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

Some of the boys in East Feliciana
La, threaten vengeance against the
school board, which recently passed a
| law declaring that a pistol was not es-
sential as portion of the outfit of a
schoolboy, and that lads armed with
revolvers would not hereafter be ad-
mitted to the schools
in the excavation for a dam near
Ottawa, H., the remains of a stone
roadway have been found The part
disclosed is about fifty feet in length,
each slab being about twelve feet in
length. one to three feet in width, and
about two inches in thickness. The
breaks had been filed with cobble-
stones, laid in regular courses
ALBERT" said the stern Boston
father, II see that on the third day of
this month you got three dement's at
school How can you explain this, sir?"
The little Boston boy hung his head in
shame. Father" he exclaimed at
last, 81 can not tell lie. That was the
day forgot to crease my trousers. y
| Truth.
This country came near having
Crescentia as Che name of one of its
states, instead of Maryland. 1t was
originally intended to give that name
to the province granted as proprietary
government to Lord Baltimore, but when
the charter was presented to Charles
| /. for his signature he struck out that
name and substituted maryland" in
honor of his queen. Henrietta Maria of
France.
Baron Hirsch, the rich Austrian
rival of the Rothschilds, whose chart
ties to the prosecuted Russian Jews
has made his name better known on
this side of the Atlantic than even his
enormous wealth, is very lavish en-
tertainer, but personally most abstemi-
GUS. He spreads liberal table for his
guests, but eats only the plainest food
himself and drinkssbut little wine 1t
is his invariable rule to retire to bed
before II, leaving the company to their
own amusements for the rest of the
night
Once upon time when a man had
a narrow escape from threatened ca
lamity, he showed his gratitude to prov
idence by making pilgrimage, by Civ
ing aims to the poor or gifts to the
church. But times have changed.
Leonard Patterson, a young man of
Bangor Me-, had very narrow escape
from death recently. An immense safe
fell on him, but for some reason he es-
capped with but slight injuries. He an
nounces in the newspapers that, sin
honor of his miraculous escape" he
twill give dance in Union hall"
The death in Wales of William
Hooper Ropes, formerly of Boston,
calls attention to 3, notable class, of
which he was member, in the Boston
Latin school. John Lothrop Motley,
the historian and minister to Australia
and to Great Britain: Fletcher Webster,
the son of Daniel Webster; Henry Sum-
ner, the brother of Charles Sumner;
Turner Sargent, Prof. E. q. Salisbury,
who has been president of the Ameri-
can Oriental society, well known as the
professor of Sanskrit of Yale, and Rev.
George E. Ellis, of Boston, were with
Mr.. Ropes in the class that entered the
Latin school in 1924.
Here are some hard things to say If
you speak rapidly: "Peter Piper picked
peck of picked peppers; a peck of
picked peppers Peter Piper picked. If
Peter Piper picked u peck of picked
peppers, where's the peck of picked
peppers Peter Piper picked?" Thou
waft'd'st the ricl.ety stiff over the
mountain-height cliffs, and clearly
sawst the full -orb'd moon" "When a
twister twisting, would twist him
twist, For twisting a twist three twists
he will twist But if one of the twists
untwists from the twist, The twist un-
twisting untwists the twist" Robert
Rowley rolled a round roll round.
Where rolled the round roll Robert
Rowley rolled round?"
Howard Pyle's studio in Whining
ton, Del, is an interesting combination
of workroom and old curiosity shop.
The building was erected especially as
studio, and Mr.. Pyle is gradually fill
ing it with rare old furniture and curl
GUS antiques. In the little anteroom
are two richly carved high-backed
chairs bearing the crown of Sweden
and dating back to the early Swedish
settlements on the Delaware. The body
of an old-fashioned carved mahogany
spinnet serves as paint chest; an enor-
nous old chest of inlaid wood occupies
one corner of the room and serves vari-
Gus useful purposes. A steel helmet
that protected the head of German
knight two and q half centuries a.ro
and half a dozen antique flint locks go
to make up the stock of properties used
by Mr.. Pyle in studies for his pictures
of bygone times