The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS.


-ope.
There was a street illumination in
a Western city recently, and the re-
porter called it ga revelation from some
planet where the sordid things of sense
had never seen the light. but where the
superbly aesthetic had ever held full
sway. Chicago Times.
The word seismic" lust now so
prominent in the description of earth
quake phenomena, is from a Greek
word meaning ''to shake" Without
stretching things, an attack of malarial
fever might be called the sesmics. =
Springfield Mass. Union.
"A peculiar sand known as squeak
ing sand'' is found at the boiling spring
on the Ira Hill farm in Dayton. When
rubbed or pressed in the hand it emits
a succession of sounds which it would
defy tight-ftting door to outdo.-
Biddetord me-. Times.
Louisville has 10000 colored peo-
pie, many of whom are prosperous and
some of whom are rich. Some of the
best real estate in the city is owned by
colored men; there are three or four
large furniture dealers and many coal
yards, groceries and saloons owned by
negroes. Louisville Courier-Journal.
"A farmer near Lawrenceville Can.
recently mounted horse to rescue a
couple of drowning sheep. He was
Just entering the stream when his horse
pitched him over his head. He appears
to have been struck by the animals
hoof and stunned, for he sank at once.
and when the body was recovered there
was black mark on his forehead.
1t is said that in Maine town the
postmaster was Republican aud APP
pointed his wife, who is Democrat.
as his deputy. With the change of adj
ministration the husband lost his place,
as an offensive partisan, and the Dem
ocratic wife was appointed, and she
has reciprocated the favor by selecting
her husband as deputy, thus keeping
the office comfortably in the family, in
spite of the revolution of parties
Boston 1rGCeYer.
"A Boston whisky dealer bought q
cheap coffin. put 4 gallon key ofrye
whisky inside, screwed plate on the
lid of the collin, on which were en-
graved the name, age and birthplace
OF the alleged corpse, boxed the collin,
as is usual, and shipped it to town in
Maine. There an undertaken took
charge of the box and drove ten miles
into the country before the coffin was
opened and the liquor removed.-M Y.
San.
"A lady had a peculiar experience
few days ago in Portland, Ore, while
riding a horse. The animal was high
spirited and, becoming manageable,
threw the woman entirely out of her
riding habit, and ran off with it hang
ing to the saddle. Ayoungman caught
the horse and led it back, and the
young woman took the habit from the
saddle, put it on, mounted the horse
and rode away.
The irigate bird is considered to be
the tleetest animal that flies Indeed,
its speed is such that seamen have a
belief that it can start with the peep of
dawn from the coast of Africa, and,
following the trade winds, land on the
American coast before sunset. 1t can
undoubtedly fly more than two hundred
miles an hour, but there is no trust
worthy record of the speed of which it
is capable Chicago Times
"A physician said lately in paper
at Saratoga that it should not be sug-
gested to children that they are nervous.
There is any amount of wisdom in the
sentence. Children with either physical
or mental intirmities should not be
constantly reminded of them. The
mind brooding over such troubles fixes
them upon the system as chronic and
DISQUALIFICATION the trouble by wise
treatment would be outgrown and for
gotten. TROY Times.
The following is related of an East
Bridgeport man: He went home few
nights ago, and, not feeling we'll took
what he supposed to be four pills and
then slept the sleep of the Just. When
his wife awoke in the morning she be-
gan to search for four shoe buttons
which she intended to sew on baby's
shoes before the little one awoke. She
could not find them, and the husband
joined in the search, Finally he re-
membered where he had found the pills
and said: "Good heavens! | swallowed
them buttons. "-Bridgeport (Conn.)
Post.
In Oregon the catching and can
ming of salmon employ two thousand
white men in various capacities. 1t
employs two thousand five hundred
Chinese. 1t employs fifteen tugs and
steamboats,, and makes business for a
half dozen more employed regularly
in the traffic of the river. 1t employs
besides hundreds of boat-makers, sail
makers and net-weavers. 1t is the basis
of the prosperity of the city of Astoria,
and attracts much of the foreign COM
merce. Indirectly, its benefits reach
every business and nearly every person
in the State of Oregon. San Francisco
Chronicle.
In Washington Territory there are
at present only eighteen counties, and
about all of these were taken from
Oregon when it was made q State
The soil is good enough in the best of
them to produce forty bushels of wheat
to the acre, fifty to eighty of oats,
twenty to forty of barley, and plenty
of cereals and vegetables, pasture
lands, etc. There are fine forests of
timber, cedar and frs chiefly, coal
beds, iron and iron mills, regions for
the dairy, prairie and swamp lands,
fisheries, canneries (nine in the terri
tory), lime kilns of great value and