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The Boy Of the Burning Deck,

Paris Letter in the Newark Advertiser.
Few but know the very pretty piece
Of poetry by Mrs. Hcmens, "Casabian-
Ca" commencing, "The boy stood on
the burning deck" The poetess states
that the lad was the son of the admiral
commanding the flagship L'Orient.
which took fire and exploded; that
young Casabianca persisted in the ex-
plosion, refusing to quit the position al.
lotted to him by his father. pending the
battle of the Nile. I have been LOOKING
into the official account OF the incident.
The admiral was Brueys, who was
wounded in the head and hand early in
the action. He continued to give or
ders until cut in two by o n n hall.
he uttered the request to be allowed 10
expire on deck, which he did il tha
course of some minutes.
Citoyen Casabianca, the father Of tho
poetic hero, then took command: his
son was a MILDLY, but only aged ten. not
thirteen. At that period lads entered
the navy very young. Casabianca was
was also a deputy. Pending the action
his son was by his side; the father was
mortally wounded in the head by a
splinter and became insensible; he gave
no injunctions to his son, but the latter
would not the less quit his wounded
parent. By this time the ship was on
tire. Several Of the sailors had left and
saved themselves on spars till picked
up by the English boats. Aided Nv
the purser young Casabianca and his
father We're lowered down on o piece a.
q mast floating by, but they had only
got . short distance from the 120-pnn
Orient when she blew up, and nothing
more was seer OF the Casabiancas.
But the noblest thing that perishel there
Was that young, faithful heart.
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Rev. Or. W. Bowditch, Of the First
Fiace Methodist church of Brooklyn.
mas iliaugurated the fashion Of illus.
rating lis sermons with large pictur-
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Dr. VIM. 3. Furness Of Philadelphia,
~ his ordination In 1925 The Oldest I'm
tarian.clerEynanillthis country, is still
active IN III mhaisffir,5
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Business partnerships between hns.
band and wife are pronounceds legal Il
the New York Supreme Court.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-13

The losses in Wall street during the
past year are estimated at over $780,.
0OO, 900.
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sole the wldder, an be o father to the
fatherless, wun't ye! An'the cuss give
a sort o. chuckil that made me grit my
teeth.
"Then the fust man spoke up agin,
an SEE he: 80.
keep yer durn mouth shet. ye fool,
she monght heer us. Ye go long hum,
an I'll go in an break the sad news
oval, I tell We, I was layin' low an,
keepin' dark then, an watcht the fell
Ter go to the door, heerd him knock, an
the door opent an he whit in, an the
other Teller, arter SEEM him in, give
another chuckil, an started right torts
me, an before he knowt whar he was I
had him down with my hand on his
throat an q pistil in his mouth. He
jist give wan skeert Look an whispert,
Jack Adams, by God!' then he laid
still.
q Yes, it's Jack Adamsp seq I; 81.
didn't s'pect ter see him, did re, Tom
Hentz?' Sss.
a.Now, wot's goin' on here? seq I;
'jist ye tell me, an don't talk too loud,
er git excited, kase this guns mighty
easy on the trigger
Jack seq he quiet like, let me up
anil tell ye ly'rythin''. / was alters
yer fren', Jack. an'it's me as, sent the
man ter tell the train cap'n ter give yer
notice. Damn that bishipl I hate him,
an I'll git quits with him eff / die fur
it,.
+" AL right seq; .cum out to the
barn. but walk keerful. kase the gun
mought go off.
"Wen we gets to the barn, Hentz seq,
in 9 whisper: Jack, they want ter put
ye outen the way. They've bin a tryin'
to make Molly take q biship's diyarse
an marry the biship in thar, but abe
wouldn't. Then they tolt her ye was
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31

'That burned specllled critter with the
broken horn" said an eXasperated farmer,
"malzes more trouble than all the COWS I've
got put together. If could give her away
I'd do it. I'd fat her for beef but she'd
cost more'n she'd be wuth."
That same night a railroad train ran oyel
her and killed her, and the farmer, with
tears in his eyes, told the officer of the road
who was prepared to remunerate him for
his loss that if it had been any one Of his
other cows he wouldn't care so much. but
to lose that valuable animal, the only thor
oughbred he ever possessed or expected to
possess, was misfortune almost beyond
money reparation. N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
MOUNTAINS.
Why Size Il No Criterion Of the Age OF
Hills and Mounts.

