The Republican., 1890-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS,


will use the bicycle.
1t is worth knowing that a screw
hole in wood too large for the size OF
screw it is desired to use may be plugged
with a piece of cork driven tightly in,
and thereby be made to afford firm
hold for the screw.
Don't despise the ignorance" OF
our ancestors of the eighteenth century.
The things we boast of now will proba.
bly, be as far behind the times in 1890 as
the works and ways of 1890 are to-day.
Modesty is the lesson of history.-In-
ventive Age.
Philadelphia boys saturated rag
with gasoline from the public lamps
and by inhaling it in their nostrils be-
came intoxicated. The police detected
them in this new and novel scheme Of
juvenile dissipation and arrests have
followed.
Human nature is good deal like
dog nature. Whenever some other dog
wants the bone it becomes doubly pre-
cious; and when a man is about to lose
something upon which he has put slight
value, its worth goes skyward rapidly.
Rams Horn.
"A certain Gascon, boasting of his
travels, said that he had seen church
mile long. Surely, you are mis-.
taken" said his auditor. "Yes, and two
miles broad" replied the Gascon; -
should have made it square if you had
not doubted me."-London journal OF
Education.
Pretty women are attractive, pleas
ing, and agreeable to the sight; lively,
graceful, captivating, and beautifully
charming. Handsome women are beau.
tiful, charming, stately, statuesque,
sometimes cold and formal; fascinating,
though often distant. dignified and
proud. We like and love pretty women
Handsome women we admire and wor.
ship.-Omaha Republican.
Editor Ito Associate) )-"Why did
you accept this Spring poem?" Asso
ciate-"Well, sir, the blamed poet (for,
who does not blame him?l walked in
here with that poem in one hand and a
revolver in the other, and said l must
take the poem, or something worse. ]
told him didn't wish any thing worse
than tho poem, and took that. West
Shore.
part at Gainesville, Fla, where mon.
ster owl has taken up his abode in the
residence of DR.. Phillips, where he
called very early one morning and
perched himself on top of the frame of
picture hanging on the wall He
looked wise and said nothing except
when polled with a stick. At last ac-
counts he still remained guest of the
family.
-Poots, looking out of the window of
his sitting room, saw a man ascend the
steps of his residence whom he didn't
wish to receive. TO be candid, he was
bill collector. Calling the servant,
he bade him tell the man that he was
not at home. Did you tell him 1 was
out?" said Poots, when the servant re-
turned from answering the bell. Il did,
sir" did he appear to be in doubt
about it?' ''Not at all, sir; he said it
was lie. Texas Siftings
Two colored porters in Texas hotel
were about to wrestle with the large
trunk of a newly arrived stranger, when:
one of them took occasion to remark
'Dis heah trunk weighs at de leas'
twenty-five pounds more den free hum
dred pounds, and l KANT lift no moab
den FREQ hundred pounds" ''Nebber
mind, Sam," replied the porter; LESS
catch on and tote free hundred pounds
up de sta's and I'll be 'sponsible for de
rest."-Texas Siftings.
On drawing net Florida fisher
man succeeded in landing an alligator
and turtle. The alligator was nine
feet in length, while tho turtle was of
the loggerhead variety, and subsequent
weighing showed it to be eighty-five
pounds in weight. The back of the alli-
gator was broken in two places, while
one of the feet was almost severed from
the body.
"A widow of Miller County, Missouri.
who lives on farm, gave another woman
SIS to secure her husband. The man
was secured and warranted all right in
every respect, but the next morning
after the marriage he licked mis- bride,
stole the $50 she had saved up, and in
the night silently stole away to Nc
Mans Land, and now there are tive
women in that neighborhood who don't
speak to each other.
p. o. Sullivan, who lives about six
miles above the junction of the Middle
and South Fork of Boise, on the former,
killed black bear with knife a few
days since, says the Boise (Idaho) States
man. He had followed the bear for
several miles. 1t laid down beside a
rock and Sullivan crept up to it and
plunged big knife into vital part.
George Alexander, who is neighbor
and saw the bear when it was dead, was
in the city on Saturday last and related
the story. The bear was very large and
would weigh 500 pounds.
Among various expressions of in
telligence which often places the dog in
no mean place of comparison to his mas
ter, little habit developed by dog in
the suburbs is worth mentioning.
Whenever this dog becomes angry, in
stead of making an exhibition of his
temper he turns away from the offend
ing person as quickly as possible and
makes a bee line like flash to the
nearest brook. In few minutes he re-
turns dripping, but serene, without
trace of his former excitement in his
manner. His plunge has apparently