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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03
A GAME FOR TWO.
How Bright Young Man Matched a
Mean ReStaurauteur.

How Bright Young Man Matched a
Mean Restaurauteur.
A bright young man in one of the nu-
merous New York oyster saloons or
dered very tempting supper for him
self and the pretty, stylish girl with
him. After the more solid viands had
been enjoyed some pineapple was called
for, and very large and handsome
specimen of that succulent fruit was
brought in whole and placed on the ia
bic. The young man requested the
waiter to serve piece to the young
lady and one to him, which was done
A little while afterward the bill for
the supper was called for. 1t contained
a charge of S1.5O for pineapple. The
proprietor of the place was summoned
and the question put before him. He.
however, was rather objectionably firm
in his statement.
you made no stipulations about the
quantity of pineapple you wanted when
you ordered it, said ne, land we can't
cut one to get two slices from it. The
charge is correct"
"Oh, very well, )" responded the young
man. waiter just bring me a piece of
paper. l wish to wrap up the rest of
this pineapple"
And lighting a cigarette, he thanked
the proprietor of the restaurant for his
attention and begged his pardon for
troubling him. He then passed cigar
cite to his young lady companion and
told her to light it. She objected. but he
again directed her to light it. saying
that he had "A special purpose in wishing
her to do So She then complied with
his request, but before she had taken
half dozen puffs the proprietor had
returned to the table again and ordered
her to cease smoking.
You allow men to smoke? Well. you
haven't the privilege of distinguishing
between the sexes in that way. 1t rests
with this lady entirely whether she will
smoke here or not She chooses to smoke.
You lack the legal right to stop her"
The proprietor began to get very
angry and seemed about to resort to
some violent process of carrying his
point Seeing this, the young man re-
marked: Don't do anything rash now.
I shall meet force with force, and be-
fore court Judge you will not have an
inch of ground to stand on. We are pre-
pairing to leave. After the lady has
finished that one cigarette we shall go.
And now, my friend, you see how dis
agreeable it is always possible to make
oneself when one tries. You stood for
your narrow rights when you charged
me for whole pineapple. Pm standing
lady shall be permitted to smoke. We
each might give way to the other if we
wished, but being human we return
meanness for meanness. Now I'll go.
But, remember the next time lady
lights cigarette in here that you can't
force her to put it out. Ask one of your
legal friends and see."-Kansas City
Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03

upon her intimacy, she ran upstairs,
tapped at Margaret's door. and hearing
no response, opened the door and en-
tered
No one was there, and sitting down
for a moment her attention was at
tracted to some packages of papers ly-
ing in work basket. She took them
in her hand, and read on the margin of
one: "Compliments of DIR. McCroud, -
and, dallying a moment longer, she
went away.
Margaret Dale was true scion of an
old Knickerbocker family, and had a
sense of pride and justice in about
equal measure. At this time she was
only convalescent from very severe
and dangerous illness, through which
she had been cared For by DIR. McCroud,
a sturdy old Scotchman. old enough to
be her father, with some extra years
lie took her on her first rides, and now
and then brought her English and
Scotch papers to read; and they We're
these which Mrs. Sampson had seen in
Margaret's work-basket.
1t is quite unnecessary to analyze the
character of Mrs. Sampson. She has
her counterpart in nearly every neigh
borhood. She possessed a lively imag-
ination, was fond of gossip, not from
any wrong motive, but INDUCED in
many careless, thoughtless remarks
Gossip is always a patchwork bust
ness, and nobody had a greater faculty
for putting this" and that together
than had Dame Sampson. She knew
every body knew-that old DIR. McCroud
lived very unhappily with a very I'M
happy wife. The respective families of
each came over from Scotland together,
with the young people-then very
young-affianced. The young man be-
gan his battle with life bravely, and
after much hard work and intercourse
with the world, and feeling the new de-
veloping of his powers and feelings,
discovered that his fiancee was not at
all the woman to satisfy either his
head or his heart. But he was honor
able. He meant to do what he believed
to be right. He told the girl that he no
longer owed her, but would keep his
engagement to marry her, if she insist
ed upon his so doing.
The girl did insist, as well as her par
ents. and they were married. So it was
not at all remarkable that Mrs. McCroud
should be a very unhappy woman, or
that people should talk about DIR. Nc
Croud's domestic infelicities. But no
one could point to single fact reflect
ing upon his honor as man or ply
sician. Then Mrs. Sampson l1new-as
did everybody else-that Margaret was
an heiress, cared very little for men,
and had discarded would. be lovers by
the dozen. She had a strong, vigorous
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03
A Sick Mans Order.

