The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT luCamcle. IN 1udJeInald, J0e
boys in a school recently seized the
master and hanged him in the school
house.
AT Potstown, Pa, there is family
of five women whose tastes are so di2.
ferent that they have established a rule
requiring each one to do her own cook
ing.
"A Philadelphia undertaken who has
much use for his telephone has had it
rugged up on a dumb-waiter arrange
ment so he can answer a call from any
part of the house.
"A very sensible public gift is that
Of Milton George to the city of Chicago,
by which 800 acres of valuable land are
transferred to the city for the use of an
industrial training school for boys.
It's concentration of thought that
tells in our daily endeavor. Just watch
the face of the small boy when he is
taking aim at tramp cat.-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
"A Minnesota schoolma' am, reported
devoured by wolves, comes up smiling a
week after her bones were picked, and
explains that she simply took weeks
vacation to get married in.-Detroit
Free Press.
AT Pittston there is a man who says
he was never i'll minute. He explains
his good health by the fact that his
mother sewed a rabbits paw in his
clothing when he was baby, and he
has never been without it on his person
since.
1t was observed long ago that the
glass of windows on Cape Cod had been
ground and bored through by the wind
driven sands, and the soft sandstone
bluffs and towers of the Rocky Noun
tains bear evidence of having been
shaped in some degree by the same
agency.
"A Hartford physician remarked that
he could generally tell, before starting
out to see his patients, how he would
find them-in a general way-solely by
the state of the weather and the direc-
ton of the wind; if the wind was north
west, he expected to find them respond
ing to its reviving touch.
Boys at school usually sympathize
with a companion who is being birched,
and those in a Maysville, Cal, school
proved to be no exception until the
offending lad hit the teacher-a woman.
Then they took the chastising in their
hands, and, to use the words of local
paper, they wiped the floor up with
the lad.
Don't bring me any green pict-
ures," said dealer to well known
artist by way of caution the other day.
81 know they are pretty and fine and all
that, but they won't sell, and that's all
there is about it. People want sunsets
and storms and things of that sort, with
lively colors in them, and they won't
buy green landscapes nowadays"
-One-cent pieces are not much in
favor in San Francisco. Few are in cir
culation there, and, it is said, that
"those few are kept within forty feet of
the post-office. They go in at the stamp
window at the rate of So or 81 a day.
They are carried from there to the
Money Order Department., where they
are used for making change. They
never get outside the post-office door,
but Immediately find their way to the
stamp-window again.
"A triangular bit of land outside the
borough limits of Stonington, Conn, is
an old family burying ground. The yard
shows neglect, bushes are growing
therein, while the walls in many places
have fallen down, and the entire sur
roundings indicate that the dead quietly
reposing there have been long since for
gotten. One marble monument there
has an inscription that shows that the
dead deserved better fate than obliv-
ion. 1t reads: when Rhode Island, by
her legislation from 1874 to 1850, repu-
dated her revolutionary debt, DR..
Richmond removed from that State to
this borough and selected this as his
family burial plot, unwilling that the
remains of himself and family should be
disgraced by being part of the common
earth of repudiated State"