The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS,

along without cranks; but sometimes
it can't help thinking it would like to
-SOnaerOilte Journal.
The Industrial World says that the
railroad of India will have to use steel
or iron cross-ties, on account of the
ravages of insects. Even the steel
ties have to be dipped into bath OF
tar and linseed oil to protect them from
the white antsi
Cattle are their own best judges OF
their need of water, according to the
National LtCe Stock Journal, which
advocates giving cows free access to
water, especially if fed mostly on hav,
which creates stronger demand for
water than straw, corn fodder and
millet
Over five thousand cheap pianos
are worked off in New York City every
year at sales of household goods, and
each one is advertised as ''belonging
to lady who is obliged to dispose of
| this magnificent instrument on account
of financial difficulties IN. Y. Tele-
gram.
The Japanese tumbler is singular
bird, which has habit of jumping
from its perch, turning a somersault in
the air, and then coming down right
side up on its perch again. 1t performs
this trick dozens of times in succession.
The bird is somewhat larger than a
canary.
During the last ten years the total
exports of the United States to France
have averaged sos, O00,000-a trihe
more than the imports; our exports to
Germany $57 100000, while theirs to
us are S44,000,000; to Great Britain
and ireland 1914, 900, 900, while we take
from them goods worth $3.50, 900, 900.
There is a family in Charlestown,
the paternal head of which is connected
with the city works, two sons arepolice-
men, one occupies a position in re-
formatory belonging to the city. one is
letter-carrier, two daughters are
clerks in the employ of the city, and
one daughter, the youngest, hopes soon
to obtain position as Il teacher in a
public school. Boston TfaCeller.
Jones Hello. old man. how do
like married life by this time?" Smith
Comparatively new to matrimony)
"First rate! l wouldn't be bachelor
for a good bit" Indeed! Why,
understood your mother-in-law was
living with you" 80, no. just Che
other way. I'm living with her"
"Well, that does make difference. -
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Willie FARMLAND, three -year-old
Georgian, playing in a pile of cotton,
scooped out hole and crawled into it.
After time some one saw his feet
sticking from the hole and pulled the
little fellow out He was dead. His
hands were by his side, and the hole
was so small that he had been unable
to put them down and push himself
out.-N Y. Sun.
An Indiana justice of the peace
who had twenty-seven of his twenty
eight decisions reversed by the higher
court has resigned in disgust and
opened meat market. He says that
the professional courtesy which used to
be distinguishing feature of the bench
and bar has entirely petered out, and
that justice of the peace of to-day is
of no unt.--DetroU Free Press.
Two gentlemen in the smoker.
One of them mentions lady the other
had just left in the Pullman, and says:
''You are related to her?" 1--WE are
not blood relatives" "Then you are
related?" ayes, but only by mar
rage" 81 do not wish to be uncom-
plimentary to any friend of yours.
but am glad of that" $50 am l"
by the way, how are you related by
marriage?" "She is my wife. "-St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
They were sitting in the parlcr
gazing into the red heart of the anthra-
cite which glowed in the CRATE. when,
taking her hand and squeezing it tender
ly, he asked, in the poetical language
that lovers often use: ''Are you will
ing, darling, that we should drift down
the stream of life together?" 80"
she exclaimed, somewhat impatiently,
We've had enough of drifting matches
lately. If you want me to marry you
say so. "-CharIeStoe0n Mass. Enter
prise.
"A new use for cattle has been APP
parently found in Prussia, where band
of smugglers employed COW in their
attempts to avoid the tax on lace.
A strong ten-months old COW was
wrapped round with quantity of lace
valued at 81 900. Over this was fitted
false skin so ingeniously constructed
as to defy detection. They passed the
COW quite easily at the customs office.
the men there admiring her size and
beauty, some of the excise officers even
offering her feed.
If any philanthropist and Indian
defender wants to know the exact num-
Der of Geronimo's victims, it is Alb.
Every one of these people, ranging
from old gray-haired sires to innocent
babies, were killed in cold blood, and
some of them put to such tortures that
death was welcomed as blessing.
One victim, man, was tortured from
sunset to sunrise before he died, and
his cries of agony so enraged some of
the sleepy squaws that they forced hot
Goals into his mouth to silence him. -
N. Y. Mail
An octogeDarian of Pittsburgh,
Pa, reckons that it has cost him only
$4,000 to live his eighty years. In an
interview he says: ain the past
seventy-five years 1 have partaken of
so, 125 meals, consumed ,595 pounds
of solid food, drank 81, 100 cups of tea
and Is, $50 cups of coffee. | have not
lived extravagantly, and my meals
have cost me, on an average, eight