A Detroit merchant who deals large
ly with commercial travellers had jus,
recovered from Il serious illness, dur.
ing which he was sometimes delirious.
One day as his patient wife sat by
his bedside he opened his eyes and saw
her
you here again?" he said; ''haye you
filed my order yet?"
What order?" asked his wife, W filing
to humor him.
Didn't | give you big order for ice
water?" he asked; do you expect me
to patronize your firm if you foree ct my
orders?"
He got the ice water.-Detlo;t Free
Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03

''Oh, hope you haven't told my hus
band!' the creature implored.
mo. One was my pastor and the
other Judge Howe"
''Oh, Miss Dale!' and the gossinv
dame was on her knees now; lis there
no way to hush up this unfortunate
business? l can never look anybody in
the face again if you prosecute me for
SANDER. A public trial is just horrid!
Is there no other way?"
To see the miserable creature on her
knees imploring for mercy, and so
thoroughly penitent for her sins, might
have won pardon from anybody but
Margaret. Motioning her visitor to a
chair, she emptied upon her her last
vial of wrath
Don't think for one moment Mrs.
Sampson, that supposed that anything
you might say would destroy my repu-
tation. 1t was your high handed au-
dacity in daring to set such an insinua-
ton af1oat that SO much objected to-
1t is great and shameful humiliation
for a woman to be forced to eat her
own words in a public court; and be-
cause of this and your evident regret,
do suggest another mode of reparation.
1t is this: Never again, so long as you
live, are you to speak slanderously of
an absent person, or allow such license
of speech in your house to passnnpro-
hibited and unrebuked. Do you prom
ise?"
81 promise" she said.
Moreover" added Margaret 'if 1
hear of your having broken tbs con-
tract, it shall not be too late E5HaRS
you suffer the other punishment
Your tongue has been dipped in the
poison of SANDER and gossip, and it
will be hard work for you to clean
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03
MISS MALoNE's MISFORTUNE.

Sic once had skin of satin and features white
as snow
When every swain the country round was
proud to be her beau;
And young and old for miles away were al
ways glad to see
The dimple on her pretty chin, her neck Of
ivory;
And there were not in nlinois-no nor in other
la DIS
Such alabaster treasures as her little polished
hands;
She reigned a queen in Joliet on beauty's
golden throne
Did Miss Jemima Margaret Evangeline
Malone.
But 10! one dark unlucky day this paragon Of
grace
Began to use some washes. to ornament her
face;
Throughout six months she squandered twelve
pots Of vaseline,
The oil of many q cocoanut, and rice, and
glycerine;
She made of powder fummery clean and
bowling waste,
And plastered both her cheeks with cream anG
soap, and almond paste;
Rose water, too, and lemon juice flowed in q
torrent free,
With oriental spices from the land of Araby.
She laved her face in boiling springs she tried
ice.waters, too,
And with the toughest kind of cloth she mad,
it black and blue;
And then she'd rub it just as If it were porce
lain,
With softest, finest flannel to make it white
again;
But OH the darling cuticles fell crumbling
from each pore,
And, oh, her skin of satin was satin skin nc
more!
For rough and rugged was the face which once
was beauty's own
That of Jemlma Margaret Evangeline Malone
Oh now her lot is cherries, for she's no more
the pet
OF swain or beau Of Jim or Joe, in scorufu
Joliet;
The gossips gggle as she walks through av
enue and street
With downcast head, and fearful mien, aud
tmd trembling feet;
And, oh, they mark upon her chin the mple's
shapeless trace,
The parchment color of her throat, the iaun
dice on her face;
The sickly hue upon her brow, the brown tint
on each hand
Whose alabaster glorieS once illumined all the
land
And now. We maids take warning-all We who
have a swain
re matrons, VINO your spouseS' love would
lovingly retain,
Ye young, seductive widows who mediate to
wed
Some sterling mates quite fit TO take the
places of your dead,
Avoid these cocoanuts and paste, and rice, and
vaSeline.
And boiling springs, and liquid ice, and rose,
and glyCerine,
For if you don't you're sure to lose all claims
to powr and throne.
Like Miss Jemima Margaret Evangcline
Malone,
Eugene Davis, in Chicago Mail.
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tude, declared that she old not Jeliere, and
never had for one moment 6elieCed that
there was anything wrong between
Margaret and DIR. McCroud, but that
folks could say things for talks sake.
Then let them suffer the conse,
quences, said Margaret.
Mrs. Sampson saw her danger, and in
more piteous tone hoped Miss Dale
would not mention the matter to any
one. She would ask her pardon-do
anything she might suggest, if she
would not make fuss about it.
But | have already spoken to two
persons about it, she said.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03

