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HlNDOO TIME.
The Curiosities of the Eastern Method of
Reckoning Time.

The HindooS also employed ages in
he computation of time, and these.
too, divided into periods of different
durations. The present age is the haJj
Wtga, or the age of iron; 1885 years of
it have already passed, but its total du-
ration is supposed to be 1872 900 years.
The succession of the ages, counting
Jack is given as follows:
Fourth age-Kai yuga, age of iron,
Or of woe (the present age, to be of
1872, 900 years.
Third age-Drapara yaga, $4,000
years.
Second age-TrelH yuga, or age of
silver, 1895, 900 years.
First age-Erjta g7lga, age of gold,
or of innocence, 1,72S. 600 years
These four ages form the ntah0 yjtqa,
Or great age, of 4,320,000 years. The
length of patriarchate is seyenty-One
maha yugas, or SOC, 720, 600 years, to
which is added a twilight period of
lips, 900 years, making in all 3O8, 44S,-
600 years. Fourteen of these patri-
archateS, augmented by a dawn Of
LIPS, 900 years, gives 1920, OOOO 900
years, which form haiDa, or the ron
of the Iindoo chronology.
A kalpa is only day IN the life OF
Brahma, whose nights are also of the
same duration. Now, Brahma lives q
hundred years of the three hundred
and sixty DAYS and three hundred and
sixty nights. The present epoch is the
kali g1Sg0, of the twenty-seyenth grand
age of the seventh patriarchate of the
first aeon of the second half of the life
of Brahma, who is now in his 49,
521, 972,S4S, 9S5th spring. Yet the tho
whole life of Brahma is only a little
longer than a single wink Of Siva's eye!
III Il. Barre, in Popular Science
MONtkLM
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Mr.. RUSKlN'S LATEST. =
a Writer Who Will Not BE Popular with
the Children of the WelI-to-do.

Writer Who Will Not BE Popular with
the Children of the WelI-to-do.
In future, we should say. Mr.. Ruskin
will not be particularly popular with
the children of those who are well-to-
do, to Judge from a letter he has been
writing. 1.-The father, he says, should
never provide for his children. He
should educate and maintain them to
the very best of his power till they are
of mature age Then, when they
are strong enough, throw them out of
the nest, rs the bird does. mo for
tune should be left to them" The
nest should always be at their dis
poSal- fathers house open. says Mr..
Ruskn-but nothing more. Mr..
Ruskin does not say what he means by
"mature age" 50 that we are left to fix
the period of maturity for ourselves.
Some would place it at one time some
at another. And, moreover, Mr. RuSkn
does not tell uS what is TO become of the
property which would, in ordinary
course, be handed over by father to
his children, if he had it to hand over.
Is it to 90 to the State, or to an inst,tu-
ton, or to any other relatives than the
unfortunate ollSprings? "iIOnorablc
children says Mr.. Rus<in, "will have
their own houses But that is not
always the case; and what is the use of
the said children "providing for their
parents, if the said parents do not re-
quirc TO be provided for? Mr.. Rusllin
is good enough TO lay down that "nO
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with a common expression of intense stupe-
faction. They all pretend to be Intensely
interested in the proceedings, but with few
exceptions they don't know what on earth
it is all about, and don't care. Many
are in tennis costumes, especially the ladies.
1t is wonderful what an assortment of
stockings one sees on these occasions
more varieties than you would suppose eX-
listed.
There appears to be no quarreling about
tennis. 1t is milder even than croquet in
that respect and it also appears that the
element Of danger is eliminated from the
game. A holy hush is over ALL You
know they are playing something because
they move around nimbly and whack at fly
ing balls with an object that looks like
petriied crab-net and they are separated
from one another by a long, low fish-net
across the field. The fun goes on inside of
place marked on the grass by wide lines
of powdered chalk, reminding one of the
boyhoOd's game of hop-scotch on q large
scale. The more you look at it the less you
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29
4 Worry Enrctive Hint.

