The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-17
MISCELLANEOUS

or ranlaEchcli2.
why is it that they call the sum-
mer trips outings?" "Idon't know I'M
less those who take them generally find
themselves so mach out"
If it pleases you to hear friend
say he would do anything in the world
for you, don't prepare thorn for your
self by mentioning one or two things
you want done.-Atchison Globe.
--Watts-"Were you ever afflicted
with insomnia?" Observation-Disclosures.
It's great, isn't it? Fellow can go ahead
and drink two dozen hours out of the
twenty-four indianapolis Journal.
-''Ha. Back from your vacation?"
"Yes" "H'm! Instead of looking
rested you look all tagged out" 80
would you if you had been trying to
play the lover to four summer girls
| n. Y. Press
Lady berries look very
large and ripe" Little boy (selling
berries for the first time)-"Yes, mum,
the little green ones are all underneath.
That's the way the boss fixes 'em up
every morning"
-She-'I think the forehead the
safest place for young gentleman to
kiss young lady" Helm not sure
of it, The last time attempted to kiss
young ladys forehead got hng in
| the mouth. life.
| The largest county in the United
States is Custer county, in Montana
which contains $4,000 square miles,
| being larger i'm extent than Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut Delaware
and Rhode Island
Teacher twho has been explaining
the word epidcmic) -"Now, who can
| give me the name of M epidemic here
in America Rcmembe- tits something
that spreads" Tommy WILDLY
waving his hand)-"I Know; It's straw
berry jam. OCEAN.
| "A correspondent VI the CONNECTION.
er's journal says that banana juice
makes first-class indelible ink. A
| spot on white shir from dead ripe
banana is marked forever and the
| juice from bananas thoroughly decayed
is a bright clear c,rmine.
In Great Britan there are g. square
miles and in Belgium 81 square miles
| of area to each nile of railway. The
average cost of European railways is
estimated at S2Sa, 900 per mile, and the
total cost of al the railways in the
world is figured at So, lis, 900, 900.
The stamp act a law passed by the
| British parliament, March -, 1865, 'for
granting and applying certain stamp
duties and other duties in the British
colonies and plantations in America,
took effect from November l, 1903, but
was the occasion of such excitement,
| protests and overt resistance in most OF
| the states that it was repealed March
! Is, 1866, and bill of indemnity for
those who had incurred penalties was
passed June of the sane year
The Italian who runs the peanut.
stand on Forrth street was turning his
peanut rooster the other afternoon with
slow and measured hand, when an old
woman came to a halt and carefully. OBJ
served the operation. After scrutiniz.
ing the rooster from every side, she
fn~ny s~y~ 80 sp> and rem~rs<ssE 70,
sir; you don't get a cent ont of A1or
no such music as that, Why, can't
catch half of any of the tunes, and i,
smells as if something was burning in.
side. "-Lalle City Citizen.
Up to the year 1885 stoves in the
United States We're made almost ex.
ciuslvely in blast furnaces, and directly
from the ore, instead of being made in
foundries from pig iron, as they now
are, and they were consequently much
heavier and ruder than now, and had
loose and imperfect joints. Most Of
them We're made in the furnaces of New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, though few
were cast quite early in the furnaces at
Coldspring, \. V, and at Salisbury and
canaan, Conn. From 1920 to 1885 a con-
siderable business was done in stove
making in Rutland county, VT
In Minnesota 81 per cent. of the
males of voting age are foreign born, in
wisconsin % per cent, in Indiana II
per cent In those states with Ohio.
Illinois and Michigan as a whole, So per
cent of the males of voting age are for
eign born. There are nearly 26, 600 col
ored voters in Ohio, Is, 900 in Indiana.
$4,000 in Illinois and 5000 in Michigan
but comparatively few in Wisconsin and
Minnesota. Over ~ per cent of the
aliens in Wisconsin, over SIS per cent, of
those in Ohio and over 81 per cent. of
those IN Minnesota are returned as not
speaking the English language.
The jelly palace to be erected by
the women of California for the worlds
fair will be sixteen by twenty feet and
twenty-five feet high. The entrance
will be by two doors approached by
three marble steps The framework of
the building will be of wire, and on this
will be firmly placed several thousand
Jelly-glasses-cups, globes prisms, etc.
containing jellies of many colors and
shades of color, arranged with artistic
effects and in beautiful designs. The
cost of the framework and glasses alone
p estimated at two Thousand seven hum
dred dollars, and the bril- liant effect
will be heightened by many electric
lights
Dining cars are generally run at A
! loss and are attached TO trains simslv
as matter of attraction. A steward
four cooks and five walters are at
tachcd to each car. The food costs from
81 600 to $500 month. 1t costs from
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