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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17

earthquake flames devoufing tho
ruins-husbands shouting-wives pray
ing-children sobbing- dogs barking,
etc. Is it your own composition, Mr..
Bowser?"
"Why-why, don't 1 play all right?
The teacher said was making wonder
full progress"
They beckoned him out into the alley
and held conference. What was said
do not know, but when Mr.. Bowser
came in he looked very pale, and the
first thing he did was to give the harp a
kick which opened all the joints and
prepared it for the crash which came
when he f1uno II out doors.
"Mr. Bowser, have you gone crazy"
l demanded.
mo, ma'am, but I've got few words
to say to you"
"What have done?"
Done! Done! Who coaxed me into
buying harp?"
1.-THE grandson of Givoni. He had an
old harp he wanted to get rid Of and he
struck you for fat and got twice Its
worth"
'Struck me for flatw he shouted, as
he walked around on the cat And
why? Because l was willing to be
swindled to keep peace in tho family:
You had your mind set on harp ana
harp you must have"
Mr.. Bowser! What did I want OF
harp?"
"Heaven only knows. But for you
should never have thought of trying to
play on it. What do you suppose
Greene and Davis said?"
THAT you were Ounce"
s'That if their wives led them around
by the nose as you do me that they'd
wipe the family out and then commit
suicide! l must have looked sweet
lawdling over that old harp"
'You did. 1 told you that it was non
sense your trying to learn music at your
age"
my age! There you go! Am I a
thousand years old? Am five hundred!
Am even one hundred, that you keep
ninging it at mel Music! Why, I've
more music in my big toe than you have
in your whole body. Mrs. Bowser, this
is che limit. You have gone far enough.
Now beware! The worm is ready to
turnr'
But next morning the worm was as
pleasant as June, and when crowd OF
dozen boys paraded up and down, each
harping on a piece of that harp, Mr.
Eowser never let on that he saw OF
heard ANY, 80" -tf"+~"'t """e Press.
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EIRESIpE FRAGMENTS.

Lemon juice and saltwill take spots
of iron rust from linen, which should be
left in the sun to bleach.
Boiled Spinach: Pick and wash .
peck of spinach, put in a pot without
water, sprinkle with salt, and let cook
half an hour. Season with pepper and
large teaspoonful of butter. Take up,
pour hot cream over, garnish the top
with slices of hard-boiled egg. Ladies'
Home Journal.
Rye Mullins: One cup sifted rye
meal, one cup white -four, One-fourtb
cup sugar, one-half teaspoon salt, two
teaspoons baking powder, one egg, one
cup milk. Mix the dry ingredien Is
thoroughly; beat the egg, add the milk,
and stir quickly into the dry mixture.
Bake in hot gem pans twenty-five min.
utes.
Forest Pudding: Make one quart OF
soft custard, flavor with lemon and add
one wineglassfUl of sherry, dissolve two
heaping teaspoonfuls of dessicated CO.
coanut and add to the custard; line
glass dish with thin slices of sponge
cake, and when the custard is cool, turn
it in. Sprinkle cocoanut over the top
and serve cold--Boston Herald.
Cold fish and macaroni is an excel
lent way to use up cold boiled fish.
Take equal quantities of fish and maca-
roni, and one cup of tomato sauce, cook
macaroni in sailed water, drain off hot
water and pour over cold, prepare sauce
the same as given with egg tymbals.
| butter shallow dish, put a layer or
70 fhnp ASh
with pepper and salt, then macaroni and
tomato sauce, cover with cracker crumbs
and bake until juice bubbles through
the top.-The Home.
"A Salad of Mornings: Take two
herrings, and let them soak in milk for
an hour or so to draw out the salt, bone
them, and flake the flesh; cut half a
dozen cold boiled potatoes into slices,
and a small teaspoon of finely minced
onion. Put these with the fish, mix all
we'll together, and work lightly into
them plain salad dressing of vinegar,
oil, salt and pepper. AS this salad
should be rather moist, add little milk
if too dry. The dressing should be
added just before the salad is served.
Fried Pork with Cream Gravy: Cut
the pork in thin slices and freshen it by
soaking in either milk and or water,
then wipe dry, roll it in -four, have
ready hot pan or spider and fry it, not
too fast, to nice crisp brown. Take up
the pork, drain off most of the grease
and stir smoothly into it spoonful or
more of flour. When perfectly smooth
add teacupful of cream, or milk and
cream together, season to taste with
salt and pepper, and when we'll scalded,
pour it over tho pork, or, if preferred,
take it up in tureen to serve with it
! Orange Judd Farmer.
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FARWELL AS a WITNESS,
me Illinois Senator Twists a Lawye
Very Much Out of Shape.

