The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-09-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

California peaches will be eaten
this season chiefly.
There are thirty-five men in Suffolk
still employed in making gun fiints, or
''flint-knapping," as they call it, for the
use of the remote savages, who have
succeeded to the long discarded flint
guns and pistols of civilization.
The Oxford County Advertisers
Bethel correspondent recently saw sew
kites 50, the common, among them be-
ing yirominent physician and justice
Of the Supreme bench.
Tho ancient lawgivers who went so
far as to make a periodical fast day
religious duty knew what they were
about" says the American Rural Home,
in suggesting fasting as means of
warding off an attack of dyspepsia.
-A.-'Will you measure this picture
for me?" B.-''With what?" A.-'Take
the yard-stick. It's on the table" b.
(measuring)-''A yard; o, dear! o, dear"
A.-"Well, how long is it?" B.-"I
don't know; the yard-stick isn't long
enough. detroit Free Press.
"A man was brought to the hospital
at Eastburn, London, who had driven
four nails into his skull three or four
inches deep. He suffered from severe
headache and took that means to cure
it. The nails were extracted with diff
Guilty.
The leaves of the pawpaw tree are
employed by the negroes in washing
linen, as substitute for soap. They
have also the property of rendering
meat wrapped in them tender, owing to
the alkaloid papain which they contain,
and which acts as a solvent.
Teacher Ito class in arithmetic
John goes marketing. He buys two
and a quarter pounds of sugar at eleven
cents pounds, two dozen eggs at six
teen cents dozen and gallon and a
half Of milk at twenty cents a gallon.
What does it all make?" Smallest boy
(hugging himself ecstatically)-"Cust-
ard"
AS the law of Aberdeen required it,
cab driver was prosecuted, convicted,
and fined five shillings, or three days
imprisonment, for smoking pipe on his
cab, not while driving fare, but while
he was standing on the lookout for one.
By the municipal laws and regulations
of Aberdeen the smoking of pipe by a
cab driver is criminal offense.
1t appears that there are forty-seven
bridges of upwards of 400 feet span in
the world. The United States has by
far the largest proportion of these, or
twenty-nine in all OF the total, nine
are cantilever bridges, seven arch
bridges, four stiffened suspension
bridges, nineteen are truss bridges, two
tubular girder bridges, and six draw
bridges.
AT Guthriesville, Pa, mad dog
attacked the little son of Mrs. Gibbons,
but before the child was bitten the
pet dog of the family rushed upon the
rabid animal and put him to fight, but
not till after a severe fight, in which
the family dog was badly bitten and
lacerated. The boy escaped without
harm. The dog that so nobly sacrificed
itself had to be killed.
An American missionary from India
says that there is chance in Madras
and Bombay for number of bright
skilled American dentists. Madras is 6
city of 100000 population, and has not q
single American dentist. People some
times travel from there to Bombay
nearly thousand miles, in order tc
have tooth filled. There is only one
good dentist in Bombay, and he refuses
to fill teeth with gold, using sort OF
cement that is not lasting. He charges
$3.50 for pulling tooth.
While the public debt is decreasing
in the United States the reverse process
is under way in Canada. In 1867, at the
time of the establishment of the Domin
ion, its debt amounted to So per head
of the population, and that of the Uni
ted States to S62 per head. To-day the
United States debt, on the same basis
is about S14, and that of the Dominion
S4S. That is to say, while the per capita
Indebtedness OF the United States is
only quarter as great as it was twenty
three years ago, Canada's is more than
twice as large as it was then.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.