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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-16
WOMEN AND POCKETS.
How Our Wives and Sisters Bamp'
Themselves in Little Things.

How Our Wives and Sisters Hamper
Themselves in Little Things.
Why don't women have pockets?
They carry their purses in their hands
and their handkerchiefs in their bod
ices, and they carry little bag about
as big as pint cup on their arms, the
exact use of which has never been de-
fined. There is liberal wholesale
ness about the way a man provides in
the construction Of his dress for his
own wants that is actually refreshing
in comparison with the way women in
convenience themselves. A man has
plenty of pockets. He can carry keys.
A woman is always wondering where
she left or hid hers. When the ex-
igencies of the weather cause him to
have recourse to his "wipe' he puts Il
hand into his breast pocket and hauls
out a liberal square of cambria. A
woman under like circumstances just
shifts, and continues to sniff. When a
man sits down in street-car he waits
till the genie of the bell-punch and
register stands in front Of him, then he
puts his thumb and foreiinger in tiny
pocket in his overcoat and hauls out
his ticket. The woman begins to get
her change ready when the conductor
is at the other end OF the car. She
pulls her bag off her arm, draws it
open, takes out her purse, pulls off her
silk mitten, opens her purse, unclasps
An inner compartment, takes out a
nickel, puts it between her lips-faugh!
snaps the compartment, shuts the
purse, opens her bag and puts away
the purse, and pulls on the mitten
again. And this is a fair sample of the
way women hamper themselves in all
the little things-and life is made up
of them-and then complain of the
disadvantages OF sex. There is moth
ing on earth TO prevent any individual
woman from enjoying innumerable
pockets, loose sleeves, bifurcated under
skirts, short hair, ETC., and all the
other modern feminine improvements.
Chicago Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-16
HISTORY OF SEALS,
Aher Origin and Use on Official Docu-
mems aad Papers.

Aher Origin and Use on Official Docu-
menss AID Papers.
a seal is an impression on wax or
any soft substance made from die of
metal or other material. The stamp
with which the impression is given is
also called seal. Allusion is made in
the Bible to seals. and they are found
In very ancient remains from Egypt,
Assyria and Babylon. The use of the
seal passed from the East to Greece,
and thence to Rome, and has been
common in all the European States.
with most of the ancient nations the
seal was placed in ring, whence
'annulus" came to be a Latin name
Tor seal. The ancient seals were al
ways In circular form, but they APP
peared later in other forms. The de-
vice and form of old seals indicate
partly their periods, so that the study
OF ancient seals is an important branch
OF archaeology. The Egyptians kept
the impression on a kind of clay;
while wax was used by the Greeks and
Romans. The Byzantine Emperors used
an Impression in lead and sometimes
in silver and gold. Colored wakes
were not made till about the ninth
century, and then only emperors and
kings might use red wax. Green wax
was used in medieval times by ecclesi-
astical shouses and by municipali-
t- Bio seals are very rare,
an Charles V. of Germany, is
saie to have been the only European
monarch Who used this color. Certain
Bishops and grand masters of sacred
orders seahd in black. Private persons
commonly 'sed yellow wax. The most
ancient mole of sealing was probably
that of applying the wax directly to
the parchment. When the instrument
was written pon two or more leaves,
an incision WIS made in them in the
form of a cross on which the wax was
stamped, so as to hold all together.
The seal was also sometimes placed on
the ends of strps of parchment run
through the several sheets, this being
almost necessarily the case when the
seals were of metal, Seals were not
much used in England in Anglo-Saxon
times, but they came into general use
after the Norman conquest; Edward
the Confessor, however, first adopted
a great seal for England. About the
thirteenth century sealing became in
England legal formality, necessary
to the authorization of deed. Indeed,
the seal itself served to make the deed
valid without a signature, but in
Charles ii. s time law was passed re-
quiring that certain documents should
also be signed. The old common law
definition of a seal is that given by
Lord Coke as "wax with an impress
sion," but it has long been held that a
wafer or other tenacious substance on
which an impression can be made may
serve the purpose of a seal. In many
of the States of this country neither
"@A' "oloi' hot any otHSt ouooC'ehSe 10
required, a scroll or ring made with
the pen in imitation of the seal or us
marking its place, having all the valid
rSs-Uf the more formal application.
The significance of the seal as now
used in law is that it implies deliber-
ate and fully considered act on the
mart of him who affiXes it.--ChicagC
Inter Ocean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-16
Something Was Lacking.

