The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

Tommy-''Ah, YOU like powder puffs
best, don't you, Gertie?'-Funny Culls.
An Englishman was found dead on
a Dakota prairie the other day. He
had told friend he was taking home
some Indian war paint as Sioux
veneer.-Crypt
I'VE went bang into the iceberg and
slid off to one side. The ship fairly
shivered." That was natural. | think
I'd shiver so close to an iceberg.
per's Bazaar.
In Wall Street.-"All is lost, save
honor" groaned the lamb, aeeced in
Wall street And that is not worth a
continental here" growled his partner.
Detroit Free Press
-Patient-"Doctor, | have trouble
about swallowing. Does that amount
to anything?" Doctor Cooking down
his throat) -"Yes, amounts to five dol
lars. ''-Fliegende Batter.
First "a Man tin logic class -'Say,
what does |. o. L. mean?" Second "a
Man (who has been .here, with a sigh
1T generally means nothing at ALL
Princeton Tiger.
The barber is is sort of bellicose
individual He has his little brushes
right along; he fathers people, and he
occasionally smashes their mugs. Ma
tional Barber.
-Tommy-"Paw. what is political
economy" Mr.. Fight is the cut
ting down of national expenses by a
member of congress to make up for his
own special appropriations, Indian
apolis Journal.
A novel but very interesting we'd
ding present is that bestowed by Mr..
George NJ. Pullman on his daughter
who is to marry young Californian.
1t consists of Pullman car of her own,
handsomely made and decorated, in
which she may run home and see her
friends as often as she pleases,
Americans take an interest in a
number of islands of the Pacific ocean.
We are interested in Japan. from which
n large number of the natives are now
emigrating to California, and in Samoa,
of which our government is one of the
three protecting powers, and in the
Hawaiian kingdom, many of whose
the United States.
The American dress reformers are
preparing to renew their crusade at
Chautauqua this year. They declare
that their reformatory ideas are making
rapid progress all over the country, but
especially in the cool-headed city of
Boston and the hot-headed city of
Chicago. They have not much hope of
undermining the prejudices of the fair
sex in New York City.
charles &. Leland traces the origin
of the saying in reference to small
place, there is not room enough to
swing cat to a superstition current
in Pennsylvania. In this country, it is
said, if a eat runs away, when recovered
she must be swung three times around
to attach her to the dwelling. The
same is done with a stolen cat by a
thief ii he would retain it.
Among collection of curious
plants recently received at the Kew
gardens. England, is specimen of a
curious tree from the Solomon islands.
1t is believed to be a new genus of the
order of Sapotac;e, to which the sapo-
diller of Florida belongs. The tree is
known to the natives of Solomon islands
as the turtle seed tree" on account of
the close resemblance which the seeds
bear to the turtle.
Marriage may be failure in San
Francisco, and it may not, but it is in
teresting to note that comparatively
few people are making the experiment.
During last year there We're only 3. 236
marriages in the city, less than eleven
to the thousand of the city's population.
teen per thousand. What it is in the
various cities and states of the Union is
not recorded accurately.
By a novel legal technicality Mig
Scoring. OF Crawfordville, Ind. has es-
capped IA term in the northern peniten-
tiary, and now poses before the com
munity as martyr. He was indicted
for stealing box of cigars from a
grocery store. but in the trial it was
proved conclusively that he left the box
and only took the cigars. On this
ground he was discharged.
"A fine specimen of the sea fox. or
thrasher. was washed ashore at Nassa-
wadox. Va. n few days ago, and created
something of a sensation. as nothing at
all like the uncanny thing had ever
been seen there before. The fish was
fourteen feet long and about half of
this was its tail. its weapon. with one
of its edges as sharp knife.
I'm walking through the Central
Park. New York. one day recently. a
Boston naturalist was surprised by
some of the trees. shrubs and flowers he
saw there He said he found even sugar
naples, Norway naples and swamp ma
Piles. He found moss pinks, Asiastic
magnolias lilacs. the forsythia, the cor
nelian cherry and other charming
things that are familiar to New York
ers who stroll though the park.
From Holland an offer has been
made to the Holland society OF New
York and the st. Nicholas society of
Brooklyn to construct and present to
them an exact reproduction of the Half
Moon. the ship in which Henry Hudson
discovered and explored the river which
bears his name. The societies named
have accepted the offer and are plan
ming to fit up the ship as a club house
and to take it to Chicago both to be ex-