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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
FASHIONS EANCIES.
An Interesting Collection of Dress ana
DRY Goods Notes.

An Interesting COilectIoh Oh DiSoS e-.'e
Dry Goods Notes.
Surah silks will be restored to favor
fer spring toilets.
The fancy tartans come in silks tor
visiting gowns.
The Douglas tartan is popular Tor
theater toilets, particularly matlnees.
Plaids or tartans are being already
made upon the bias for spring suits.
Tartans are combined admirably with
velveteen in children's spring garments.
The new nuns veilings come with
borders and sometimes fringes on one
selvage.
The combination of white with yellow,
or white and gold, is much favored 1or
evening dress.
A Vandyke border on one selvage,
finished with a fringe, is a novelty IN
fancy nuns yelling.
Linen collars and cuffs are no longer
worn, and the attempt 10 revive them
has utterly failed.
Many of the new dressing gowns for
dinner and reception wear are made 10
fasten in the back.
The visiting head-gear for married
women is the small capote and the
toque, with strings and without.
The Mackenzie tartan is SO popular
that it is frequently seen, combined
with velvet, at teas and receptions.
Spring millinery will be profusely
ornate with gold and silver and other
metallic braids, embroideries and orna'
ments. '..--- *
Broche silks, wooden, zephyrs and
ginghams come in novel shades of color
and bold combinations.
The fur shoulder cape bids fair to be
as popular for spring as it was for fall
wear and as they were for our mild mid
winter.
Many of the suitings brought out for
tailor gowns have fringed borders in a
contrasting color on one selvage.
The Directory styles, with some varia-
lions and accessories, will be as popular
this spring as they have been for the
last two seasons.
The new crepes de chine come in
lovely evening shades and pure white,
with small figures, dots, stars, wheels
and flowers embroidered on their sur
faces.
Tho new mohairs and alpacas are
more lustrous than those of last spring,
and they come in all the new colors that
are seen in other spring fabrics.
Barred, plaided, checked and striped
mohairs and alpacas come in all the
color combinations seen in the wool tar
tans and zephyrs of this spring.
The new ginghams and zephyrs come
in new and novel, fancy as we'll as clan
tartans and in stripes and broche figures
on stripes and plain grounds.
Street gowns grow more and more
quiet and Puritanical in effect. The
reverse is seen in the house gowns of
all kinds for dinners. teas, at home in
the afternoons or evenings.
New cheviots have dotted stripes and
stripes of broken lines in clustered
effects. Then there are tartan and
striped cheviots in all the clan tartan
and new fancy French tartan combina-
tionS.-N. y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
ALL ABOUT WARTS.

Though in Themselves Harmless, They
Should BE Promptly Removed.
Beneath the epidermal, or outer layer
of the skin, the tissue is thrown up into
little mounds or cones, called papill8.
Into these run the small blood-vessels
and the sensitive nerve-endings. Some
times one of these papillB takes on an
abnormal growth, which projects above
the level of the surrounding skin, and is
known as a Wart.
Since the enlarged papille may have
one OF various shapes, the wart may be
pointed, or round, or flattened, and may
be attached to the skin by base which
is broad, or by small pedicle. Some
times the papilla is branched, and then
the wart appears to be split.
In what is known as the ''seed wart,"
which is very broad and assured in va
rious directions, there is series of
branches of the underlying papilla, each
branch being covered with its layer of
epidermis.
Warts grow generally upon the face
and hands, but no part Of the body is
exempt from them. They are seen
most frequently in the young and the
very old, persons of middle-age being
less frequently attacked.
Sometimes crop will appear all at
once, almost in a night, and they may
disappear with equal suddenness. The
reason for such appearance and disap-
pearance is rarely known, but the fact
has given rise to a widespread but base
cnnorctitinn that pfs no
charmed away.
No one cause can be given for the APP
pearance of warts, but probably local ir-
ritation has something to do with it in
many cases. 1t is popular idea that
they are contagious, and certainly there
are facts which seem to point that way;
but what the nature of this contagion is,
if there is any, is yet to be discovered.
Warts rarely appear singly. and may
reach enormous numbers as well as large
proportions.
Though in themselves all warts are
harmless, it is undoubtedly true that
they are sometimes the starting-po points
for cancerous disease. This is more
likely to occur when the wart is unduly
rubbed or irritated.
The commonest treatment is by the
use of some form of mild caustic. Rather
more satisfactory, however, is the treat
ment by surgical procedures, either by
the knife or the sharp scraping spoon.
The process, whatever it is, must be a
thorough one, for if the papilla is not en-
tirely removed, the growth will speedily
recur.-Youth's Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
SPANISH GYPSlEs.

