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

"A man has been discovered in A
bany, N. Y, who keeps a store, By
never adyertises nor reads newspaper
He is not a.millionaire, but would mas
superior juryman.--Atbany Joarna
An English naturalist asserts thu
the hedgehog cannot be poisone,
neither strychnine, arsenic nor prusS
acid having any effect upon it. 1t eas
adders regardless of their venomo5
fangs, 4
The cocoanut will not flourish aWy
from the seashore, and no magnets
truer to the pole than is the root Of te
cOcoanut tree to the ocean, for whl
the rot breaks through its husks {
points directly toward the sea, p
matter in what position the nut
placed in the ground.
The actors memorial stone in te
Washington Monument cost 1865, tie
amount having been raised in dollf
subscriptions. The sentiment upon tie
stone is: ''All that lives must die, ai
it is said that the stone is now the mo-
ument of more than $50 of the originl
$50 subscribers. - Washington Post
There is believed to be danger o
horses in the public drinking trough.
Chambers are often communicated n
this way. a stand pipe and a buckets
the safest and best arrangement fiji
watering animals in cities. 1t is NOR,
comfortable for the horse. the wateI
fresher, and more palatable, md thlE
&c "a To- 4,
mated with dust dirt and the germs Of
diseaSe.-BosiOn HCrdld.
Judging from the annexed loca-
from the Blanco (Tex) NcWS, borrow.
ing is apparently done with some talent
in that town: One of our young mel
while out gathering in some wood with
which to make himself fire last Wed
nesday, got badly left, as when he came
back he had no stove in which to builC
the fret had gone mysteriously The
fact was he was borrowing from {
neighboring woodpile, and while out
the neighbor borrowed his stove.
So you went to the party with
Mrs. Elberton, did you?" asked wife
of her husband YES, as you were
away | thought it would do no harm
as Elberton asked me to, being detained
at home and not wanting his wife to be
disappointed. ''Wen, | don't believe
in lending my husband to anybody
''Why not, pray?" Because it is moi
good, according to the Bible, for a mar
to be loan. "-Bostoo Times.
A young girl residing a few mile;
from this place appeared in our market
on Saturday morning with a cozy
jaunty-looking hat made solely of oat
straw and corn shucks that grew upor
her fathers farm. 1t was lastly but
not gaudily trimmed with chicken
feathers dyed in pokeberry juice and
blue writing fluid. Several persons
who examined this headgear pro
nounced it really beautifully Carlisle
(Pa.j HeraH
A member of the Yale senior class
was recently the victim of a practical
joke. He started for Ithaca, N. T., to
attend Cornell University sociable and
intended TO stop over at New York City
to attend the opera. In the meantime
some Of his college chums telegraphed
his description to the New York police
saying he was wanted for burglary a
New Haven, and upon the arrival of tn,
train he was at once arrested and re
tanned in custody for several hours
when no one appearing he was released
-HarJord Post.
One OF the tricks of a French pres
tidigitateur is Il surprising illusion. !
wedding-ring borrowed from Il lady i
hammered into bar by some volun
teer assistant among the audience TIL,
coniuror bomows programme, rolls j
into a cornucopia-shaped receptacle TO
the ring, and without the use of th,
left hand crumpIes the paper into {
ball, which the volunteer holds tight
full in view of the audience. When hi
is directed to open it he finds that tn,
crumpled ball Of paper consists of fly,
sealed envelopes, one within the other
and with the perfect weddng-ring il
the smallest and innermost.