A woman in the waiting-room of the
Third street depot the other day had a
great deal of trouble with one of her
two children-a boy of seven or eight
and man who sat near her stood it
as long as possible and then observed:
MADAM, that boy of yours needs
the strong hand of father"
Eyes, l know it" she replied, "but
he can't have it. His father died when
he was six years of age, and I've done
my best to get another man and failed.
He can't have what can't get. DE
troit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-16
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Useful Information Which Should Find
Place in the Family Scrap Book.

Useful Information Which Should Find II
Place in the Family Scrap Book.
To clean windows wash them first
with tepid water and a sponge; then
dry them with old linen, and rub them
clean; polish them with newspaper.
TO clean straw mating, wash with a
cloth dipped in salt and water; then
wipe dry at once. This prevents it
from turning yellow.
A room crowded to discomfort with
furniture and ornaments, no matter
how costly, is never restful and homo
like, and always suggests the museum
or the shop.
1t is an essential to health that the
air of the kitchen should be as pure as
that of the parlor, because food pre-
pared in foul air partakes of the foul
ness TO a great extent.
If your black cashmere is much
soiled have it washed. 1t will come
out new. Care must, however. be taken
to have it properly done. The secret
lies in quickly drying and pressing.
If the face seems constantly dry, rub
it with trihe of olive oil every night
for time; if too oily, put little borax
in the water used for bathing.
There is nothing better for cut than
powdered resin. Pound it until fine,
and put it in an empty clean pepper
box with perforated top; then you can
easily sift it out on the cut, and put Il
soft cloth around the injured member,
and wet it with cold water once in a
while. 1t will prevent Inflammation and
soreness.
Shirt bosoms never blister if starched
on the right side. but if they are wrong
side out when starched they are apt to
do so. Pour mixed starch into boiling
water, instead of pouring boiling water
on the starch, in that way never using
more starch than is necessary, as the
simple starch and water can be saved.
For dyspepsia pour one quart of cold
water on two tablespoonfuls of un-
slaked lime, let stand few minutes,
bottle and cork, and when clear it is
ready for use. Put three tablespoon
fuls in a cup of milk, and drink any
time, usually before meals.
The clothes-line ought never to be
tied around iron rails, as is the general
custom, for they soon rust and fray it.
Wooden pins are better.
Many disease germs enter through
an open month. The mouth was not
made for breathing. but for eating and
speaking. The nose was made for
breathing, and air. passing through
the long moist, nasal passage, is puri-
fed, and leaves behind dust, dis
ease germs and various impurities,
while the air is warmed and tempered
for the lungs. But when the mouth is
left open, dust, dirt and disease rush
down into the lungs. and fastening
there, develop and destroy the whole
system.-Boston Budget.
Lime Stacked with solution of
salt in water. and then properly
thinned with skim milk, from which
all the cream has been taken, makes a
permanent whitewash for outdoor
work, and, it is said renders the wood
incombustible. 1t is an excellent wash
for preserving shingles, and for all
farm nupDOGes
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A mile down the water has pres
sure of a ton to the square inch.
Eminent microscopes find that
genuine honey can be readily distin-
guished from manufactured honey by
the microscope, as the former has few
or no sugar crystals.
Our hot-air blast-furnaces date
from an invention of Nelson in 1928;
and the same principle, when applied
in the regenerative gas-lamp, results
in more heat and light, with economy
of fuel
The distribution of bread after it
Is baked now costs the average work.
man in the city as much as it does to
grow the wheat, mill it, barrel it. move
it 1900 miles and convert it into bread,
all put together.
Among the curious facts brought
out at the late Congress on tuberculo-
sis was that persons who have had small
pox are peculiarly liable to tuberculo-
sis. M. Landouzy stated that for this
reasons persons pitted with smallpox
should never be employed around the
tuberculous wards of hospitals.
M Cow, an Italian savant, has
presented paper to the French Acad-
envy of Sciences, in which he claims
for Calico the distinction of having
discovered the microscope as well as
the telescope. He has found a book
printed in 1910, according to which Gal
ileo had already directedh is tube fitted
with lenses to the observation of small
near objects.
"A sea-glass consists of a square
pine box about twenty inches in length
pane of glass about ten by twelve
inches placed in one end, water-tight.
To use it, the glass end is thrust into
the water, and the face of the operator
is placed to the other. By this means,
the wave motion of the water is over
come, and great depth readily seen.
A London jeweler recommends dia-
mond cutting and polishing as an ex-
oellent employment for women, saying
that he believes any woman or girl
with quick intelligence could learn to
polish diamond very fairly in six
months" He says the qualities neces-
sary in this art are great honesty,
good education, quick intelligence,
great patience and good eyesight."
The Russian physician and pub
licist, Portugaloff, declares that strych-
nine in simultaneous injections is an
immediate and infallible remedy for
drunkenness. The craving of the inc
briate for drink is changed into posi-
tive aversion in a day, and after a
treatment of eight or ten days tho
patient may be discharged. Even should
the appetite return months afterward,
the first attempt to resume drinking
will produce such painful and nauseat-
ing sensations that the person will turn
away from the liquor in disgust.
The fact that the elementary SUBJ
stances now number, according to
chemists, full seventy, shows an in
crease within the last fifty years of
nearly one-fourth in the number known.
The size of an atom of oxygen or nitro
gen is said to have diameter of ono
ten-millionth part of a centimeter; they
are supposed to be in state of con-
slant motion, at the rate of seventy
miles minute, and, to make them
visible, the present highest known
magnifying power of the microscope
would have to be increased nearly a
thousand fold.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS,

