The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-09-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

as she munched roasting ear. YES,
like this kind of corn pretty well, but
prefer pop corn. Detroit Free-Press.
wv is the matter, Mary?'
''Somefin awfurs happened, mamma"
"Well, my dear, what is it?" My
d-doll-baby got away from me, and
Invoked a plate out in the pantwy
1t is predicted that in the course OF
time Northern Thibet will become
second California, perhaps even richer
than the first in precious metals lying
in the soil over the vast surface of the
desert land.
Il expect to see the time when
electricity will be used for all cooking
and heating purposes, remarked Van
Braam Then | suppose bakers will
sell ohm-made bread" added Dind-
widdie -Pittsburgh Chronicle.
-Approximating to the Custom
"Bruddern. Is so indisposed wild de
rumatiz dis mawnin' finds myself un-
able 20 stan up an talk to We, an so
AK de congregation ter stan mp instid
whilst discourse "-Harpers Bazaar.
Half eagles of 1795, 1874, 1898 and
1928 can be sold for from SIS to S25
each Quarter eagles of gold issued in
1896, l797 and 1926 are valued at $40
each The $50 gold piece of California
commands a premium of from $40 to sl5.
Buff They tell me that Squiddle.
has great ear for music" Bass-'fes.
knew he had great ear-two of them,
in fact; but did not know that they
were for music. ! supposed they were
for brushing flies off the top of his
head. Boston Transcript.
Oregon was name formerly given
to an imaginary river of the west. Car
yer, an American traveller, mentions it
in 1903. In describing the river he
evidently COMPOUNDED it with the Mis-
souri,, but the name was finally applied
to the present state of that name.
Bad Forms-Mrs. Porcu-"There
was one thing that happened at her
wedding that struck me as being rather
bad form" Mrs. Wabash-"Whatw was
that" Mrs. Porcu-"Among the old
shoes thrown after the happy couple
were pair that had belonged to her di-
vorced husband. N. y. Herald
The Tombstone Epitah recently
spoke of garden near Yuma, Arizona,
in which are growing twenty-five date
palms, the largest of which is thirty
feet in height and fifteen years old.
This and five of the other trees were in
bearing, and some of the punches of
their fruit weighed fifty pounds, and
are estimated to contain 5000 dates
each.
A factory at Lynn, Mass, has asked
for space at the worlds fair to show
pneumatic dynamite field guns and pro-
jectiles, one dynamite field gun to be
shown on a wheeled carriage fifteen by
six feet over all; one coast defense
pneumatic dynamite gun, stationary,
mounted on carriage with turntable
track. tube eight inch bore, three feet
long
An exchange propounds the start
ling and saddening fact that there are
5000, 900 young men of marriageable age
in the United States who obstinately
neglect to provide themselves with
wives, and this implies the existence of
at least an equal number of young
women of marriageable age who are
waiting for proposals that never come.
A minister in the east said-"My
brethren, the collection will now be
taken for my expenses for a trip, for |
am going away for my health. The
more receive the longer | can stay"
The largest collection ever made in that
church was taken. And now the ques-
ton under discussion is whether the
size of the collection was a compliment
to the preacher or much the reverse
Louisville Western Recorder.
An ingenious prisoner in the peni-
Tertiary at Szegedin, Hungary, has in
vented machine which shaves a man
in twenty-five seconds All the pris-
oners are shaved by it--l43 of them, in
about an hour As most of the COM
pulsory victims OF this mans ingenuity
are in dread of losing their noses or
ears, they have expressed the wish that
the inventor had been sentenced to
death instead of imprisonment
An effort is being made to secure
for exhibition in the horticultural de-
partment OF the world fair "a specimen
of giant cactus from the desert region
Of southeast California. This cactus
grows at times to the height of seventy
feet. A specimen when boxed ready
for shipment win weigh eight tons,
and il viii require an expenditure of
something like $500 to deliver it in
good condition in Chicago
Illinois will have an exhibit in IT'S
state world i, fair buildings of specimens
Of all the indigenous woods Of the staee.
Ia order 10 secure uniformity each
specimen will be about forty-two inches
long and consist OF section of the tree
trunk II win be cut in such manner
a. TO show the grain from the surface to
the center On each specimen will be
painted picture Of the leaf and fruit
Of the tree.
John Moerlin, the Cincinnati mil
lionaire brewer, has had presented to
him a rare specimen OF bird. 1t is an
albino robin and perfectly white. It
was shot by \. =. King. the phoJogra-
pher, OF Cheviot. It is great curiosity
and no other specimen is known to ex-
st In any Of the bird collections Of the
country The Natural History society