''This deviled kidneys awfully hot,
waiter"
"M'sieu should take something to
drink wiz re kidney"
Don't know but what you are right.
Bring me a couple of those hand gre
nades. "--Munsey's Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03
MRS. SIMPSONS TONGUE.
How She Was Cured of the Habit
of Gossiping.

RS. SAMPSON
was to have a
sewing-part.v at
her house on
Thursday after
noon, and on
the pre- vious
day she resolved
to run in at the
Dale mans ion
and invite Mar
garet to attend.
u - a = II M nr
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03

There is on exhibition in Detroit
most remarkable freak of nature in the
form of a pebble, one side of which is
a miniature likeness of face bearing
the imprints of sorrow. This little
stone. which is about an inch long and
three-quarters of an inch wide. was
found on roadway leading to the cross
on the summit of Kofelspitze, noun
tain overhanging the village of Oberam-
mergau, and held in reverence by the
simple villagers, who consider it their
guardian spirit
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03

Mullins: Two eggs, two tablespoon
fuls of sugar, one cupful of milk,
butter the size of an egg, three spoon
fuls of yeast powder, two cIpfuls of
flour, salt.-Good Housekeeping.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03

He-Why did she elope with him?
Didn't her family like him?
She-Yes: but she didn't get her dress
from Paris in time.-Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-01
Tho News Condensed.


Leonard W. Gay, Madison clothier,
would exceed the liabilities.
Mrs. Leissring. widow, "a years old,
fell down the cellar-stairs at the home
of her son, a merchant at La Crosse, and
was killed
Olif Anderson was killed by limb
from tree falling and striking him on
the head while in the woods near Hay
ward
Wisconsjn's Oldest woman lives at
Erin, near Hartford and is ia years of
age. Her name is Mrs. Katie Bauer.
The saloon of c. d. Johnson at Beloit
was robbed the other night, and at
tempts were made to rob several stores.
John Jones, brakeman on the Mil
waukee road, was thrown under the
wheels and cut to pieces at Salem.
Mr.. Michels, an old settler who lived
near Belgium. was found dead in the
woods by some of his neighbors.
Gustav Schwebs, who kept hotel
at Hortonville for twenty years, is dead.
Ashland people expect that the St.
Paul road will be completed to that
town within year.
The contract for the building Of the
college chapel at Beloit has been let.
The structure will cost $50, 600
1t was reported that Bishop Katger,
of Green Bay, had been appointed arch
bishop of the Milwaukee diocese, TO
succeed the late Archbishop Heiss.
Two little children of Victor Rogers,
of Ironwood, persisted in fire which
destroyed their home.
The Presbyterian church, Funk
block and the fire engine house at Ocon-
to was burned. Loss, S25, 600: insur-
ance, $4,000.
Charles States, said to be West SUI
perior cigar manufacturer, reported to
the police at Elmira. n. Y, that he had
been robbed of -, 500
The changing of the name Of the Bur
ton House at Hurley has obliterated
almost all memory Of the dethroned
mining king in that country. It is now
called the Bardon.
Albert Collie. Is years old, was caught
stealing goods in store at Green Bay.
and as this was not his first misdeed in
this line, on the consent Of his parents
he was sent to the Waukesha reform
school
William Klosoroskey jumped off a
bridge at Appleton and was drowned.
The authorities think he was insane
He could not get work and suicided
from dependency. He ayes wife
and four children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-01
sand-storms in Central Illinois.

BLOOMINGTON. H.. Dee. 29.-Such
storms of sand and dust as are prevail
ing in Central Illinois were never be-
fore known at this season or indeed at
any time of the year. No rain has
fallen in this country for months. The
wind has blown strong and continuous.
ly for several days and the dust and
sand lie in deep drifts in the bitches
like snow. The streams are drying up
rapidly and the scarcity of water is
occasioning great Inconvenience among
the farmers. Bloomington's water
supply is running very low.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-01
A ROWLING BLAST.
A Furious Blizzard sweeps Through the
Eastern states.

