The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-09-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

fancied you might find it uphill work"
A Sad Failure. Spruggins
made sad failure of her song last
night didn't she?" YES, it was so I'M
fortunate that her voice should get.
stuck in the pitch" - Philadelphia
Times.
-Wife-"Why don't you go fishing,
Ralph, if you don't know what to do
with yourself?" Husband-"Go fishing?
Great Scott! what's the use of that?
Haven't l signed the pledge. '-Lippin-
colts Magazine
"A Convincing Proof. Visitors ION
their way from the station)-'Are you
quite sure you can drive, Neddie?'
Master Neddie-"O, yes, indeed. l
turned mamma out here only last
week brakes Magazine.
"A member of the fire brigade com
mittee of the common council at the
Guildhail banquet observed to a neigh
boring alderman: The acoustics are
very bad in this hall" Really" re-
piled the latter. "You surprise me.
can't smell anything. "-London Truth.
David Parlle, of Los Angeles, Cal,
has been poisoned by ROSTERS bite.
He was a lover of game chickens, and
surprised the poultry yard just as a
fight had been finished. PAlaM w
one of the expiring cocks, he received "a
bite on the tip of a finger, which led to
blood poisoning.
"A dime fell down behind one of the
bolts in the big safety vaults of the City
| National bank of Plainfeld, n. j., one
night, when it was locked, and the
vault could not be opened the next
morning. Two expert safe openers
from New York worked twelve hours
before the doors could be opened, and
had to cut big hole in one of them
This is the inscription on tomb
stone in California: Here lies the
body of Jeems Humbrick, who was
accidentally shot on the bank of the
Pacus river by young man. He was
accidentally shot with one of the large
Colts revolvers with no stopper for the
cock to rest on. 1t was one of the old
fashioned llind-brass mounted"
"A huge cedar tree, measuring sixty
eight feet in circumference, has been
| found in Snohomish county, Washing
ton. Some explorers discovered that
the tree, although green, is but mere
shell. They entered it through knot
hole thirty inches in diameter, and
found space inside large enough to give
standing room to forty persons.
An invisible musician caused much
curiosity and a little fright because of
the unaccountable sounds which came
nightly from a piano in Buffalo resi-
dence. Close watch and subsequent
investigation led to the discovery of the
concealed musician. 1t was rat, which
had made its nest in the piano, and
amused itself by wandering over the
keys.
Some awkward pieces of money are
the ''loof'' of Anam in Eastern Asia,
which is ahat round gold piece, valued at
500; the "obang" of Japan, valued at
S55; and the ''bcnda' of Ashantee, worth
about $40. The California $50 gold piece
is about equal in value to the "benda. %
Anam also has the heaviest silver coin
in the world, an ingot, worth about
| $15.
Johnny, said the humorous gentle
man, give me your little brother. You
don't want him any longer, and I'll
make a man OF him." Can you do that,
mister?" Indeed | can" ''Well, let's
see you make one out of me, quick,
before ma comes; then I'll fool her, for
she's gone after a stout switch, and II
be back in a minute. st. Louis Re.
public.
A little dog, newcomer in the
household of a family at Eureka
Springs, Ark, was so petted that his
treatment aroused the envy of another
canine, larger animal, that had been
for years in the house. The big dog
concealed his feelings, and romped with
the little one. 1t a few days they went
OFF considerable distance, and the lit
tie one has been missing ever since. 1t
is believed that the big dog purposely
led it astray.
lobby (after regarding his sisters
beau intently for five minutes) Aunt
Maria is liar" Bobby's sister-"Why,
you naughty boy, go right out of the
room" Bobbys sisters beau-"Don't
be hard with him, Miss Angelina. 1t
was only his boyish ways, probably.
But what did you mean, Bobby?"
Bobby-"Why, your clothes amt wet
bit, and she said you didn't know
enough to come in out of the rain
Colorado Sun.
Danger turks in bad egg. Mrs.
Jane Toller, of High Bridge, n. Y, has
discovered this fact She put an egg in
kettle to boil. Three minutes after
ward, as she was about to take it out,
it exploded like Il dynamite cartridge,
blew the kettle off the stove, dashed
the lid and volume of boiling water
on her face, blackened her eye, bruised
her nose, ana laid her senseless on the
kitchen floor. She was aroused by the
peculiarly pungent odor that filled the
apartment and made her sick.
What is said to be the biggest en-
CINE in the world is exercising it's pom
derous strength in Pennsylvania. THE
President" as it is called is constantly
at work pumping water from the zinc
mines at Friedensville, Lehigh county.
Its enormous power is that of 5000
horses, or. as it is computed, of So, 900
men. In the same county there is still
preserved, at Hollendauqua, the first
engine ever used in Lehigh, and set up
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