
entirely of steel, some of the plates
used in it's construction being one
and one-quarter inches thick, and
will require $500 tons ofthat metal
for its completion.