The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-09-11
MlSCELLANEO US.

Ulan meulclne man, was dubbed to
death, beheaded and cremated recently
for allowing too many of his patients to
die
No, my son, they are not called
grass-widows because they are so green
it's because they are so fresh And
then, beside, she's not exactly in the
moved. Savvy, on?-Burdette.
The acquantances of lady in
Philadelphia, who hurried to her house
with words of consolation on seeing
Grape on the door, were informed that
the ''late lamented' was her pet dog.
N. Y. Post
DIR. j. S. H. Fogg, of South Bos-
ton, Mass, has complete set of the
autographs of the signers of the Dec
1aration of Independence. having, it
is said, paid sixty dollars for one
.scrawling signature cut from the fly
leaf of book.
When Judge Deming, of New
Haven, sentenced Terence Butler to
Jail for sixty days for wife beating, he
said: 81 have always advocated the
establishment of a whipping-post for
the benefit of such men as Butler. If
he could be taken out on the green and
given twenty good sharp lashes, he
would 90 home and be a man. "-Hart-
ford Coatrant.
John Denney, of Whitfield's Cross
ing, Ca, says that his brood of Guinea
chicks disappeared suddenly one day.
The hen acted queerly, walking around
and continually clucking, as if coaxing
them to follow her. He investigated,
and found that the chicks had been
charmed by large chicken snake, and
were sitting unframed in his coils.
The first African city lighted by
electricity was Kimberley, with forty
two lamps, each of two thousand
candle power. The current is also
utilized there for the killing of dogs, a
step suggesting the execution of death
sentences by the same means, as pro-
posed in. America and in France by M.
Charson, a member of the French
Senate.
-Theunicycle record has been beaten
and it is to be hoped that prosperity
will now reign supreme. A unicycle,
however, although a vehicle with but a
single wheel, should not be COMPOUNDED
with the wheelbarrow. wheelbarrow
is good enough for drudgery, but when
so important matter as the breaking
of record is concerned, one is forced
to resort to the unicycle.-BoStOn Tran
script.
The use of thick glass instead of
wood for floors, especially where a
basement room underneath is occupied
for Offices, is on the increase in Paris.
Although the first cost is considerably
more than that of wood, it is found to
be an economy in the long run, because
the room below can often dispense
with artificial light, there is far less fire
risk, and glass will many times outwear
wood.
1t is said that competition is the
life of trade. 1t sometimes makes re J.
Citations A few years ago we were
told here in Chicago that gas could not
be furnished for less than So per thou
sand feet. 1t is now sold on the West
Side for $3.50, and quarrel among
rival companies has recently extorted
the confession from one of them that
it can be furnished at 70 cents per thou
sand and fair profit still be made
CHICAGO AdUOcdte.
The St. Paul Chamber of Com
merce has taken steps to stop the sale
of ice taken from the Mississippi river
or any of its lakes, sloughs or bayous,
an examination of the ice sold at st.
Paul showing that much of it was
frozen sewage, or, as n western paper
expresses it, concentrated typhoid fever.
The use of impure ice is no doubt a
fruitful cause of sickness, and it was in
this belief that the Massachusetts, Leg
islature at its last session passed an act
preventing its sale.
"A Hartford little one was DESTROYS
of obtaining something on the sittin @
room shelf. Its mother said quietly,
but firmly: "You can not have it"
A few moments after the mother left
the room and the little one climbed up
and got the coveted article. 81
thought | told you you couldn't have
it" said her mother as she returned to
the room. Il know it, But you didn' t
say l couldn't get it. The course OF
reasoning was so very acute that the
mother was forced to submit. Hart
ford Post
William Adams, boy of seven
teen, who was sent to the Detroit
House of Correction from Idaho in
1888. having been sentenced to prison
for life for mail robbery, has had his
sentence committed to imprisonment
to seven years from the date of his
first commitment. The boy, who has
been a model convict, broke down
completely when told the good news.
II won't notice the time I've got to
serve" he said. 81 suppose 1 deserve
a good big punishment for being
caught in such bad company. DE
troll Tribune.