The Republican., 1891-12-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

f-How to find a man out-sit on his
doorstep until about a m.-Texas
Sftings.
-Youngblood-"I have come to ask
you for the hand of your daughter, sir. "
Mr.. Moneybags-"H'm IN! What are your
prOspects?" Pretty good, so far. She
sad she's willing to have me. boston
News
--"Dinguss is man of expensive
habits, is he not, Shadbolt?" "Yes.
Dinguss' habits since | have been ac-
ouainted with him have cost me S15G,
without counting a cent for interest. "
Chicago Tribune.
--Wife-"Poor Mr.. Xaneigh! I heard
that his family troubles are preying
upon his mind" Husband-''O, if that S
so, they'll soon be at an end" Wife
"How?" Husband They'll starve to
death. -Uarper's Bazaar
"A gentleman remarks: "If in our
schooldays the Rule of Three was pro-
verbally trying, how much harder in
after-life do we find the Rule of One"
He had been married only fourteen
monthsA- Once a Week.
Miss Gossip-"Mrs Youngly was
very clever and very pretty, but think
she carried her flirting too far" Miss
Iissenwell - ''Why?" Miss Gossip
tShe fiirted with the minister while he
was marrying them."-N. Y. Herald.
--Stella-"It makes me so angry
every time | go out for walk-the
vouAg men stare at me So" Young
y. .oSArne-- You are different from
most girls 1t makes them angry if
the young men don't stare at them. -
Brooklyn Citizen.
"A sportsman in Wilbur, Ore, has
trained two eagles to catch geese. He
weights their bodies so that they can
not fly after they have captured the
game. He follows them on horseback
and takes the geese from their claws.
Once they caught four geese at one
time-two in each claw.
The dome of the new Texas capital
at Austin, Tex, is three hundred feet
high, and is surmounted by bronze
goddess of liberty seventeen feet high.
A swarm of bees has taken possession
of the head, entering by the nostrils,
and it is said that the statue already
contains barrel of honey.
An association for the Importation
of German song birds has been organ
lied in Portland, Ore, and the imported
birds are on the way there by easy
stages Some of the members have
also imported individually red cardinals,
bobolnks and indigo birds which are
to be kept in an aviary until spring,
when they are to be turned loose.
Athletic lung" is medical term
used to designate the abnormal devei-
opmcnt Of lung possessed by some
athletes. The condition is produced by
those forms of exercise that call for the
constant use of the lungs at their high
est power. The result IS an enormous
development of lung capacity.
Over sixteen years ago Nicholas
Tyson, of Manistee, Mich. lost pocket
book containing 81. A few days later
the empty pOcketbook was tossed into
his wagon with note, saying that the
money would be returned as soon as
the finder could afford it The other
day Mr.. Tyson received an anonymous
note, reading: Here is your 81. l
spent the money apd never was able to
I sS- it hack until now. Much obliged
fC the use of it,
Just for a joke, two intoxicated
mn in Allentown, Pa, carried a help
les comradc. who had been on a spree
with them, into q pig pen. The hogs
alta considerable portion of the man S
cot, and would probably have eaten it
allif the inebriate had not awoke. As
hewas making his way from the place
theowner took him for a thief and
ruaed to the house for his gun. Before
he eturned the bewildered and terri
tietman had made his escape.
Though one of the thirteen colonies
which united in the Declaration of Inde-
pcnience in 1876, Georgia was settled
muh later than any of the rest Be-
for the year 1888 it was n wilderness,
doubtful borderland, claimed both by
Great Britain and by Spain. BY pat
ent dated June 9, 1852, George H.,
kin? of Great Britain, from whom the
colmy was subsequently named, grant
ed tie territory to Il company designated
as Tie trustees for settling the colony
of Georgia"
An English schoolboy wrote as fol-
lows on the theme Breath" We shall
not hazard to forecast his future:
breath is made of air. We breathe
with our lungs, our lights, our livcrs
and cur kidneys. If it wasn't for our
breath we should lie when we slept.
Our breath keeps the life a-going
through the nose when we are asleep.
Boysthat stay in Il room all day should
not Breathe. They should wait ill they
get oltdoors. Boys in room make
carbmicide. Carbo-licide is more pois-
onou than mad dogs"
The London Lancet believes that
the excessive strain OF parliamentary
life had much to do il Fastening the
deatfs of Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Parnell.
'iBt&nent hours" it says, "a different
tone of public discussion, different
bearing of public men toward each 9th
er, more like that which obtains among
men in common society. less heat and
impulse in leaders, would alter for the
better the whole charater OF our legis-
lation. and would sensibly extend the
lives of our lest men," The case of
MIR. Gladstone is cited as exceptional,
but even for him the strain of party life