me Illinois Senator Twists a Lawyer
Very Much Out of Shape.
A gentleman from Chicago. chatting
With party of acquaintances about
some of the laughable features of the
testimony given by newspaper men be-
lore the Dolph smelling" committee,
was reminded of an experience he had
once with Senator Farwell as a witness.
Mr.. Farwell," said he, ''owned a
building on Washington street jointly
with me and wanted to get the whole,
so he sent an agent to me to propose a
trade. accepted finally his proposition
to give me building on the West side
and $1,000 to boot, but | distinctly told
the agent 1 would pay no commits
slons. More than year afterward the
agent brought suit against me for 81, $50,
Claiming that the trade was S50,00G
transaction and that he was entitled un.
der the law to ~ per cent. commission
on that amount. As his first step to-
ward establishing his claim was to de.
termine the value of the buildings he
informed nc that he was going to take
Mr.. Farwell's deposition; so with our
lawyers we went, at the appointed time,
to the gcntleman's office.
"'Mr. Farwell, said the agents law
yer, after the nature of the case had
been explained to him, did you trade
buildings with this defendant on such
and such date?'
"'Yes, sir said Mr.. Farwell.
ION what terms did you make the
trade?
"'I gave him $4,000 to boot
"'Exactly! Now, Mr.. Farwell, will
you please state on oath what, in your
opinion, was the value of the building
whhh the said defendant traded to you
at tint timer
"'I, was worth about S., 900 more than
the on, traded to him. said Mr.. Far
we'll.
"'Thelawyer looked at first little
confused Then bright thought struck
him.
''Now, dr. said he in mandatory
tone, 'tellus what you considered the
building worth which you traded to him.
"'Well, answered the witness quietly
Il thought It was worth about $4,000 les!
than the one he traded to me-
"The lawyer was now in dignifiet
rage.
Come, SIT, said he, q am not to bc
tri1ed with. Will you, sir or will you
not, tell me how much this building Wa
worth?'
emo, sir, said Mr.. Farwell, Il won
tell you any thing about it. But viii
tell you something good deal moro t.
the point and opening drawer in hi
desk he took out book of check stubs
"'There is the stub of check TO
$500, said he, which gave to my agen
in full payment Of all commissions, ant
believe there is law in Illinois whicl
prevents an agent from collecting com
missions from both parties to transac
ton. Now, sir, if that is all you wan
to know you may run along and let m
attend to my business
81 have seen men set back" continue
the Chicago man, ''but l never saw on
so badly twisted out of shape as thi
lawyer was. l never heard another wor
about the suit, and / haven't paid tn
$1,25O yet. "-Washington Cor. n. y
| Tribune
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There's Many a Slip.

Soupin eagerly - Hello, Inswim
what number drew the prize at that
church fair lottery fandango last night?
Inswim Observation-Disclosures ninety
won.
Delightfully."- - "You don't say that
ninety-one got it. Well, well! That's
my number. A fool for luck. l never
won a thing before in my life, but
sort of feltit in my bones this time"
"But you didn't win any thing"
mo? thought you said ninety-one
got it?"
''No, I said that ninety won."
"Oh!"
eve can drop in here as well as any.
where
And the two manly forms disappeared
behind two baize doors of green which
swung together after them like the in
dicators on a druggists scales, and a
compact of secrecy was solemnized.-
Time.
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Pretty Cotton House Gown.

