The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-02-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

named Anderson, recently gave DlrCn Il
four children, who are all alive and do
ing well.
81 haven't told anybody I lost my
job. How did you know it?'' ''YoI
did get fired, didn't yol?" Yes"
"Well, | heard the report of t."-Chi
cago Tribune.
Mr.. Dolley is very d fferential
man r, marked Amy to her mother.
YES" assented the old LADY ''he's diff
fered with everybody ever since he was
i little boy"
A correspondent wants to know if
''fits are hereditary" Any small boy
compelled to wear ont his fathers old
clothes could tell him they are not.-In-
dianapolis Journal.
The Little Diplomatist, Carl, it is
not very good of you to say bad things
of your friend behind his back" Yes,
but father, when say them to his face
he beats me. "-Fliegende Batter.
DE Fer-''I feel like a new man this
morning" Waite (anxiously)-"Ah!
Do yo feel any thing like the kind Of
a man that would be apt to pay debt
of five dollars?" He paid it.-Manhat-
tan.
E. Elwood. of Mount Morris, Mich,
guessed he would die nine years hence.
He was so sure of it that he had his
tombstone erected and dated 1899. His
prophetic vision was at fault, as he has
Just died. i
oe,o,, =, I1oo,,o,,,,- est ,,-;sb w.,
wouldn't bite threads off with your
teeth" said Mr.. Skinnphlint to his wife,
you'll wear your teeth out, and the
set my first wife left wouldn't fit you"
Chicago Tribune.
An Englishman called upon Sir Wal
ter Scott, saying he wished to see the
great lion of the North. Scott politely
invited him to dinner, saying: THAT
the lion of the North is best worth see
ing at feeding time"
The cranberry is recommended as a
house plant for the following reasons:
The foliage is shapely. delicate and
evergreen, while the bright crimson
berries remain on the plants in all their
beauty until very nearly time for the
flowers to appear.
butcher. who has been rejoiced by
the birth of son. is informed that the
child weighs nearly eight pounds. He
takes him in his arms to feel his weight
and calls out astonished: by Jove, so
he does" then after a moments pause
adds: But with the bones. mind you"
-Fliegende Batter.
"A New Orleans letter says that a
charming feminine school-teacher at
Bayou Teche is. with Cupid's help, play
ing havoc with hearts on Bayou Teche.
One young man tried to drown himself,
another took laudanum, and third
will hang himself all osl account of get
ting the grand bounce.
An Ohio man who married without
a license was proceeded against at law
but he held that God ordained man tc
marry and threw no obstacles in his
way. and that man had no legal right
to thwart Gods will. He pleaded his
case so well that he was acquitted
Detroit Free Press.
1t takes a business man to describe
n
commerce, after seing very taking
dress on a very taking shopper recently
informed the partner of his joys that ii
was fine. The dress was made of some
kind of cloth, with some sort of trim
ming. 1t was sorter lilac or shrimp
pink in color, and had for a waist som,
kind of a basque that was indescribable
hf Of hot
! times see on women, and altogethe,
gave an effect that | wish you coulC
! have seen" N. Y. Sun.
! Mr. +. NJ. Shepard, of Bridgeport
Conn, has some young kittens who's,
mother disappeared soon after thei
birth. Deserted and cold, the poor lit
tie things made their way to IA settin!
hen few feet distant, and tried to ge
under her wings. At first Biddy re
scented this, and peclled at them vic
iously. But the kittens persevered, an,
at last she gave them shelter Whel
her chicks were Matched a few day
after this, the kittens at once becam
very fond of them. The kittens refuse'
to be separated from the chickens, ant
with them follow the mother all da,
around the barn yard.
School Mistakes. &c Fallacious
means ''likely to fall" as He rode
fallacious horse A girl in the cours
of an essay on the pictures in schools
said: Sight is Il gift OF nature, 70
without sight, pictures would be of YER
little use" In the certificate eXamina
ton, second-year student wrote: Con
stantinople was formerly not belonging
To England, and vas dull place, as tn
Turks generally are: but, since it ha
belonged to us, it has frightened up
and is now the key to the Black Sea-
Another student said glaciers NOV
down slopes, along valleys, over hills
Just as streams do'-7Journal of Educa
ton, Hondon.)
If the Broadway Surface Railroa
were a far Western corporation, doin
business in that region, it would affor
embarrassments to enterprising hors
thieves, for every horse in the con
pany's service is numbered. and tn
number is branded in the newest an
oldest imaginable place-on the uppe
part of the front of the hoof. AS 500