They Live in Homes Cut in the Solid
Rock-They Dance to the Merry Music
of the Guitar and Tell Travellers Their
Fortunes.
1 took long walk up the course of
the silver Nenil, beginning it through
the Alameda, the loveliest of public
gardens, says a writer in the New York
Journal. No prohibition of picking
flowers there! I fancy there are
enough for all. Again 1 followed the
tumbling Darro, and frequented the
Gypsies in their rock-cut caverns on the
hill over against the ALEXANDRIA till 1
had got considerable comprehension
of their way of life. My guide-book
takes the pains to say that one should
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
TO SAVE LIFE.
The Clever Invention of a French
Naval Of2cer.
a Grapnel Which Will Reach Either
Vertically or Horizontally, and
Bring Up Body from Any
Depth OF Water.

To bring up helpless man from the
bottom of the sea in time to permit res
torative measures to be applied is the
problem which First Officer Emmanuel
Debrosse, of the French line steamer
Bourgoyne, had set himself and which
he thinks he has very effectively solved,
says the New York World. His posi-
ton in the commercial marine gave him
abundant chance to study tho question
of life-saving in all it's various phases,
to note the merits and dement's of the
existing systems and to know from OBJ
servation just what was needed and how
best to apply it.
In the commercial ports of Havre,
Marseilles, Bordeaux and St. Nazaire
the great French society for succoring
the drowning had placed all known APP
pliances. There were grapples and lines,
belts and poles and other devices to be
thrown in various ways to the strug-
Cling victim. How we'll these numer-
Gus appliances do their work the statis-
tics of the work of the life-saving corps
most eloquently testify, but against
each and every one of them there are
objections, and the unhappy exceptions
were entirely too many when all the de-
vices failed and tho loss of human life
was recorded. Even the plucky life
saver who plunges in at the risk of his
own to save the life of another can not
always meet with success. If the body
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
TO USE NIAGARA FALLS.

A Mechanic Invents a Machine by Which
the Wasted Power Can Be Used.
Another scheme has been devised to
utilize the water at Niagara. Several
schemes have been talked about, and
all of them have been too expensive to
be even thought of. w. E. Weaver, a
mechanic of Buffalo, las a plan which
calls for towers to be erected at the base
of the bluff below the village, which
can be two hundred feet high, into the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
A HlGH-PRICED ARTIST.
How He Astonished Ono of Hartford's
Benevolent Ladies.

How He AStoniShed Ono OF HARTFORD
Benevolent Ladies'.
In an elegantly appointed studio, no,
a hundred miles from Hartford, sat one
of our noted artists in deep thought. He
was earnestly contemplating a design
for cathedral window, and a look of
annoyance flashed across his face as the
door was suddenly flung open to admit
the figure of lady. The look vanished
instantly, however, as the artist adj
vanced TO meet his visitor.
"Are you Mr.. -?' asked the lady
shortly, yet casting furtive glance at
her muddy boots, buried deep in the
pile of the beautiful Persian rug.
Il am, madam"
"Well," continued the lady, with an
air of Importance, 81 have brought you
a commission. | want you to design the
toe of this slipper for me. The design it.
self is to be embroidered in the shape of a
slipper. 1t is for the city mission fair
and | must have it Immediately. Can't
you do it while | waltz"
pardon me, madam" courteously re-
piled the artist, your kindness in Civ
ated, but as | have not the honor of
knowing you must ask you to pay me
in advance"
80, certainly" responded the lady,
with great readiness, drawing out we'll
filled purse. ''How much will it be?"
-Four hundred and seventy-fve dol.
lars, madam"
"What" screamed the visitor.
-Four hundred and seventy-ive dol
lars" calmly responded the gentleman.
"What do you mean?" demanded the
lady, growing more and more astonished.
"Just what / ay, madam" quietly
answered the artist. Il think you have
made some mistake. The commission
you have been pleased to bring me is
entirely out Of my line. If you will
visit one of the places for fancy stamp
ing, in Pratt or Trumbull street, you
will succeed in getting your work done
to your entire satisfaction, | have no
doubt"
The lady gave final glance around
the studio, filled with European curios of
every description and adorned with ar
bloOlS WOIho, lIOiil Ollt JlCO-
ure in oils, covering half the wall, to a
dainty, delicious little landscape, which
in its very delicacy was marvel, and
with another look at her muddy shoe
and parting well, | don't believe
you are the kind of artist am looking
for" Ito which the gentleman courte-
ous!y replied: 81 am afraid not
madam'), she sailed out of the room,
remarlling to herself-as she savagely
punched the elevator annunciator, and
glared at two conflicting shades of red,
which were mentally swearing at each
other about her dress II thought
artists were always ready for work, and
glad to get it, too. Hartford Courant.
Burial reform in England ccntemp-
latos the prohibition of leaden and
other solidly-constructed collins, the
effect of which is thought to retard com
plete decomposition, and so prolong the
period during which the dead are not
only ;esthetically Objectionable, but are
an indisputable source of danger to the
living. 1t is proposed to use wicker
work or papier mache receptacles.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
THE GRIP ACTING HORIZONTALLY.

