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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
SHOOTING STARS.
How They Travel Toward tho Earth and
Perish i'll Streaks of Splendor.


A small body, perhaps as large as a
paving stone or larger, more often per-
haps not so large as a marble, is moving
round the sun. just as a mighty planet
revolvos in an ellipse, 50 this small OBJ
ject will move round and round in an
ellipSe, with the sun in the focus. There
are at the present moment uncomfortable
myriads of such meteors moving in this
manner. They are too small and too
distant for our telescopes, and we can
never see them except under eXtraor-
binary circumstances. At the time we
SEQ the meteor it is usually moving with
enormous velocity, so that it often trav-
erses a distance of more than twenty
miles in second of time Such We
locity is almost impossible near the
earth's surface; the resistance Of the air
would prevent it.
Aloft, in the emptiness of space, there
is no air to resist the meteor. 1t may
have been moving round and round the
sun for thousands, perhaps for millions
of years, without let or hindrance; but
tho supreme moment arrives and the
meteor perishes in streak Of splendor.
In the course of its wanderings the body
comes near the earth, and within few
hundred miles of it's surface, of course,
begins to encounter the upper surface
of the atmosphere with which the earth
is inclosed. To body moving with the
appalling velocity of meteor plunge
into the atmosphere is usually fatal.
As the meteor rushes through the at
mosphere the friction of tho air warns
its surface; it becomes red hot, then
white hot, and is finally driven of into
vapor with brilliant light, while we
on earth, one hundred or two hundred
miles below, exclaim, 80, look, there is
a shooting star!"-Albany journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
THE oBTRUSIVE BEECH.
A Tree That Is Il Most Aggressive and
Barc-Faced Nonopolist.


Nobody regards any forest tree or
woodland herb as weed, because such
plants don't come into competition with
our crops of flowers. To be sure, some
of these forestine types are quite as OBJ
trusiycly pushing, in their own way,
and therefore quite as truly weedy at
heart, as charlock or couch grass, those
dreaded enemies of the agricultural in
tercst. For example, the beech is a
most aggressive and barefaced monopo-
liSt-a sort of arborcal Vanderbilt or
Jay Gould-and under the dense shade
of its closely-leaved and spreading
branches no forest tree except its own
hardy seedlings stands the faintest
chance in the struggle for existence.
Even tho most unobservant townsman
must have noticed like Tityrus) that
the ground is always bare, or, at best,
just lightly moss-clad pdtUiR sab tegntine
Jag. 1t is known, indeed, that in Den
mark the beech, with it's thick ShaC:c of
close-set foliage, is driving out the
lighter and more sparsely-leaved birch
in the forests where the two once grew
like friends together.
At touch OF the stronger tree, the
slender silvery birch loses it's lower
branches, and devotes all its strength
at first to its topmost boughs, which fade
one after another till it succumbs at
last of old age or hamilton. So, in a
minor degree, among the lower wood
land flora of America, the beautiful May
apple, most poetic plant (Which in it's
compounded form, supplies the returned
Anglo-Indian with that excellent SUBJ
stitute for his lost liver, podophylln
pills., has large round leaves, eight or
ten inches across, and expanded by ribs
from a stalk in the center, exactly after
the fashion of Japanese parasol, on
purpose to prevent rival plants thas
Sprout beneath from obtaining their fair
share of air and sunshine.
None of these greedy woodland kinds
however, are weeds for us, because they
don't interfere with our own peculiar
cultivated plants. Man tills only the
open plain, and therefore it is only tho
wild herbs which naturally grow in the
full eye of day that can compete at an
advantage with his corn, his turnips,
his beetroot, or his sugar cane. Hence
arises curious and very interesting
fact, that the greater part Of the COM
mon weeds of Western Europe and Amer
lea are neither West European nor
American at all. but Asiatic or at least
Mediterranean in type or origin. -Corn-
hill Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
ORIGIN OF SOME WORDS.


