The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

A cynical Englishman who mas
been spending some time IN New lorh
CITY, saws that half the citizens are non
est and reputable people, and the o'hei
half are politicians.
"A Brooklyn young woman mas a
beautiful and most curious table cover
in stripes of white and golden brown.
1t is woven of the shorn hair OF her d.
Bernard dog.
The man who can make $40, 0Oo a
year as a general thing can't save a
cent, while the man who is thrifty and
wise is seldom so gifted that he can
earn any thing at ALL
"A stick of timber Isl feet long ana
twenty inches square, believed to De
the largest piece ever turned out from
any sawmill, has been sent from Puget
Sound to an exhibition in San Fran
cisco.
The highest recorded balloon ascent
was by Glaisher and Coxwell rom
Wolverhampton, England. on Sepitem.,
Der 5, 1862. They rose to the height OF
seven miles. According to Glaisher, in
$500 balloon ascensions only fifteen
deaths have occurred.
Animal food occasionally, for
young or old fowls seems indispensable.
Beef cracklings are excellent and some
thing that most every one can obtain.
Cracklings and corn meal made inn a
dough and baked. IS good feed I'll
old and young birds. NJ
"A negro couple of Atlanta, Mo
desired very private wedding. called
up the Justice at midnight and had the
ceremony performed then. They de-
clared they were too bashful to 90
through the ceremony when everybody
was around to see or hear.
-Citizen-'Tm surprised that you
have become such careful driver
Jake. You used to be the most reck-
less teamster on the streets. You ran
into half dozen different carriages to
my certain knowledge" Teamster-
Pm drivin' mighty light wagon,
now, an it's me own. Omaha World.
MIR. Brown, you have charged me
two dollars for cleaning my gloves,
and Miss Jones says she only paid you
fifty cents" True, Miss, but your
gloves are so small that l was obliged
to take extra trouble to prevent them
being lost through the spout of my
steaming kettle" She paid, of course.
Visitor Ito convicD-'I pose they
treat you well here, my friend?" Con-
vict-"Yes, sir; have no complaints
to make; but there is one thing don't
like. Every Sunday mornin' in the
chapel they set me next to one of these
ere shoutin' Methodists, an faint
pleasant for man what was born an
brought up 'Piscopalian. life.
-"Is it true, Mr.. Featherly," in
quired Bobby, ''that the homeliest men
get the handsomest wives?" Il be-
lieve there is an old saying to that eff
feet, Bobby. Why?" 81 heard ma
say so to sister Clara last night, and
Clara said that you ought to marry
one of the loveliest women in the
world. "-Harper'S Bazar.
Editor 0o intellectual looking
young MANI, mo poetry this mssstsasss,
my friend. We're full of it," Young
man (handing him manuscript 1T:
not poetry, sirs; it's prose, Editor
Cooking at the manuscript HIM
yes-gas, one month, seven-fifty. Just
leave it, please, and I'll read it at my
leisure. "-Tid- Bits.
1t is reported that the once unpro.
ductive Eastern Shore of MARYLAND,
comprising Northampton and Accomac
Counties, has been rendered so fertile
by the use of pine skaters" THE
leaves and cones of pine trees-that
the farmers of the section are growing
rich. A farmer who has made money
out of pine skaters" says: They are
rich in carbon, and when the fermenta-
ton or oxidation takes place, motion
follows, humic and other acids are
formed, mineral matter is acted upon.
chemical changes take place, and the
land is changed from a dead mass Of
sand and clay to an active, fertile soil,
bringing in motion the latent elements
that are often there