implement, but this served only in the
end to bring up the dead body. 1t was
a case where something entirely differ
ent from any present apparatus was
called for, and the case was one of many.
The Debrosse grapnol may be readily
understood from an inspection of the
cuts showing it under two plans of
operation. Surprising, as in the case
cited, the body rests at the bottom or
near it, with its position plainly indi-
Gated by the rising bubbles of escaping
air. 1t is lowered down, it's weight
carrying it vertically, a jerk of the sus-
tanning string and the four sections of
tho metallic globe open out like arms,
and with the movement upward close in
tightly upon the body and lift it to the
surface and within reach of waiting
friends. 1t may be worked with CELEBRITY,
and if the first aim of the fisher should
not be successful it is only the work of
an instant to make u new effort little
distance away. From tho diameter of
35 centimetres when closed the arms
spread out to reach of so centimetres,
the metre being 391G English inches
and the centimetre a hundredth part
thereof. There is no dependence upon
poles, etc. In the weight of the instru-
ment is it's principal power, and no mat
ter how deep or how shallow the water
is it is equally effective. Dragged along
the bottom in the manner of an ordinary
grapnel, the Debrosse apparatus an
swers admirably. The hooks upon tho
outer surface of the now closed sphere
attach themselves to the clothing of the
helpless victim, and SO, long after life
has apparently departed, he may be
brought to tho surface and resuscitated.
1t is, however, as vertical grapnel that
the machine will do it's best work, and
that for which 1t is uniquely adapted.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
With Her 1t Is a Success.

"Do you think marriage is a failure,
Mrs. Choker?" asked Mrs. Simeral of
the minister's wife.
"No, indeed" was the reply. "Mr
Chokergive me his fees for pin-mouey. t"
--Harper's Bazaar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
HANDY FEED-RACK.

How 1t Is Constructed-Some of Its
Manifest Advantages.
N. A. Cullen, Gratiot, Wis, sends to
the Orange Judd Farmer the description
and drawings of feed-rack, illustrated
herewith, which he has in use. He
writes: "For 16-foot rack take four
posts 10 feet long, and set them 2 feetin
the ground. Leave space of 4 feet,
then set another row of posts OPP
posite the first. Commence nail
ing on boards (poles will do)
about 9 feet s inches from the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22

goes down in dark and murky water the
diver, no matter how skillful he may be,
finds the chances of success reduced to the
barest minimum. Many of the hooking
devices arc limited by the length of the
pole to which they arc attached, and
the others, fastened to long lines, are
with difficulty manipulated under very
readily supposa5le circumstances.
Officer Debrosse had two drowning
cases occur under his own eyes, either
one of which might have been turned to
a rescue had the proper implement been
at hand. The first was at Marseilles
in 1886, and the other no later than the
evening of September IS last beside the
French line pier in this port. A sailor
was engaged in painting the side of the
vessel and fell into the sea, sinking al
most at once, but indicating his posi-
ton under the water by the bubbles of
air rising to the surface. Two good div
ers went to his rescue, but the bottom
was fully thirty feet away and the
water so black that at half that depth
the divers were unable to see any thing
at all. Several sailors rugged up from
a raft device for dragging the bottom,
but the raft was not easily managed. A
boat was hastily procured and for up
ward of two hours tho efforts towards
rescuing were kept up, the ship-carpen-
ter hastily rigging up sort of fishing
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
Indiana Wheat Statistics,