Psychological Information Not To he
Found in Dictionaries.
There was an old practice. in the years
agone, that woman should never be
married until she had herself spun set
of body, table and bed linen. 1t is not
difficult to see how easily the term be-
came applicable to all unmarried women,
and finally became law term and boz
came fixed as Spinster.
The word "teetotal" had its ORIGIN
through suffering temperance orator,
who urged on his hearers that nothing
leas than "te-te-tOtal" abstinence would
satisfy temperance rcformers.
Tho first vessel of schooner RIG is said
to have been built in Gloucester about
the year 1913. When she went off the
stocks into water bystander cried out,
80 how She scoons." The builder in
stantly replied, "a sooner let her be-"
and from that time vessels thus rigred
have gone by that name. The word
scoon is popularity used in some parts of
New England to denote the act of max
ing stones skip along the surface of the
water
1t is said by the author of the
Queens English" that tho people of
Carnwood Forest, Leicestorshire, when
they desire to hail a person at dis
tance, call out not 'halloo?" but
"halloup!' This he imagines a survival
of times when one cried to another,
"A loup! loup!" or, as we would now
say. "Wolf! wolff"
'Hurrah" is derived from the Slavo-
-Eifc hura, 'to Paradise" which signi-
fies that all soldiers who fell fighting
vallantly went straight to heaven.
"Prithee" is obviously corruption Of
81 pray thee while to marry" was or
iginally method of swearing by the
Virgin Mary.
The aristocracy of Spain was held to
consist of those who traced their lineage
back to the time before the Moorish
conquest. These people were whittier
than those who had been mixed with
Moorish blood; the veins upon their
white hands were blue, while the blood
of tho masses, contaminated by the
Moorish infusion, showed black upon
their hands and faces. SO the white
Spaniards of the old race came to de-
clare that their blood was ''blue," while
that of the common people was black.
The phrase passed to France, whore it
had no such significance, and was, in
fact, quite an arbitrary term, and so to
England and America.
General jackson. when Judge Endorsed
so. r. on many papers, meaning order
recorded" Major Jack Downing" (Scba
Smith) saw papers thus Endorsed, but
took the initials to be so. H." which he
declared in fun was meant by General
jackson for 'Oll korrect." This took
with the people, and is used still
school ,IOurnal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
TIRESOME PEOPLE.
They Are Altogether Too Numerous ar
You Can't Avoid Them.

They Are Altogether Too Numerous and
You Can't Avoid Them.
In going about the city the sane tirer
some people are encountered everywhere
The man who at all times and upon all
occasions makes puns and doestn most Of
the laughing himself, is exceedingly
tiresome. He is closely related to tho
man who has always got good story to
tell and is bound to tell it, no mattel
how violently it may clash with:he subj
ject of conversation in the GROUP of peot
pie to whom the story is told.
That ELUSIVE person who, when hS
meets you, squeezes your hand until hS
nearly dislocates bone and shakes it
until yonr arm aches to the slouldeT
he, too, is WEAKNESS to the f1eshl
When you sec him coming you are apt
to dart down side street or get into the
lee of some building until he haspassed.
The person who in the hurry and
hustle of business and at other mappro-
pirate times talks religion is apt TO make
you very, very tired. He is almost al
ways supcr-sanctimonious person who
conveys the impression that to be relig-
ions is to be sad, whereas the person
who is religious from conviction must of
necessity be joyous.
The fond mammas and no less doting
papas who are always telling of the cute
things their children have said and of
the remarkable things they have done,
tn ese make you tired also. They talk
right along without stopping, and give
you no chance to say a word regarding
the prodigies that there may be in your
own family, and when they have reeled
off variety of stories regarding their
juvenile offspring they commence upon
the various diseases which they have
had. and how the doctor treated them,
and how they finally survived the treat
ment.
People who always have a grievance,
whose corns are always being stepped
on by somebody, and who seem to ex.
pect you to rise in your might and strike
the aggressors while they look on; men
who carry their hearts upon their
sleeves for DAVIS to peck at" and haven't
spunk cnou gh to shoot the DAVIS away
when any of these come round, as come
they will, one longs for lodge in some
vast wilderness where tiresome people
are not known.-Brooklyn Standard
Union
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
PANELS IN DRESSES.
How to Obtain Pretty Effects at Very
Small Expense.

