The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-03-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

ton he would yet be taxed on what he
expected to hold in the future. Moth.
ing but death or leaving the country
can stop taxes in Turkey.
Can you give me the address of Dr..
R-?' was asked of Robinet. Ger
tainly; Wagram avenue" "What num-
ber?" "Well. that can not give YOU"
answered Robinet, "but you'll find it
over the door without the least diff
Guilty"
The phenomenon of latent heat was
first inquired into 0y DIR. Black, of
Scotland, nc rly 100 years ago. His at
tention was directed to the subject by
observing that mixture of ice and
water though absorbing a measurable
amount of heat did not rise in tempera-
ture until all the ice had disappeared.
William was Tender.-A strangerat
Fort Scott, Kan, got into dispute with
William Davis about the weather and
pulled his nose. Five minutes later
William was dead of heart failure. The
doctors said that if his wife had picked
up the rolling-pin and threatened him
at a9y time for years back the result
would have been the same.-Detroit
Free Press.
justified by the circumstances
"Shay, p'leecem'n," mumbled Mr..
rambo, give y dollar f you'll show
me tn way t my offish. Doan' wStff
'sturb Mrs. Rambo thish time o night"
The officer complied, and as he piloted
him along the street Mr.. Rambo OBJ
served apologetically. gwen TIL offish
won't sheek man, y know, pleecem'n,
man got t sheek tn offish. Sheep"
The latest invention in haberdashery
is the buttonless shirt. 1t is the idea of
a Canadian. 1t is not designed to take
the place of the full-dress shirt, but is
likely to be strong everyday favorite
with the short-around fat man, who
feels life's emptiness when he tries to
reach the button at the back Of his neck.
It is said that it fts well and is the
easiest garment to get in and out of th.t
was ever invented.
The Anxious Mother.-"It is really
hard now to know what to do with ones
children. l think we will send little
Emile to the Polytechnic and let him go
into the railroad business" "Well, I
should be very careful before deciding
on that. You see, he might get to be
station-master and have to live in the
station, and then suppose that his wife
could not bear the sound of the engine
whistle! That would be very bad. -
Fliegende Blatter.
"A great traffic is being carried on
| this season over the road between the
Caucasus and Odessa. From the eau
casian districts large quantities of cot
ton, rice, lsishmish wits apyrena, seed
less raiSinsl, and almonds are shipped
from Odessa, sugar, iron, flour and fine
groceries. During the summer and the
autumn large stores of Persian kishmish
of superior quality were accumulated
in Batoom, and the article is now in de-
mand in the foreign market
-Charterhouse, Thackeray's old
school, and The scene of the immortal
Colonel Newcome's death, has for a
long time been the possessor of the
original MS. of The Newcomes, the gift
of Thackeray's daughter. There is also
preserved there the bedstead on which
the novelist slept during the last years
of his life. Most of the school sketches
and MSS. by him. which were recently
sold in London. have also found their
way back to Charterhouse.
AT the beginning of King Phillips
War in Colonial times. King Philip had
a coat or cape made of bits of shells OF
wampum. This was considered of great
value among the Indians all over New
England, because each little shcll-bead
in it was in their eyes Il piece of money
Indeed, if a man of our day should have
n coat made entirely of gold dollars
strung upon threads and woven to
gether. it would have the same value t.
us that Phillips shell coat did to The
Indians. But when the war began he
bravely cut his precious garment il
pieces and used the wampum to hire
warriors of other tribes to fight for him
The Hamburg Board of Trade, il
its report for 1890, takes sides with the
American pig thus: 1--WE have always
regarded as insufficient the testimony
as to the Embellishments of American
pork. We have been confirmed in thi
opinion recently by the results of thu
investigation of experts to the effec
that the English laborer, with his die
of cheaper American pork, has numer
Gus economic advantages over the Ger
man laborer, with his diet of more eX
pensive Continental pork. We hay
therefore willingly done as requested
and have affixed our names to Il petitio!
for the abolishing of the prohibition o
American pork"
, The chrys1nthemum has long his
tory, dating back, in Europe, to tn
, year 1910, when it was brought int
Holland from China, under the suppose
. ton, afterward disproved, that it ha
, valuable medical properties. The plan
is native to China, Japan and Norther
India, and the flower is the seal of ia
; pan. Hence it is often called 9TH
: Mikado Flower" The Japanese amt
= ally observe November Is as 9Th
t Feast of Chrysanthemums," and i
$ America nearly every city has day fc
S a chrysanthemum display. The hig
a favor in which the flower is held is dr
t not only to its beauty of form an
e variety of color, but to it's CHEEKY read
Q ness to prolong the summer and max
e brilliant the later days of autumn.
A Large Gum Tree.