The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-08-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

NO man who can be q first class
something has any right to be fourth
rate nothing.-Rsm's Horn.
lis Smithins . smart lawyer"
'Very. Man went to him with case in.
volving $3.50. Said he was willing to
spend $1,000 to get it back. Smithins
made him out bill right of for 81, $50"
-Joe-"Did you win anything at the
races yesterday" Tom-"Yes, little
fortune" Joe-"What did you bet?''
Tom-"That would put my money on
the wrong horse every time. Inter
Ocean.
Husband - 81 think young Mrs.
Prettyface was green with envy when
You came in with your new bonnet on"
Mrs. Ilhumor - Hateful thing She
Just did that because she knows that
green is becoming to her."-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The usefulness of carbonic acid
water in extinguishing fire has often
been referred to, and not long ago a
pharmacist, who happened to have a
lively incipient fire on his hands, used
his soda fountain for this purpose with
most satisfactory results.
On the subject of the swaying Of
lofty chimneys, 1t is declared to be
absurd to hold that n chimney,
say 400 feet high, would sway
10 inches The slightest vibration
is felt when on a tall chimney, and
II inches Is thought to be about the
extreme amount of swaying that takes
place.
The Chinese superstition about lucky
and unlucky colors is one that foreign
merchants must observe when they at
tempt to sell their wares in China. The
use of black paper as wrapping for
needles has initiated against their sale
in China. Blue must be especially
avoided on wrappers of goods intended
for the Chinese market, while red il
suspicious.
I'm parts of Massachusetts It is
thought that if girl puts a piece of
southern wood down her back the first
boy she meets will be her husband. In
Boston, If marriageable woman puts
bit of southern wood under her pillow
on retiring, the first man she sees in the
morning will, so says superstition, be
the one whom she is to marry.
"A snake in armor has been discov-
cred by farmer near Aberdeen, South
Dakota. Coming suddenly upon it, he
struck it with a stone, and metallic
sound came to his ear. He beat the rep
tile until it was dead, and found two
thirds Of the snakes body incased in a
piece of gas-pipe. Whether the snake
purposely or accidentally assumed the
armor Is not known.
"A smart young man in Walla Wal
Ia, WASH, started olt to have some fun
by soaring two young women who were
to return homeward through wooded
stretch of road after visiting friends in
the evening. He put on buffalo robe
and started out to play bear. The girls
attacked the supposed bear with heavy
stones and then thumped it with clubs
before the young man squealed He was
so badly bruised that he could hardly
crawl home.
Patti has several pet birds at Craig
y-nos, which she brought from New
York One is parrot that accom-
panies her songs, not merely initiating
the trills and roulades of his mistress,
but putting in some original touches of
his own. Another of the parrots for a
long time kept mute. until one day n
doctor appeared on the scene to attend
to sore throat of his mistress, when
he exclaimed: 30, DOCTOR I'm so sick"
"A large portion of the agricultural
exhibit which Illinois will make at the
runrld's fair xx,il1 1Na toJ
exhibits made at the state fair at Peoria
the coming fall. In order to encourage
the farmers to make especially fine ex-
hibits of farm, orchard and garden
products, the state board of agriculture.
which has in charge the preparations
of the states worlds fair exhibit, has
offered a number of cash prizes aggrc-
eating %, 800
Inc singers who sometimes assem-
BILE on the porch of Ashbury Methodist
church in New York City are a source
of unfailing delight to the men, women
and children who congregate in Wash
ington square every evening. The
audience lie on the grass, stand under
the trees, crowd the benches nearest
the church, and huddle together on the
sidewalk, drinking in the strains as il
Orpheus himself were to the fore. It
can't be easy for woman to hold a
baby with one arm and a hymn book in
the other hand, singing meanwhile
with all her might, but that is what a
songstress has been seen to do on the
church porch, and she, no doubt, felt
repaid by the unspoken gratitude of her
auditors.
The Bank of England was projected
by William Paterson, Scotch meg
chant, to meet the difficulties expo
rienced by William IIE in raising the
supplies for the war against France.
by the influence of Paterson and Mich
ael Godfrey, forty merchants subscribed
n large sum of money, to be lent to the
at per cent, in considera-
ton of the subscribers being incorpo-
rated as bank. The scheme was vio-
lently opposed in parliament, but the
bill obtained the royal assent April ~,
1894, and the charter was granted July
% following, appointing Sir John Houb-
Ion the first governor, and Michael Cod
frey the first deputy governor. The
ba nix commenced acfiva nparations nm