The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-10-02
MISCELLANEOUS.


The fumes stupefed the brute, SO that
it was easily killed.
No one likes a persistent taller,
even if brilliant. Said clever hostess,
planning a dinner which She wished to
be especially successful. 81 can't ask
Mrs S, though on some accounts l
should like TO: she talks so increasingly
that She soon depresses the company.
What is all the noise?" asked Miss
Sllensweet's father. II was just trying
new song" she said, poutingly.
l am a lawyer and honor the instinct
which leads you to try your songs be-
fore you execute them. "-Washington
Star.
"A Blendentown, Mich, farmer
named HenryWindsor was moving grass
the other day when the machine ran over
rattlesnalle, cutting it in two. The far
mer jumped from his seat and stopped
to pick up the tail part in order to Sc
cure the big bunch of rattles as a tro-
ply, when the piece of snake with the
head attached sprang at him and buried
its fangs in his arm.
The Sandwich islands alphabet has
10 letters; the Burmese, 10; Ialian, 20;
Bengalese, 81; Hebrew, Syrian, Chaldee
and Samaritan, % each French, %;
Greek, "a: Latin, %: German, Dutch and
English, 20 each; Spanish and Sclavonic,
% each: Arabic, IS: Persian and Coptic,
80; Georgian, 50; Armenian, IS; Russian,
Al; Muscovite. 40; Sankrist and Japan
csc, so; Ethiopic and Tartarian have 203
each.
"A collection of Eskimo works of
art, made by Assistant superintendent
Edwards of the cryolite mines at Arsuk
Fiord, Greenland, is described by John
r. Spears, in Nature. 1t includes can
dle-sticlls, cigar-holders, ash-receivers,
anchors, paper weights, etc, made of
greensboro. The articles were all made
to sell to the Danish rulers, for the Es-
kimo themselves have no use for Orna-
mental art; but they show considerable
skill in sculpture.
The wife of a small farmer in Perth
shire, some time ago, went to a chemists
in the Fair City" with two prescrip-
tions-one for her husband and the
other for her COW. Finding that she
had not enough money to pay for
both, the chemist asked her which she
would take. ''Gie me that for the COO"
said the wife, 1.-The morn will dae eneuch
for him, puir body. Gin he were to dee,
I could get another man; but I'm no
sac sure if l would sune get another
co.,
Lieut.. Frederick A. ODER, one of the
special worlds fair commissioners to
South America, has written that he has
secured in San Domingo photographs of
the bones alleged to be those of Christie
pher Colum bus. He is inclined to ques-
ton that the remains are genuine. He
also had made fac-simile of the his
toric cross of one of the cathedralS in
that city from material that was put in
the building in 1914. These and many
other relics he will bring to the EXPOSE
ton.
In laying the foundations for 4 new
eleven-story building at the northeast
corner of Broad and Beaver streets it
has been necessary to drive forty-foot
piles of hemlock into the swampy
ground To antiquarians the sight
of this watery hole in the ground
recalls the swamp in this vicin-
ity and the canal which extended
through Broad street and by which pas
sengers from Brooklyn and Commune
paw were landed at 1.-The stairs" near
Wall street. 1t was famous skating
place for the Dutch lads of the old time.
N. y. Sun.
American naval officers are men of
many Clothes and the official etiquette
of dress aboard ship is appalling to a
landsman. Every officer must have
four or five styles of hats and caps, at
least as many different kinds of coats,
and even prescribed styles of neckties
in considerable variety. The captain
ordinarily prescribes the uniform of the
day, but when flagship is within sig
mailing distance of another man-of-war
the admiral is the authority on clothes
as on other things. To appear on deck
with the wrong necktie is to invite a
reprimand.
Frequent burglaries alarmed the
residents of d Japanese village, as no
clew whatever could be obtained re-
garding the perpetrator, An ingenious
fellow, whose home had been plundered,
proposed that each villager should
write the name of the man he suspected
on slip of paper and put it in ballot
box On the votes being examined, it
was discovered that fifteen named one
man, and the rest We're blanks. The
robber was so astonished at the result
of the balloting that he actually con-
fessed his identity.
Here is clever scrap from n letter
written to John Lothrop Motley by
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Il sat by the
side of Emerson, who always charms
me by his delicious voice, his fine sense
and wit, and the delicate way he steps
about the words of his voca bulary. If
you have seen cat picking her foot
steps in wet weather you have seen the
picture of Emerson's exquisite intelli-
gence feeling for its phrase or epithet
Sometimes | think of an ant-eater sin
Cling out his insects as | see him look
ing about and at last selling his worm,
or adjective, the best, the only one
which would serve the need of his
thought"
--Lathly Nichols, of Thomaston, Me-,
whose diseased arm was recently am
initiated eynerienced some remarka BILE