The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-08-21
MiSCELLAN EOUS.

A Yankee saw the Pope when in
Rome recently, and was polite enough
to ask after his wife and family.
Cats are the most difficult of all
animals to train to perform tricks. A
Snowman who could obtain a trained
cat would consider his fortune made.
The prisoner to be placed in the
new lookup at Danbury, Conn, pulled
off the iron leg of his bedstead, and,
using it as crowbar, had almost dug
his way to freedom when discovered.
Citizens of an Illinois town made a
kite seven feet long, and sent it two
thousand feet into the air. A windlass
was rugged, and it required the power
of three men to drag the kite back to
the earth again. - Chicago Mail.
"A lady living in Fulton, N. Y, was
frightened into Mysteries by seeing her
own shadow and thinking it was bur-
glar She was confined to her bed for
several days from the fright.
One local justice decides that shay
ing is not work of necessity and an
other local justice decides that it is.
Justice, instead of being blind. seems
to see two ways at. once.-LoWeU
Courier.
-Dobson-"Hello, Jobson, old man,
how are you? 0, by the way, can you
change a twenty-dollar bill for me?"
Jobson pleased to be thought cap
italist)-"Certainly, my boy, certain
ly," Dobson-" Good! I'm glad to hear
it. Then you'll certainly be able to
pay that five dollars you borrowed last
year?" And Jobson had to pay
,SOmerUille Journal.
The old buckskin horse "Phil,"
which carried General Butler through
the war of the rebellion, and which the
General has ever since kept in his pos
session, died Saturday night, aged
thirty-one years. Since the creature
became useless from old age, he has
been taking life easy in the PASTURE
L0aCeU Courier.
There is Il man near Griffin who
has been married three different times
and boasts of having under his roof six
different families of children. His last
two wives were widows with children,
which makes his home like a young
colony of many grades of relationship.
The old man keeps a register of the
names, date of birth, and the family to
which they belong.-Atla1ata .ConStisu-
ton
The Allentown, (Pa.) Register
says: "On the farm of Reuben Upde-
grove, at Shanesville, Berks County,
while the harvesting was being done,
the men were assisted in binding the
wheat by these three aged ladies:
Elizabeth Trout, 90; Maria Updegrove,
80; Maria Trout, &C. 1t is a remarka-
BILE fact that each of them bound the
heavy sheaves throughout the whole
day, and in the evening had completed
almost as much work as any of the
men"
There is one unhappy feature about
"braving the whirlpool rapids of Mag
ara" in barrel where the eXperimenter
has no possible control over his vessel.
If he fails he loses his life and demon
strates his folly; if he succeeds he
demonstrates that anybody could do
the same thing. If the operator in the
barrel had had anything whatever to
do or had required to use strength,
skill, GOODNESS or any other quality to
save himself from destruction, then he
HOltiu Dc IL HILL SCI apart NOIluN,
perhaps, of some degree of admiration.
philadelphia Ledger.
"A comcal case was recently brought
before the probate court in Litchfield
Conn. A petition was preferred to the
court to put woman under con-
servator, on the ground that she pro-
posed marrying a worthless fellow who
was in pursuit of a little money she had
saved. 1t does not appear that she was
of unsound mind except in this particu-
lar direction. Unluckily the suit was
withdrawn, and it will never be known
whether q court of probate can be put
to any such useful purpose as the pc
titionerS claimed. If it is to place
every one under q conservator who
designs marrying foolishly it will GER
tainly be a very busy tribunal.-EGrL-
ford Post.