"Don't you think earrings would be-
come your inquired KosiuskO Murphy of
Birdie McGee Kosiusko had been paying
Birdie very assiduous attentions of late.
80, l don't know" replied Birdie, de
murely.
." suppose the reason you don't wear
them is because it will hurt to have your
ears bored.'
80, not in the least" said Birdie, with
animation. I've had that done already
quite often-almost every evening, in fact,
for the last three weeks"
Then kosiusko reached round to the
piano, dragged his hat off the cover, and
commenced to fade gradually from the room.
lie fairly melted away into obscurity, and
now wide chasm separates the gallant
ko'iusko and the charming Birdie.-TeCdS
SttingS.
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SCORPIONS IN MEXICO.


Singing at Midday.
The most common of these pests are
the scorpions alcarans they be-
come hale and hearty grandparents
within twenty-four hours, and their nu-
merous progeny are forever darling
everywhere with inconceivable rapidly,
their tails, which hold the sting. ready
to fly up at an instant's warning. They
are in the wall between the bricks of
the floor, lurking within your garments.
Turn up corner of the RUG or the
tablecloth and YOU disturb an interest
ing family of them; pick up your shoes
in the morning and out they flop; in
short, every article you touch must be,
treated like dose of medicine-'to be
well shaken before TAKEN The COM
mon variety hereabout are about three
inches long, and the yellowish-b
ones are considered most poisonous. In
Durango they are black and so alarm
ingly numerous that the authorities
offer rewards so much per tail to the
boys for killing them. Their sting is
usually fatal to child and more or less
severe in its effects on adults according
to the state OF the system. Some have
been known to recover after remaining
for eight days foaming mt the mouth in
commissions and with stomach swollen
as in dropSy; others, by prompt and
energetic treatment, do not suffer much.
The tayorite remedies are brandy, taken
in sufficient doses to Stupefy the patient,
gulacum, ammonia and boiled silk. 1t
is said that scorpions have the poor
taste to prefer dark people to fair ones,
and that their sting is most to be appre-
hended at midday. My irrepressible
Betsy has become expert in catching
them with lassos Of thread, after which
we suspend them, head downward in
bottles Of alcohol, to send to micro
scopicaIly inclined friends at the North.
The Indians eat them, after extracting
the sting as delightful Il moroccan, no
doubt, rs crabs, clans, frogs, snails and
similar dcIicacieS Of civilization; but
beg to be- excused from rendering other
than hearsay testimony on the subject.
Fannie b. unW, IN sun Francisco
oHHday Chronicle.
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FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
ONE THING AT A TIME.

One step at n time, and that well placed,
We reach the grandest height;
One stroke at time, earth's hidden stores
VIII slowly come TO light;
One seed at Il time, and the forest grows;
One drop at Il time, and the river flows
Into the bOundless sea.
One word At time, and the greatest book
Is written and is read;
One stone mt time palace rears
AiOtt its stately head;
One blow ut time, and the trees cleft thrO',
And city will stand whore the forest grew
few short years before.
One foe at a time, and he subdued,
And the conflict will he won;
One grain ut a time, and the sands of life
Will slowly all be run.
One minute, another, the hours fly;
One day at Il time and our lives speed by
Into eternity.
One grain of knowledge, and that well
stored,
Another, ana more on them;
And, as time rolls on, your mind will shine
With many garncrcd gem
OfthOught and wisdom And time win tell.
'One thing ut time, and that done WELL
Is wisdom proven rule.
&. g. IhditIl, IN Golden Days.
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The Meanderings of the Childish Mind
Through the Intricacies of English
Grammar.
Little Jane had repeatedly been reproYed
for doing violence to the moods and lenses
of the verb ''to be-" She would say Il be"
instead of 81 am and for time it seemed
as if no one could prevent it. Finally, Aunt
Kate. made rule not to answer an incor.
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an abused boy as he, when he was az
tually obliged to make his breakfast on
slice of bread or nothing at all, but
the lesson proved a good one, for
Johnny remembered It for some time,
then he began falling into the same try
ing old habits again.
Papa asked him to weed the flower
pot one morning, but at night he said
he had forgotten it, Mamma asked
him to please stay in the house with
Matte, Wednesday afternoon, because
she had a cold and cOuldn' get out, and
at night he said he didn't stay in be-
cause he didn't feel like it, and mamma
didn' say he must
Then papa asked him another morn
ing to weed out the flower bed and at
night when asked why it had not been
done, he replied: cause you didn' tsay
l must, and | didn' want to. -
Papa went into the house without
saying a word, and Johnny somehow
felt very uneasy. He followed papa
around and watched him closely.
just after supper papa remarked,
quietly:
81 had letter from your Uncle
oa,,si,,, Iyiu a,J Ioo law. L;n Jo ,n
1919 nibt anu T y i,;'o% , W. ,'10"y
Pei I y ,U,i o '- -, Inv 4,Du Iu'
,,oJa ',,my o1.L '",e's "o',I" .i LAY =
''i'l'o a., o''o ,,' ~ 80 NJ" "iGciy
@,a5Sod ~ o.to,i, "l,Ct' 'iA0n i'o i'''iiy
7 wv, - ',aUn In,a., ,,.,,, diaa,.
yo, toii i' maj E 81 why ''D =
..6b 7 didr,t faol Ito it.,, frot+,d
papa ''0
!. But I'm invitcd to tbo n,rtv',, cried
Johnny. ..ond I must go I wouIdn,t
miss one Of those nartios for tho
worIdr'
.WoII " said mana ipditrorortIv
eyes. thew invited von if Tchoso to Let
Won no bIt thrv diJn't saw mn.t and
I do5,t want to,
Wen if was =, hard lesson q dread
fully hard lesson. bnt nothing aycent =
dre3dfnIIv hard lesson waS9 goinp 70
make a1v iastinr immersion On w
,Iobnrr,s r,ind or boI,, bi,,, a,,nroo,e,,,
his f,IIts TncIn Frnd's house could
have been reached bv ride in tbe
horse-cars and nothing conId ba mona
ENJOYABLE than tho h3Irtb-dav narfiaS
the cousins win and loo war9 often al,
lowed 70 olive. Johnnv had attendnd
two NJ. tbrnn stayino, OIL ,,ioht aftar
worJe and oI,ya},s 3ba,,obt tban, ~,
most daiigbtfnI orcosionS i7nouinabla
In vain no ooavoI and nr;nd ana
rromisnd. oil he conId aot nono ~
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

