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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
PETS OF NOTED PEOPLE.
Fondness Shown by Famous Men anc
Women for Dumb Creatures.

Fondness Shown by Famous Men and
Women for Dumb Creatures.
A volume could be filled with inter-
esting narratives of the fondness mani
tested by famous men and women for
pets among dumb creatures. Robespierre,
the bloodiest of wretches, had genuine
passion Cor doves and pigeons; Sir Isaac
Newton dallied with pet poodle; Dick
Whittington's cat is immortal; Addison
confessed to love for birds, and so did
Victor Hugo land some of Hugo's sweet
est lyrics are of BIRDS; Scott enjoyed
dogs as much as Goethe (the heartless
creature) hated them; Bismarck, too,
is an enthusiastic dog fancier; the Brit
ish Queen makes pampered pets of
Jersey cows; one Of our eX-Presidents is
devoted to poultry; Henry Irving's con-
slant attendant is foXhound; Modjeska
used to carry two pet alligators with
her; Sara Bernhard became devoted to
tiger-whelp Gladstone wept like
child when his famous parrot died;
Stoddard, the poet, is devoted to little
blind terrier; Julian Hawthorne has
pet crow and hawk that dwell in har-
horse as madly as many men at the
present time love the most faithful
brute servitors George Francis
Train feeds sparrows, and when he
visited Carlsbad many years ago,
Schiller used to wander beside the Tepl
and throw bread crumbs to the perch
and trout in that pretty stream; Watts
had pet magpie which no tried for
many years to break of the vice of steal
ing; FIR. Prout petted chickens and John
Wilson dotted on the horse; James Iiogg
had always dog with him and so did
Hogarth and Reubens; Sam johnson
avowed prediction for cats, so did
Goldsmith and so did Leigh Hunt;
Ouida has a parrot, and Hannah More
was as fond of her bullfinch as Harriet
Martineau was of her purring tabby.
When he was a tailor in Tennessee,
Andy johnson made much of a pet coon,
and General Grants favorite was a
stanch saddle horse. Beecher loved
canary birds; the charming wife of ex-
President Cleveland became much at
tached to a marmoset; the same robin
has nestled in Whittier's orchard many
years. The late Henry Grady, of Geor-
gia, had an exceeding fondness for New
foundland dogs; Patti has monstrous
st. Bernard, and Aimee used to carry
miniature tan-terrier with her on her
tours. And SO the list might be ex-
tend column after column. One of the
prettiest little books for children is
Grace Greenwood's "IIistory of My
Pets" and the child is to be pitied who
has not wept over the touching story of
Rab and his friends.-Eugene Field, in
Chicago News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
HOMEMADE CARAMELS.
How to Make Sweets That Are Sure t
Re Pure and Harmless.

How to Make Sweets That Are Sure to
BE Pure and Harmless.
Our candy was to be sold Tor cent a
stick, but the sticks were not scanty
little ships by any means. Mrs. Cart
wright made us present of the molas-
ses, Lois brought the sugar from home;
AL Fay brought the saleratus, Patty
remembered about the vinegar, and
Marjorie produced the butter.
These were the ingredients: half
gallon of New Orleans molasses, cup
OF vinegar, piece of butter as large as
two eggs, good teaspoonful of salera-
tus disSo' we'd in hot water.
We melted the sugar in the vinegar,
stirred it into the molasses, and let it
come to the boil, stirring steadily. The
boys took turns at this work.
When the syrup began to thicken we
dropped in the saleratus, which makes
it clear; then Touring our hands, each
took a position, and pulled it till it was
white.
Tho longer we pulled, the whittier it
grew. We ate some of it, but we girls
were quite firm in saving half for our
sale.
Then we made maple-sugar caramels.
Have you ever tried them? They are
splendid. You must have maple sugar
to begin with; real sugar from the trees
in Vermont if you can get it. You will
need a deep saucepan Then into o
quart of fresh sweet milk break two
pounds of sugar. Set it over the fire.
AS the sugar melts, it will expand.
Boil, boil, boil, stir, stir, stir. Never
mind if your face grows hot. One can
not make candy sitting in rocking
chair with fan. One doesn't calculate
to, as Great-Aunt Jessamine always says.
The way to test it when you think it
is done is to drop a portion in cold
water. If brittle enough to break, it is
done. Pour into square buttered pans,
and mark it off while soft into little
squares with a knife.
Some people like cream candy. 1t is
made in this way: Three large cupfuls
of loaf-sugar, six tablespoonful of
water. Boil, without stirring, in a
bright tin pan until it will crisp in
water like molasses candy. Flavor it
Will CooChCC vi 1CIiOIl VI Ndll1lld. JuoU
before it is done, add ono teaspoonful of
cream of tartar. Powder your hands
with flour, and pull it until it is per-
fectly white.
Plain Caramels: One pound of brown
sugar, a quarter of pound OF chocolate,
one pint of cream, one teaspoonful of
butter, two tablespoonfuls of molasses.
Boil for thirty minutes, stirring all the
time; test by dropping into cold water.
Flavor with vanilla, and mark off as
you do the maple caramels.
Homemade candy is sure TO be of good
materials, and will seldom be harmful
unless the eater takes a great quantity.
Then the pleasure of making it counts
for something Margaret E. Sangster,
in Harper's Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
PREHISTORIC ANIMALS.
Why They May DO Considered the True
Builders of the pyramids.

