The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS.


States as the cholera did in Spain last
year.
There is family in Glascock
County, Ga, consisting of man, his
wife and three children, whose aggre-
gate weight is less than two hundred
pounds.-N. o. Times.
Two Long Islanders had an odd
match, at Westhaven, for one hundred
dollars side, one picking the feathers
from four chickens in less time than it
took his competitor to skin twelve eels.
N. Y Sun.
To apply mustard plaster so as
not to blister the skin, mix the mus
tard with the white of an egg instead
of water. The plaster will draw thor
oughly without blistering the most del
icate skin.-BoSton Globe. .
If you see girl holding a species
of materialized toadstool over her head
at garden party this summer, dom
be astonished, for it is merely one of
the eccentricities of fashion broken out
in parasol. Philadelphia Press.
The woman who wants her garden
spaded at small expense, has only to
give the small boys to understand the
soil contains the best fish bait in town,
and they are welcome to all they want.
Palmer Journal
When a woman wants to take a
mean revenge on her husband for some
fancied slight or injury, she has only to
read aloud to him one of his old love-
letters four years after his marriage
SomerUjlle Journal
An inevitable result
Here's how dye do
Whatever shall do?
Since | stopped my advertising
My trade has fallen Off surprising
w thin q week or two.
Here's a how dye do.
-Pbil0delphig Can.
The Bartholdi statue at New York
is to be lighted at night by a shaft
light from a torch which will be seen
ninety miles out at sea, and therefore
long before any Lighthouse on the
coast, and also by four large lights at
the base of the statue.
1t is said that in 1925 there was
not a nursery for the sale of fruit trees
in all New England, and the neglected
gardens yielded only a small quantity
of small fruit, chiefly currants. The
first horticultural society in the CEN
tury was founded in 1929. boston
Budget.
AT last something new beside the
bride is chronicled in weddings. A
Baltimore ''happy couple knelt on a
rug of pink and red roses when the
clergyman pronounced them one, last
week, and the bridal gown was not of
conventional satin, but composed en-
tirely of Valenciennes lace, caught
with tiny white birds and natural
orange blossoms. Now, if this isn't
novelty nothing at these fashionable
ceremonies can be, and Baltimore de-
serves to be called the banner city for
having thought of the floral ug.-BoS-
ton Herald.
Prof. Bell is confident that tele-
phone communication may be estab-
lished between vessels passing at sea.
He believes a wire mile in length,
trailed behind ship, will so charge
the water with electricity that vessel
coming within half mile of another
thus equipped may communicate with
it. The principle he says, is not
new; it is old, with a new use waiting
for commerce to utilize it. | have ex-
perimented in the Potomac ard mar
yelled at the simplicity of the appa-
ratus and the stupendous Importance
of the results. Cleveland Leader.
deafness appears to be exception
ally prevalent in Kennebec County,
Maine, and in Martha's Vineyard. A
recent scientific investigation of the
matter shows that in both districts
there is abundant evidence of heredity
and especially of atavism. In the fami-
lies affected there was also found blind
ness, insanity, idiocy and deformity,
and in some cases long history of con
sanguineal marriages. In Martha S
Vineyard the distribution of deafness
comedies with that of certain soils, and
its eastern boundary is also the typhoid
fever e.-Boston Journal.
AT large and would-be fashiona-
BILE wedding, recently held in a town in
this State, the solemnity was rudely
disturbed by rather unexpected an
swer. The bride had entered, on her
uncle's arm, and was met by the groom
at the chanccl. The uncle then re-
turned and took seat in the body of
the house. All went well until the
clergyman asked the question: "Who
giveth this woman to be welded to this
man?' He paused for an answer, and
the uncle rose, and placing his hands
on the pew in front of him, he said, in
accents louder than are common at
weddings: ''Men-BoSton Traveller.
1t is related that when the first
Maine railroad was started, about
forty years ago, w. c. Pitman, of
Bangor, was conductor. One rainy
morning he started from Waterville,
and on arriving at North Belgrade, a
flag station, not seeing any flag, ran
by the station. just as the train had
passed the red flag was run out for
some passengers to get on. Mr.. Pit
man stopped his train, and asked
Stephen Richardson, the station agent,
why he did not display the red flag be-
fore. Mr.. Richardson replied: "Be
you a-goin' to run your train in rainy
weather? l didn't think you would. "