The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-06-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

get at the truth of matter. They
simply wish to prove that their position
is the true one, even if they have to lie
truth. Boston Transcript.
Sc Don't monkey with the buzz
saw may be good advice for general
purposes" said an actor, but | know a
man who got rich by disregarding it,
"How?" He wrote a saw-mill drama"
Washington Star.
-Farmer-"Kin yer furnish glasses
ter make a Teller see double?"
Optician-'Yes" Farmer-''Well old
Peter Funk's comm daown to buy nv
pigs tomorrow, an # yell sell i'm
pair I'll set 'em up next time l come to
taown. Jewellers Weekly.
First Professor-"You see, they let
him in the Academy of Sciences because
he had taken an A. B., an S. B., an A.
NJ, Phi. d., and an NJ D." Second
Professor - ''Ah, l understand - he
worked in by degrees. Harvard Lam
poon.
1t Stunned Him.-Mrs. McCorkle-
"What did your husband say about
your new hat?" Mrs. McCrackle-'H
fell to the floor insensible when he saw
the bill" Mrs. McCorkle-"I told you
it was sumner when you bought it. -
Detroit Free Press
The Variable Mother-in-L aw.-Ma
"Extravagant saphead! Two hum
dred dollars for diamond stud! Think
of it," Daughter-"But he's going to
have the stone matched for earrings for
me-" Ma-"What thoughtful dear he
Isl"
The first female knights are said to
have been women who stoutly defended
Tortosa against the Moors in 1149, and
were rewarded with large immunities
for themselves and their descendants.
When Edward III. founded the Garter
he bestowed the robes and badges on
his queen and on the wives and daugh-
tiers of the other knights.
The field of Wounded Knee is still
strewn with the bones of the horses that
fell in the battle there. The Indians
who cry over the graves of their dead at
Wounded Knee are said to have new
song of mourning, which runs some
what like this.
He is down so deep, he is down so deep, he is
down so deep.
He can't get up he can't get up, he can't get up
"A musical instrument of ten pipes,
called the magripha, is said to have
existed in the second century, and an
organ was said to be in the possession
of King Pepin, of France, in ISL. An
organ containing 400 pipes was erected
in the tenth century in England. Semi
tones were introduced in this instru-
ment about the end of the eleventh
century, and pedals were constructed in
1890 by Bernhardt, which gave COM
pass of b fat to A.
"A six-year-old son of George Har-
ger, who lives Just south of Kiowa,
Kan, is an infant Jupiter in his way.
He is so full of little thunderbolts that
whenever he approaches any conducting
substance, animate or inanimate, one of
them springs to it from his finger tips
He always has larger load just before
q storm, and all the animals about the
place run from him in terror.
An amateur bird fancier in the
French quarter of New York city ex-
hibits with pride a canary sitting on
| four eggs in nest with bird less than
a month old from her latest Matching
| Six others of her brood persisted in the
cold of two weeks ago. Such rapidity
of breeding is rare among canaries, for
the young at ten days old are little
Jumps of life, almost bare, and utterly
helpless. From that point on, however,
they grow with astonishing rapidity,
and in about three weeks acquire full
suit of feathers.
Dealers in human hair recall the
instructive fact that the panic of 1874
suddenly stimulated the trade among
the French Canadians. The hardships
of that period drove the women to sell
ing their hair, and considerable quanti-
ties were sent to the United States At
no time have the women of this country
been pressed to the necessity of selling
their locks. although the great variety
of color and texture, resulting from the
mixture of various nationalities, would
give hair from the heads of American
women a peculiar value.
| Secretary Blaine has decided TO send
an interesting exhibit to the worlds
! fair at Chicago. 1t will consist of the
original Declaration of independence,
the constitution of the United States.
the articles of Federation, the famous
protest of the Philadelphia Carpenters
Company to King George Ill, and other
documents which are the heirlooms of
the country itself, of our national his
tory. These will not be shown by fac
simile. but by the originals. They will
be shipped in steel caskets and guarded
by soldiers while en- route and at the
fair.
Here is faithful copy of double
barrelled letter forwarded TO us by a
board schoolmaster." says the Journal
of Education The first half is writ
ten on the outside of the envelope, the
last on the inside We wish we could
present our readers with facsimile:
Please do not keep Charley Hall in and
cane him as he has had such bad eye
and could not see out of it for days
and had to take him to the doctor and
he told him to keep indoors from his
Mother. please sir Charley is quite
well nofe to come to school and he
won't come and you cane do as you like