For house gowns in the morning moth.
ing can be prettier than the one-piece
dresses of percale or gingham, made tc
open low at the throat over achemisette
and broad collar of tucked nainsook.
The front breadth is gathered on each
shoulder, opens in the middle to button
below the waist line, continues to the
foot, and is held to the figure by q
pointed belt coming from the sides and
widened at the back into a corselet
VIII CHI receives the fulness of the back
of the waist. The corselet and the hen
ut the foot are finished with the narrow
white ladder-stitcEed beading so much
used by French needlewomen. Three
straight breadths, forming the sides and
back of the skirt, are gathered with a
standing ruffle on the edge of the corse'
let. The full sleeves are gathered te
bhttoned wristbands. Large pearl but
tons fasten the fro t from throat X
belt.-Harper's Bazaar.
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THE BABY COULDN'T STAND IT.

saved forty dollars in buying this harp,
but I'll make your heart ache with
jealousy before the month is over!'
He sat down and began to thrum. He
neld his head on one side, ran out his
tongue and picked away at the scale.
and he had been going about five min
utes when the cook opened the door,
beckoned me out, and whispered:
81 give you notice that l shall leave
after supper tomorrow
''Why; what is it?" asked.
''Him-Mr. Bowser! He'll bring
spooks and ghosts about! have already
been otallen with palpitation of the
heart. Mercy! but listen to those voices
of the dead calling out to each other
across their graves! Mrs. Bowser, it's
the wonder of the people that you don't
commit suicide!'
Mr.. Bowser thrummed until had to
carry baby upstairs to quiet his bowls,
and until the ends of his fingers were
sore, and he wouldn't have quit when
he did had not a voice in front of the
house shouted:
why don't some ono throw rock
through the window or ring for the
patrol wagon?"
Next day dark-skinned man who
said he was a grandson of the late
Givoni, came up and gave Mr.. Bowser
lesson, and the cook, who had almost
consented to stay, suddenly rose up and
rushed after her bundle. When ready
to go she whispered to me:
Pm sorry, mum; sorry for you that's
loft! If tho child dies, send me word
and I'll come and do all in my power -
Mr.. Bowser took four lessons in all
and then told his teacher that his serv-
ices would be no longer required. He
took the last two lessons in the barn in
order, as he said, to surprise me. On
the evening of the last lesson he brought
in the harp just as a couple of the
neighbors came in. He promptly re-
sponded to an invitation to show off,
but had not labored two minutes when
one Of the gentlemen asked:
Have you any particular object in
that, Mr.. Bowser?"
''Of course he has," replied the other.
st is an imitation of great calamity
in Japan-buildings shaken down by an
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17
FRESH FASHION NOTES.
Many Things of Particular Interest tC
Lady Readers.

