The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-03-13
MlSCELLANE

names in old times, such as hood-wink,
blind-hob, etc. 1t was termed hoodman
blind, because the players were once
blinded with their hoods
An impecunious New Yorker be-
longing to one of the first families, who
has been hanger-on at the houses of
wealthy relatives for ten or a dozen
years, has suddenly become rich by in
venting a rat-trap.-N. 7. Sun.
In the newly discovered Granite
creek mines in British Columbia, all
the necessaries of life are being sold at
extraordinarily high prices. Coal oil,
for instance, is worth seventeen dollars
a case and other things in proportion.
In Waycross, Ga, negro was ar
rested for stealing two pounds of cod
fish. Within thirty minutes after the
fish were stolen the negro was sen.
fenced in the county court to twelve
months on the chain-gang.- Chicago
| Times.
1t is stated in Science that DR..
Bechstein asserts that the house spar.
row could be taught to speak, and men.
tons clergyman of Paris who had
two of these birds that could repeat the
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh COM
mandments.
At Linkville, Ore, a fourteen
year-old boy stole quantity of barbed
wire from a warehouse and loaded a
boat with it so heavily that it sank.
When found the boy was sitting on a
rock wondering what to do next.-San
Francisco Alta.
-Debutante: You young married
women treat us unfairly by absorbing
the attention of the gentlemen. "
Young married woman (sweetly).
THAT difficulty is easily overcome. "
Debutante: ''HowP" Young married
woman: Become young married
woman yourself. "-Ha1per'S BGzar.
The bilboes were kind of stock or
letters used at sea to confne prisoners.
The bilboes, according to Stevens, is
bar of iron, with letters annexed to it
by which mutinous or disorderly sailors
were anciently linked together. The
word is derived from Bilboa, place in
Spain where instruments of steel were
fabricated in the utmost perfection
Boston Budget.
Jerry Thomas, the inventor of
Tom and jerry" on one occasion
narrowly escaped death at the hands of
an Infatuated congregation in Mexico.
He rode into church during the serv-
ice and began to light cigar at one of
the altar tapers, when the natives at
tackled him for his sacrilegious conduct,
and he was only saved from death'by the
intercession of the British Consul to
whom he fled for protection Chicago
Mail.
Two rival but friendly lovers
courted the belle of the hamlet of Ulster
Park, near Esopus, N. Y, and she
smiled with equal favor upon each.
The rivals agreed to decide the matter
in game of dominoes, and after some
delay the girl consented and at the
conclusion, taking pity on the loser,
gave him her rings instead of her hand
and he will be best man at the wedding.
The prospective bride kept the tally of
the game.-N. Y. Sun.
1t is customary with the vaqueros,
on arriving in Phoebe, Cal, to roll up
their overalls at the bottom, so as to let
the public know that they also wear
cloth pants. The other day an Indian
having a good pair of pants given him,
pulled them on over his overalls, and,
not wishing the public to look upon
him as so miserably poor that he could
not sport overalls, he rolled the legs of
his pants up to the knees and strutted
about as boldly as a vaquero.
South Africa offers a wide field for
Adventures. The last news from Cape
Town is that new republic has been
founded in territory north of Damaro-
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"purchased' q province from the
natives, and have called the land the
Republic of Upingtonia, to which
Europeans DESTROYS of free settlement
are invited. 1t is said that building and
cultivation are already making rapid
progress.
"A wholesale house in Chicago
started salesman out on the road,
giving him 800 for travelling expenses.
A week passed and nothing was heard
from Mr.. Traveller. Still another week
passed and still no word from Mr..
Traveller. Finally the house wired him
as follows: 'Mr. Traveler--Nothing
from you since you left. Are you still
with us?" To which Mr.. Traveller re-
Piled yours this date received. Have
luduC VI dlI SOu All VSOO' @hiiA sum
with you" -MinneapohS Tribune.
DR.. Meniere announces to us as one
result of his studies point of distinc-
ton between the sexes which has not,
we believe, been heretofore generally
recognized that the "human or
ganism is essentially alkaline" but
that woman is less alkaline than
man." This alleged hypo-alkalinity or
extra acdity of the gentler sex has been
perhaps noted already by philosophers
and students of the domestic relations,
but its existence has not been before
placed upon sound scientific and So
matte basis. -IMedjcdL Record.
-"My dear" said the wife of a
country minister-who, with her help,
experiences fair success in making
both ends meet on an annual salary Of
four hundred and fifty dollars, irregu-
larry paid, with a parsonage which
might rent for possibly one-tenth of
that money-"my dear, did it ever oc-
cur to you what you would do with it
if you had the late Mr.. Vanderbilt's in
Gomez NO" was the instant reply,
"but | will confess that | have once OF
twice wondered what he would have
done il he had had mine '-BoStOn