Builders OF tho pyramids.
All the magnificent buildings of Paris
arc made of limestone taken from quar-
ries near the city. These quarries arc
composed of layers made entirely from
the tiny shells of microscopic animals.
No less than one hundred and thirty
seven species exist in these limestone
beds. There were other little beings,
not so small, that did an enormous
share of bodybuilding. They have re-
ceived the namc "nummulities, from
the Latin word ''nummus," meaning
money" because their shells resemble
coins. In Germany they are commonly
called the devils money" They are
so perfectly formed that ono can not
help thinking, on first looking st them,
that they have been stamped with die.
In some places mountains of great
height are made of their shells. In
Egypt the layers are of such extent
that since centuries before Christ tho
rock mas been used for building pur-
poses. Tho ancient pyramids and the
Sphinx are made of this rock.
Beds of Ignite, kind Of half-fnished
coal. are also found among the rocks of
this age. With it is found the yellow
amber, which is only fossil resin from II
species of Pine tree. 1t is abundant on
tho shores of tho German ocean. In
sccts arc often found preserved IN it as
perfect as on the day they were impris-
oned, The first bee of all the ages was
found in amber, IAN embalmed corpse
in crystal coffin" With it were found
fragments of flower and leaf, as if the
resin dropped on tho flower upon which
the bee had alighted, and cnveloped
both-St Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
Tho Struggle of Life.

OF the great prizes of human life 1t is
not often the lot of tho most cnterpris-
ing to obtain many: they arc placed ON
opposite sides of the path, SO that it is
impossible to approach one of them
without proportionably rcceding from
another; whence it results that tho
wiscst plans are founded on compro-
misc between good and evil, where
much that is the object OF desire, the
aim and hope Of years, is finally roliu-
cuishod and abandoned in order to 50.
cure superior advantages. Robert Hall.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
A Little Vegetarian.

One little model, q fair little thing Of
nine years, told me. the other day that
she had only tasted meat once in her
life what do you eat?" l asked her
80, soup, and you make it like this:
First you put the water on to boil, and
when it's hot you go in the garden and
get some onions or green beans or a
piece of cabbage, and you put that in
and let it boil; then you put in some
crusts of bread and it's done" Then,
after an eloquent pause: 81 suppose
you have meat at tho hotel, and vegeta-
bles?' YES" l answered, but l was
ashamed TO tell her we had four kinds
of meat at one meal and vegetables and
dessert, and altogether ten times as much
as we could eat or had any right to
while she went without. Paris Cor,
Philadelphia TimeA
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
SLIMSEY'S LUCK.
He Wasted His Money and Got
Licked Besides.
Written for This Paperl.

OCCASIONALLY
misfortune tries
to find out how
many disaste rs
of assorted sizes
she can unload
on a single indi
vidual in a single
day. She tried
an experim Q n t
of this kind not
long since on a
young man who
went to Coney
with ten dollars
and his best Peri.
Although t b Q
season was draw
ing to a close
when the gate
on the pier was
opened, quite an
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
A New Florida Industry.

