The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-11-07
MISCELLANEOUS.


| huhG Gall L SIdy WIFI you
to dinner to-day?" Il guess not, Hans.
1 don't think 1 have enough for two."
80 that is no mattor. I'll help myself
first. "-Fliegende Blatter.
Gentleman Ito little girl with toy
balloon -"Your balloon doesn't seem
! to go up very we'll" Little Girl-"No,
sir. It's ben dom up all day an dess
IT'S dettin' tired. Good News.
Strawberry farming pays in En-
gland. From a single strawberry farm
at Orpinston the farmer got 500 tons of
fruit, an amount which, at four cents a
pound, represents a turnover of more
than S45. O0O
"A train while running fifty miles an
hour near Mansfield, Mimi, ran into a
herd of about one hundred deer, which
dashed across the track at the entrance
to a cut. 1t was too late to stop, and
large number was killed. One magnif-
cent buck was borne off on the cow
catcher.
One cause assigned by several ply
sicians and druggists for the increas-
ing number of victims to the opium
habit is the use of antipyrene. A
great number of young women, especial
ly female clerks, take antipyrene in
such quantities that it finally loses its
restorative power. They then resort to
morphine. -Philadelphia Telegraph.
The city of Vancouver, B. c., paid
$500 to be advertised in pamphlet pro-
+ Tossing to be an accurate description of
the province and designed to influence
! immigration. When the work was
printed twas discovered that Vancouver
was only mentioned in the index, there
being no account of the city whatever.
1t is said that the health fad people
are going to work up craze over the
onion as one of the most health-giving
vegetables in the world. And literary
bureau is now at work getting up sta
tistics to prove that this is infallibly so.
The onion has long been the subject of
unmerited obloquy, and we are glad that
somebody is going to do it justice.
"A bright young lad about eight years
old, living near Orlando, Fla, has
adopted a novel use for steel trap,
commonly used for catching rats and
other small animals. The boys house
is near lake, and after batting the
trap in the usual manner he sets it in
the water for the purpose of catching
turtles, and has succeeded in trapping
several in this original manner.
| "A Russian legend relates that when
st. Joseph returned from his fight into
Egypt, he found his shoes in great want
of repair, and being aware of the excel
lence of leather work in Russia sent
them to Kieff to be mended, where they
remained. 1t is now reported from
Kieff that the archbishop of st. Sophia
! proposes to resole the shoes and then
''expose them to the generation of the
faithful"
When people say calculate" they
use word which goes back to the very
infancy OF our race, and the very Begin
ming OF the science of arithmetic. 1t
comes from the Latin calculus, a pebble.
When men first began to reckon and to
compare numbers they could think of
no better way than to lay pebbles along
side of one another on the ground, and
hence the word for counting.-Wash-
ington National Tribune.
For large boy, full grown withouta
pound'of surplus flesh, Master William
Knight, who lives near Flowery Branch,
may be put against the State, says the
Savannah News. He is only eleven
years old, weighs 165 pounds and will
measure as many inches around the
chest as any 200 hundred pound man in
town: does a mans work on the farm,
except blowing, and has an appetite
which needs no aid. He is perfect
picture of health.
An English newspaper charged
shire councillor with having ''tiddly
winked the shire funds" The law was
invoked and, after consulting all the
available dictionaries without finding
any definition of the term, the court de-
cided that the phrase was not neces-
sary libelous. The game of tiddlewinks.
which is now in vogue in this country,
is one of skill, and an expert tiddle-
winker must DO gifted with sleight of
hand. Financial Underwriting is q
suggestive phrase, and is now intro
duced for the first time.
There are but two words in the
whole range of the English language
containing all of the vowels in their
regular OIucE. ltJ tlc dhu
facetious. The following words each
have them in irregular order: Authori-
tative, disadvantageous, encouraging,
| efficacious, instantaneous, importunate,
mendacious, nefarious, precarious, per-
tinacous, sacriligious, simultaneous, te-
nacious, unintentional, Objectionable,
unequivocal, undiscoverable and vexa-
tious. A short search through the die
tionary might bring several others to
light.
On train from Aurora to Chicago
the other day strange incident &C.
Cured. poor man, accompanied by
three children, was bringing the corpse
of his wife to the city. He was provided
with ten-trip ticket and said he had
been told by the station authorities at
Aurora that the fare for himself and
children and the body of the wife could
be punched from the trip ticket. The
conductor insisted upon full fare for the
corpse, and intimated that if he did
not get it he would have to put the body
off," A disinterested passenger thought
the man had sufficient sorrow without