The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

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Follansbee in the town of Fitzwllllam,
N. H., is one of the floral wonders oil
New England.
Stanley Palmer, q prisoner in the
New Castle (Del) jail, has invented
toy puzzle for which he is said TO nave
been offered $4,000 by New York spec
ulators.
Mrs. Forundred--"Arey you sure that
Young mans character is above re-
proach?" Daughter-'1es, ma. he
never wears ready-made necktle. -
Good News.
The projected elevated road in Bos-
ton will almost Craze the old South
Church and the old State house, ana
will cross very near above the GROUND
of the famous Boston massacre.
1t was good.-Cora - "4ou can re-
commend this glue, can your Dealer
Eyes, Miss. You could piece broken
engagement with it." Cora-"lll take
bottle. "-Munsey's Weekly.
do you believe in perseverance,?
"Yeppy. l knew man who lived to be
a hundred. If he'd given up when he
was a baby he wouldn't have lived
twenty-five years. "-Harper's Bazar'
Jenkins -"Look here, Nose. My
friends are all guying me ABOUT this
suit of clothes. thought you said you
never kept clothes out of style" Cohen
q don't keep 'em-I sell en- -
America: 40 wa. :.
s'great cattle lassoing contest of cow
bows" in which it is claimed the world S
record was beaten, Will Capps tying
down wild steer in 431I seconds. Some
of the contestants were seriously in
jured.
Cincinnati, in the opinion of the
Commercial Gazette, is 'the best named
city in the country" And two-thirds of
the name suggests sin, while the re-
mainder is pronounced naughty by
the cultured natives. -Philadelphia
Ledger.
1t is not generally known that ink
stains can readily be removed from the
fingers with the head of parlor match.
Moisten the ink-stained spot and rub it
gently with the head of the match, keep
ing the skin wet so that it will not be
burned
Mrs De Sweet-''I can not under
stand why so many cultured men are will
ing to leave all the happiness of home,
all the blessings OF civilization, and spend
lifetime in explorations in such coun'
tries as Africa" Colonel Warmheart
(gallantly)-"Al men, madam, are not
blessed with such wives as Mr.. Dc
Sweet Good News.
While cunning near Centreville,
Pa, recently John Moon wore red fur
cap. One of his companions, catching
sight of the cap over the crest of a hill
, mistook it for squirrel, and let drive 6
barrel at it. Moons cap was riddled
his pipe was broken, and one shot en-
, tered the eye, completely destroying
the sight.
Fred Spencer, of Middletown, n. ].
placed quails' eggs under a hen recently
B and has coop full of the game. They
: gave their foster mother a heap o
| trouble, for the disposition to wande
| and whistle suddenly is in them, ant
| there is evidence in their pensive lool
that they suspect a fraud or ~pistak'
= boaJ-~l
The wisdom OF the old negro. tn,
Atlanta Constitution says, was illus
trated anew in Georgia Justices cour
!, the other day. A young negro had beer
fined for some trivial offense and wa
beginning to talk of an appeal, wher
his father broke in: "You pay dat fin,
and go long about your business" HI
said. "Befo' you reach dat higher ledge
de lawyers II done gone troo you, er
you won't have enuf money lef' TO buy ;
coffin"
"A salmon weighing about three
pounds, reports the Keokuk, Ia, Gate
City, "was caught in the river just outside
the government boom Sunday, and when
landed was found to have an eel about
ten inches long, firmly wrapped around
his head in the vicinity of the gills, the
head of the eel being in the fsh's mouth.
The salmon had evidently intended to
swallow the wiggler, but was frustrated
by having his head entwined as men
toned"
Several hymn-books used in a
church in Newcastle, England, have
been printed, by accident or design,
upon paper of different colors. Whom
the books are closed the gildings con-
Goals the different shades. These hymn
books are put into an irreligious use by
some of the church-goers. When the
sermon is considered dull, diverting &C.
cupation is had by stalking pennies as to
the ability of person to stick pin be-
tween the leaves of specified color.
On recent Sunday, one irreverent
wretch had a streak of luck, and won
thirteen shillings during single serv-
ice.
Many New Workers, doubtless, have
been puzzled to account for the fact
that we have an East and North river,
instead of an East and a West river.
The explanation is found in the circum-
stance that the Hudson was originally
called the North river to distinguish it
from the Delaware, which was popularity
known as the South river" among the
early colonists While the latter desig-
nation has become obsolete, the former
is still in current use, although there is
no reason why this should be so. 1t is
no harder to say Hudson" than North"
and it is certainly more beautiful and