William A. Peele, chief of the bureau
of statistics for Indiana, has completed
that portion Of his report relating to the
agriculture in the State during 1889,
together with tables comparing that
year with 1883. The tables show that
in Indiana last year ., 773, SS3 acres were
sown in wheat In 1888 the acreage
was 2,728, Iii. an increase in 1889 Of
47,772. In 1889 the total wheat crop
was 41,541, 570 bushels and in 1888 it was
2S, 80, 7G4. This makes the average
Weld in 1889 14.9 and in 1855 1915 bushels
per acre. Here, for the first time, is the
relative value of the last TWO years as
wheat seasons, rs shown by their actual
results. Knox County is the banner
county, averaging over % bushels to
the acre.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22
1t Was Jonah

Sunday-School Teacher - Who VI
cast into the sea?
Boy-Peter.
Teacher-No. Try again.
PoY-McGinty?-Arcola Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22

PROF. SANBoRN, of Missouri, in more
than one hundred feeding tests, deter
mined that to make certain amount Of
gain, pigs weighing 22O pounds required
eighteen per cent more food; pigs
weighing 27O pounds required fifty per.
cent. more food, and pigs weighing S25
pounds required seventy-eight per cent.
moro food than pigs weighing seventy
pounds.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-03-22

Yes, sir-yes, sir we are being
taxed to death in this country he
shouted, as he stood on the rear plat
form of street car. "How much taxes
10 you pay, for instance?' quietly asked
one of the group. GLOW much? How
much do l pay? I-I-well, I'm not
talking for myself, but for my brother
His taxes would have been at least S12
this year if he hadn't sold out."-De-
troit Free Press.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-12

occurred. The outer end of the bridge
went down suddenly, and the terror
stricken crowd slipped off into the harbor,
piling onto each other. shrieking for help
and scrambiing for means of safety. For
some time there was confused mass OF
men. women and children struggling in the
wafer. but the accident had hardly hap
pened before a dozen men leaped TO the
rescue. The drowning people were rapidly
passed up to men standing above on the
wharyes. and the great majority OF those
who fell in were saved from death.
When the crowd slipped off the landing
stage. the people around, numbering some
hundreds, crowded the sides of the wharf
and threw down sticks and boards to the
struggling mass in the water, while num-
Der OF life preservers we're thrown them
from the steamer. Many people were
struck and injured by the flying boards,
and all the bodies recovered bear cuts and
bruises. Tie statements of spectators
show that most of those who fell in were
women and children. and the scenes imme-
diately following the disaster were frightful.
When all those in sight had been
brought to land, the work of grap-
ing for the drowned commenced.
Within two hours four bodies were
recovered. but up to midnight no other
victims have been found. 1t is believed at
least three or four others were lost. but the
exact number cannot be told at present.
Intense excitement prevailed in Dart
mouth and Halifax when news of the dis
aster spread, and thousands fiocked to the
scene, where they remained till q late hour
watching those working in the water.
Owing to the confusion it is impossible to
tell who are missing. but the number cam
not be large. The names of those whose
bodies are recovered are: Miss Bessie Fos-
ter, Peter Boile, Miss Allie Synott, John
Bundy, colored.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-12
TURNER AND THE TIDE LANDS.
Why the Spokane Lawyer Would Not
Serve on the Commission.

