The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-12-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

| "A man OF van WerC county, On1O,
on bet wheeled barrow containing
i $50 cats three miles through a muddy
country road.
i The revolution in Brazil will make
coffee scarce, but the abundant Glove
crop will serve to help out between the
| acts.-Boston Herald.
-Notincluding Alaska, Brazil is larger
in extent than the United States; it pos
sesses within its limits an area of 3,2S7,-
964 square miles, with a population of
II, 1873, 275.
collectors of insects who remember
back of the introduction of the English
sparrow say that caterpillars are very
decidedly rarer where the English spar
row is than they were before his advent,
and this every year.
"A Manchester IN. Y. girl telephoned
to her fathers Office asking if her dog
was there. Curley was there, and his
mistress asked the man to hold him up
to the telephone. She whistled and
| spoke, and told him to come home. Cur
ley prickcd up his ears, and as soon as
he was placed on the floor started for
home.
"A school for the thorough instruc-
ton of nurses in tho care of babies is to
be established in New York, in connec-
ton with the Babies Hospital there.
! The Herald states that there is no
school Of the kind either in this coun-
try or in England, the only one in ex-
istence being in Germany.
-"You are great friend. Here it is
three days that you have known that
DR.. y. had proposed to Resale, and you
told me nothing. know that he con-
hded his secret to you" 'Secret! l
thought everybody knew it. If l had
suspected it was secret l should have
told you at once."-Fliegende Batter.
"A peculiar trade was made at Woos-
ster, Ohio, the other day. The articles
exchanged were red-hot stoves, and they
were moved while full of fiery Goals.
Tho city eXpressmen agreed to swap the
stove in their Office for one in the office
II. Harsh, nearly half block away.
Inc offer was accepted, and both stoves
were moved while red-hot. The trans
fer attracted a number of interested
| spectators.
Managing editor enters humorist's
room. Humorist, showing back his chair,
says: Il was just thinking what great
difference there is between humorists."
YES the managing editor replies.
quite difference Now" the hui
morist continues, ''Artemus Ward used
to chuckle, yes, even laugh over his own
jokes. am of a different temperament.
/ never laugh at my jokes" Neither
does any one else" says the managing
editor.-Arkansaw Traveller.
Whether the Norsemen really dis
covered and settled New England in the
eleventh century or not. Professor Eben
Norton Hosford, of Cambridge, will
have it so. He has just erected at his
own expense a massive tower at Walt
ham, Mass, to mark what he believes is
! without doubt the site of the ancient
city of Norumbega. This old strong
hold the professor located as the place
/ where the Norsemen stayed for long
time before they abandoned it on account
| OF the hostility of the 'Skraelings," as
the natives of the region are called in
the old sagas.
| In an address to a workingmen's Or
ganization, Mr.. Gladstone said recently:
! 1T was not eXtravagant to say that. al
though there were but =, 900. 600 people in
| the thirteen American colonies at the
time of the American revolt, yet from
among those 100000 of people there
proceeded at that epoch a group of states
men that might defy the whole history
of the world to beat them in any one
State and at any period of time. Such
| were the consequences of well regula-
ted and a masculine freedom
The coal gas at last came to be so
pressing in its attentions to the dampcr
that the damper turned on it and cast it
off. This was followed by a GOODNESS
between the damper and the register, a
friend of the gas. On the other hand
the coal fire, although it had introduced
the gas to the damper, beamed on the
latter, and pressed its own SCOT. The
stove, to whose embraces the coal fire
had long submitted, growing warmer
the closer they were, did not breathe
easy at this, and the cinders showed
sympathy for the stove. At this the
CRATE, between which and the cinders
there had long been warm attachment,
became agitated and turned ashy. This
agitation increased, and ended in the
CRATE giving the cinders the shake
Puck.
-Fogg entered the car, to find every
seat occupied and the aisle filled with
standees. But he was equal to the occa-
sion. He shouted, with the voice of one
having authority, PLENTY of seats in
the next car" Instantly there was a
rush for the next car. The standing
passengers started first, of course, but
4 there were lots of the sitters who wanted
to sit together and several more who
thought by going into the other car
they might get two or three seats to
themselves. The result was that Fogg
selected one of the vacated seats and
was deep in his newspaper when the
crowd came pouring back, with an evil
dent desire to shed Fogg's blood. You
see it was an oversight on Fogg's part.
There were plenty of seats in the next
car; he merely forgot to mention that
they were all full.-Boston Transcript.
"A singular discovery has been made
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