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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06
ANOTHER MUSE.
How a Tenth One Was Added for the
Sake of $; Almetry.

a
Sake of So slmetry.
With many psople, all other consid
erations must yield to their notions of
symmetry, which often turn out to
mean mere balancing or measuring Of
one part with another, and not the
higher harmony of parts which some
times involve a little irregularity. The
artist finds that the symmetry of his
picture is helped by making the objects
which he represents on one side of the
canvas higher than those which he de-
picts on the other.
Not so, however, was it with worthy
man, by occupation carpenter, who
once had charge of the arrangements at
an exhibition given at country town in
aid of charity. A tableau was to be
given in which the editor of the local
news paper, who was poet of no little
reputation in the country around, was
to be shown seated in chair and sur
rounded by the muses..
| At the rehearsal, the young ladies
representing the muses. came upon the
stage, and took their places, five on one
side of the editor and four on the other.
''See here" said the director OF the
exhibition, there has got to be another
Of those girls"
Another muse!" said one of the
ladies'; ''why there are nine of us.
Didn't you know there were only nine
muses?"
Cant help that" said the carpenter;
symmetry requires ten muses-fve on
each side!"
So another young lady was decked
out, largely in copies of the editors
newspaper, and made to represent the
muse of Journalism!-Youth's Compan
| ion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06
NOTES IN GENERAL.

A DRUNKEN wretch in Chicago so
abused and starved his wife that she
died, when he sold her body to medi-
cal college and had a protracted spree
on the proceeds.-Union Signal.
No MATTER how paralytically inc
briated man may be when picked up
by the ST. Louis police, they always ex-
tract from him his name and address
"by pinching the sinew that runs on
the inside of the knee" 1t is better
recipe than that of clubbing the soles of
a PROSTATE citizens shoes.-Albany
Argus.
THE Austie's limit of health was two
ounces of alcohol day. This quantity
would increase the pulsations of the
heart FIVE thousand beats, and diminish
the exhalation of carbonic acid from
the lungs twelve per cent. The people
of England, according to statistics, are
using on an average over three ounce.
daily OF alcohol.-Journal of Inebriety.
Now 1T turns out that all the blame
for the recent mine horror in Pennsyl-
vania rests upon the shoulders of a
uTC-DOSo WIN " 90 wv
to lcok after his duties. Men in whose
hands are intrusted the lives of others
can not be allowed to get drunk, and
fire bosses will have to be added TO
railroad engineers on the teetotal list.
Inter Ocean.
THE following is, says the Australian
Sunday-School Teacher, from a boys
essay on total abstinence: 81 abstain
from alcoholic drinks, because, if l
would excel as cricketer, Grace says,
abstain as walker. Weston says,
abstain as an oarsmLn, Hanlon says,
'abst"in;' as swimmer, Webb Lays,
'abstain;' as an orator, Bright sayf., ABB
STAIN as a missionary, Livingston. says,
abstain as a doctor, Clark says
abstain as preacher, FarrAr says,
abstain Asylums, prisons asnd work.
houses repeat the cry, 'abstainr We
have heard long speech with less in it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06
CONCERNING THE DIET.
What You Eat Matters Little If You A
tain Certain Results.