A Brooklyn man is so modest thai
he never changes his boarding place
until after dark.-Time.
-'lf any one calls for me, =" wrote
the escaped convict to the warder OF
the Jail, tell him l am out and you
don't know when I'll be back.
The records kept in Paris hospi-
tails show that fewer deaths occur be-
tween seven and eleven o'clock in the
evening than during any other four
hours of the day.
On eight of the ballot slips used by
a St. Paul jury recently the word
guilty was variously spelled: Greilty,
gilty, guildy gealty, gealtey, gladly,
guldy, geilSy.
"A jug of cider thirty-two years old
was unearthed in Camden the other
day, and of the twenty men who got a
swallow of the smooth and deceitful
liquid sixteen were made drunk within
ten minutes.
AT church fair in Troy, N. Y,
they blindfold the men and let EN- kiss
the women at fifteen cents piece. One
man kissed his wife seven different
times, and when he ascertained the
base deception he demanded the return
of his money and got it.-Detroit Free
Press.
-Pawnbroking, or the business of
lending money on pawns or pledges,
appears to have originated with the
Italians at a very early period in the
worlds history. The greatest pawn
broking establishment in the world is
the Mont de Piete in Paris, established
by royal command in I'LL.
1t is stated that the smallest steam
engine ever made was recently COM
pleted, after two years of labor, for the
Paris exhibition. 1t is composed of
1870 pieces of metal, is shade under
three-ffths of an inch in heighth, and
weighs less than one-ninth of an ounce.
A matchmaker made it.
"A convict who was lately released
from the Joliet penitentiary after serv-
ing six years sentence, took with
him S531 which he had earned by
.stonecutting as ''overwork. The
man knew nothing about that industry
when he entered the prison, but he
soon became skilled in the work, owing
to the energy with which he entered
into it.
Europe can not compete with the
United States in the loftiness Of her sta
tons for taking meteorological obser-
vations. There are only two stations
on the European continent which reach
any great height, being about 10000
and 900 feet respectively. Among
the stations in America is Pixies Peak,
which has an altitude of IA, 100 feet
or only about 1,600 feet lower than the
summit of Mount Blanc-and exceed
ing by more than 5000 feet any mete-
geological station in Europe.
The New England Farmer recently
published an instructive table of the
number, size and productiveness of the
farms in twenty-siX States. The reve-
lations made by this table are surpris-
ing. The New Jersey farms lead all
the others in the value of their prod
ucts per acre, it being $10.26; and the
Dakota farms rank the lowest in that
respect, they yielding an average value
per acre of $1.5S. New York comes
third, and singularly enough, Connect
icut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts
follow in successive order. But West
ern farms are so large, and so easily
worked, that the gross results satisfy
their owners hugely.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-16
HAVE YOU A MOTHER?
If So, Do All In Your Power to Cheer Her
Declining Years.