English Industries states that novel
business, resting strictly on chemical
principles and needing nothing but a
little capital and dash of dishonesty
to develop it, is said to DO practiced in
Florida. 1t consists in avoiding de-
pendcnce upon the slow and imperfect
ripening of lemons by the suns rays, by
picking the fruit while green and ex-
posing it to the fumes of burning sui
phur, whereby its color is changed to a,
rich golden yellow, infinitely more att
tractive than the natural hue. ut is'
true that the interior of the lemon is;
practically free from Juice, a fact which
the hypercritical might reckon slight,
drawback; but this is, after all, trivial
matter, affecting only the consumer" IN
the salve applied to the conscience.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31

avalanche of typical Coney Island re-
sorters poured over the gangway into
the steamboat. There were Harlemites,
East siders and people of both sexes,
and jewellers on Cherry Hill, and swells
from Pat DIVERS ward and the region
round about city hall, Italians from
Mulberry street, Ethiops from Bople-
ward de Thompson, Jews from Chatham
Square, girls from Macy's and other big
female shopping Kinks, sprinkling OF
wilted dudes, proselytes, strangers in
New York from the South and the hill
country round about New Jersey.
Several brigapdish-loollin Italians
were soon saving away at their fiddles
with as much earnestness as If the fid-
dies were the necks of belated travellers
in the Apennines, the object of the SER
enade being to afford the passengers an
opportunity to subsequently stab an up
turned hat with reluctant penny.
They were, however, only executing
Little Annie Rooney, but mixed up
with the agonized squeaks of the tor
tured fiddles were crescendo gasps and
B-lat gurgles of human voice. 1t
was not, however, the voice of Miss A.
Rooney, but the walls proceeded from a
gawky youth who was leaning far over
the rail, and talking earnestly to the
Atlantic ocean.
As the sea was very smooth the theory
of seasickness as the cause of the young
mans gastric disturbances was not seri-
ously entertained by the other passen-
gers, who made the sufferer the subject
of their gibes, one young man going SO
far as to say that he was reminded OF
the title of book he had read, entitled
Lifted Out of Himself"
There was, however, good Samaritan
on board, clerical-looking gentleman,
who, feeling for the young man, went
over to him and held his head until he
got through saying what he had to say.
Not been drinking, hope?"
Not touched drop" responded the
youth, whose features had somewhat re.
adjusted themselves, wiping his eyes.
The young man was touched by the
kindness of the stranger, and they be-
came quite confidential as the boat sped
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31
An Ancient Practice.

"Lynching was common in ancient
times, if one may Judge from the litera-
ture."
81 thought that was modern institu.
ton"
mo. haven't you read about the
'stringing up Of the lyre%" IN. Y.
Led0aS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-31

Bleecker-Why, hello, Joralemon! l
didn't recognize you at first with that
long beard. Wait one moment, till
brush off that cobweb from your coat.
Who're have you been the last three
years?
Joralemon-Moved over to Brooklyn,
you know, after got married.-Puck.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
STANLEY AND HIS AssAuANTs

The Stanley -Barttelot controversy has
progressed to a point which enables the
public, if not to pass a full judgment, at
least to begin to form an opinion on its
merits. A dispassionate opinion will be
likely to tend to the conclusion that, while
there is room for criticism as to acts in con-
nection with the expedition, the grayest
fault has been in permitting a controversy
to grow to its present bitterness simply from
the failure of the disputants to make little
charitable allowance for each other.
1t is quite probable that Stanley, in CON-
mand of an expedition in the interior of
Africa, may be imperative and peremptory
in urging forward the work he has in hand.
We may recognize that the suduiter in n1odo
very narrow view which fails to see that
without such impetuous energy j. is not
likely that any man could have accom-
plished what Stanley has done. Living
stones kindly and patient nature often
hampered his work under circumstances
which perhaps the rougher policy of Bur-
ton, Baker and Stanley would have con-
quered. 1t is worth while to remember, too,
that, while the character of Stanley's eIpe-
dition required an iron discipline. there is no
man in the world whose orders would be
more entitled to prompt and unquestioning
obedience, or whose judgments should have
more absolute weight than Stanley's in the
heart of Africa.
On the other hand, it is not only to be
recognized that to a man of such temper as
Barttelot seems to have been, Stanley's per-
emptory orders would prove CALLING, and
would be likely to cause such evidences Of
discomfort as are found in his diary. 1t is
also plain that the lieutenants whom Stanley
left at Yambuya found themselves after his
departure in a position of great difficulty.
That the difficulties would not have been
insuperable to Stanley is proved not only
by his previous career, but by the fact that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
CHANGES IN CoNGREss.