Na~tEEA SAaAN%s
NEw York. Dec. 27.-The heavy snow
storm which began here during Thurs
day night continued with unabated
fury yesterday, and at noon the snow
was eight inches deep in the streets,
causing great delay TO traffic. All the
railroads running into New York have
suffered from the storm. In Brooklyn
the storm has practically paralyzed
business and but few pedestrians are
seen upon the streets. Reports continue
to be received from all parts of the
State showing a heavy fall OF snow and
consequent interruption of traffic.
RUTLAND. Vt. Dec. 27.-Snow began
falling in Rutland Friday morning
and continued steadily all day. Reports
from other sections of the State indi-
cate that the storm has been the heavi-
est of the season. Railroad traffic has
been greatly impeded.
LYNDoNvILLE. Vt, Dec %. = The
thermometer registered 40 degrees be-
low zero Thursday night and so below
Friday morning.
PORTLAND, Me, Dec %. "A heavy
gale is blowing from the northeast,
with the mercury 10 degrees above
zero. The snow has fallen fast since
noon and drifts badly. The trains are
all late.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 81. The
storm here reached such a point as to
delay travel greatly. all the railroad
trains being late.
PROVIDENCE, r. L., Dee. 27.-The VIC
lent snow-storm which set in here yes
terday, accompanied by high wind, did
much damage to shipping. The
schooner 4. II. Hurlbut, of Gloucester,
Captain Thurston, was wrecked, and
Captain Thurston, Steward Hammond
and Seaman Lawrence were drowned.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 27.-Another
big snow-storm is raging here. 1t has
been showing steadily for eighteen
hours and between twelve and fourteen
inches Of snow has already fallen.
Trains are all several hours behind time
and street-car traffic on all but the
cable roads has been temporarily sus-
pended.
WILKEsBA RRE, Pa, Dec. 27.-Snow
began to fall here at midnight and all
day the storm ragged fiercely. with snow
drifts of two or three feet in the streets
Trains on all railroads are delayed anC
business is practically suspended
throughout the Wyoming valley.
STAUNToN, Va, Dec 27.-There is two
feet of snow on level here.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 The snow in
this city is ten inches deep on level.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-01
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
WISCONSIN SCHOOLS.
Biennial Statement of the Superintendent
of Instruction.

BieAhlttl statement OF the >uperluteudeub
of Instruction.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Thayer has made his bien-
NAL report. According to this
report the per cent of the whole
number Of children in the State
between the ages OF and % who were
enrolled in public schools was 50. l. The
mum Der of children in the State be-
tween the ages Of and 20 was at the
last census 592. 755. Those between the
ages of : and Ii numbered 294, $50.
There are in the State 6.47O school
houses with a seating capacity of Az
55S. The number of teachers employed
in public schools is Il, OS7, of whom only
2,SSs are males. The cost per child of
the schools in the State last year, based
upon the enrolment of those between
the ages of and 20, was as follows: In
the large cities, SAT-; outside the large
cities, S10.05. The normal schools cost
the State in the 1890 fiscal year Sill, 141.
The State University cost Sl74.3 61. The
grand total of the cost of education in
all public institutions of learning in the
State was 81, 25S, 463.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-01

"Helloi Tom Glad TO see you, old fellow
It's almost ten years since we were married. Sit
down: let's have an experience meeting. How's
the wife "
''on. she's $685. same as usual, always want
ing something / can't Afford
We'll, We all want something more than we've
Got Don't You :"
Yes but guess want will be my MASTER /
started to keep down expenses and now Lii says
Tn. .mean and she's tired OF saving and never
faving anything 10 show FOR it. ] saw your wife
down street, aud she looked as happy as queen !"
:" / think she IS aud we are economical too
have 10 be. My wife can make little 90 further
than anyone | ever knew, yet she's always sur
prising me with some dainty contriyance that
adds 10 the comfort and beauty Of our little home.
and she's always merry as a lark. When | ask
how she manages IL, she always laughs aud says.
'oh that's my secret Bat ! think I've dis
covered her secret When we married we both
knew we should have to be very careful, but She
made one condition: she would have her Magazine.
And she was right | wouldn't do without il my
self for double the subscription price. We read
II together from the titlo-page to the last word
the stories keep our hearts young the synopsis
Of important events and scientific matters keeps
me posted so that / can talk Understandings Of
what is going on my wife is always trying some
new idea from the household department she
makes all her dresses and those for the children,
and she gets all her patterns for nothing with the
Magazine and we saved Toe when he WAS SO sick
with the Group by doing just as directed III the
Sanitauan Department But can't tell you halfl'
"What wonderful Magazine is II :"
Is Demorest's Family Magazine. and"
"What Why that's what lii wanted so bad,
and told her II was an extravaganza
"Wei. my friend. that's where you made
grand mistake and you'd better rectify as
soon as you can I'll take your sub right here,
on mywifes account: she's bound to have china
tea-set in time for our tin wedding next mouth.
MY gold watch was the premium got for getting
up "a club. Here's copy. with the new Premium
List for clubs the biggest thing QUIT Ifyou don't
see In IL what you want, you We only to write 10
the publisher aud tell him what you want, whether
Il is a tack hammeror a new carriage, and he will
make special terms for you either for club, or for
part cash Better subscribe right of and surprise
Mrs. Tom. Only $500 year-wil save fifty times
that In six months or send 10 cents direct to the
publisher, W Jennings Demorest IS East 18th
Street New York, for u specimen copy containing
the Premium List
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-01
Unearthed a Nriser.s Hoard.

