The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-11-06
MISCELLANEO

ble his companions dug hole in the
ground and placed both legs in it up
to the hips, packing the mud securely
around him. The poison was extracted
and the boy is nowwell.
News travels slowly in France.
The French Consul at Philadelphia re-
ceives something like half dozen let
tiers week from French people who
claim to be relatives of old Stephen
Girard, asking whether it is true or not
that he is dead and has left large
une.-Sprtnqfeid (MasS.J Union.
Captain Jack, of Mount Airy, N. j.,
rests his claim to everlasting fame up
on the fact that he has frequently eaten
one hundred oysters at a single sitting.
There is room for suspicion that in
transmission of this important fact a
syllable has been dropped from the
gallant Captains name.-N. Y Mail.
The young woman referred to as
Miss Senkrah in a recent article on
List in the Century is said to be Miss
Harkness-Senkrah read backward
of Boston, who has during thirteen
years in Europe accomplished so much
with the violin that she is called ''the
violin fairy" List took such an in
terest in her that he accompanied her
on the piano, which was supposed to
be a tremendous honor.
"A middle-aged German farmer Wis
tied Rondout. N. Y, the other day in
search of wife. A young man offered
to conduct him to the right woman for
thirteen dollars. The offer was ac-
cepted, the woman proved acceptable
and willing, and marriage cere-
mOny" was performed by the two
jumping over a broomstick. The
farmer took his easily-won bride to his
home in Duchess County. Troy Times
Charlotte Thompson was recently
playing Jane Eyre" to very slender
houses in Buffalo, and could not under
stand the reason until told that the
people of that city were so Jealous of
the city of Rochester that they could
not stand the fact that the principal
male character was called Lord
Rochester. A placard was immedi-
ately prepared announcing that the
character would be named Lord Buff
falo. The story goes that there was
standing room only at the next per-
formance.-ErchGpge.
"A California newspaper says that
the jolliest sport among juvenile Re-
NOTES is fighting ants. They scrape up
a shovelful of these busy insects from
one colony and carry them to the
next nearest colony, dumping them to-
gether. The result is Immediately a
pitched battle, which is fought most
viciously, the little warriors literally
tearing each other to pieces, until the
last of the interlopers is dead They
fight in pairs, or in threes, tours and
punches, as it happens to come handiest,
but it is always flight to finish" and
no quarter asked or shown.
In the recent changes made in our
horse railroads, a Hibernian conductor
was given route considerably longer
than the one he was accustomed to
and extending into a territory with
which he was not familiar Unfor-
tunately his first trip under the new
arrangement was made at dusk, and
when he arrived at the terminus of the
old route he thrust his head into the
car and exclaimed: fanny av yez as
wants to get out beyant will kape yer
eyes paled. Divil another sthrate do
know barrin' the one we've Just
passed. Boston Commercial Bulletin
Mrs. Wiggers-'tDear me! What
do you meanP This stuff you have
bought for my new dress is not a bit
like the sample | gave you. Why, it's
miserably poor-don't believe it cost
n -, Al
1 selected was 49," Mr. Wiggers
"Well, that was the best / could do.
You see, Mr.. Blank, the only man clerk
in that store, hadn't any thing like your
sample in his department" ''Of course
not but what has that to do with it?"
"'Well, all the girls in the other depart
ments looked so pretty and sweet that
l thought as married man ought to
keep away from them" 80, well,
never mind, dear, I'll wear it. - Omaha
World.
An item having appeared in sew
eral Western papers to the effect that
-'wheat is the only crop which can be
produced in Southern California with
out irrigation" the Daily San Diegon
enters an indignant protest, and asks
that this piece of unintentional misin-
formation be corrected. That paper
states that "wheat is only one of
the many cereals raised in Southern
CALIFORNIA. Corn, oats, rye and barley
are among the products of our rich soil.
raised in large quantities without any
irrigation other that which the ground
receives during the fall and spring rains
Vegetables of all kinds and many varie-
ties of fruits, including grapes, are pro-
duced in the same manner"
Among the funny feminine fash
IONS of the season is that of the little
bonnet which one so often sees
contrasted against an enor-
nous edifce of hat" says the Boston
Beacon. "This peculiar creation, with
its two concave segments descending
over the posterior lobes of the brain,
and its apex rising pointedly upward,
may be ravishingly delightful to the
female mind and may, from certain
points of view, seem not unbecoming;
but to the ordinary masculine eye it
looks as if the wearer's head were
firmly held in the clutch of vast and
vehement, even though wildly ornate,
clam-shell."
The use of the Suez Canal in
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