The precise proportions of the Democratic
tidal wave throughout the country are not
known yet but enough returns are at hand
TO make it certain that the Democratic
majority in the House of Representatives
will be not less than 140-quite sufficient for
business purposes! Some of the other as
Sured results are equally astonishing. In
Kansas the Republican State Committee
conceded last night that Mr.. Ingalls, will be
able to study the relations of the deealogue
and politics without interruption by call
10 the United States Senate. In other words
the Democrats and Farmers Alliance of
Kansas control the State Legislature. 1t is
also certain that a similar TRANSFORMATION
has occurred IN Illinois, and Senator
FarweIl's place will fall to General
Palmer, who has conducted red-hot cam
paign for that reward. The total gain of
the Democrats in the United States Senate
is five, net gain of ten, and includes sena-
torships in New Hampshire, New York, L.
liuois, Wisconsin and Kansas The mere
+ CT of such radical and general changes
in the complexion OF Congress is astonish-
Ing enough, without considering the infinite
train Of possibilities in consequence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
THE GENERAL SHAKE-UP.

The gentle Indian summer put in its de-
laved appearance yesterday, just in time,
doubtless, to soothe a good many of the
asperities growing out of the chilling cleo
ion weather The hilarity OF the majority
who win, equally with the disappointment
of the minority who lose, soon gives place to
the influence @ the thousand other events of
everyday life. BY the time the Thanks
givIrC turkey is served, Democrat and Re
publican, winner and loser, will find about
an equal appetite and mood to do justice to
the occasion.
There is, of course. lots of political moral
zinC Just now on the fate of parties and of
leaders; hut much of this, also, shows too
perceptiblv the diverse influences OF the in
tense sunshine or the intense shadow, as
may be, which, according 10 the point of
view, overspreads the immediate political
horizon.
What is evident alike to all is that the
political kaleidoscope has been thoroughly
shaken up from one end of the country to the
other. Some distinguished figures have
gone, with McGintv, to the bottom of the
sea; others have but temporarily disap-
peared, and may bob up serenely" later on;
new candidates for distinction have come to
the front; and the satisfactory knowledge
behind the whole grand transformation
scene is that it is the sovereign people who
are the stage managers, and in their hands
always reposes the power to provide for en-
frances and exits. When they don't like
the performance, it takes only twelve hours
OF a single autumn day to make all the
changes they wish in the cast.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
Mt. washington's wretched Roads.

To the Editor of The Dispatch.
What does Mr.. Bigelow, chief, and Mr..
Fording, SUBJ and Mr.. Shook, sub. sub, mean
by permitting the main road, and only road.
from Mt Washington to the lower portion Of
the city to get into the condition in which it is?
II the supply of gas runs short, and there are
fair prospects of it. the coal supply for that
portion of the hill districts must be hauled
over this road, and it is now IN all almost i'm
passable condition. Charity is said to begin at
home, and if The DISPATCH would display as
much energy in criticlsing the roads and streets
OF this city as it has the county roads, we might
have some reform.
Does Mr.. Bigelow serve the interests of the
taxpayers by having stone broken for the
public roads by the old method of stone ham,
mers when every city of enterprise and every
prlva.e contractor uses steam crushers? If Mr..
Blgelow keeps an account or the cost of broken
stone by his old methods, and then advertises
for bids OF the ready prepared material, he will
md that 81 will go as far SS does by the pres
ent methods, and the steam crushed material
Will make better roads. / will venture to say
that the famed DISPATCH exploring expedi-
ton never passed over worse roads than we
now have in this CITY, and if roads are to be i'm
gent (?) road engineers, they will only grow
worse If the experience of Pittsburg is worth
anything. The middle of the road in many
places is fully two feet lower than the sides.
and every rain in making it worse. The next
thing will be alarge landslide, and what was
once a good road will be utterly impossible
until the city expends large amount of money
to restore it. TAXPAYER,
PITTsBURG, November 6.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
NEW YoRK,s TORPID CITIZENS.

