The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-01-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

side of the chest should bulge somewhat
that is where keep my pocketbook"
-Fliegende Batter.
Game Away Without Her. Bunker
How did you come to leave your wife
in PARISH" Hill-"She couldn't make up
her mind whether she wanted yard OF
yard and half, and got tired watt
ing. Cloak Review.
Rabbits, snakes, birds and fishes
never close their eyes because unpro.
vided with eyelids The rabbit and the
common barn-yard fowl are each pro.
vided with a thin membrane, which is
let down over the eye when asleep or
at rest.
HAS he a profession?" asked o
young woman as new social recruit
entered the room. Yes; he's title
searcher" you don't mean real es-
tatep" mo; he is employed by heiresses
who contemplate matrimony with for
eign gentlemen. Washington Star.
How He red.--Judge-"And
what did the prisoner say when you
told him that you would have him ar
rested?" Complainant-"He answered
mechanically, yer honor" Judge
Explain" Complainant-"fIe hit me
on the head with hammer. "-Demor-
est's Magazine. 6H
Stage Manager--"By Jove, there's
nice thing happening on tho stagew
Proprietor-"Eh? What's up?' Stage
Manageable hero and the villain
arc doing their duel act, and the latter
won't die until you signal him that he'll
get his arrears of salary at the end of
the piece. Comic. Iii,
Mrs. Billsdoo-"That piece of pot
terry is too valuable, think, to put
Worcestershire sauce into it." Mrs.
Bullion-'That's, what it is intended
for" Mrs. Billsdoo-"I thought it was
only an ornament" Mrs. Bullion
20, dear no. The dealer said It
was gel...ine Worcester. Jewellers
Circular
Joseph Suppel, of Philadelphia, de.
sired to make himself comfortable after
death; SO he had an underground vault
built, and furnished with tables chairs,
pictures, etc, so as to give it ''home-
like" appearance His funeral took
place few days ago, and the owner
was quietly placed in possession.
Il tell yez, Mary Ann" said Micky
Dolan as he sat down to his supper, lit
is not for me to be oncharitable till me
felly-man, but whin Dinnis O. Brien, wild
his wood leg, takes to carryin' cane.
besides, it looks to me loike too much
shtoile and extravaganza, so it do."-
Washington Star. N.trsa.
The large gift of Baron Hirsch in
aid of the Russian exiles has stimulated
many other wealthy Hebrews both in
Europe and America to deeds of gen.
erosity. The various societies for as
sisting the exiles are well supplied with
funds. which are used with discretion
and which have been serviceable to
thousands of sufferers all the way from
the Neva to the Hudson.
1t is hard to believe in these DAVIS
of careless fnanciering that in trans
actions covering period of seven years
and an amount exceeding $f3, 900, 900,
there should have been but one error OF
$40, and that one found to have beer
made up. Nevertheless that is thu
record of the East river bridge as re-
ported by experts who have gone over
the accounts.
"A rather remarkable story is told
about an apple tree that grows in St
Georges cemetery in Middleport Del
1t is said to yield fine round apples in
great abundance. But no one can eat
them, as they have graveyard taste"
Even the hogs, when the apples are Of
fered them, refuse to touch them When
put by the fire to roast the apples, it il
said, simmer to oil and emit disagree.
able odor strongly suggestive of grave.
yards
There is species of seaweed,
kind of kelp, which the Indians of Alas
ka are very fond of chewing. 1t is as
tough as leather and one piece will last
a man who has good teeth for a whole
day. These Indians have an interesting
fashion OF collecting herring eggs They
weave mattresses of cedar twigs AND
sink them with stones in the water The
fish deposit their spawn upon the twigs
and it is subsequently collected and
dried.
AN excellent idea has been recently
put into practice by drug firm in Bir-
mingham- On every bottle or package
OF poison sold by the firm label is
pasted, on which are printed directions
as to the antidote which should be er,-
ployed in case the poison is taken by
human beings, accidentally or inten-
tionally. This is perhaps an even better
plan than that said to have been adopted
in newly opened western drug store
of giving a dog with each prescription
filed.
1t is computed by leading physiolo-
gists that, since ope-third of a second
suffices to produce an impression upon
the brain, a man of 100 years of age
must have collected on or in his brain
matter 9,467, $50, 900 Impressions Or,
again, take off third of the time for
sleep, and we still find 6,3l1, $40, 000
This would give S,l55, 76O, 600 separate
waking impressions on the man who
lives to the age Of fifty years
There is" says a horticulturist.
"hardly an instance in natural history
Of plant so universally detested by the
animal world as the castor-oil plant.
No sort of bird, beast or creeping thing