Small Expense.
Side panels of plain wool dress goods
are decorated with design of leaves and
flowers woven in with color. The same
effects are also obtainable with brush,
and will make the cost of the dress
much less. Harmony must be consid-
cred. For dark green, the leaves
must be lighter in shade, and the flowers
dark crimson.
For a brown wool dress, paint the
flowers and leaves in monochrome, or,
ing towards a lighter or darker shade
according to the color of the goods.
Turpentine must be used to thin the
paint, and the work must resemble the
woven designs in this respect. The
paint must not show; it must be thin
more like tapestry painting. A design
OF leaves, as much brown as green, with
red berries like the red haw, in clust-
ers, would be very pretty on nearly any
dark shade Of Atwood goods. Espec-
tally would trailing vines make beauti-
full finish for the ever-present tea-gown.
A tasteful wrap for young mother
when convalescent is made of two yards
of single-width flannel. The prettiest
comes in narrow stripes of delicate pink
and blue. Basic narrow hem all
around, and then hem-stitch with silk
to match. At the back of the neck
take up about half yard and catch
the edges together to simulate hood
At each end catch the goods together
again. so that the hands may slip
through and the arms be covered. Up
and down the fronts place narrow rib
bQns to match goods. These, tied, form
9TIastonings.-Earm and Fireside.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18

ahead of us, and we saw him scram
nm the earthwork we were assaultii
and stand. with his sword waving us III
at its crest.
Already we were nearly up with hi
when a red flash shone out, followed
the rattle of muskets, and this was 81
ceeded by desultory discharges, the Il 5
showing us Dandy Jack" topping bad
ward from the wall he had been the fl
to gain.
He fell in one of our crews extend$
arms. and maddened by the sight,
sprang forward, quickly scaled the way
and charged, a reckless mass of animated
vengeance on the men forming within
the works. They were well handled AMI
ably led, but they could not resist TIL
rush of our onset, and gave way, somt
flinging down their arms and surrender
ing, while portion fed to their rudl
barracks for shelter.
Our full division had now come up
and we were about turning a field bat
terry we had found on the barracks
when the men in them surrendered, AM
our triumph was complete.
But we had lost DANDY jack" an
though our conquest closed an inlet tina
was very favorably situated for the us
and safety of blockade runners, we, VIII
formed part of his crew, considered tn
purchase dear.
He had taught US lesson we neve
forgot, for no matter how much of TO
man seemed, we always remembere
after this-that the heart of a herG.roul
beat as warmly beneath da.
as it could -bengath garments a !
sterner mold and coarser cldh.-
Thomas S. Collier, in Springfield Mass.
Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
MOTHER-LOVE.

NY wife, his mother. rocks him
And braids her nut-brown hair,
And smiles, and stoopS to fondle
Our newborn son and heir.
Triumphant gaze maternal!
Since Ewes in paradise
What raptured OrbS supcrnal
Could match her lcAe-lit eyec?
Their gloried glow angelic
Brings Eden back again;
Redeems worlds long struggle
With sorrow, sin and pain.
For Love can win in losing,
Find victory in defeat;
Knit pain-rent ties the flrmer,
Make all Earths sorrows sweet.
Not Life unfathomcd riddle,
Not Deaths unnumbered graves,
Can daunt the trust of manhord
In the Mother-love that saves!
Chicago Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
Killed His Sweetheart.