John Douglas, an eccentric character
who lived in the town of Burke, Dane
County, died about a year ago He was
thought to be a miser, and when the es-
tate was probated surprise was ex-
pressed that comparatively little prop
erty could be found. 1t is rumored now
that a farmer with whom Douglas
boarded during his last days has been
digging on the Douglas place supposed
~ under ante-mortem directions from
the deceased, and has unearthed about
500. nnn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-01
GERMAN CITIES.
Population OF the Principal Municipalities
as shown by the Official Census.

Population of the Principal Municipalities
as shown by the Official Census.
BERLIN, Dec. 29.-The official census
of Germany which was recently COM
pleted gives Berlin a population of
1874, 485, being an increase of $50, 900
in five years. The city containing the
next highest number of persons is
Hamburg, with population of 57O,-
534. This is an increase of 1854
since 1885. Hamburg, which with the
city of Altoona has 715,170 inhabitants,
has added p per cent. to the population
within the last five years. Leipsic,
which has 500, 272 inhabitants, had only
159, 500 in 1885. This is the greatest in
crease in any city, being 50 per cent.
Munich has 344, sos inhabitants, Breslau
334, ITO, Cologne 2S2,537, Dresden 276,-
0S5, Magdeburg 20O,O7l ard Frankfort
on the Main 179, 500
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-01-01
HUMANS CREMATED.
A Mother and Her Three Children
Meet Death IN Flames.
A Chinese Steamship said TO Have Been
Burned at Sea-Its Crew OF sixty
Natives Perish in the Flames
or Are Drowned,
MET AWFUL DEATHS.


ROCHESTER, n. Y, Dec. ga terri
morning whereby a woman and
three children lost their lives. The vic
Tins were Mrs. JOAN Dietrich. of No :
Orchard street, and her three children,
Libbie, aged 6 years; Jacob aged 8,
and Louisa, aged IL months How the
fire originated is a mystery. Mrs.
Dietrich had arisen at 4 o'clock to start
a fire in the kitchen stove and awak-
ened her husband soon after with an
alarm of fire. She rushed in TO save
her three little ones and per-
ished in the flames. Her husband and
one son escaped. When the firemen sue
ceeded in quenching the flames they
found in the bedroom where the
woman had slept the body of
the unfortunate woman lying
across the bed with the feet
on the floor. Beside her lay the three
little children, their bodies burned to a
crisp as well as that of their mother.
SARATOGA, N. Y, Dec. 27.--Mrs. Ellen
Gibbons, aged so years, was burned to
death at her home on Ash street Friday
uOTulnB. MfS. GlODOnS was duOlcIeu
to smoking.
MILWAUKEE, Dec 27.-Fire was dis
covered in LAWYERS saloon building at
Fremont Friday morning, and before
it was under control it damaged two
other buildings. Orrin Ennis was car
rying out goods from the Lawler build
ing when the building went down, and
he persisted in the flames. Ennis had
no family.
OsKALoosA, Ia, Dec. PA 4-year-old
child of 7. c. Bailey met a sad death
Friday. The parents left it at home
with other children, and while playing
its clothes caught fire and it was burned
to death.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-Further advices
from China as to the burning of the
steamship Shanghai near Woo Hoo, in
the province of Nagan-Hoei, about fifty
miles from Marking. show that the
number of lives lost viii amount to
over 200, and that they all persisted by
drowning.