The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

d.. Di"hind men belonging TO a
Ds.',more man has distinguished her
sen oy laying an egg that was about
INC size OF a cherry and weighed only
seventy-one grains.
norwich has man who says the
bridge across the Thames at New
LONDON is to be the biggest kind of a
Driuse' He has examined the plans
ana he declares that it will have five
spasms. "-Norwich (Ct. J Bulletin
AN escaping defaulter, who was
heia up on his journey by train-robbers
ana relieved of his hard-won pile, COM
piaihs that professional courtesy is dead
IN thls brutal, grasping, modern world.
Puck.
There are people in this world so
constituted that they would not think
themselves paragons of virtue because
ule Statute of limitations forbade their
pelng tried for grand larceny.-PhiEa-
deLpha Inquirer.
Henry Shaw, the venerable st.
Louis philanthropist, who gave the
Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower
GroVe Park to the public, has donated
nine acres of ground near the park to
washington University for base ball
and other athletic sports.
-ASt. Paul baby fell from second
stoywindow, alighting on an awning.
s1ssSctf it bounced off and fell on the
shoulders of a gentleman who was
passing and who caught it in his arms.
The geitleman's plug hat was ruined,
but the paby wasn't hurt in the least.
Yong man getting off street carr
there's my fare, conductor; you for
got to ak me for it." Passenger
"Who is tat young man who just got
got off, onductor. - Conductor-'1
never saw him before; some crank, !
guess. 1t akes all sorts of people, sir,
to make upthe world"
Mrs. Fnnigan-.'He's no better,
doctor. Yol towld me to give him as
much of the powder as would lay on
sixpince. hadn't sixpince. but ]
gave him as nuch as would 90 on five
pinnies an two halfpinnies, and it's
done him Nd good at all, at all. -
Fanny Folks
-Schomarn (cordially)-"Tm the
advance agent for the great and only
show on cath. We strike your town
next week. Here's a couple of passes;
take it in" Hotel clerk (coldly)-
"Any baggage?" Schomann dubious
l)-"No," Hotel clerk (briehy)-
1.-TWO dollars please"
In Turkey, when a man tells
falsehood the authorities paint the
front of his house black. If that GUS
tom reigned in the United States, dur
ing Presidential campaign every
newspaper office in the country would
look like stationary thunder-cloud.-
1a'ate'S Magazine.
IA man in Pawtucket lately made
Publication for insurance on building
tuhted in a village where there was
Ire engine. In answer to the ques-
N, "What are the facilities for ex-
81 Fishing fires?" he wrote, at rains
"a ipes."
4 AnNndian jungle is not forest.
Ill uncultivated or waste lands in In
la are called 'jungles." Forests are
&arce in that country. The mount
ANS jungles,' where the tiger has his
home, and from which he comes down
to carry off people or domestic animals,
have no trees other than low scattered
bushes and rocks.
AT Indianapolis, as gentleman
was walking along the street, accom-
panied by two young ladies, one of the
girls stepped on a parlor match and in
an instant the dresses of both were
ablaze from head to foot. BY prompt
action on the part of the gentlemen the
flames were smothered before the young
ladies were seriously burned.
The train had run into a snowdrift
and the engine was butting its head in
rage against a six-foot bank. "For
once the iron horse appears to be
beaten" remarked a fat woman in a
second class carriage. "You shouldn't
call it an iron horse" mildly reproved
a solemn-faced man. "Why not?"
asked the ia; woman in some surprise.
because its block tin" softly MUIR
INJURED the solemn-faced man, as he
gazed out Of the window and across
the wintrywaste with a PARKWAY look
in his eve. -E7lgLjsh Mn1nzine.