In New York City over 10000 OF those
registered failed to vote. 1t goes without
saying that by far the smallest proportion
OF these abstainers was in the Tammany
ranks The late reform movement in that
city, to divorce municipal affairs from poll
tics, was too much split up to be effective
against the disciplined Tammany phalanx
The New York Ereniag Post is very much
downcast, and says OF the situation: There
IS hardly a ray of comlorg in it-political,
moral or economical. Our present
situation is a sight for Christendom. Ii we
had a competitive show of municipalities
we should take the prize against the whole
civilized world for corruption and ignorance
and audacity." Ii then predicts Tammany's
increasing corruption until there comes a
loud demand for change in the city char
ter and a limiting OF the Mayors power Of
appointment.
The loud demand" often accomplishes
little, as the Post has learned. 1t is only
when the principle upon which is grounded
the demand has penetrated the rank and
file that the people back up their demands
with votes. There is, indeed, reason to be-
lieve that the residents of New York CITY
are not so thoroughly alive to the best gov
erument Of that great and misgoverned
municipality as their own best interest
should prompt them to be. To wrest victory
out o. apparent defeat is peculiarly the
prerogative Of people with strong convictions
and dauntless hearts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
PLAYS TO COME.

hartley CAMPBELLs best effort, THE
White Slave, will commence a weeks engage
ment at the Bijou Theater next Monday night
The cast will include the charming and beauti-
full emotional actress, Miss Mary Newman; the
famous character actress, Miss Marie Bates,
and several others of the original cast. The
production will be under the able management
of Mr.. Harry e. Kennedy. A strong company
will present it this season. and the scenery will
be new. The explosion of the vessel and the
rainstorm of real water are most realistic. The
sale of seats commences this morning.
The Hanlon Brothers commence a weeks
engagement at the Opera House next Monday
evening with their ''Superba." This produc-
tion represents the labor of years. Even while
"Fantasms" was crowding the theaters ID every
large city in the country, the brothers were de-
visiug schemes which are now utilized with
good results. The regular Wednesday and Sat
urday matinees Will be gwen during their en-
gagement.
STRAUSS and his orchestra are here They
are all ready for the two concerts to-day-in
the afternoon at the Grand Opera House and
in the evening in Old City Hall. The advance
sale of seats has been immense, and there will
be two packed houses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
IRISH LEADERS sHADoWED.

The Tory Government in England always
has plenty of money to spend on ireland,
when it is to be paid out Tor coercing the
peassntry or harrassing the Nationalist
leaders. Under the Balfour regime the
leaders OF the Irish national movement have
been shadowed by detectives, not only in
Ireland, but when tbev were attending
Parliament in London, or seeking recrea-
tiou on the Continent. The victims have
been aware of this espionage all the time,
and have laughed at it, They have had no
difficulty in giving the sleuth hounds the
slip whenever it has been desirable, as was
recently shown by the escape of Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien. Even in this country
detectives are said to be shadowing
Dillon and O'Brien wherever they 60.
OF course the detectives will learn less than
the newspapers publish about our Irish
visitors, and the only satisfactory part of
the whole business is chat the money Mr..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-07
WELCOME FOR A GRAND CAUSE.

The Irish members of Parliament who are
visiting this country with view to explain
ing the political situation in Ireland to their
friends here and raising funds for use in the
cause of Home Rule, have not yet
been invited formally to Pittsburg.
A movement is now on foot to
extend such a formal invitation, and
from the interviews which we publish else
where it may be judged how general and
hearty is the desire to make Messrs. Dillon,
O'Brien. O'Connor and their companions
welcome to this city. Mayor Gourley very
properly has interested himself in the mat
ter, and it is pretty certain that PIttsburg
will have chance at no distant date to ex-
press her sympathy-in cash and otherwise
with the cause Gladstone and Parnel are
fighting SO splendidly for.