The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-12
MISCELLANEOUS,

not have to learn what we must about
them '-Drale's Magazine.
-Garrulous Stranger ION a train) =
''My wife's name was Wood What
was yours?" Crusty Old Bachelor-''I
guess mines name was wouldn't /
didn't get her."
-"Mantalini's piano-playing is exc
cradle. He handled Mozart last night
without gloves "You didn't expect
! him to attempt Mozart with gloves, did
you?"-Harper's Bazaar.
Literally True. - Sympathising
Stranger-"So the cyclone destroyed
your farm and killed your two sons?'
Kansas Farmer-"Yes; it was terrible
blow. saturday Evening Herald.
II think" said Pennington pensive-
ly, that l will write a poem on the
front gate" IF you aren't careful, F"
his brutally matter-of-fact roommate
replied, you'll get arrested for defacing
private property. "-Washington Post.
-'Young man." said the good man,
impressively, IF you keep on betting
on horse-races do you know where you
will eventually go?" Eyes, sir" replied
the youth; IF luck don't change, I'm
mighty apt to go broke. N. Y. Re-
corder.
Bob Bunllum (ac.or)-"Failure? I
should think it was! Why, the wkUza
play was ruined" Fair Hostess-''How
was that?" Bob Bunkum-"Why, at
the end of the last act steam pipe
burst and Kissed me off the stage. -
Buffalo Express.
-Tramp-"Please, mum, | haven't
had bite to eat for most week. I've
fine set of teeth, mum, but they don't
seem to be of much use to me-" Tx
perienced Housekeeper-"The is
dentist down street who pays ten cents
apiece for good teeth"
Mrs. White-''What beautiful cake
Mrs. Brown makes. Why, the frosting
on the cake we had this evening was SO
clear and glossy you could actually see
your face in it." Mr. White-"That is
what one might call food for reflection,
suppose. boston Transcript.
In the northwest, according to
Minnesota farmer, there is hardly one
farmer in ten that raises vegetables
enough to supply two persons. This is
all wrong. Every farm should have
good garden, with an abundance of
vegetables and fruits in their season.
Science even buries us ingeniously.
A knock-down frame is adapted to be
placed over a grave with parallel
tracks, and carriage forming the bier
running on the tracks to receive the cof-
fin, the carriage having pivoted handles
to facilitate lowering coffin or casket
to the bottom of vault or grave.
Prof Hazen, of the signal office, says
that attempts to construct successful
flying machine will invariably fail, ow-
ing to the facts that it is impossible to
develop from the food bird uses 1.-THE
of the motive power that bird does,
and that human skill can not initiate
the perfection and adaptability of bird
In its own element
A letter was received by Phila-
delphia firm the other day that was
dated at Christiana, Pa, on Novem-
Der II, 1884. and bore the mark of the
Philadelphia post Office of the same
date. The letter was an acceptance of
the Philadelphia firms bid for car
loud of wheat, which the surviving
partner would be glad to get to-day at
the price then quoted.
"A breeder of Shetland and Welsh
ponies near Jamaica. L. l., has pony
mare called Fairy, who has beaten all
records. Although but one year eleven
months and four days old at the time,
she foaled a filly, and both are doing
we'll. The mother is but thirty-seven
inches in height and her foal, which
weighs eighteen pounds, is fourteen
inches in height.
A citizen of Brunswick, Ga, is now
trying to solve problem which inter-
ests him very much. He owns large
amount of real estate in that oity. Last
year he failed to return one entire block
of lots, saw the same advertised, coveted
it, and when sold by the marshal bought
it in, and now wants to know how he
can get his money back out of the city
treasury.
The champion mean man of the
week halls from San Jose, Cal, where
he was building fence recently. Some
blocks of wood fell on the sidewalk as
he worked and a nine-year-old girl
picked them up for waste firewood,
whereupon he swore out warrant and
had her arrested for stealing. The JUS
tice promptly dismissed the case and
assessed the costs to>the complainant.
The boat that bore the body of John
Wilkes Booth away from Washington,
down the Potomac, has been sold for
SIS, 900. and will be converted into a
Philadelphia coal barge. The boat is
the monitor Saugus, and she has lain
for seventeen years at the Washington
navy yard She bears several huge
dents imprinted in her stalwart sides
through the force of cannon balls
Her turret also shows several huge
dents, as well as the pilot house.
Some rare metals, possessing spe-
cial qualities, are required for certain
work. Thus palladium is used in
making some parts of time-pieces, and
iridium for the points of gold pens.
Lithium is the lightest of metals.
Rhodium is extremely hard and brittle,
and is only fusible at very high tenn
perature, and iridium is the heaviest
substance hitherto discovered. The I'M
initiated have no idea of the value OF
these scarce products, which are most
of them far more precious than gold
and silver. as far as their market value