The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS.


dulged in a novel contest few days
ago to see which could clean chicken
in the shortest time. The celestial won
in twenty seconds and the fowl was still
kicking after being denuded of it's
feathers.
There is a six-year-old Chinese girl
in San Francisco that has blue eyes and
flaXen hair. That she is full blooded
Chinese was established in the course
of unsuccessful proceedings recently
taken by the authorities to have her
taken away from her parents on the
ground that she was a white child.
"A woman in Cleveland went to a
chiropodist and told him she was afflict-
cd with an in-growing toe nail. He di-
agnOsed the boot she wore and found a
roll of bills worn to fragments in the
toe. She aid him his fee and sent the
money to Washington to be redeemed.
She declares she must have hidden it
there in her sleep.
A horse in Macomb, Mich, has been
used to go to church every Sunday with
his owner for years. Last Sunday, for
reasons best known to himself, he left
the horse at home, and after services
went out and there stood the faithful
animal in his accustomed place by the
church, waiting for him, but without
the carriage.
Count Taafe, the Austrian prime
minister. is almost as taciturn man as
Grant was. lie is sparing of his words,
so that when he does speak in the
chamber he is listened to with unusual
interest He dresses most plainly and
in cool weather is usually wrapped up
in gray overcoat, with gray SLOUGH
hat on his head.
President Carnot eXpends from
$1,000 to IS, 900 each time that he gives
grand fete, such as society expects
him to furnish three or four times dur
ing the fashionable Paris season. His
official dinners for twenty-four people
at a time cost about 500 each. din
ner, followed by an open reception and
dance, costs from s., 800 to $1,000. All
these expenses come out of the allow
ance of G25, 900 francs annually provided
by the nation.
--"Waiterr' "Yaas, sah." ''Have
you some nice wheat cakes and maple
~ up titt'o, osiIl, DuG, DOoos L u NlSC
you not to eat 'em now" "Why not?"
"Bettah wait, sab, till it's a leetle
darker. De gloamin' is da bes' time
fob to eat dem wheat cakes an maple
syrup, sab" "Why?'' "Well, YOU see,
sab, de red ants done got into that
maple syrup an it's a good deal pleas
niger to eat it Just after dusk, sah''-
Detroit Free Press
Felix l.. Swald maintains that night
air from the outside is far more health
full than the vitiated, disease-l laden night
air of ordinary human dwellings. In
Germany successful experiments have
been tried in summer of having patients
with pulmonary disorders sleep all
night in the open air of the pine woods
Night air is no more harmful than day
air At any rate it is all we have to
breathe at night and it had better be
fresh and pure as possible.
1t is estimated that the British
mines will be exhausted in less than 600
to 500 years. 1t is further calculated
that drawing upon only one of her
fields, the Westphalian, Germany will
not exhaust that before the end of the
twenty-seventh century, but that by the
beginning of the year 5000 the big coal
fields of Bavaria and the Aachen and
the Silesian districts will also be en-
tirely used up. What will Europe do
for fuel then? Fall back on the timber
supply, of course. But the timber will
also be thing of the past.
"A young lady's exploits mentioned
by the Portland Oregonian: "a few
days since, Mr.. Kahn, the fur dealer,
while driving out of Empire City, Coos
Bay, met a young lady riding into town
with a rifle in her hand and the carcass
of a bear strapped across the horse be-
hind her saddle. The young lady was
Miss Charlotte Nichols, of Empire City,
who had started out to visit a place her
father owns in the country and took her
rifle along, and meeting the bear, shot
it. She is quite an expert with the
rifle, having killed number of deer.
"A Farmers Idea.-A farmer and
his wife, who had been doing Central
park the other day, stopped at the Fifth
avenue entrance as they came out and
turned for Il last look. ''Nice, isn't it?''
said the wife. Purity darned fine, and
no mistake" he heartily replied.
"Whats it wuth?" "Wall that's hard
to say, as | don't know what land
fetches by the acre round here, but I'll
tell we this. 1t we had this thing on our
farm jest as it stands l wouldn't take
cent lessen $1,000 for it, and I'd git
$4,000 if | could."-N. Y. World.
A Maine man in attendance at
camp meeting and in the attitude of
prayer was greatly annoyed by what
seemed an especially persistent mos
quito. First it perched upon his neck,
and his impulse was to fetch it a
whack, bnt sense of decorum re-
strained him, and he gently dislodged
it with his hand. Next he felt a tick
ling sensation on one of his ears, and up
went the other hand. 1t was not long
before the pest was again fooling
around the back of his neck. This time
the annoyance was too much for him,
and, with his eyes still closed, he made
a grab for it. What he caught was
feather from the hat of a young woman
who was devoutly kneeling behind him.
Absence of Mind.
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