Why Size Il No Criterion Of the Age OF
Hills and Mounts.
Pretenders to longevity usually turn
out upon strict inquiry to be hoary i'm
posters. They are not half so aged in
reality as they make them elves out to
be. Mountains themselves, for all their
show Of antiquity, form no exception to
this almost universal rule of evidence.
The eternal hills have no proper claims
to the honors of eternity. Some of
them, indeed. which now hold their
heads very high in the world and 90 in
for coronets CT snow or diadems of ice,
etc, fOr particulars of which see the
pOets), are really Ofvery modern origin,
and can not show half so good q pedi-
gree after all as many an Obtrusive
little granite knoll, upon when they
look down with sublime scorn from the
proud height of their paryenu compla-
Cency. AS old rs the h llS' seems to
most of us Che extreme limit of possible
age; and yet as all created things must
needs at some time have had begin
ming, it is Immediately obvious
to the meanest capacity - and
much more, then, to the court
eOus reader-that even the eternal
hills themselves must in their own time
have slowly passed through the various
stages of infancy, childhood adoles-
cence and full maturity. Old as they
are, they have yet once been young and
FOOLISH gray as they are, they have
once been green and grassy; solemn az
they are, they have yet once INDUCED
in bo'sterous, noisy, and even SIX 'ttish
youth, before settling down by slow de.
grees into the sober responsibility Of
middle age. Every dog has his day,
and the eternal hills have had theirs.
As little hills they have skipped audac-
iously; they have grown aud grown by
slow increment; they have passed grad
ually from a state of youthful activity
and mobility and life to a state of dis
Greet and immovable sen lie soldity.
Yet many Of them are young at heart
even now, and some of them that look
demure enough on ordinary occasions,
are still distracted by fiery passions
within, which rend and tear them from
time to t me with fierce convulsions in
their inmost bowels. Yes, the eternal
hills have had a beginning, and the be-
ginning was often far more modern
than most people usually imagine.
There are small hillocks in these islands
of Britain that were already great
mountains while the Alps and the lima.
layas st Il lay slumbering sweetly be-
meath half Il mile of superintendent
ocean. Indeed, as general rule it
may be said that the biggest mountains
are very new, and that the oldest
mountains are very small. Size is here
no criterion of age; for when once
mountain has ceased growing and at
tanned maturity, it begins to grow down
again by mere wear and tear, until at
last wind and weather, rain and river,
have slowly beaten it back to the level
of the plain from which it sprang.-
CornhlL Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
AN ANGELIC BABY.
Life,

History of the Darling Cherub's Exploits
during One Day-Poetry and Love versus
Baby's Tears and Fists-An Old Maids
Sorrow and IA Poets Grief.
The mother of the baby in the room OPP
posite to mine AYERS that it is an angel. Its
features are 50 pure and sant-lille, she
says, that she has doubts about her ever
bringing it up. We who are the other
boarders have different opinion of the
baby. 1t is that some day it will be tray
cling around Oh its muscle as a knocker-out
in four rounds.
The transom of my room is kept open
for fresh air. So is the baby's Under
these circumstances it is discouraging, to
say the least, when come home at three
o'clock at night-from Strengthening up the
firms books, for instance-and at four Just
when have fallen into gentle slumber,
with wet towel around my head to keep
down the throbbing that looking over the
long rows of figures invariably produces, to
have the baby get up and begin pounding
away at the door with what seems to my
imagination a pile-driyer. For the baby
invariably rises at four, and it is its custom
to signalize Its larkish proclivities by mus
cular activity. In doing this its nurse says
1t uses a shoe brush, but l have my doubts.
1t is well enough, perhaps, when | have
made arrangements to go fishing and want
to get up at daybreak. The baby then
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31

