The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-01-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

quietness of the town must be pre-
served.
The thermometer has shown but
forty-eight degrees in Greenland thus
far this winter, and the inhabitants
talk of advertising the country as
Florida resort for invalids.
First Arcola Man-"What is your
opinion of Anarchy" Second Arcola
Man-"It's just the thing Tn base
ball player. and rub myself with it
every night to take out the soreness"
-ArcoIa Record.
Some one asks: docs it pay to
be good?" Perhaps our evidence IN
the matter will not be taken. and so we
shall not answer the question directly,
but we VIII say that is good to be paid.
-Lo,oeU Citizen.
When lady enters crowded
street car she should not rush for the
front end at once. as she invariably
does, but turn and look at the men on
the end Of the seats. They get them
because they know they are safe.
Pa, " said little Johnny, teacher
is thinking about promoting me. I"
"How do you knowP" "From what she
said to-day" "And what was thatP"
"She said that if kept on I'd belong
to the criminal class. n-Mcrchant Trav-
eler.
A Yankee Captain was caught In
the jaws of whale, but was finally
rescued, badly wounded. On being
asked what he thought while in that
position, he replied 81 thought he
would make about forty barrels. -
Exchange.
"A grocer at Lafayette, Ind, stored
twenty-five tons of groceries on floor
made to hold up fifteen tons, and was
the most surprised man in town when
everything gave way with crash
He had never figured on pressure and
resistance.
dress" said Bagley. with all the
force of an original idea, does not
make a man." No" replied POM
PIANO, gloomily, as he fingered his wife 8
dressmaker's bill he had just received,
"but it often breaks a man. "-PhiladcL
pisa Call.
"A fatal mistake: Jennie,
why do you snub that little girl with
whom you were formerly so friendlyP"
Jennie-"She is mad at me-" why
is she mad atyouP" Because | forgot
one day, and said she was an old friend
of mine, "-T'eros Sittings.
What is the price of that tea?"
she asked of the guileless grocer. zone
dollar mart, marm," was the response.
as not that too steep?' was the next
question, and the G. replied: eyes,
marin, that's what they do with it. -
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
-'Zedekiah, saw YOU coming out
of that saloon on the corner, this after
noon," said woman to her husband.
She spoke with chilling severity, but
Zedekiah rallied, and exclaimed, with
an air of innocent surprise: well, my
dear, you wouldn't have your husband
staying in a saloon all day, would
you"-M Y Ledger.
No, it isn't so much the confine-
ment and hard labor that l regret, :"
sadly said the bank embezzer who had
just been sentenced to a term of years
in the penitentiary; 'it is the breaking
up Of all my cherished church associa-
tons of the last fifteen years. That is
hard to bear-very hard. ~ Chicago
Tribune.
do you intend to try housekeep-
ing?" asked one travelling man of an
other as they were discussing their
plans. 30. yes, will try it. We've
got the place. and there are only fif-
teen or twenty payments due and a
couple of outside mortgages on it, but
we shall nevertheless do our best to
keep the house. "-Nerchant TaaUcler.
The Dignity of Art: He-"Are you
doing any painting now, Miss Glaize?"
She-''No, I'm not painting; I'm work
ing in pastel" He-"Pastel? What
that?" She-"O, colored chalks, you
know; the best effects are got with the
tip of the finger" Hc-"O. l know;
I've seen the men doing it on the pave
ments. Awfully jolly r'-Fun.
The earthquake of last year left
deep pits in the land between Charles
ton and Summervile, and on the mar
gins of these was white sand, such as
is seldom found except near the sea-
shore. On this sand has sprung up a
dense growth of sea-weeds, and it is
conjectured that the seeds whence
sprung this growth had been buried at
a great depth for many centuries.
The deepest coal mine in America
is in Pottsville, Pa. The shaft is 1876
feet deep. From its bottom, almost a
third of a mile down, 200 cars. holding
four tons each, are lifted every day.
They are run upon u platform, and the
whole weight of six tons is hoisted at a
speed that makes the head swim, the
time occupied in shifting full car be-
ing only Il little more than II minute.
The BOOSTING and lowering of men into
coal mines is regulated by law in that
State, and only ten can stand on Il
platform at once, under penalty Of a
lpovv fino