A boy only twelve years old had found
in the streets of Madrid one-hundred-
peseta bank note and changed it at a
money changers, and divided the spoils
with another boy, eleven years old. He
then bought a pistol and bullets, and
then began quarrel with his playmate
about little girl twelve years of age,
the daughter of well-to-do grocer,
whom he called his sweetheart, and
whom he accused of showing prefer
ence for his companion. AS they were
discussing the matter they happened TO
meet the girl with her female servant,
and tho older boy deliberately aimed at
her and shot her dead in a fit of jealousy.
Both boys were sent to Jail, and despite
his comrades and the maid servants
testimony, the accused says tho pistol
went off ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Daily
News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18

The greatest length of Lake Superior
is 1856 miles; its greatest breadth is 100
miles; mean depth, 6Ss feet; elevation,
s27 feet; area. $1,000 square miles. The
greatest length Of Lake Michigan is
300 miles; it's greatest readth, los miles;
mean depth, 800 feet; ele walton, 506 feet;
area, 90, 900 square miles. The greatest
length Of Lake Huron is 800 miles; its
greatest breadth, 60 miles; mean depth,
600 feet; elevation, 274 feet; area, 90, 0CG
square miles. The greatest length OF
Lake Erie is $50 miles; its greatest
breadth, so miles; mean depth, 81 feet;
elevation, 261 feet; area, 5000 square
miles. Tho greatest length of Lake
Ontario is $50 miles; its greatest breadth
is 65 miles; its mean depth is 500 feet;
elevation, 261 feet; area, 5000 square
miles. The total of all five is 1885
miles, covering an area of upwards of
50, 900 square miles.-St. Louis Republic.
Some genius who has evidently
plenty OF idle time on hand, has dis
covered that famous beauties" aas all
horn in summer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18
The Lord Mayor of Loudon.

The Lord Mayor receives from the city
ofLondon for his year of Office $4,000,
and on an average spends $4,000 to $780,
600 in excess of allowance. He has no
other provision except the use of the
Mansion House and it's furniture. Wine
stands as one of the chief items of ex-
penditure. In the basement of the
Mansion House there are quite as many
cellars as there are aldermen who have
not passed the chair, and it has been the
practice of aldermen to lay in stock OF
wine long before their mayorality. This
was done to much greater extent some
wears ago, when it was more the fashion
to drink port wine. Then an alderman
would place in the cellar allotted to
himself pipes of port sometimes years
before it would be put on the tables OF
the Egyptian hall. The wine not con-
sumed is usually sold or removed by the
outgoing Lord Mayor. There is no rea-
kon to doubt that Mr.. Whitehead's may
brality has cost 500, ZOO. -Manchester
Guardian.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-01-18

! -"Will that dog bite?" mo; he never
h.+s any thing between meals" "Thun-
Her and guns! but the b.ute has bitten
mew BEG pardon. I'm so forgetful!
Eome to think of it. he didn't have any
breakfast this morning. Boston Tran
kcript.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-05

you pick out the right fellow. Pick ou,
a manly man and be womauly
woman. DO not attempt to usurp
the rights of man. Men and woman
have different spheres, and keep within
yours as far as the conditions of life
will allow you. And never forget that
you are American women. Under
stand what that beautiful fig which
adorns your walls means-a fig which
began with IS stars and has to day A."
Here is another paragraph from his
speech that is as good as the other ::
"The happiest life is the one that in
wolves labor. You must have somc OBJ
ject in life Eight hours day is a good
days labor, and if while you work you
do something good Tor mankind you
will be better satisfi ID if you had idly
stretched yourself and read French
novels. Labor in America is honorable.
1t is better TO sweep the streets or tram
blackberry bushes than so around beg
ging money from your friends" 1t is
needless to say that tine Generals re
marks were received with great enthu-
cI1Sp,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-05
Port Deposit Items.