Many Things of Particular Interest to
Lady Readers.
Perfumes are worn any place and
every place but on tho handkerchief.
All the little bonnets and toques have
| strings of narrow velvet ribbon in the
back, and from the knot some buds and
bits of foliage peep out.
Importers are selling bonnet shapes
composed of gold arabesque, with here
and there at the intersections of the de-
sign mock ruby or topaz.
A new style of glove, with the stamp
of Paris on it, has the top or arm made
of alternate rows of kid and fiat Val
lace. Proportional to the novelty is tho
price.
The latest fancy in floral bonnets is a
study in hawthorne and briar roses sur
rounded by aigrettes of light green
foliage and tied with black or moss
green velvet strings.
Aigrettes, wings, ears of corn, ban
deaux and crescentS made of moonlight,
bronzed, FURNISHED or green jet, mount
ed on blackened steel springs, are among
the ingenious ornaments of the mil
linery trade.
| Regarding the makeup of bed tho
French round drum bolster is the style
most favored. Where silk, morris
stuffs or cretonnes are used for dressing,
the valence which covers the foot and
sides of the bed should match the boil
ster, cover and spread.
Miss Frances Willard cares so little
for style that she never has more than
one dress at time, and does not get a
new one until the old one is worn out.
She is happily indifferent to the seasons,
and her velvet bonnet often gets sun
burned and her straw hat showed on.
The taste for butterfly millinery is on
the increase. Black lace butterflies arc
spread over the crown of floral bonnets
and posed on the brim of large hats
Some OF these insects hover over the
blossoms that decorate lace hats. In
the hats made with velvet crown and
lace brim, clusters of these frosted,
gauzy-winged creatures are pinned.
Nine. Nordica has beautiful home
just out of London, surrounded by q
large garden. When he is in it she
keeps house, weeds and trims her flower
beds, entcrtains company, hunts, rides
sails ard plays tennis, Sho has trophie:
from every city she has ever sung in
and the fittings of her house are filled
with bric-a-brac and ornament, The
gifts of admirers and fr,en's. She ha'
three pianos in her house, each of which
, she uses every day.
All manner of sweet and suggestive
things are painted across the headboart
r of the bed in the guests chamber. ''I'
+ giveth his beloved sleep" Forget thu
, world and all its cares" ''Slcep knit
up the raveled sleeve of care" will
sprigs of heartsease, are very mucl
favored, and then there is tho Spanish
+ idea of hosp .tality accompanied by tn
, time-honored proYerb of that polite ma
ton, 1.-The house and bed are thin.
I These are simple words, but ely mea,
q SO much-genuino spitality.-N. Y
, World.
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asked no questions and no volunteered
no information until after supper. Then
he suddenly asked:
'Do you keep up your piano practice?"
sob, yes. You hate music, and SO
don't play when you are here"
81 hate music! What are you talking
about?"
"You have often compared my play
ing to tho sounds of beating on an old
tin pan"
"Well, of course, you are poor play
or, and your voice is cracked; but so far
as music is concerned-real music-it
nils my soul with joy"
''But you mover sing or play"
Haven't had time heretofore. but now
IL"
''You intend to-"
eyes. feel the need Of something
to make homo moro pleasant-to offer
more diversion during the long hours
of evening. l think 1 shall learn the
harp"
"At your age?"
"That's it! That's what expected
to hear! What's tho matter with my
dStE L all llClJhSl DLlu1N optCCtlCoo llOi
crippled. Pliny went at it and learned
six languages after he was seventy years
DID,
''Well, I suppose you brought home
the harp?"
Eyes. It's beauty, and got itcheap
It's real Givoni, and l bought it of a
man who was hard up. Got it for $35,
and it's worth $40"
''And you will try to learn to play ito"
Certainly. had ono lesson thisa aft
ernoon, and in less than month I'll
astonish YOU
"You will practice in the garrett, I sup
pose?"
mot by a jugful! I shall practice
right here! That is, there won't be
much practice about it, as l shall be
playing tunes by Saturday."
He uncovered and brought in a greasy
ill-shaped harp, which looked as if it
had been carried around the country
since the days of Columbus, and when
no saw me looking at it he said:
''This harp was made by Givoni him
self over one hundred years ago."
"Who was Givoni?"
''Who was Givoni? Why don't you
ask who George Washington WASP"
''Well, it's my opinion that you have
been swindled on the instrupent, and
fear you are too old to take up such
music"
''Do you? That's a nico way to on
courage husband! see now why SO
many men run out nights. 1 not only
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17
SOME MISTAKE THERE.
A Cincinnatian Meets a Mudsill and Hus
the Floor.

A Cincinnatian Meets Mudsill and HUGS
the Floor.
We were having good time in a St.
Louis gymnasium one night when the
question of self-defense came up to be
argued by half dozen different per-
sons. Among them was a man from
Cincinnati, who contended that gentle
man ought always to be able to thrash a
mudsill, provided the latter would make
fair scrap Oft. Two or three opposed
this theory, and to test it the Cincin-
NATHAN offered to strip while committee
went out to pick up victim. 1t was
committee of one, and went out upon
the street and picked my man hap
hazard. He was going past with a
bundle under his arm, and l said to him:
Twill you come in and box a man five
or six rounds for five dollars?"
Regular fighter?" he asked.
mo, only an amateur"
I'm your huckleberry."
He was plasterer. and he had some
of his tools in the bundle. He got
ready without seeming to care who his
opponent was to be, and as they entered
the ring it was seen that they were
about even in size and weight. Time
was called, and the fun began. 1t didn't
last long, however. Inside of two min
utes the plasterer planted a straight
right-hander at tho others nose, which
foored him and kept him on his back
for sixty seconds.
''Is that ALP" calmly inquired the
plasterer as he took off the gloves.
Eyes. Here's your money"
'"rhanks. Good night"
When the Cincinnatian came to and
got his nose repaired he sat for long
time wondering how it all came about.
Cant you explain it?" he was finally
asked.
No"
swell, can"
"What is it?"
HE was mudsill all right enough
but you are no gentleman!"-N. Y. Sun
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THE PRINCE OF WALES.
He Does an Amount of Ceremonial Work
That has Never Been Equaled.

