The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

shoes are the most satisfactory.
The small ! was originally written
without the dot, but this was added in
the fourteenth century, as means of
distinguishing q from in hasty and in
distinct writing.
Tho most valuable metal in the
world is said to be gallium, which is
worth $3.50 an ounce. Calcium brings
ST. 500 a pound, and cerium $1,920 per
pound. Gold is worth S240 pound.
-Tomson-''I generally carry an UNI
brella when it looks like rain" Sam
son-"You likewise carry one when it
doesn't look like rain. You carried one
away from my house the otherday when
there wasn't a cloud in tho sky. Yam
kee Blade.
"A watch for blind people has been
invented in Switzerland. In the middle
of every figure is small peg, which
drops when the hour hand reaches the
figure. The owner feels that the peg
is down, and counts back to twelve tc
determine the hour.
i. n. Blankinship, of Marion, Mass,
has clock which was made in 1882.
The works are of brass and the clock
keeps as good time as it did when it
was made. 15S years ago, but the ac-
counts vary as to the kind of time it
kept in 1882.
Mrs. Youngbride-"Andn now what
else have you got that would be nice?"
Grocer-"Well, mum, there's some very
fine eggplant" Mrs. Youngbride-
80, yes; do send up an egg plant.
Clarence is SO fond of omelette. -
America.
Fully three-fourths of the babies Of
the world go naked until they get to be
five or six years old. The Canadian In
dams keep their babies naked up to a
certain point, and as for the little
Coreans, they wear nothing but a short
skirt until they are as old as our school
boys.
"A retired English army officer OF
means is on tour through the Western
States of America. When he sat down
to dinner day or two ago ne met with
quite surprise. The waiter who took
his order was his son, who had run away
from homo to scalp Indians some seven
years ago.
"A well known lawyer of Toronto
who is about to be married ordered his
wedding suit, whereupon it was attached
by lady to whom he owed 81, the pay
ment of which he had Systematically
evaded. His wedding garments are now
in the hands of court official, and will
be put up at auction if the matter is not
settled.
Anxious Mother-My dear, it's per-
fectly abominable tho way the M on hug
you at these hotel hops. Now, look at
that couple coming this way. See how
respectfully that gentleman treats the
lady he is dancing with. He holds her
almost at arms length" Pretty Daugh-
ter--"But, ma, they are married, N.
y. Weekly.
Can you do any thing with my aa.
count to-day, sir?" asked a collector.
I'D like to pay it," replied Gazzam,
''but the fact is haven't any gold coin,
and the doctors declare that the notes
carry the microbes about. One can't be
too careful, you know and under the
circumstances | wouldn't pay you with
notes for all the world"
The average velocity of tho Gulf
Stream is about three miles. yet there
are places where it attains speed OF
fifty-four miles, per hour. Through the
Gucatan Channel, the current is only
about onefourth of mile per hour. In
the Straits of Bemin, however, it has q
breadth of fifty miles, a depth of about
2,0O0 feet. and velocity of between
four and five miles.
p. Thompson, of Pine Canyon, Cal,
cut bee tree. and in taking out the
honey he found several hawks eggs in
corporated in different layers of comb.
The comb had been built around the
eggs in such a manner as to leave them
in the center. Evidently there had
been contest as to the right of posses
sion between bird and insect, and the
latter had settled the case without re-
course to tho courts.
Years ago Ruskin vented his spleen
against all kinds of cycles thuswise: 81
not only object but am quite prepared
to spend all my best bad language
in reprobation of hi, tri- and
A., j., g. or 7-cycles, and every inven-
ton for superseding human feet on
Gods ground. TO walk, to run. to leap,
and to dance are the virtues of the human
body: and neither to stride on stills.
wriggle on wheels, or bangle on ropes,
and nothing in the training of the hui
man mind with the body will ever SUI
persede the appointed Gods ways of
slow walking and hard work ing"
"A game hen died on L. w. CANDLES
place. at Cuthbert, Ga. This hen had
reached the age of fourteen years, lack.
ing only few weeks. She continued
to lay eggs until year before she died.
For several months she had been totally
blind, but was fed and watered regu-
larly by Miss Mary Gamble. In 1886,
when Mr.. Gamble moved to Macon, this
hen was carried there, and brought
back when he returned to Cuthbert In
the spring of 1882, when the cyclone
struck Mr.. Candles place and tore
things up, this old hen was setting in a
box on the kitchen hearth. The kitch-
en- was blown away, the chimney was
missing, but the hearth remained, and
there sat the old hen in her box, as
composed as if nothing had happened.
Guided Grant and Sheridan.
had as guide on the battlefield OF
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