Have you mother? If so, honor
and love her. If she is aged, do all in
your power to cheer her declining
years. Her hair may have bleached.
her eyes may have dimmed, her brow
may contain deep and unsightly fur
rows, her cheeks may be sunken; but
you should never forget the holy love
and tender care she has had for you.
In years gone by she has kissed away
from your cheek the troubled tear; she
has soOthed and petted you when all
else appeared against you; she has
watched over and nursed you with a
tender care known only to Il mother;
she has sympathized with you in ad-
versity; she has been proud of your
success. You may be despised by all
around you, yet that loving mother
stands as an apologist for all your
shortcomings. With all that disinter-
ested affection, would it not be migrate
full in you, if in her declining years
you failed to reciprocate her love and
honor her as your best, tried friend?
We have no respect for q man or woman
who neglects an aged mother. If you
have mother love her, and do all in
your power to make her happy.
tian at Work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-22
REGATTA IN NEWBURG BAY.

Newburg n. Y, Sept. 81 (SpeciaD.-The autumn
regatta of the Newburg Canoe and Boating Association
took place this afternoon In Newburg Bay. Tho ten
mile race for mansail yachts over course from
tho clubhouse at the foot Of Third-st north to a
buoy of Low Point, and south again to buoy of
Dennng's Point and thence back to the clubhouse.
It had for entries Beggs Moore's Dolphin, William
L. Hlton's Flight, d. f. Linderburgh's The swedc'
John Meals Nabob, Oscar Wlbur's Jessie and r.
Fvanss No Name The for the thTeemle race for
sailing canoes and cruisers triangular and begun
and ended off the clubhouse. The entries were ~ D.
smiths Mabel, Harry f. Shaws Bub, j. ~ Leonard
Nerld Commodore James I. Van Dalfsen's Rambler.
Frederick b. Smiths SIS, Harry a. Marvefs Whim'
Grant f. Edgar, ir.s Rat and Alfred kane's Ddo
The hafmilo traIghtaway single padding race for
canoes had for starters the Sis, Whlm and Rat. Inc
tandem padding canoe-race the same course mad
n S. and r b. smith in the Pixie, and Harry y.
Marvel and W. J. Leghon in the Whim. The rowing
contest for doubles comprised the following entries :
LeghoPn and Marvel, Johnston and Waring shaw ana
low F. b. Smith and McCluns. In each race a
handsome prize was offered, the best ever given by
the association. Hilton's Flight won the tenmile
yacht-race In mr. 80 min. - sec
the Dolphin taking second prize. n. s. Smiths Mab'
captured first prize I'm the canoe and cruiser sailing
race and Commodore Van Dalfscn'S Rambler landed
second time not given. T. b. Smith won the canoe
and Shaw and Low won the double scull race IN min
sec, Leghom and Marvel being good second. Ntei
the luncheon served at the clubhouse, ana
tonight there was dancing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-22
CANES IN OTHER CITIES.

Indianapolis, Sept 21.-Pittsburg today knocked
Cctzein ont Of the box in the second inning when
they punched six hits four Of them twO-bagsers and
one a home run. They were unable to do anything
with Fee s0wders retired after the seventh and
fired In the sixth. II lstlcSs game throughout
Weather cold. Attendance 1900. The score was
this:
P aSIanag9' So. , 8 9 9 . 9 S-S
Baschits-Indlaaapos ., PttsLurg - Errors--Inda;
napols Ptteburg T. Pitchers-Getzcn. Fec Saley and
sowdefs. Ump.le-McQuade.
Chicago. sept. 2l.-Cleyeland played hard uphill
game today. but not quite fast enough to win
Dwycr wa, very effective mp to the sixth, but after
that tie Spiders hit him hard. Van Harcns and
Surl.nc- work in their POSITIONS Werc thr features
1f the game. Attendance 1000. The score was a.
annexed:
elsyslsaA ....~~Y. Q Q Q 0 3 3 o.!
Basehits-Clevela1d H. Chicago 10 Errors-C 'eveland
B. Chicago ). P,tchers-Beatn AMI Dwyes. UmDIn-
Lynch.
kan.a, City. Sept cl.-LouisvIlle assisted the Cow
boy. ON their slide toward The last place by defeating
them today in a hard hitting game 5wartzoll was
a snap for the visitors. and especially Tor eaver,
who hit safely ev.ry time at the bat including triple
when the base, full. The home teen helded
perfectly but could not bit Ehet effectively The
was:
E Ea9,Ss Gl'y -. 3 Q . d& Q IL
Ba.ehlts-Kan.as City o. Louisville II. ErrQs-Kan
sas City o, Loui Vile 4. Ptchefs-Swatbel and Ehret
Unpre-G0ldmlth
baltimore sept. 2l.-Bsltlmore and the Athletics had
sluggDg contest to-day, in which the visitors came
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-22
OIrARTERSTRETCH NOTES.