Alaska pays a greater revenue to
the General Government, in proportion
to the population, than any Territory
now or heretofore in existence in the
United States Chicago Herald.
Two young men, one of whom was
disguised as woman and passed as the
others wife. have been reaping a har-
vest from charitable citizens of Stockton,
Cal, by their ptiful tale of restitution.
San Francisco Chronicle.
AT Seneca Falls, N. Y, the largest
single electric light ever produced was
recently placed on exhibition. 1t was
5O,O00-candle power, and placed on a.
tower at height of seventy-five feet il
lighted up the whole village. -Bu6alo
Express.
AS two men We're fishing in a mill
pond at Nalatie, Columbia County, N.
Y, the other day, they saw a crocodile
about six feet long crawl into the water.
1t was put into the pond six years ago,
when small.
One Of the greatest puzzles to the
observing spectator who watched the
youngsters playing Copenhagen at the
children's jubilee was to know why
those little girls who FOUGHT so hard
against being kissed PLAYED the came aft
all They didn't have to.-Pittsburgh
IRA )Commerctal
A swallow has made its nest and is
rearinp IFS vouno in one of the railway
signal balls at Bow Crossing, N. Ii. /.
The covering of the ball became torn,
which allowed the entrance of the bird.
The signals are lowered and raised
many times daily, but the pets of the
switch-tender appear to like their home
very much.-BostoH Post.
-Josonb y FrIIor an old nortIor,or
of seventy claims that he i GntitIeJ r.
16O acres ofpbiIadoI,Ybia 7, ,viIIoJ
70 sally Mercer TnIlar nv WiIIiar, PAW
before he went back to EngIanJ tba Iast t
fine When She Jiad nn3od,, cIai,no3
fine land and if wos tal,nn bv' tbo n;tU
and sold Mr. FmIIor ha! boSn ' inol, my
nm The renoaIogicaI rocord Of tbo fa,ni?'
" and Is convinced that he is an heir
bbjIodgI,bjn Press
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OLD SHOES.
The Parts They Fill in the Boudolr ana
ParlOr.