The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia HecorG says: 81 saw an
exquisite story that Richard Grant
White used to tell so mangled by a
newspaper the other day that | was
moved to do it justice by printing my
recollection of it. 1t was told to show
the native courtesy of well bred Amer
leans, and here it is; When General
Washington was in New England he
was entertained at dinner by country
gentleman who lived comfortably but
quietly IN his old-fashioned home far
from town. When the General rose to
go the little daughter of the host, not
yet in her teens, opened the door for
him. AS he passed out in his stately
way he bowed and said to the little
maid: 4 wish you better Office, my
dear Yes, sir she quickly replied,
with bow to let you in, sir. > "
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31

half-dollar that its proud father has loaned
it while it is cutting.ts teeth. With the
coin grasped tightly in its chubby fist, it
will regard you with look Of dull vacuity
That would do credit to dude. Once it be-
gan coughing violently, and its mother,
rushing to its side, discovered that the half
dollar was missing. With a hysterica
scream, she began pounding the baby
upon its back until its face assumed
Ill apoplectic hue. BY the time the
doctor arrived on the scene, the
com was found under the carpet where the
baby had hidden it. Then the baby was
spanked.
But the baby has its uses, after ALL Lit
tie Simpkins The has the fourthstory bed
room back, and is two weeks behind in his
bOard), is poet. lie has nine hundred
pages MSS. verse which he has been trying
TO bring out for three years. We have fire.
qurntly been assured by him that, If he
could lind publisher the book would Gre
ate a sensation in the literary world. But
unfortunately none of those now I'm business
will handle it, and I've is waiting for more to
spring up. When he is not wrestling with
the Divine affatus, he puts in his time read
Ing TO us extracts from the choicest passages.
On such occasions we generally.contriye to
have the baby around. Before long it will
start up crying SO that Simpkins can not
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31

in its ell work. Miss, Octavia was tossing
it in hU arms one evening and calling it a
wotsy-yotsy, when suddenly it made a grab
at her hair. To Mr. McWhorter's horror it
came OF, giving Miss Octavia's head the
appearance Of having just been devasted by
cyclone Setting the baby down hard,
she seizedher wig and rushed Off to her
room. AT six o'clock next morning she
moved to another clearinghouse, and Mr..
McWhorter, a victim of woman's duplicity,
took the Ease hair from his locllet. The
nurse has Sine been charged by the mother,
in case of Mss Octavia meeting the baby,
to refuse anything she might give it to eat,
for fear that itcontainS arsenic.
Altogether opinion is divided upon the
baby in the room opposite to mine. Its
father declares that it is the handsOmest
child that he has ever seen, and mOdestly
adds that it is the living image of himself.
Its mother says it is so quiet one hardly
knows what it is to have a baby in the
house, though the next moment it will be-
gin crying at the rate of fOrty-fve miles an
hour. The ladies are enthusiastic in its
praise, while the gentlemen regard it in the
light of a necessary evil. Mir. Brown, the
grumpy old bachelor, who spends most Of
his time in his room playing peaknuckle, is
perhaps of all the most emphatic in his de-
nunciation. He characteriZes it as a reg
ular little nuisance" AS for my part, l
look upon it at times with almost reyer-
ence. was once baby myself. -MulcoLn
Douglas, IN Sam.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31

proceed, and we are thus saved several
ho1lis OF the most intense suffering.
Inc baby was the means of breaking up
gourtShlp whose progress was watched
WIN much interest by all of us. Miss
UctaVla Montserrat who has the parrot on
.iie second floor, was wOoed by Mr. Jabez
McW horter, our star boarder Miss Octavia,
VINO modestly owns to thirjy-two, has mag
innocent blonde hair which found much
favor IN Mr.. McWhorter's eyes At his
request she coyly cut him a tress which he
Wore IN his locket. Little Freddy Temp
KIhs who presides over the ribbon counter
OF dry-goods store, tried to bet his chum,
Oharley Liscombe, who is in the silk de-
partment, twenty-five cents to fifteen that it
would be sure 60" but the offer was not
accepted. At the stage when Mr.. Nc
"horter was about to propose, the baby got
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
A MASCOTTE.
Persons who Are Born to Bring Go
Fortune to Their Friends.

