The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-08-17
MISCELLANEOUS,

years.
-''Well, what you wearin' glasses
fur, Mr.. Johnsing?" Fur my eyes.
Niger; did you s'pose 1 wuz wearin'
'em fur de collie. Once Week.
Education without experience is of
about as much use to man as lace
petticoat would be to the wife of an
Eskimo fisherman. Boston Courier
-Eiffel is said to have gained the
first idea of the tower which bears his
name from sitting behind an American
woman in an American theater.-Life
"A stingy man of Burlington, VT,
drew up some valuable papers and
used ink of his own make to save ex-
pense. The other day he found that
the writing had all faded out, involv-
ing him in a loss of $1,000.
-Droughts are not so great calam-
ity, reasons the New Orleans Picayune,
as poor farming and poor land. An
ordinary drought would hardly be no.
ticed if all farms were skillfully man
aged on the intensive plan.
1t is said that Cullman County,
Ala, is the only level arabic and fer
tile tract of land in the Southern States
in which there are virtually no negroes.
] In a census population of more than
| $4,000, including an area of over l 500
square miles, there are only fourteen
negroes.
Recently negro woman near Gen.
terville, Wilkes County, Georgia, hav-
ing her young baby in her lap at
church, got to shouting and pounding
her child. She beat it so severely that
several of it's ribs were broken and the
child died in few days from the
injuries.
The Italian laborers Of New York
are said to be largely given to the
| quatfing of sarsaparilla and other light
Notwithstanding beverages in the sum-
mer season. Comparatively few of
them indulge in beer or other alcoholic
| liquors while at work.
Not long since resident of Una
dilla, in Dooly County, Ca, heard a
chicken squalling in his yard, and
WClU OuU w oCO W lloG was CLt IldlUeF.
He found large toad-frog attached to
the wing Of the chicken, trying to swal-
low an object twice as large as himself
He had to kill the frog to get him loose.
The number of locomotives in the
United States, says railway authority,
is now over 10000, to which Canada
and Mexico can add about 1890,
making the total number on the North
American continent not far from 80, 800.
| The average number of locomotives
| per mile of road in the United States is
about ga.
-Visitor-"You say tt is ruined cas-
tie is haunted?" Guid> -"Undoubt-
edly. The specter can be seen almost
every night" 1T is probably the
| ghost of some robbers mo, it is the
\ ghost of an actor, who neglected while
living to have himself photographed in
his favorite role, and who consequently
can not rest in his grave. German
Fun.
An Iron ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
an extraordinary nerve one of the
passengers in that railroad smashup
displayed" Foggs-"Yes, and he has
displayed nerve more extraordinary
still since then" Boggs-'In what
wayP" Foggs-"Why, by suing the
company for $4,000 damages for the
injury to his leg, which happens to be
cork. drake Magazine.
An Albany youth. whose life in a
clearinghouse was made miserable by
the constant playing upon an asthmatic
piano, procured hose, attached it to
the cold water faucet in the wash
room, carried the other end into the
parlor, and turned the water upon the
fair performer. The effect surpassed
his expectations, for the playing was
not only stopped, but the wires of the
instrument became rusted from the
flood poured in upon them, rendering
an outlay of $50 for repairs needful.
"A leading Presbyterian minister of
Chattanooga, states that on the top of
White Mountain, in Western North
Carolina, are three trees of the cachoin
species growing close together and
each being about a foot in diameter and
about fifteen feet in height. The top
of the trees is about twenty feet in di-
ameter and perfectly fiat, being so
| completely interviewer that number
| of persons can walk on them with ease.
Twelve persons can lie down on the
top of the trees without danger of fall
ing. Indeed. so close are these tops
that holes had to be cut in the middle
for persons to get on top.
\ Americans are gradually being
lsseognized as the greatest yachting
people in the world. Nowhere else
can one find SO much enthusiasm and
Interest over yacht race as here, and
what is more significant, this is the
only country in the world where the
masses have any idea of the details of
sailing and the maneuvers of yachts in
a race. The yacht-race reports in the
great daily papers OF the United States,
which are read Understandings and
With great interest here, would be
Greek to the average newspaper reader
on the other side of the water.
&c al