Parlor.
1t may be a surprise to some people
to learn that the old shoes cast into the
ash barrels are liable to appear in the
boudoir and parsor. A New York re-
porter who saw a couple of rag-pickers
quarreing over Il lot of worn-out and
seemingly worthless foot gear inter-
viewed one of the chiffonnierS, and
found that they sold them to the manu-
facturers Of wall paper. He followed
up the clew, and on questioning the
foreman of one of these establishments
elected the following bits OF informa-
ton:
We buy said the foreman, "all
the boots and shoes that the scavcngers
can bring us. We pay different prices
for the different qualities OF leather. A
pair of fine calfskin boots will bring as
high as fifteen cents. We don't buy
cowhidc boots. The boots and shoes
are first soaked in several waters to oct
the dirt off them. Then the nails and
threads are removed, the leather
ground up into fine pulp, and is
ready to use.
The embossed leather paperings
which have come into fashion lately,
and the stamped leather fire screens,
are really nothing but thick paper coy
cred with layer of this pressed leather
pulp. The finer the quality of the
leather, the better it takes the bronze
and old gold and other expensive col
ors in the designs painted on them
Fashionable people think they are going
away back to the medieval times when
they have the walls of their libraries
and dining covered with en-
bosscd leather, They don't know that
the shoes and boots which their neigh
bors threw into the ash barrel month
before form the beautiful material on
their walls and on the screens which
protect their eyes from the fire.
We could buy the old shoes cheaper
if it We're not for the competition from
carriage houses and bookbinders and
plcturc-frame makers. | don't know
how many other trades use old shoes
and boots, but the tops of carriages are
largely made OF them, ground up and
pressed into sheets. Book binders use
them in making the cheaper forms of
leather bindings, and the new style Of
leather frames with leather mats in
them are entirely made of the cast-olf
covering Of our feet. Scientific Anler-
icaU.
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and the neNt ace scored alter vantage, # by
the same player, is game. If the next after
vantage is by the opposing player, We
know, the call is deuce again" Whereat
they all agree that they don't know, and 90
on poking the balls around When you get
your strength back you crawl away and go
see a game of college football and have
the satisfaction of seeing three men killed,
eighteen limbs and three heads broken, and
enough blood shed In fifteen minutes to put
Il new course of life into as many con-
sumptiyes, and you rub your hands and
say: There is game worth seeng."-
n. y World.
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rected.
One day the two sat together, Aunt Kate
busy with embroidery and little Jane over
her doll. Presently doll society became
tedious, and the child's attention. was at
tracted to the embroidery frame.
Aunt Kate" said she, please tell me
what that is going to be-"
But Aunt Kate was counting and did
not answer. Fatal word, be! 1t was her
old enemy, and to it alone could the child
ascribe the silence that followed.
'Aunt Kate" she persisted, with ar
honest attempt to correct her mistake,
''please tell ne what that is going to am"
Still auntie sat silently counting, though
her lip curled with amusement
Jane sighed, but made another patient
effort.
"WilI you please tell me what that is go
ing to are?'
Aunt Kate counted on, perhaps by thi.
time actuated by wicked desire to know
what would come next The little cir
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MISUNDERSTANDING woman, old
boy! / congratulate you"
Judge 0anguidly)-"T Thanks"
Dusenbery-"Such grace! Such WITT"
Judge las before -"Y-a-a-s."
Dusenberry-"Suc conversational pow
ers! ! could listen to her for hours"
Judge (gloomily)-,"I often do."--PItild-
dclphiu Call.
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understand what it is
they are trying to do.
Now a young girl with
beautiful clocks on her
ankles trips forward
and bangs the ball to-
wards the fish-net, and
4 tall young man, whose
brow is furrowed with
care on account of the
fit Of his knickerbock-
crS, ambles forward,
takes a crack at it and
calls out: " Love fif-
teen - and casts an
amorous glance at an
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A girl with three arms is an attrac-
ton in Louisiana side-show. She can
play the piano with two of them and
turn the music with the ether, thus say
ing the expense of young man.
Drcke'S TrarclicrS' Maga.ine.
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Those who have made insanity special
study are of the opinion that new cause
of mental disturbance has arisen in the
shape of printed rules of lawn tennis. Any
one who has seen the frantic efforts of a
man engaged in trying to master the de-
tails of this game and has watched his
facial contortons and bodily agony as he
stroye in vain with terms the meaning Of
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which is withheld from
the uninitiated, will
readily coincide with the
above expressed opin-
ion. Those who have
themselves attempted to
master these rules and
have preserved their
sanity will tremble at
the peril they have es-
capped. How many glib
bering idiots there are
now in our asylumS who
wander around with
their heads full of terms
like swift overland
service" "high front
delivery" ''right-hRd
twist, " fore overland, "
"lobs." "skyell" vol
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29

