The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-30
M'%SSELLANEOUS.

in your room when you go there, from
an assortment of neckties to quinine
pill. Truth.
-Brightly-"The newspapers have
said great many hard things about old
| Millionaire, but they must admit there
is one thing to his credit" Evergreen
"What's that?" Brightly-"His bank
balance. "-Philadelphia Press.
Sick and Dyeing.- Elsie-''I de-
clare if Eunice's hair doesn't get lighter
every week since she was engaged to
Will" Josephine - Eyes. He hates
dark hair and she's just dyeing for love
of him" Elsie-"I knew she was love-
sick, but l didn't think she would dye
for nybo 'y."-Detroit Free Press.
Better than Azure Blood. -Pater-
$50 you don't like Mr.. Fahrweste?"
Daughter-"I don't He's too coarse. l
don't believe there's drop of blue
blood in his veins" Pater-"Ncver
you mind that Hes a mine owner,
and the contents of his veins are ores
that assays twenty thousand to the
tom Daughter "pll wed him.
Pittsburgh Bulletin.
In the woods near Plantsville,
Conn, a day or two ago Mr.. Elisha
Newell found a nest of four gray SPUR
rels that were only few days old. She
took the little fellows home and gave
them to her house cat. which had4 re-
Gently been deprived of her kittens. The
old cat welcomed the strangers affec-
tionately, and is bringing them up in
the right way.
| Wool Have you been in the new
restaurant, where they weigh you when
you go in, and again when you come
out and charge by the pound for the
ditfercnce?' Van Pelt mo; is it
good place." Wool-"You bet!
went in yesterdav-had Saratoga chips,
dry toast and crisp bacon-five cents.
| To-day | had corn beef and cabbage
and English plum-pudding, and went
broke" Smith Gray e Co.'S Monthly
This is Notwithstanding year.
Mrs. Georgia A. Brown made notable
divorce record in Oakland a few days
ago. She filed her complaint on Tues
| day morning, the summons was served
on Wednesday, on Thursday her hus-
| band put in a frivolous answer and on
| Friday the answer was stricken out
| The case was referred. testimony was
| taken, and the decree was granted on
| the same aftereoon. Time, three and u
| half days
Persons unacquainted with the
qualities of swamp gum have no idea
of the wonderful things that can be ac-
complished with this wood. When
boiled it may be handled almost like
paper. 1t is used extensively in lower
| Delaware in the manufacture of berry
boxes, and boiled gum log fifteen
inches in diameter may, by the use of
proper instruments, be literally drawn
out into ribbons 1t cuts like cheese,
and may be tied into bow knots, or
bent into almost any conceivable shape.
The common plant is as much a
matter of speculation as the coming
man. Prof. George l.. Goodale, of Har-
ward, says the first development is in
the direction of the seedlcss There is
no good reason, he thinks, why there
should not be seedless raspberrieS, seed
less straw berries and seedless black
berries. He also expects plums,
peaches and cherries without stones.
This, of course, means artificial propa-
cation, and that, according to the
professor is what the world is coming
to. Slips instead of stones will be used.
Near Eigate, about forty miles west
of st. Thomas, Canada, was discovered
the largest skeleton of any extinct ami
NAL yet found. 1t belonged to the
order of mastodon giganticus, and
measured % feet from end of the nos
trils to tip of tail. The tooth only of
one of these huge monsters of prehis-
toric times was dug up recently at Fall
ing Springs, near Bellevue, Miss,
which weighed fourteen pounds twelve
ounces, and had the skeleton been dis
covered it would probably have been
found to be that of an animal 30 feet
long.
Close 20 the circular boundary that
separates Pennsylvania and Delaware
is the graveyard in which legend locates
the famous ticking tombstone" 1t is
the graveyard of the London Tract
Quaker meeting house, known in local
parlance as the London Track. The
region was settled more than two hun
dred years ago by Quakers from Lon
don. The present meeting house goes
back well into the last century. The
tom bstone, according to local legend,
gives forth constant ticking sound.
The possibility is that the ticking is
caused by the triclzling of a subter-
samoan stream along hidden deposit
of limestone
The magnitude of the figures con-
corning the operations of the railways
of the United States in 1890, presented
in Poor's Manual. is indeed wonderful.
When it "a remembered that the total
revenue of the United States for the
year ending June 80, 1891, was 1892, $780,
900 the vastness of the earnings of the
railroads S1,OS6, 900, OOO) may perhaps
be better appreciated. The net earn
ings of tho railroads (S341 200, O0O) almost
equal o;lc S7oss receipts of the United
States, AID then as to traffic, it is hard
for the and to grasp the figures. About
1,5O0,OC) passengers day, and every
day in TIE year, almost 1000, 600 tons of
i freight per ,""ly and an average of rev.
enue train mileage of over 5000, 600 per
! day.
-Impeiled by the great cutlery against
loquacious BARRIERS, st. Louis boss re-
oaptlv hira6 - daaf and dumb assistant