Persons Who Are Born to Bring Go
Fortune to Their Friends.
A a;nouIar coea which was racoptlv
,,,.,,-h - ,,lt ~ onst,aa.' Go,-v4 y
D,ouS"C Ue!olT 'nT vi pi"u' Oour' III
fh'lauelPhia' u ScloSeo the prevalence Oh
a remarkable superstition. Five men,
all of whom had families to suppo1
upou limited incomes commended for
the noeeossion of = little Corp,or o,;r1
,,-l,or, ,,o,o1t- Lod rooa,41r 49, r.
"ii'''0 P''i0N' % ii'''' ioo0l,'iS u'oU Ahey
All "anleu 10 auoPV her' anu each
brought forward testimony to prove
that he, more than the others, could
give her comfortable home and ten.
der care. The reason for this competi-
ton was openly stated in court to be
because the girl was popularity believed
to be mascotte
A mascotte, according to the super
stitons of the peasants OF France and
Germany, is a person who is born. not
to obtain GOOD fortune for herself bnt
to brine it to others. Wherever she
oons h9nniness follows her Those
whom she loves are destined to LONG
life. honor and every bIessinr they de,
sire. The mascOtte is, in short. the on
posite of the unhappy being who, ac.
cordino TO the same sJDerstiT :on is horn
with NAL occbio. or the evil-eve that
curses all unon whom if looks
When the German neasants think
they have d 'scovered a true mascotte
among the children in n VILLAGE, she ia
treated as if she were q princess in dis.
ouise Gifts. caresses and datterv follow
her all her life from those who hone 70
win her GOOD will and consequent bles.
sine
The smerstition seems ludicrous
onoro oh 70 ms And vet there are here
and there. GIRLS and women who seem
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31

"Look here, boy, this will never do
"Whats the matter, pa?" asked Johnny.
"You have missed your lesson again, for
1 see by this report that you were kept in
after school. never was kept in after
school when [ was boy"
Johnny looked at him for a minute and
then said:
II know why you were not kept in after
school. When you were boy and missed
your lesson, your teacher, instead Of keep
ing you in after school, took it out Of your
hide with a switch and sent you home. -
TeTaS SiftinQS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
The Chestnut Season.

'How will that do?" said the new re-
porter to the city editor as he handed in
little jokelet on the falling leaves.
at is timely" replied the unfeeling ed
itor as he threw the manuscript into the
CRATE.
''Wh-what?" exclaimed the reporter, IN
establishment
Timely, 1 said.-qute timely added
the city editor, cruelty; ''roasted chestnuts
are just in season. "-Chtcdp0 Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
HARD LINES.


BY BANK CASHIER.
Great Scott, don't know what to do,
I've shipped the banks whole revenue
On private spec,
And al! the Doodle | could raise,
To back me in my cashier 5 craze,
Has slipt beyond my mortal gaze
Into Quebec.
Tomorrow should HE me hence
To reap the pleasures of my pence
In sweet exile
And sing: Old Bank, I'm safe at last
The time to catch me long since past
My futures bright, my fortune vast.
I've made my pile.
can't stay in this wicked place
For tear my friends will see my face
Behind the bar
Oh, Lord. I'm in an awful box,
I've saved up four million rocks,
And now l see they've got smallpox
In Canada.
-Tifg
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31

Mrs. Tumbletung gazing through the
car window ooh! isn't it lovely" Mr.
Fogg-" beautiful Mrs. ibid you
ever see anything like it? The autumn is
l think, the pleasantest season of the year.
Such beautiful foliage. Such variety OF
cooTsI The whole earth is actually clothed
in verdurep Fogg has the presence of
mind to stuff his handkerchief in his mouth
in time to prevent an experimentation
T'r01lScriDt
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
There are funny things to be seer

There are funny things to be seen
at some of the fall fairs In a West
Springfield exhibition there is a depart
ment labelled Art" which contains
beans, medicines, carriages, antique
watches, trusses, hand-panted plates,
candy and bread and butter. The
Lewiston JourRaJ mentions a curious
oversight in all Maine agricultural
shows, and that is the failure to offer
premiums for hay, although the hay
crop is nearly as valuable as all other
crops put together Boston Herald.ES
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
A Faithful MaiI-Carrier.

