The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

1t is said that in the extreme South
clothes-pins are not used. There the
clothing is doubled over the line and
allowed to hang until it is dry, which,
owing to the warmth of the climate,
is matter of short time.-GOod
Housekeeping.
1t isreported on perfectly reliable
authority that the latest conundrum
at the London clubs concerns Miss
Fortescue, to whom Lord Garmoyle
paid 100000 for not marrying her.
Thus is it, What is the most expensive
kind of oile Garmoyle. Because it
costs 10000 per gal.
Samuel B. Downey, Captain of the
Lancaster Bicycle Club, recently rode
his wheel from Lancaster to Philadel-
phia and back, distance of 1876 miles,
between $50 in the morning and 11:45
in the evening" He stayed nearly four
hours in Philadelphia and stopped for
supper on his way Philadelphia
Press.
"A curious sale of skeletons is about
to take place in Paris. These CHASTITY
treasures belonged to q French doctor,
who devoted his existence to studying
distorted human nature, and haunted
the hospitals to buy up the corpses of
deformed persons. Accordingly he
formed a perfect museum of horrors,
for which his heirs now ask 81, POO.
The bent of the young American
mind was strongly illustrated in the
st. Louis high school, where the schol-
airs were directed to prepare list of
the five greatest journalists dead and
the five greatest living. The boys
were nearly unanimous in heading
their lists of greatest living journalists
with the name of well known base
ball reporter. Louis Post.
"A correspondent of San Francis
co society paper declares that in max
a call he never knows what to do with
his hands and feet, and asks advice on
the subject The shrewdly judging
editor thereupon suggests that he take
his hat with the former and his depart
ure with the latter. If all writers on
etiquette were as practical as this one
they would not be the useless persons
they are now.-Sa2 FRANCISCAN.
Mr. John Rogers, of Mansfield,
Mass, had throat gargle compounded
at druggists the other day. When
carrying it home the bottle exploded,
and everything that the compound
touched was burned. 1t turned out that
the clerk had used aquaforts instead of
aqua pura, or pure water, and that the
aquafortiS, in composition with gly-
cerine in the prescription, made some
thing about like nitro glycerine.-
Boston Journal.
Several negroes recently captured
a large sturgeon in Big creek, Georgia.
1t had been seen swimming around in
the creek for more than a week, and
that day they went prepared with spikes
and axes to capture the monster. The
water was three or four feet deep, and
it took considerable work to bring him
to shore. 1t was taken to Waynesboro,
and weighed eighty-ive pounds and
measured six and one-half feet in
length. 1t is the first sturgeon ever
captured in the creek.-N. O. Times.
John Carothers, while burning
brush near Akron, o., caught his foot
in Il brush heap and was in danger of
being burned to death. His Wells
brought a man, who said: "Pay me
the five dollars you owe me and I'll
help you out" Carothers insisted that
he didn't owe any five dollars. ''All
right then, burn, - said the man. and ne
walked away Carothers then by
frantic efforts released himself, but not
before he was badly scorched. Cleve-
land Leader.
"A new law in New Jersey is aimed
at the deceptive nursery agent, 1t
provides that "any person selling fruit
trees or fruit briers, who shall misrep-
resent the name or nature of said fruit
trees or fruit briers, shall be guilty OF
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars, or i'm
prisoned in the county Jail for a term
not exceeding three months, or both,
at the discretion of the court"
"A tourist in Alaska writes homo:
There is not a horse, mule or BIZ
cycle in Alaska; each and all would be
useless as ameans of locomotion. The
whole country leads toward heaven at
an angle of forty-five degrees To
move on you must climb and keep on
climbing forever. The Indians. for
that reason, with level heads avoid the
land, except as place to sleep on;
they live and move in canoes. What
the gondola is to the Venetians the
canoe is to the people of Alaska"