The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-25
MISCELLANE OUS.

to climb it.-Detrou Free Press.
In British India the large river
Sutlej, which has descent OF l2,OU
feet in 1870 miles, or nearly sixty-seven
feet per mile, is said to be the fastest
flowing river in the world.
The love of draw poker passeth all
understanding. If a player is constant
winner he is a gambler, and should
quit. If he is steady loser he is a
fool, and should play no more. If it IS
see-saw arrangement, the players eat
up and drink up the profits, and should
be in better business.-N o. Pc0yttne.
The new paper bottles are said to
withstand the action of water, wine
and alcohol. 1t is thought that drug
gsts will be able to furnish them free
of charge, gust as they provide wrapping
paper for dry drugs. The cementing
material of the bottles is a mixture Of
blood, albumen, alum and lime.-N. Y.
Sun.
There are about dozen, more OK
less, breweries in and around Boston,
and the number of barrels of beer manu-
featured may be counted by the hum
.dreds of thousands. In 1883 there were
drunk in Boston 1855, 140 barrels, and in
1884, 1888, SS2 barrels, an increase of
80, 742 barrels. Besides this, there are
large impOrtations of ale and porter
from Europe. Globe.
What children Want, within the
bounds of right, they should, if possible,
have. Their wishes should be respected.
The small desires of a child are, to him,
as important as the great desires of a
man, and should as carefully be con-
sidered. The wet blanket, You can't
have that" often causes keener pain to
boy than the loss of thousands Of
dollars in after lifc.-Scho0t Journal.
Dan Rice, the circus clown, is run.
ming a ten cent circus in the French
quarter Of New Orleans. He talks sadly of
the good old days when his Floating Pal
ace was the sensation OH the Father of
Waters, and thousands upon thousands
of people swarmed from far and near to
see him. He gave an entertainment a
few nights ago when not 800 persons
were present, and about one-third Of
those were professional and other dead
heads"
Those people who argue that Grant
is a great smoker, Grant is afflicted with
cancer, therefore all smokers are af-
tliCted with cancer, are very much like
the English tourist who rode upon the
box of an American omnibus He no.
ticed that the driver carried his whip in
his left hand. Asking the reason, the
driver replied: Il am ft-handed. ~
Straightwav into the notebook went
this astounding bit of information:
Stage drivers in America are left.
handed.
A safety paper manufactured by a
Massachusetts mill will make it difficult
for anyone to tamper with bank notes or
checks printed upon it, The coloring
matter of she paper is so prepared that
the application of any chemical to re-
move the ink will permanently change
the color of the paper, and an ingenious
device is added which betrays at once
| any attempt to make an erasure. Be-
tween the two the enterprising forger
will be sure to come to grief. -BoSton
Journal.
Pete Osterhout is one of the most
rascally negroes in Galveston. He was
caught stealing poultry and brought be-
fore the Justice. The evidence" said
| the Judge, 'Shows that YOU stole the
chickens from Colonel Jones hen-coop,
and the fine should be five dollars; but
Ill lee you off this time" "Who wants to
be let OFF," exclaimed the prisoner; u
steals my chickens and | pays my fine,
and don't ask muffin oh nobody. Dis
heah mixing up sentiment and bizness
am what's ruinin' de kentry. Texas
| iSUtingS.
DR.. Heber Newton says: Taking
| the average human life, he would be a
bold man who, rightly weighing the
manifold daily blessings which come
| like the sunshine and tn dew, would
venture to pronounce the lot of man
rather of pain than Of pleasure. Much
| of the pain of man is, moreover, to be
subtracted from the charges against
Providence and to be credited to our
human responsibility. The thriftless-
ness of the poor, the greed OF the rich,
and the common ignorance of social
laws cause most of our poverty"
Successful experiments have been
ICbChlly dI N'luCihudLl Will Iub
new electric railway brake. The trial
was made with a heavy coal train of ten
cars, each car weighing empty about
eleven tons and having tonnage ca
pacity of 10000 pounds. The loaded
train with full steam on, was put to a
speed of forty eight miles per hour on
down grade of sixty-eight feet to the
mile, and brought to a dead stop in 37l
seconds after putting on the brake, the
| distance run in that time being AS
yards, exact measurement.-Ci Cincinnati
| Times.
DR.. Dallinger, the eminent micro
scopist, holds that the development OF
living organisms in piece of fish
muscle, previously subjected to a tenn
perature of boiling water, does not in
dictate spontaneous generation, despite
the belief that such temperature is
absolutely destructive of life. He hopes
the microscope may yet reveal more
about the details of the life of minute
creatures, but, in the meantime he
says, philosophy must take it for
granted that the principle of life is
something wholly distinct from the
matter with which it is clothed Cur
rent.
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