What You Eat Matters Little If You At
tain Certain Results.
The human system requires a certain
quantity of carbon and of nitrogen to
keep up the equilibrium of health, re-
marked a physician to a Telegram re-
porter. The healthy man needs 300
grains of nitrogen and 4,6O0 grains of
carbon daily, to supply the waste that
takes place during the twentyfour
hours. He should select diet which
can supply as near as possible the
proper amount of each Of these sub
stances. 1t mat tiers little whether he
eats vegetables or meat, so long as he
achieves the result. It is very possible, as
vegetarians contend, that well-selected
vegetable diet is capable of bringing
The greater number of individuals
to the highest physical development
Of which they are cap able, but it would
be difficult for the majority of working
men to get the proper diet of vegetables
all the year round, and mixed diet,
partly vegetable and partly animal, is
most sensible.
Most men eat too much meat. l know
some people who live almost entirely
npon it. The proper proportion is about
one part of meat to three of vegetables.
One thousand grains of meat contain
about 100 grains of carbon and 300 of
nitrogen. Therefore to obtain the 1000
grains of carbon which a mans system
requires no less than six and half
pounds of meat must be consumed daily,
while the requisite 800 grains of nitro
rem are contained in one and half
pounds of meat, consequently three or
Jour times more meat must be consumed
20 supply the carbon that is necessary
20 furnish the nitrogen.
One thousand grains of bread contain
800 grains of carbon and ten of nitro
rem. In other words, to obtain the
requisite amount of nitrogen for the
system. on diet of bread alone one
would have to consume exactly double
The quantity of carbon required. A
short calculation shows that two pounds
Of bread and three quarters of a pound
Of meat just about compensate for the
daily drain on the system of healthy
man.
Beef and mutton usually contain Is
per cent. of carbonaceous and 20 per
cent. of heterogeneous material. Potatoes
have "a per cent. carbonaceous and 2 OF
heterogeneous material, very nearly the
proportion the system requires. Oat'
meal has &C carbonaceous and 16 nitro
genous parts, and, taken alone, is bet
! ter article of food than beef as regards
the requirements of the system.
SKINNED milk contains carbon anC
nitrogen in about equal quantities.
Oatmeal and good milk and bread, fol
breakfast, with beef and potatoes fol
dinner, form about the best diet thai
can be devised.-N. Y. Telegram.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06

A story told of Mr.. Whittier by a
Boston lady illustrates his gontlenesa
and courtesy: A few years ago he called
upon this lady one evening when the
streets were very slippery. When ne
rose to take his leave, she feared that
he might slip and fall upon the steep
sidewalk Accordingly she made pre-
tence of needing fresh air and of desir-
ing TO post letter, and went with him
to Beacon street, where she slipped her
letter into the mail-boX and babe him
goodnight. But as she started toward
home, he turned also, saying, wait! ]
will see thee home, Elizabeth" And he
did not leave her until she was at her
own door.-Youth's Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06
But 1t is in the native California uinea

But 1t is in the native California wines
that the most wonderful growth in con-
sumption in the east is shown. The re-
ceipts last year by water were far in ex-
cess of what they ever were before.
The demand for California wines. it is
thought, will in few years exceed the
supply. The receipts at New York last
year were S,6os,0OO gallons by water,
while the shipments by rail amounted
to 100000 gallons. The arrivals of
California brandy showed a correspond
ing increase, being $50, 900 gallons by
ship and 400, 900 gallons by rail. The re-
ceipts at New York of domestic whisky
last year were 7,4OO barrels and of al
cohol 107,675 barrels-N Y. World
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06
SPRING TRIMMINGS.
Ornaments Designed for the Gowns of MY
Lady Fair.

A-ouJ
Passemcrterie garnitures of silk pres
ident lace have prospects of finding
large consumption this spring in the
cheaper grades. Stuart collars, breast
and back pieces, sailors collars, shout
der pieces, ep&uiets and caoes are made
wholly of president lace, and are used
as garnitures for paletots, promenades
and cheap dresses.
Small leaf designs can be used to ad-
vantage; the small leaves are formed of
broad silk soutache and cordonnet
thread Pearls are seen on the leaves
and pearl hangers border the whole.
A nice pearl tassel consists of a ball
covered over with pearl squares, which
carries the ground pearls and pieces of
jet and a cordonnet design which ends
on both sides in pearl hangers.
Pearl balls covered over with silk and
pearl squares are seen in many pearl
hangers.
A new sleeve plaque Is in leaf form.
made of lengthy and round ground
pearls and stones, and is bordered with
pearl hangers in long, sharp ground
pearls.
Another plaque with q lengthy ara
besque design is made of round and
lengthy black pearls, between which
are colored glass beads.
{ Fringes of pearls with long, sharp
ground pearl hangers are much seen,
and SO are fringes made with the above
pearl balls. Fringes are also made
with round and lengthy pearls.
Pearl fringes are also made of large,
round, ground pearls, alternating with
dull balls, there being two rows of each.
Dull fringes have bars, dull balls and a
border of ovals covered with braid.
A novelty is Il fringe of short, narrow
organzine braid with border of wooden
balls covered over with silk. Grelot
b lis are attached to a short organzine
braid, the grelot ball being fairly
large ground pearl.
A nice galloon has designs in inter
rogation points (?). Each one of these
is covered over with cordonnet silk, sur
rounded by small pearl cord and has
q fine net and braid border.
Another galloon shows anchor de-
signs, having on both sides a cross,
lengthy design. The whole is made of
papier-mache, covered over with silk
and surrounded with small cord; the
two long side designs being bordered
with small tree designs A pearl gal
loon is made of round and oblong star
designs wholly filed out with pearls.
For dress passemcnteries gold braid
crossed with fine colored chenille cord
is a novelty. Steel braid is adorned
with small steel pearls, and black pearl
galloons show cross stripes of amber
beads which have an the center opal
beads.
For dresses there is black pearl gal
loon, which carries an oval design made
of colored stones and black oblong
pearls.
These GALLONS with colored stones are
also used for Stuart collars. Gold gal
looms, flower and leaf designs in fine
gold thread, in combination with colored
silk thread, adorned with all sorts of
colored stones, are frequently seen.
Leaf galloons made of small leaves
with border in gold thread, are q nov
elty.-Dry Goods Economist.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE LIPS THAT TOUCH LIQUOR,