Finnepan weighed out to Tide Il" SAM Bryants
Come-to-Taw in the fourth race. and the bookmakers
were not aware that Garrison was TO have the mount
iii his name went up on the telegraph board Bet
ting on the race had been going on for some ten
minutes when the change Of jockeys made in
the ling The only Burton laid 40 TO 1 against
Come-to-Taw. and was nearly pushed of his box
by eager hackers who knew that Garrison was up.
II Is said that The old man" lost over 10000 on
the
President Dryer took the stump in order TO ex-
nlaln TO few hundred doubters how
Badge lost the second 1t was the general i'm
preston that Badge in the last stride by head
or a neck Mr.. Dwyer showed that the little colt
swerved at the finish, but for which he undoubtedly
would have won. Mr. Roche one of Badges owners,
stood on line with the finish and when Mr.. Dwyer
asked him who won he replied without moments
hesitation, "Strideaway.'
Caldwell-the colt not the scarborough to be
put in the rogues' gallery with Larchmont Eoan and
Connemara He can outsulk the sulldest of them.
Arst-rate hustng, with keen whip and sharp
pair Of spurs, might do him good. He wants Hamilton
on his back, with orders to ride him out.
The New-Jesey racing associations have agreed
on dates for their October and November meetings.
The NewJersey Jockey Club, the organization of which
the Dryers are the chief promoters, Will race on
October 10, H. IL, 10, 81 and %
The Linden Park Association Will follow on October
%. "a, %, O. o5 and 90. Then the Dryers will
have another inning october 80 and 81 and Novem-
Der l. p and 3. with two days to spare, TO be fol
lowed by the Linden Park people on November 6, Z.
g. 8, IL and u, also with two days to spare Spring
racing az these tracks VIII begin on April ID and
end on May Ia superintendent Brush said yester-
day that while his track would not be complete in
every detail hv October l3. it would be ready for
racing The bookmakers are fighting hard against
mut,ials at the new tracks. As usual they want 10
monopollze the betting and DO away with all conpe-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-22
BOSTON JOCKEY CLUB RACES.

Boston, Sept. II (specIal-A crowd of fashionable
people attended the running races Of the Boston
Jockey Club at Franklin Park, Saugus, to-day. The
County Club had large contingent present, ana 80
had the Athletic Club. The Town Club went down
on a tally-hO In great style. The most picturesque
place about the park was probably the booknakers
tent. There at least fifty books mostly backed
by New York firms, and they all doing rushing
business. Every firm had Its sign up and there was
q blackboard giving the odds each race \ good
deal Of money that meant for the stallion race
found In way into the New-lork books before the
stated and az the Intervals between them
Tho tent and It's ncishuorloOd were crowded. For
Tie first lace before the start Romp. NctrX and
l1agcoet wol thought Of with little odds against
either. For the second Lady Pi1sifer was the
iavorlte, with Iceberg for place satisfaction had
the odds for the third race, with
Carrie c. ard Little Jack on even terms for
place Torhghi Marie LOven and Memory found
hackers for the fourth race and In the hurdle race
Yesterdays winner stanford, lad the most friends.
The fst race, thrCe1quart'is Of mile, was Won
by ROmp. Alfred T.. second and FlagcOlrt third.
I imc-l IL L.. The second race. mile and
furlong. was won by Lady Pulsfer Iceberg second.
aud Reward third Time .0O. The third race for
a purse Of $500, mile won by Mala, Key
stone second. and Carrie G.. third. Time 80 "a
The fourth race. seven furlOnp for all ages. won
by Ca ifOrnii POmnery Soc second aud Bay Ridge
third Time-l 80 ID.