The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS,

California fruits are shipped in large
quantities to England, where they are
very popular.
One of the curiosities found BY the
census enumerators in Madison County,
Georgia, is boy nine years old who has
never been given a name by his parents.
Proprietor of country hotel Ito serv-
ANITA stranger has arrived. Make a
fire in No. A." Servant-"A big fire,
sir?" Proprietor-''No, he is a little
bit of fellow"
If there is any thing that exceeds
all else for appallingness it is the situa-
ton of a man who gets caught in a rain
storm in a flannel shirt that is already
too tight for him. Washington Post.
AT Chisamba. Africa, the young peo-
Pile have asked the missionary to raise
flag Saturday evenings, that they
may know that the next day is Sunday
and come to the meetings.
"A wild westerner attended church
in Winnigep, Manitoba, for the first
time in twenty yeass, and during the
service lit pipe and enjoyed smoke.
He was fined $40 for disturbing worship.
"A New York woman who is suing
for divorce because of failure to pro-
vide stated that when her eight children
were in need of shoes her husband sent
her basket of flowers and lot OF his
own poetry.
Ever had cyclone here?" asked a
Kansas man who was visiting coR2Sy
aunt in the East. so, yes" said his
aunt. deacon Browns son brought
one from Boston spell ago; bu;, law,
he couldn't ride it. Tumbled off every
time he tried. Golden Days
An obliging clergyman in Aroos-
took, Me-, was lately called upon by
loving young couple who were DESTROYS
of going to housekeeping. The clergy
man married them, and thel thought of
asking their ages. The brid is fourteen
| and the groom one year older.
The first steam vessel which sailed
on the Mississippi was in $40, and the
enterprise was considered eXtraordin-
airy. In 1926 the steam navigation on
the river had so improvedin respect to
facility and quickness tat fifty-one
boats, of 2s, 916 tons, were employed.
The two hotels which Waldorf Astor
has decided to build in New York are
not intended for transient guests, but
for rich families, such as can afford to
pay So, 600 to $1,000 year for a suite
of rooms and board, and it is believed
that there are enough OF this class to
fill both houses.
"A well-known London lady of rank
has just had pair of ten-button gloves
made in which each button is a dia-
mond. The pair cost 5000. Gentlemen
in London are now wearing mousque-
taire gloves which go higher than the
elbow
The kola nut, of which good deal
has been said lately" writes the Lon.
don correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, sis rapidly increasing in
favor as an indispensable adjunct to a
travellers kit. The French Alpine Club
have just adopted it as stimulant and
nutrient in their Notwithstanding ex-
petitions"
An athletic Cuban negro, about
thirty years of age, escaped the other
night in Boston from a strong cell d
police headquarters. Reaching between
the bars of his door he pried off the face
of huge paddock with case knife and
the wire handle of a bucket, pushed
back the bolt and opened the door. He
got through a corridor window to the
top of a shed, dropped to the ground,
climbed fence or two and was off for
parts unknown.
Two Cincinnati women thought they
would make a fortune by opening res
taurant and hanging out sign Home
Cooking Here" But the patronage was
so poor that they were threatened with
bankruptcy, when recently-married
man advised them to change the sign so
as to read ''No Home Cooking Here"
They are now doing q rushing business,
and will soon retire with fortune.
"A police officer of this city has de-
vised an ingenious mode of signaling for
the patrol wagon. He has brass plate
fixed in the end of his club, having an
opening of suitable shape to correspond
with and act as a key or wrench to turn
the lever that sends in the alarm. This
opening also serves as mouth-piece to
whistle set in the base of the club.
This is most practical device, for the
subjects Of arrests are, as rule, neither
obliging nor amiable, and certainly not
prone to remain peaceful and inactive
while an officer is extracting his keys
from his pocketto send in an alarm
Chicago News.
Thunderstorm lore is thus made
plain by the Cincinnati Enquirer: If you
can count three slowly-that is, one
count to the second-between the flash
of lightning and the peal of thunder,
you may know that destruction has not
been wrought in your own locality. The
flash and the crash are really simultane-
GUS, only the light of the former travels
much more swiftly than the sound sef
the latter. If it takes three seconds for
the noise of the thunder to reach you,
then the storm is 3,270 feet-two-thirds
OF mile-away. But when the flash
and the peal come close together, then
shake yourself to see if you are hit.
Women Who Draw Mems Salaries.
The writer was in downtown bust
ness Office talking to the cashier. Three