You may smile at my subject, and think IL
quite strange,
But, If you'll be patient, I'll try to arranpe
In prose or in rhyme though not over nice,
A few simple thoughts as a piece of advice.
And II they're too pointed to suif oil your
views
I hope you will listen and try to excuse.
For. :. you all know, I'm foe to the wine.
And III lips that touch liquor shall never
touch mine"
Tho tales of deep sorrow how often we've
real,
or heart-oroken woman awaiting the tread
OF him WHO promised to love and protect
When, few months before, as his bride she
was decked
But who now has damped al the joys of her
Life
BY terrible blight-a drunkar6's wife
Which she would not have been had she said
this in time,
The lips that touch liquor shall never touch
mine"
There are hundreds of mothers all over the
land
Who are pleading to-day, with-penniless hand.
For help to support the children they love,
Whose fathers have left home begsars to
rove.
Although it seems hard to oensure or blame,
Yet 'twould have been better to oil it's quite
plain
Had they said this when young: I'm foe to
the wine,
And the lips that touch liquor shall never
touch miner
There is many one who has worked long and
we'll
This terrible fend OF intemperance to uuell;
But what can they do-young ladies will wed
Drunkards In spite of all that is said!
Then, if you would aid In this calling divine,
Say; ''The lips that touch liquor shall never
touch mine!"
Oh, take this advice. young lady, from me, '
No matter how wealthy young man may be;
No matter how handsome, how gay, or how
nice;
No matter how grant, be his station in life;
No matter how seldom glass he may take
1f he takes 1t at all, for your happiness sake,
Say, when you are wooed: I'm a foe to the
wine,
And the lips that touch liquor shall never touch
mine!"
You may say it's all nonsense; my heart is u
stone:
And il act thus. will spend life alone
care not for that; my mind is made up
To do what can 'gainst the poisonous cup;
And II l must wed a drunkard or none,
OF the two great evils I'll choose the less one.
Yes, I'll live an old maid to the end of my
time
Ere the lips that touch liquor shall ever touch
mine"
Ida W. Ballinger, in Toledo Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

