The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-05-06
MISCELLANEOUS,

look at us!"-Indianapolis Journal.
I'm Crowded, Stranded Street Car.
-Conductor-''Move forward, please"
Disgruntled Passenger-'That's what
we sAould like to have your car do"
Boston Transcript
old Yallerby-"What yo' wants to
do, Nose, am to save de pennies" Nose
II nebber has none to save, uncle. Old
Whitewash allus pays me in silver or
bills. "-Harper's Bazaar.
Prisoner (who has just been success
fully defended by his attorney on a
charge of burglary, eagerly)-"Youn
defend me next time, too, won't you?
-Fliegende Batter.
Explained. - Jones "What has
made the telephone so successful, do
you imagine?" Brown-"I presume it is
owing to the fact that it is run on sound
principles. Detroit Free Press
She Didn't Understand.-Mrs.H Hicks
IL read every day about 'the peace of
Europe which all the rulers seem to
want; but there is one thing about it
don't understand Hicks-"What is
that?" Mrs. Hicks-''Which piece it is. :"
N. Y. Herald
The Humane Girl. - George -
EITHER you must marry me or put me
out of my misery Ethel-"Must l
choose?' George-"You must" Ethel
with sigh)-"Well, where is the ax?"
N. Y. Herald
dancing Men.-"What charming
waltz they're playing upstairs. More
champagne, waiter. ThanlsD" I've
only just come-not been upstairs yet.
One hears the music so much better
down here. Gold outlet, please, and
salad ThanksD"-Punch.
AT 100 yards the drift of Spring
field rifle bullet is about two inches; at
1000 yards it is more than sixteen feet.
Whena fresh wind is blowing across
the range the bullet will drift from one
and one-half TO seven feet in distance
of 500 yards, and sometimes as mulch as
twenty-eight feet in distance of l 900
yards.
"A phepomenon is observed in an
artesian well near Edensburg. The
well spoken of is down about 200 feet,
but the water in it is still 100 feet below
the surface. The popularity consists
in the fact that, when there is no wind,
the water is that distance below the
curbing; when there is high wind,
flowing water pours out of the pipe.
AT an expense of $4,000 contracts
have been let for furnishing the worlds
fair with boilers of 10000 horsepower
capacity. The exposition power plant
h,,, Ill 49, n
900 barrels will be required, for which
the Exposition company will pay 721l
cents barrel The contract has been
let for putting in about twelve miles of
sewerage pipe in the grounds for s57, 736.
"A pure white mink is the picture of
innocence. Every movement embodies
thought of gentleness. Notwith-
records the bloodthirstiness of pure
white mink in East Bradford, Chester
county. Fifty chickens and one hum
bred ducks is the death record of that
innocent looking animal before, in turn,
it fell before the muzzle of a trusty
rifle
Amos Il. Carter, of Elan, Pa, the
father of twenty-one children, cole
brated his eightieth birthday last week.
died about two years ago Upon her
tombstone is this poetic inscription,
placed there by Mr.. Carter's directions:
"Some have children and some have
none; here lies the mother of twenty
one" Mr.. Carter is very fatherly old
man.
In it's postal service the United
States uses annually $4,000 pounds of
wrapping Irvine, half a million lead
pencils, 800 barrels of ink, 1900 quarts
of mucilage, 10000 pounds Of rubber
bands, $4,000 gross Of pens and various
other items in similar quantities. These
are all shipped from large brick ware
house on + street, Washington, d. c.
Idaho will show some splendid speci-
mems of mica in the mines building of
the worlds fair. 1t has lodges of mica
eight feet thick and apparently mex
haustible. Sheets of it as large as tee
by twelve inches, without flaw, and
as thin as tissue paper, are not uncom-
mon. 1t is proposed to have some of
the windows in the Idaho building
glazed with mica.
Mark Remission, of Phillips, Me-,
has IA bull moose which he has raised
from calf, which is so tame that he
turns it out every warm day to browse
in the neighboring fields. He catches
the big bull as easily as he would pet
lamb, and is breaking him to harness.
He hitched the moose to wagon last
summer and was carried ten miles at
railroad speed before he could stop the
animal.
Two Ways to Win.-Messenger Boy
Ito comrade)-Say, the woman where 1
took letter gimme quarter" what
for doin'?" Nothin'. She sed was "a
little gentleman for keeping my cap off
in her house" ''Geewhitaker. five
nickels for that" Eyes; but didn't
tell her the fellow that sent the letter
gimme quarter to keep my cap off so
IS none of 'em in the house could spot
my number. IN. Y. Tribune.
There is scheme afoot to create a
greater Boston by including sixty-eight
towns and cities in one vast metropoli-
tan district, with Boston as the hub
The author of the scheme his name is
Smith, hopes TO overcome local jeal-
ousies by letting each town in the pro-