There seems to be trustworthy evil
dencc to the fact that boiled cclery-not
the raw stems-is a preventive of
rheumatism.
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to ascertain the facts,
but the best way is to
go to the Prospect Park
grounds and study the
subject in its worst and
most aggravated forms.
Here many games are
going on at once, and all
varieties of players are
present, surrounded by
a crowd OF friends, some
standing, others seated
or in carriages, but all
staring at the players
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T77EV TUT VI IIVI ' T'ebNV T HtIW.
glimpse of her c'sn and her dmple-
ana her nose showed les exquisite tip;
ana II seemed so remarkably simple
10 carom right there On her lip.
ana under that mighty poke bonnet
Owed for moment OF bliss
AQu may wager your wardrobe upon it,
delivered lightning speed kiss.
Yes, under her bonnet kissed her
AND somehow-thc bonnet shows how
found twas her Boston-bred sister.
There are tlCO girls don't speak to me now.
Puck.
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LAWN TENNIS.
The Idiotic Tendencies Of the
Average Young Person.

The Present Craze as 1t Appears to the
Reporter of Baseball Matches-Gib-
bering Idiots Whose Proper Place
Is in the Insane Asylum.
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gathered her energies for one last and great
effort.
Aunt Kate, what am that going to are?"
-PhiiddetphiG CGt.
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leys," will never probably be lnoNFn. 1t
is only Of late that the attention o. scien-
fists has been directed to this matter and a
commissioner should be promptly appoint
ed to look into the matter.
There are many ways by which this COM
mittee could be placed in a proper position
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JAMES GRAM MAR.

There are tlco girls don't speak to me now
mol
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-13

have been made to steal these guns. Some
Jerseymen came very near geUUmg away
with them at the Yorktown celebration.
They were buried during the war. About
everything else, except families aud
houses, were hustled under the ground,
even barrels of whisky, when Sherman
came down this way. Tradition says
that the whisky was greatly improved by
the plant n.
70 'artulery punch" is due, perhaps,
the credit for even greater share of the
reputation which the Chatham company
enjoys than to the old brass cannon. /
personally know that the reputation OF
this punch extends as tar as the fortieth
parallel of north latitude. EX-President
Arthur had bit of experience with this
liquid, which he will doubtless remember
as long as he lives. Two or three years
ago, it will be remembered, President
Arthur, Secretary Chandler and few in
innate friends came down this way on q
fishing excursion, with Florida their OBJ
IectiVe point. The lamen'ed Tallapoosa
was moored off Savannah, and the Chat
hams went aboard to entertain the
Presidential party. Savannah water
is nothing extra, and there was not
much else to drink but artillery punch.
1t is the mildest and most innocent
looking liquid one ever saw. To the eye
Sunday school picnic lemonade is a wild,
deliricus intoxicaDt beside it. OF pale
straw color, and just the slightest sug-
gestiveness in flavor of lemon and rum, 1t
is seemingly the least pretentious of all
the beverages that claim Bacchus as god
father. But, great Allah how it does be-
lie its looks and taste! The President hid
his disgust the best he could as he drank
of the seductive punch to his own health.
Mr.. Arthur is a cOnnoisseur in liquors,
and there was a fine, almost aesthetic
something about that punch that imme-
diately captivated the President. Chand-
Ter was rather shy Of the bowl and eau
toned the President. The latter replied
that he could take wheelbarrOw load of
the beverage.
The country has never known what a
close call the late administration had.
The trip had been undertaken chiefly for
the Presidents health. The physicians
were anxious and doubtful the next day.
The country wondered what had so in
tatuated the Presidential party with Sa-
vannah. The truth was, the deception OF
unassuming punch had got in its work on
the nations chief. He had an idea the
next morning that he was President of
the whole American continent and good
part of the rest of the world. Careful
treatmentfOrtunately brought him around
again in a few days, but he has never had
much lc do with any sort of punch since.
Artillery punch is without rival as an
intOXicant. One glass of it possesses the
strength of three of other drinks. Some
say that the eX-President firmly believes
that in his case the South was seeking re-
yenge for some undesirable appointments
that he had just previously made.