Why the Spokane Lawyer Would Not
Serve ON the Commission.
OLYMPIA, July 1.-THE following letter
from Judge George Turner, of Spokane
Falls, is now made public:
SPOKANE FALLS, Wash, July S, 1890
Hon. Elisha P. Ferry, Governor of Washing.
ton. Olympia, Wash.-Dear Sir: have the
honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 1st inst, transmitting my commission as
member OF the board of equalization and ap-
peals, under the law providing for the appraisal
and sale of the tide lands of the state, and ex-
pressing the hope that would not decline the
position.
My respect for your personal wishes and the
feeling have that it would be an honor to be
connected even in part with your administra-
ton of the state government, causes me to re-
gret that must decline the appointment The
compensation for the services to be performed
by the board is nominal. while the
duties are very onerous. Upon looking
into the law defining those duties, /
find that It will be impossible for any member
of the board TO render services to the state at
all commensurate with the sacrifice OF personal
interests, which an acceptance of the position
involves The board has no real power, but 10 q
mere conduct between the local board Of ap-
praisers and a petit jury. Any one
entitled to purchase tide lands may ap-
peal from the decision of the board of
appraisers of the county on the question of the
valuation of the tide land to the board Of equal
izstion and appeals, and If dissatisfied with the
valuation of the latter, he may still further ap-
peal to the superior court of the county where
the lands are situated and have the value fixed
by q petit Jury of that county.
In view of this provision, one may well won
der why the board Of equalization and appeals
was created and why the legislature thought it
necessary to provide that fits members should
be appointed from counties in which there are
no tide landk 1t is worthy OF note in
this connection that If no appeal be
taken from the appraisal of the local
board within thirty days by some one of the
classes favored by the law. the valuation Of the
local board becomes o fnality; and further,
thar the state has no power to appeal from the
valuation of the local board, but only from the
action of the board of equalization and ap-
peals and that its right of appeals is to O petit
jury of the county where the land is situated.
Ibave felt that ought to state my reasons
for declining this appointment with frankness,
because would not have you suppose me In
capable of making sacrifice of interests or In
cnations for the benefit OF the state The inter-
ests to be benefited by the administration of the
tide land law, however, are wholly private, and
they have no claim whatever on me-
beg you to believe that appreciate highly
the trust and confidence which the tender of the
appointment involved. and that remain, with
high respect your obedient servant,
GEORGE TURNER
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BEAT his FATHER TO DEATH.
Murderous Frenzy of an Insane New
Hampshire Farmer.

Hampshire Farmer.
NASHUA, n. H.. July 1l.-This morning
at Warren Holt's farmhouse, near West
Wilton, Edwin Holt. milkman, brutally
assaulted his mother, crushing her face
with terrific blows. He next dragged his
sick father from bed to a fireplace, where
he pounded his head to q jelly, killing him.
In the meantime neighbors had arrived.
and q desperate battle ensued before Holt
was finally captured. Two of the neigh
bors were badly wounded IN the fight. Had
help not arrived. it was the intention of
Holt to murder his mother and aunt.
When the coroner arrived the sick-room
presented terrible sight, the premises
being covered with blood. while the body
of the father lay on the floor, almost un-
recognizable from the terrible pounding he
had received. Last Sunday Holt called
his mother to one side and told her he felt
strange and thought something should be
done with him before he harmed members
of the family. Holt was taken to an asy-
lum tonight. he being pronounced insane.
TROY, n. Y. July 11.-Mrs. j. B. VIII
Hams, near Fairhaven, VT, this morning.
murdered her two children, girl of IL and
boy of 6, set fire to lie. house and cut her
own throat She was undoubtedly insane.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-12
HEAVY shipment of Gold Bars.

NEW YoRK, July 11.-Foreign bankers
today ordered 81, ,0O0 600 more gold for ship
ment to Europe. making so far 5000. 600
in gold bars to go tomorrow. There was
considerable discussion as to the reasons
for the shipments. Kidder, Peabody &
Co. say their export is simply exchange
transaction. Some bankers state that the
gold is intended for the Bank of England.
whose reserve has decreased to low figures,
and others state it will go ultimately to
Ruenos Ayres
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SIX HUNDRED IN THE WATER.
Landing Full of People Faiis-Loss o.
Life Unknown.

HALIFAX, July ia terrible accident
occurred at Dartmouth tonight, by which
a number of people were drowned, but the
exact number Of victims will not be known
till tomorrow The disaster happened by
reason of a chain attached to ferry-boat
slipping out of place and allowing the
front of the bridge TO sink and precipitate
the crowd, 600 or 100 men. women and
children into the water. The people were
crowded there waiting for the new ferry
steamer Andix, just arrived from New
York. 20 dock.
When the steamer got within two feet Of
the landing number of persons jumped
on board, ard at that moment the accident