The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

First youth lat railway depot
"Traveled faro" Second youth-''Not
yet, but expect to before I stop lam
going west to seek my fortune" First
youth-"I Just got back. Lend me a
dime, will you?"-Kansas City Journal.
in sinking plumb lines down shafts
the accuracy of the work is often seri-
ously impaired by spiders attaching
their webs to the lines and drawing
them toward the wall, often with sutfi-
cient tension to introduce material err
rors in the position of the plumb hobs.
The wounds made by the new small
caliber army rifles close quickly and
heal readily, showing wonderfully little
destruction of the soft tissues. The
next improvement will probably result,
it is said, in the bullets being cased in
hard metal so as to prevent spreading
and liberation.
There must be myriads of fish liv-
ing in the depths or the sea whose form
guess at, for should specimens be sue
cessfully hooked they would burst into
pieces before they could be brought to
the surface, being relieved of the extra
ordinary pressure upon which they eX-
list
st. Charles, Mo-, is in a worse posi-
ton than any of the towns in Massa-
chusetts 1t has two willing and wait
ing young women to every marriage
able man in its population, and when a
bashful young fellow wants to go out
for an evenings walk he has generally
to carry his grandmother along to see
that he isn't eloped with.
Can you manage a typewriter"
asked one married lady of another
Can manage typewriter? 1 should
say so. | made three leave my hus-
bands Office within the last two
months, and the last is SO homely that
John is almost afraid of her. The man
agement of a typewriter is an art. but
I've got it down fine. "-Demorest's
Magazine.
"A Brunswick, Ga. newspaper makes
this effective and pathetic editorial ar
raignmcnt and appeal, which would
seem to be worth several columns of
particulariZed condemnation: Ladies'
and gentlemen, as you pass down New
castle street will you please look at the
court house. Is that such a building as
Glyn county ought to have in Bruins
wick?''
-Why?-Swcet Chiffon! papa, why
are there so many poor people and we
are so rich?' Rich Father-"My child,
it is nature; nature is full of such in
CAPABILITIES! Everything is unequally
distributed my dcar--for instance
in the sea there are millions of dollars
worth of salt, and not a single cents
worth of peppcr-Why?"-Dcmorest's
Magazine.
The accomplishments and acquire
meuto of iiicronymus LOrnl, Gcrmany'S
blind poet, are remarkable When it is
known that ever since the age of fifteen
he has been bereft of the senses of sight
and hearing. lie was born in Austria.
but when Il young man was driven from
Vienna on account of his political writ
ingS. Going to Berlin he made himself
widely known and influential.
A farmer near Columbus Ga, has
two turkey hens and one gobbler The
hens made nests about seventy-five
to setting. The gobbler got lonesome
and concluded that the proper thing for
him to do was to set also. He got an
equal distance between the two turkey
hens, squatted over a guinea water
melon and set six weeks before he was
discovered.
President f. r. Webster of the Mar
in county tCaL) Country club has
started remarkable immigration
scheme. A subscription paper has been
circulated among the gentlemen far
mers, and it is proposed with the pro-
cceds to import from Germany 200 pairs
of skylarks, bull!inches, nightingales
and thrushcs. 1t costs about $3.50 to i'm
port hundred pairs of these birds, but
Napa, Sonoma, San Mateo and Sacra-
mento counties are pursuing Marin
county's example
The late Calmann Levy, the Paris
publisher, was acquainted with nearly all
the famous French writer's for the last
half century, and his house enjoyed al
IlOSJ IL HlolO)OlN VI IHc uIdLldClSJS. re
was the last of four brothers who were
associated in the book trade, and he in
herited fortune of So, 900, 900 from his
brother Michael, the originator of the
firm. The average annual output of
Calmann Levys presses was 1,724,00O
volumes and $500, 900 periodicals, and
he kept going IA paper mills, so print
lighthouses, Is binderies and various
other factories and workshops Iar-
per's Weekly.
"A post mortem on the remains of
Charles c. Barowsky, who died recently
at Sioux City, Iowa, revealed the re-
markable fact that Ire had lived for the
past twenty-nine years with bullet in
his brains. He was shot with a revolt
yer during the war, but RaDNyered.
Since then he had never bd e to
lie on the right side or to 81 bver
without violent pains in his head. The
doctors found that the bullet had gone
through the eye to the upper part of
lodged near the base of the skull, where
it had become encysted. The most
vital parts of the brain were traversed
by the ball, and how the man lived is a
mystery.
Many of the older residents of this
section remember the late Or. Warner,
of New Milford, and will appreciate
this little story, says the Danbury
News. When DR.. Warner was a stu