The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS,

"A correspondent of the London
Times says that the word "teetotar
had its origin through a suffering tenn
perance orator, who urged on his
hearers. that nothing less than ''te-te-
te-to-tal" abstinence would satisfy tenn
perance reformers. Some one at once
adopted "teetotal" as. a suitable ward,
and it sprang into general use.
A placard placed on window of a
shoemaker's shop near Cripplegate,
London, many years ago, is said to have
read as follows: Surgery performed
on aged Boots and Shoes broken Legs
sett and bound upright ,disordered
feet repaired the wounded healed
The whole Constitution mended and
the body supported by new Sole.
By T. 7
An ingenious person, who was get
ting up a popular entertainment in
London, ''in aid of a well-known
charity" wrote to business man as
follows: at has occurred 20 me that
you might be inclined to support so
good cause-say on these terms: II
you will take seven IS. tickets l will
cause the ventriloquist to refer to your
firm and business. If you agree to this,
l will write the 'wheeze' myself, or
will adopt any you may send"
Prof. Huxley remarks of those who
gulp down raw oysters with smack
of the lips, evidencing gestatory salts
faction, that ''few people imagine that
they are swallowing q piece of ma
chinery (and going machinery, too)
greatly more complicated than a
watch" The oyster though lowly
organism is highly organized or differ
entiated in its vital parts, and is about
the only form of animal life which We
swallow raw, while yet alive-but who
would eat raw dead oyster.
"A very odd dining organization in
Philadelphia is known as the Ishmael-
ties. The apartment in which the feast
is held is always decorated in the Orien-
tai fashion, some of the features intro
duced being very luxurious and strik-
ing. During each season there is a
muezzin who presides and rules the
feast, and who also delivers a mock
prayer and has peculiar song. All
wear turbans or fez caps with long
robes and ornaments around their
necks.
1t is alleged that an epidemic OF
typhoid fever in town in England
was traced to the milk supplied to the
victims by a milkman. On examina-
ton it was found that the milkman' S
COWS were grazing at the time on a
piece of waste land which contained q
pool of stagnant water in the old bed
of a river which was also the recepta-
Gle for all kinds of rubbish. This pool
was the only source of water supply to
the cows while grazing, and its filthy
water was impregnated with organic
matter; hence the infection of the milk
which generated typhoid fever in its
consumers.
This "Reminiscences of the holidays
is related by the Athens (Ga.) Banner:
During the holidays beautiful young
lady visited Marietta, and couple of
young men fell victims to her charms.
While there they were all attention,
and every thing was done to make her
stay pleasant. The time came when
she must depart. She told her friends
she would spend one day in Atlanta
and the next day following she would
journey homeward. On that day the
Marietta young men were in Atlanta to
bid her goodbye. She was on the cars.
and as the last sad adieus were about
to be said she begged permission to in
troduce them to her husband, whom
she had married in Atlanta the day be-
FORE"