81 see your literary society has a
new building. When is it going to be
opened?" Just as soon as the running
track is completed. brooklyn Life.
-Teacher-"Tommy, will you give
an example of tautology?" Tommy
Saw one in our paper this morning.
1t spoke of 'brainless dude. '"-Indian-
apolis journal.
-"Suggest motto for my new bust
ness venture, will you, Miss Agnes?"
what is the business?" "a dairy
farm" ''Then suppose you take let
well alone. Jester.
II am thinking of going into the
goose-feather business, remarked Snod-
grass. you'll never succeed in it,
predicted his wife. "Why?" Because
it requires pluck. Epoch.
Gratifying Success. -Footliytes-
WAS your performance of Othello In
Chicago a success?" Stager-"Yes, g
brilliant one. got plenty of applause,
and at the end of the play the audience
insisted on calling for the author. IN.
Y. Sun.
Its very queer, isn't it, John, that
they can't find the North Pole?" Eyes"
he replied; but if they ever do I'll bet
the tele9 raph companies IL have wires
fastened all over it in less than no time. "
Washington Post.
lis there any sign by which your
missing wife may be identi6ed?" asked
the chief detective. 81 don't know, I'M
less this: She always turns round when
another woman with a new bonnet on
passes her. "-Philadelphia Times.
No Cause for Alarm. - Arthur
Every time l meet you 1 experience a
most peculiar sensation; my head seems
all in 4 whirl." Madgc-''Don't let that
worry you; there's nothing in it,
Brooklyn Eagle.
The cuneiform inscriptions look like
blind reading to the uninitiated, but as
long as mother can understand what
her year-old baby says, philologists will
be ashamed to give up beaten on the in
scriptions. journal.
ut was beautiful day when had
my portrait TAKEN" said old General
Geowler. Il don't see why we didn't
get a likeness" you must have obeyed
the photographer and looked pleasant, p"
returned Mrs. G.-Washington Star.
Henry" inquired the anxious
wife, what doctor shall l call?"
"Send for DR.. Squinine," replied the
sick husband feebly. "IIe's counting
old Bullion's daughter and old Bullion
is the treasurer of the life insurance
company I'm insured in"
-Hubsand-'I've got terrible cold
this morning" Hadn't you bet
ter see the doctor, dear?' Husband
doctor! What's the use of going to
that expense? Haven't got scores Of
friends who will tell me what 1 ought
to take for it?"-Cape Cod Item.
They Don't Match Her Carpets
Mrs. Electricstock-''John, when you
are fitting up our library l hope you
won't get any of SCOTS novels" Mr..
Electricstocll-'Why, my dear, are you
preiudiced against the great Wizard?"
Mrs. Enthusiastically isn't that, but
have never yet seen a set of SCOTS
novels bound as 1 would like to have
them. Yankee Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06

An Englishman, at an assembly i'll
Vienna, was much annoyed at the con-
Duct of a lady of that city, who delighted
in saying smart, but usually disagree
bic, things to him and others. "How is
it." asked she, that your country
women speak French so very imper-
fectly? We Austrians use it with the
same freedom as we use our native
tongue" MADAM" retorted he, 81
know not, unless it be that the French
army has not been twice at our capital
to teach it, as they have been ut yours. :"
-Watchman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-06

Cumso crushing in excitedly)-Haven't
you balance at the 'stecnth National?
Fangle-Yes. What's the matter?
Cumso-Draw it out right away
Faugle-What's up?
Cumao-I heard the cashier promise a
youns; lady to attend charity bazar to-
night Jd;gc.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27
Hours for Eating in England.

In England, down to the days of
Good Queen Bess." it was the custom
to Hospitality entertain all strangers and
visitors at any hour of the day with free
fare-bread, beef and beer. This was
observed ut every table in the land, from
.hat Of the freebooter to the baron's and
abbey's. At a later day the upper classes
became more luxurious in their tastes
and habits. As a consequence the hours
for meals were very much molife3 and
have remained so until this day.
Breakfast is now usually taken be-
tween and 10 a. m, and the present
usage for dinner among the Weather
classes is from 6 to 9p m. a luncheon
"a rather substantial meal, by the way,
Of cold game, roast beef and
the ike-is often INDUCED in between
breakfast and dinner. The meal denon-
mated supper in this country is COM
paratively unknown quantity in Eng
LAID, that known as tea forming in real
lty part Of dinner.-Louis T. Peale in
Detroit Free Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27
A Chinaman in an Art Gallery.

You can tell the new Chinaman in
New York by his headgear He wears
a little black skull cap of silk, whereas
his fellow Chinaman of long residence
in the country invariably wears low
crowned. black felt hat, with medium
brim, which is manufactured somewhere
in Connecticut especially for the Chinese
American trade and sold at q dollar
apiece. 1t is curious to notice the be-
wildered air of the newly arrived China
man as he goes about the city under the
escort of two or three of his country
men. saw a group of four Cinnamon
in an art gallery the other day, and i'm
mediately discerned that one was a new
conner. The other three were showing
him the sights.
The pictures in the gallery were all
and l noticed that the new
Chinaman was constantly looking at the
figures in the pictures and then looking
around at the people in the gallery,
trying to compare the details
Of garments. OF course they We're total
ly different, and his companions went
through vast amount of talk to explain
to him that we do not make many pict-
ures in this country compared with
what we buy abroad. One of them with
whom | struck up a conversation said to
me, Him not belly well understand
why Mclean man no makee himself on
painting 1t was something of a poser
New York Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27
AFTER HIS MAN.

