The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

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AT Pensacola, Fla, mustang thss
was abused by its driver rushed into tho
water and held its head beneath the SUI
face until it was drowned.
The rising generation is full of sur
prises for its elders. A class of boysin
Massachusetts Sunday-school with
drew because its appointed teacher was
"scab" workman.
Silk thread is soaked in acetateof
lead to increase its weight, and persons
who pass it through the mouth in threat.
ing needles have suffered from lead
poisoning.
The Chinese titles for California rail-
way stations are many of them striking
if not intelligble. Lamanda Park is for
them Lemon Park; Azusa is transforms
into Swisha; San Bernardino in the
Monaghan pidgin vernacular becomes
Sa' Bedino and so on.
Maine men are proverbially sharp
After lot of dickering, says the Bel
fast Journal, peddler told hoBe
jockey in that neighborhood that ie
would give him SIS and ten bushelsof
CLANS for a horse. The offer was &C.
cepted-and then the peddler told be
jockey that he'd have to go to the fats
and dig the clans himself
"A business man in Chicago sentogSs :
10000 circulars and on each was priBS
the request to tear off and return to him
slip pasted on the left hand upper
corner. There was second slip pasted
on the lower right-hand corner, and 10
out of every 20 who returned slip at
all took pains to detach the wrong one.
What has become of the little gold
dollar? An official of the Philadelphia
mint says that only about five thousand
of them are coined for monetary circula-
ton and that they are mostly used for
ornamental purposes. The gold dollar
is too small to be adesirable pocket piece
and it is very seldom one is seen in bust
ness transactions.
Hemp can be easily grown in nearly
all sections of this country, but the OBJ
stacle to it's successful cultivation is the
labor of preparing it for market. There
is wide field for inventive genius in
devising appropriate machinery for spec
tally treating hemp and other fibrous
plants which demand more labor than
can be profitably bestowed on them.
The postal card, called in England
''post-card,' and on the continent ''cor-
respondence card" celebrated its TWEEN
tieth birthday recently. Prussia sug-
gested it four years earlier, but Austria
began it. America took it up in 1878,
and by 1878 its use was universal. Dur
ing the Franco-German war they were
issued free to the German soldiers in the
field and sold five for cent to the fami-
lies at home.
Tho Chinese have political saying
which is worthy the reading even Of
American statesmen. 1t is as follows:
When is the Empire well governed, and
affairs go as they should go? When
swords are rusty and spades are bright;
when prisons are empty and grain-bins
filed: when the law courts are lonely
and o'ergrown with grass; when doctors
walk and bakers ride, it is then that
things go -th~y onel,A,-~nA the StadtsS
is we'll ruled.-Youth's Companion.
This is pen-and-ink sketch of am
American girl, as given in an English
comic paper: ''Baron Won Smallpumps
Titles, wealth, position-all these /
offer. Why, then, loveliest of Amelias,
will you not be mine?' Miss Wander
tromp-'Why, Barn, I'm ready to marry
one-half of We tormorrer, for them feet
of yourn are just lovely. But, as things
stand, I've got to take your head into
the bargain, and l cayn't bring myself
to swaller that nohow.'"
"A citizen of Eatonton, Ga, smokes
about twelve pounds Of tobacco yearly
in pipe that he declares is over two
hundred years old. This leads mathe-
NAUTICAL person to calculate that if that
were the average amount used in the
pipe since its first day, 2,40O pounds of
the weed have been burned in it's bowl
and if the first $12 had been put out at
compound interest at the rate of ten per
cent. it would now have grown to the
sum of S1,755, 443.200. just how this
would have benefited the first owner of
the pipe does not appear.
"A Scranton man who had observed a
butcher bird carrying off humble bees
and sparrows, finally traced the bird to
large thorn bush hard by the river
bank, nearly half a mile away. Impaled
on the sharp thorns he found thirteen
beetles, eight humble bees, five shriv-
eled mice, and the skeletons of seven
English sparrows. While he was max
ing this interesting discovery of the
butcher birds nice and accurate work,
the master of the bush suddenly ap-
peared, circled about the spot number
of times, piped spitefully at the intruder,
and seemed to be greatly afraid that a
man was going to disturb its choice and
neatly arranged collection of things,
The question of who can be given the
title of colonel with propriety in Keh-7
lucky has at last been settled by COM
petent authority. By the latest rule
every man who conducts large distil-
lery is ipso facto colonel. Every promi-
nent railroad official is also a colonel
Every Congressman is colonel. Every
man with a government office is a
colonel. Every great editor is colonel
The chief of the police department is de
facto colonel. Then there are other gem
tlemen who are colonies because no other
title fits them. If man has been cap
tain in the war, never call him captain;
I call him colonel. He is entitled to this
promotion twenty-four years after the