lOkT DEPoSlT, July = iHJu.
Geo. NJ. Anderson, one of our popular
druggists, is papering his storeroom and
painting the building, which is "a great
improvement TO both. l. is Il singular
fact that all of the gentlemen engaged in
the drug business are minus help mate,
and all certainly old enough to take care
of one if they so desire. 1t was supposed
that business WAS brisk enough during
"la grippe to at least put some of them
in the notion. | would not have you infer
that none or all of them do not have
ladies that they admire.
J. c. Kidd aud his niece, Miss Mary
Kidd, of Houston, Texas, are visiting rel.
atlves in and near town. Mr.. Kidd goes
to Cape May next week to attend the
convention of railroad auditors.
The Young Peoples Temperance AS
ISOLATION at their regular semi annual
election Tuesday night, elected Miss Lii
lie Butchenhart, president; Miss BESSIE
BrickIey, vice president; Miss Annie Lyon
secretary, and Clifford keatley, treasurer.
From the arrangements made by those
in charge of Mt. Ararat and Happy Val
ley Park for July 4th we are promised a
day of attraction at this favorite resort.
An Grafton by one of our young citizens,
who has been on the stump for seine
years. at about l z. NJ. Instrumental
|I,,,, -, h.,
the De Moss Family. At night the De
Moss Family give a concert in the town
hall. The committee have a number of
special policemen to preserve order, and
no disturbance of any character will be
allowed on the grounds. ii.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-05

been said by the President to an old
friend, who urged him to exert his
influence in favor of free silver coinage,
and that journal adds:
"The President has expressed similar
intention 10 other personal and political
friends. There seems, therefore. no
reason to doubt President HarriSon'S
intentions as to his plans for the
future"
That the Critic is satisfied the Pre-
sident said this, is no doubt true, or
that he said it in the frank confidence
of friendship, with the understanding
that friendship demanded such confid-
ence should be sacredly respected, is
possibly true. But that MIR. Harrison,
whose dignifed retlcence with regard
to every matter nearly affecting him self
has been so marked and so commenda-
BILE, should at this time declare his in
tentions as to the Presidential succession
in any public manner, or except under
the seal of friendly confidence to a
friend in the assured belief that that
confidence would not be abused, is
most improbable. If the President
SAID, as it is stated by the Critic he
did, that he was not the Chief Execu-
tive officer OF the Nation for the pur
pose of acting in the interest of him
self or of his party, but solely in the
interests of the whole country and the
whole people, he would have said only
that which all that he has done as Pre-
sident would confirm.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-05

shall embezzle or appropriate to hus own
state.
THE counsel for the defendant in
error admits that the language OF the
title is broad enough to include the
Treasurer, and, although the title will
not be permitted to control the express
language if somewhat obscure or doubt.
full it may be considered To aid in the
Interpretation of tho act and thereby
give to the enaoting clause IA meaning con
sisteut rather than at variance with the
clear title OF the act. So if there be any
doubt as the precise meaning of the Ian
guage used in the body of the act now
before us, which we by no means con-
ceds, yet when construed i'll connection
with its title we are forced to the conclu-
sion that the Legislature mean to provide
for the punishment of every officer who
shall embezzfe funds belorg ing to the
state and which he was bound to paw
over or deliver to any person lawfully au
thOTiZed to receive the same.
"Any other construction would it seems
to US, do violence not only to the plain
and unambIgunus words of the statute
itself, but would in a measure defeat the
wise, salu'ary purposes for which it was
passed. The object of the statute was to
protect the state against loss from en-
bezzlement OF state funds by state off .
GERS. and it would be strange indeed that
the Legislature should provide for the
punishment of all officers except the
Treasurer, who is the most important
financial officer of the state, and by the
official misconduct of whom the state
might suffer the greatest loss and injury.
To such strained and narrow construc
tion as this we cannot agree. Judgement
reversed and cause remanded
The announcement that the Cours of
Appeals had set aside Judge Stewards
decision caused much talk about the
Court house and among legal lights
yesterday. The decision OF the highest
court of the state in the matter had been
looked forward to with great deal of
interest, and the setting aside of Judge
Ssewalt's opinion was not unexpected.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-05

The Washington Critic which origin
ally published the story to the effect
that President Harrison had definitely
stated that he would not be candidate
for denomination, has repeated it upon
the alleged authority of a gentleman OF
the highest respectability, who is
named, and to whom it is said the Pre-
sident stated his intentions. This state
ment, as originally published by the
Critic, is as follows:
II am not here for the purpose of
acting in the interest of myself or of my
party, but in the interest of the whole
country and the people. When my
term is out 1 expect to return 20 India
napolis and resume the practice of
law"
This the Critic republishes as having