Chief of Police Cary OF Council
Bluffs Takes OF Forger McGinnis.
This morning q tall we'll built man
was about town considerably with the
local detectives. It proved that the
stranger in question, was Capt. Wade
Cary, chief of police of Council Bluffs,
Ia, and that he had come to take
with him forger McGinnis, the neat
young man whom the local detectives
had traced down and safely placed
behind the bars.
Speaking to LIGHT man this
morning, Capt. Cary said that our
detectives deserve great credit for the
capture, as McGinnis is lone of the
slickest." He is well dressed, well
behaved young man, and would not
excite the least suspicion in the
minds of the shrewdest. The crime
for which McGinnis Is wanted is the
embezzlement Of money to the
extent of 50, 900 which he collected in
Iowa from the patrons OF large
wholesale candy firm in Omaha, Neb.
with whom McGinis was connected
and also on the charge of forgery.
He worked his game very slick for
some time, when finally he was detec-
ted. His next move was to flee to
Texas, landing in this city where
Detectives Hughes and O'Meara
worked up the case and made the
arrest. Capt. Cary leaves on the
s p. m. train with his prisoner.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27
Senator Cranes bill AMENDING civ

Senator Cranes bill amending civil
code also passed under suspension of
rules, and provides that where indie
ment is quashed, judgment given
d ,fendant, the court shall make order
discharging claim or restoring
property. In case supreme court holds
that indictment is enormously quash-
ed, such property is held subject to
o der of court.
Governor sends In the names of
James G.. Smithers as assistant SUI
perien tendent of Huntsville peniten-
tiary; E. G. Douglas, assistant super
intendent of Rusk penitentiary; r. H.
Harrison, as assistant attorney gen.
eral; and r. w. Finley, financial
agent of penitentiaries.
Commission appointed to visit and
report condition of A. & M. college,
University, Sam Houston and Prairie
View Normal school, and progress of
work on south western lunatic asy-
lum.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27
jackson the Forger Jailed.

While standing on the side walk
on Main plaza, this forenoon, J. F.
Jackson, the young man who attempt
ed to pass forged orders on the firm
o. d. & A. Oppenheimer, was arrest
ed by De. estive O'Meara and Hughes.
1t appears that Jackson, instead of
leaving town yesterday. remained
here over night and this morning at
tempted to pass forged order on the
boarding house proprietor, next to
Jacks saloon on West Commerce
street.
The young man who is put down
by the officials as petty thief and
general all around crook halls from
Twohig station, La Sale county.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27

CONGRESS will appropriate $40, 000,-
600 to perfect the Mississippi river
Ievee system and push the work to
its conclusion. Congress has already
appropriated over six millions for
work on Galveston harbor, and yet
we are told that this republican
congress and administration repu-
dates theSouth and legeslates against
its interests.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27

THE republican Senators inCongress
who honestly dissapprove of the force
bill should have the courage of their
convictions and not permit themselv-
es to be dragooned into support of a
measure condemned by their own
judgment and denounced by the great
body of the republican press all over
the country.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27

MASON COUNTY News is stirring
up it's readers to take interest In the
Fair convention to be held in this
city two weeks hence. Keep stirring.
Every county within the limits of
San Antonio's cabletow wants to be
well represented on that occasion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27
A Small Matter.

Mrs FOrundrid-Horrors! Half dozen
words in your note to Mrs. Society are
mispelled.
Miss FOrundrid-Oh, that don't mat
ter. She can see by the coat of arms on
our stationery that we're all right
New York Weekly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27

THAT silver pool investigation does
not elicit one scintilla of proof that
any member of congress was in any
way connected with it. In fact there
is no proof of the existence of any sill
yer pool.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27

1t was wise man who said on the
subject of woman's dress: Il have found
invariably that those women who really
understand the art of dress, who know
what to wear and when to wear it, have
taste and intelligence of a more refined
order than those who regard costumes
in the light of mere clothes, and who not
only reveal no appreciation of wom-
ans obligations to look her best at all
times, but affect to treat dress altogether
as subject only for the attention of
frivolous minds"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27

A FREE coinage of silver bill does
not mean free dip into the United
States treasury. To get money there
must be its equivalent in some form.
The poverty of one is not theriches of
many.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-27
Woman Wanted

To cook and do general homework.
Family small. Good wages. Apply
to Mrs. w. J. Young, 42l Oakland
street. 1.27.2t