He Does an Amount of Ceremonial Work
That has Never Been Equaled.
In the matter of tours, blending pub
lie, social and private functions, the
Prince has done, and continues to do,
an amount of work that has never been
equaled, much less eXcelled. During
his Indian visit he was always engaged
in some interesting public business, and
varying the ceremonial and royal duties
with recreations of an active and exhil-
arating nature. 1t has been the same
with his European tours. No living
man has received more public addresses,
or conversed with more of the public
men of all countries, or had better op.
portunities of acquiring the most cos
mopolitan information The range, ra-
pidity and variety of these quasi-public
tours once furnished Punch wi tn the
materials for humorous tale of magic
and mystery. An ambitious mortal was
depicted as intent upon following an
Illustrious Person in his travels by
means of magic opera-hat, which con-
veyed him from place to place. He kept
up the chase for some days, flying from
capital to capital, from country
to country, from court to private
castle, from public ceremony to
private entertainment, until, physi-
cally and mentally exhausted, he
was glad to be rid of his opera-hat
and to resume his quiet life as an ordi-
nary being. The story conveyed some
very useful teaching. Reference has
been made to the pressure of circum-
stances, and all that needs to be said in
interpretation of the phrase is that the
Prince of Wales has, for several years,
been called upon to assume many of the
public functions that were formerly dis
charged by Prince Albert, and more
legitimately fell upon King than a
Queen. He has patterned his conduct
on the example of his father. Speak
ing the first time at the Royal Academy
banquet in 1868, when in his twenty
second year, he said, 81 can not, on this
occasion, divest my mind of the associa-
lions connected with my beloved and
lamented father. His bright example
can not fail to stimulate my effort to
tread in his footsteps" The Prince
Consort aimed at being short, pithy and
exhaustive. The Heir-Apparent' has
taken him for his model, but he has
touched much greater variety of sub
jects. The published speeches of Prince
Albert range from 1910 to 1860, and are
"a in number. The Prince of Wales
collected addresses run from 1868 to
1883, and are 1874 in number. Eleven
have been delivered at Royal Academy
banquets, six at Trinity House, and four
in connection with tho Royal College Of
Music. The more numerous addresses
touch such diversified subjects as COM
merce, agriculture, education, public
works, medical charities and general
philanthropy. They ara short, kindly
and appreciative, obviously bearing
about them the stamp of tho Prince Of
Wales individuality Family
Magazine.
The population Of Iceland dimin-
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The Art of Acting.

James-Hullo, De Forest. How's the
world usin' ye, me boy?
De Forest-Now is the winter of our
discomfort. Bad, bad, Jimmy. I'm
playing Buckingham in Richard, at fif-
teen a week. But, anon, what cheer
with you?
neutrality-suspicious. in the Tin Hip.
popotamus at two hundred. Como and
dino with me.-Harper's Weekly.
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Excitement in a Newspaper Office.

Editor-James, what is that moving
in the waste basket-a mouse?
James examining basket)-No, sir;
it's one Of them throbbing, passionate
poems, sir.
Editor-Pour some water on it and
throw it in the ash barrel; the place
isn't overwhelmingly Weekly.
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Father-Young Einstein has been de-
voted to you for two or three years,
hasn't he?
Daughter-Yes, papa.
Father-Isn't he very slow about pro.
posing?
Daughter-Yes, Jake is little slow,
but confidently he'll get there all the
same.-Chatter.
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"By George! that was awful. A
freight train of flfty-four cars loaded
with pig-iron ran over tramp yester-
day."
"oh! mercy! I hope tho poor fellow
wasn't hurt."-Harper's Bazaar.
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THE BOWSERS.
Mr. Bowser Takes a Few Lessons
on the Harp.

HEN Mr.. Bowser
unlocked the front
door one night this
winter he did it so
softly, and he made
SO little noise in
the hall that l sus-
pected something
wrong. He came
into the sitting
room l o o k i n g
ra t h er shoepish
and like . man who
had something on
his mind; but !
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17

Doctor Cutts-Pretty bad lip you've
got there, my boy; but think we can
fix it.
Patient-Tain't tn lip, doc. play
fife in tn ninth ward drum-corps. /
called to sec about cough.-Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-05-17

Three-Fingered Mike - All, there,
Reddy! Been away, hain't yer?
Jim the Penman-Yep; been to Kan
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The population Of Iceland dimin-
ished 2,4OO between 1885 and and 1888,
being at the close of the latter year
1924. The decline is due to emigra-
ton to America. The native fishermen
complain that their business is being
ruined by English fishing steamers.
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as-were yer farmin'?"
Let Us Hope So.

"Naw, not much-raised few checks,
though. Light