The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

ldUely naQ 10 CRAWL on all tours II ulS-
lance of eight miles to the nearest
house.
The experience of failure is one
that comes in greater or less degree to
every one at times, trying the metal and
probing the character as no prosperity
can do.
The Indians call Boston Mess-atsoo-
sec--hence Massachusetts. They who
do not find this satisfactory can fix up
something of their own.-Lo,cell
Courier.
-One-half of the world does not know
how the other half lives. Of course,
this does not hold true in communities
which boast ladies' sewing-circle.-
Boston Transcript.
Baggage may now be checked, ac-
cording to the American plan, from
New York to Liverpool at the rate Of
fifty cents apiece. This includes the
cost of delivery in Liverpool.-M Y.
Sun.
"A medical paper states that the ex-
pense of examining swine's flesh for
trichin@ in Berlin amounts to over
$685. per annum. In the whole of
Prussia 100000 swine were examined,
1000 being found to be trichinous.
Parents who can't give their chill
dren decent names ought not to have
any. The other day young man died
in this city burdened with the name of
Philadelphia Careless, and boy named
Prosperous Crammer was run over by
wagon Thursday. Philadelphia BuIle-
tin.
"A well-dressed lady with her dress
securely fastened by two shawl.pins to
the frock of her little girl, attracted
attention in New York dry goods
store the other day. The careful moth
erwas from the country, and she had
struck upon this plan to keep her
daughter from being drawn away from
her in the crowd.-M Y. Mil.
The sharp flavor of old cheese is
caused by the formation of ammonia
by the decomposition of the casein or
curd which is the nitrogenous part of
the milk. Skim milk cheese is apt to
become more pungent than richer
kinds, in which the fat protects the
casein from decomposition.-M. Y.
Times.
"A colored prisoner in jail wrote
the following letter to his father: dear
Father will ask you if you please get
up the Money to By me out Because
see tina Win find me guilty in spite of
all the lies we can tel first thought
could lie out of this But now don't
think i can get up all the Money you
can if you don't i am gone up. "-C1bic0-
go Times.
The Crusader is the name of
large brig which has been equipped for
carrying oil from Philadelphia to Liv-
erpool in a new way. She has forty
five tanks, which hold 1000 gallons
of oil each. These will be pumped full
in America and emptied on the other
side by large pump run by twenty
horsepower engine with which the ship
is equipped. Philadelphia Press.
Every mechanic should remember
that there is nothing better for burns
and scalds than the white of an egg.
1t is soothing and easily applied. 1t is
the contact with the air which gives
the extreme discomfort experienced
from the ordinary accident of this kind,
and anything that excludes the air and
prevents inflammation is the thing to
be at once applied. Chicago Times.
When man gets ''good andrich,"
as the darkies just over the Delaware
line say, about the first thing he does is
to build big house. Such is the case
with the millionaire electrician of
Cleveland, Charles F. Brush, who has
about finished for himself the finest
house in Ohio. The building, which is
of Amherst buff stone, glorifies the glo-
rious Euclid Avenue up by the lake. 1t
is probable that Mr.. Brush will not
burn t&llow dips in his new house.
CteUel0nd Leader.
An eminent citizen called upon an
physician the other day to con-
suit him about his eyes. They seemed
all right up to three or four days ago."
said the eminent citizen, ''but then |
noticed that the left one was falling"
''Do you wear glasses?n asked the
so, yes" ',Let me see
them" They were passed over and
after a brief inspection the physician
burst into a hearty laugh. "The trouble
is with the left eye, ehP" he queried.
eyes, sir" mo wonder. Look at
your glasses" The left-hand glass had
been lost out.-Detro1 Free Press.
An Eastern paper says there is
only single instance of one man rep
resenting more than one State in the
United States Senate, and he was the
late General Shields. He was first
elected for full term by Illinois, but
declared ineligible because not natur-
allied the necessary period, He was
reelected, admitted and served his
term of six years. Some years there
after he served an unexpired term as
Senator from Minnesota, and his last
official service was very brief term
as Senator from Missouri.
Time out of mind big white stone
at Woodstock, in Talbot, down on the
eastern shore of Maryland, has been
used as carriage block in front of
moss-covered dwelling. The other day
along came a geologist, playing tune
OF Joy upon the stone with his mallet
and astonished the townspeople by
telling them that Agassiz would have
gone into ecstasies over the prize. For,
indeed, as the geologist said, the stone
is piece of white rock picked up by
an iceberg in the Patapsco River and
and carried clear across the Chesa-