Dogs have been put to all sorts Of
uses by man. Not only do they guard
our houses and keep away thieves, but
they hunt game for people to shoot, and
90 after it when it falls; they churn the
butter and lead the blind; they take
care OF the babies, and drag us out of
the water when we are so careless as to
fall in. In more ways than | can tell
they work for us and delight to do it.
That's the pleasant thing about their
serYiCe-thCy do not work for pay.
Not all the gold in Californ would
have feathers weight with one of
them; but kind words, gentle treat
ment, and now and then a bone, bind
a dog to his master for life and in
death.
We are not slow to avail ourselves
of this most willing servant, and one
would think we had found out all the
uses to which dog can be put, but a
little M n NC camp in California has
discovered new thing for him to do
to carry letters.
The place is hardly big enough to
have a name, and of course can not
think of having a post-office; but the
few miners there want their letters Just
as badly as though they lived in New
York City itself. They could not ind
a man to bring them three miles from
the nearest post-oflice, for every man in
camp wants to dig for gold, so they
have taught a dog to do it. Dorsey is
the name of the faithful fellow, and he
runs his three miles every day, from
Calico, where the stage stops, to Bis
marcE, the camp, in twenty minutes,
with the letter-bag strapped to his back
-Hayper'S Ioang People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31
Theatrical NOte.

81 see a woman has started out with a
stick to walk all the way to California.
That's something new, isn't it?'
''NO, that happens all the time"
81 never heard of another case"
what! Did you never hear of an ac-
tress travelling over the country with half a
dozen sticks. And some of them make
money at it oo."-TerdS Sifttng8
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31

Now the Atlantic is traversed in
less than q week but Mr.. William
Pearce looks confidently forward to the
time when he will be able to produce
vessels to make the Journey in four
days. The present great increase in
speed has not been accompl shed by
finer lines or proportions Of the ships
but entirely by the immense engines
that force the vessels through the
water. The three cylinder engine has
contributed the chief capacity in solving
the great problem of increasing speed
and lessenng cost Of fuel.-A. \,
HeraM
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-31


1t is a song admirably adapted to the
range Of her voice, which is hybrid, only
two notes of the gamut being required. AS
it is addressed to the baby, she has pitched
it with a delicate consistency in the minor
key, For staying powers she can discount
either Joe Emmett or the author Of peek
a-bOo" as the champion lullabyst l have
listened to her with all the horrors of in
sanity creeping over me- | do not know
whether she has reserved all right or not.
It's mother tells NE that [ am a great IA
vorite Of the baby's. Consequently the
seat next to it at table is reserved for me.
This though an honor of which | am deep
ly cogniZaHt, is extremely embarrassing to
a man with only one pair of trousers. He
is pretty apt to be decorated with the
dishes that the baby reaches for in its crude
way, so that nearly all his spare time is
spent in the privacy of his chamber scour-
ing his clothes.
The baby has an aunt who is very much
attached to it She is about twenty years
old, is pretty and susceptible, aud has
S20,0 900 in her own right. AS it is my de-
sire to make a good impression, dare not
offend the baby. When she asks me if |
don't think it is Just too cute for any
thing" | answer by sentimental glance
of the eyes. l have even taken it on my
knee to win smile from her, and joggled
it up and down.
1t is one of the delights of the baby to
get upon the floor and play with the silver
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-05-27

obtain sufficient flowers to strew the
graves of all Soldiers and friends, and
be ready to distribute to the children
each a small bunch Of flowers, and
join in line on the march to the ceme.
terry. The ChOirs will please select
appropriate pieces and be ready to
form in line at 10 q. m. The march
will be in the following order:
Band.
Choirs.
Committee on Flowers.
Children with Post Flag.
Guards.
Post Officers.
Comrades.
National Colors.
Comrades.
Lodges.
Citizens on Foot.
Carriages.
All under command of the Mar.
shal Of the Day.
d. S. KNOX, Past Com,
Aid.de-camp to Dept. Com.