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

helper Horn.
YES" said the old lady, they've
had dry season out there-they have
had to irritate the land columbus
Post
Many people say they go away to
get rid of their business letters, but the
summer girl relies implicitly on the daily
male. Philadelphia Times
The young man in love doesn't care
so much about having yacht at sea as
having little smack ashore. Cape Cod
Item.
In the menagcric world giraffes are
becoming scarce. The animal offers too
many chances to fate to get hit in the
eck,-Minneapolis Journal
Girls We're formerly so modest that
| they would blush if IA small star winked
at them, but when the man in the moon
casts Sleeps eye at one of them now
she asks him what he is giving her
Galveston News.
-Wife-"John, the Morning Daily
states that you got into disgraceful
| fight at your club last night. Who did
| you fight withY' Husband-'I am sure
l do not know, dear. haven't even
seen the Daily yet. The Club.
AT the time of the Talmud pigeons
were used in amusing games The Tai
mud tells us that betting was INDUCED
in at the pigeon play. The owner of
the pigeon which reached first the point
| designated was the winner.
The Rev. DIR. Joseph Stockbridge,
who is at the head of the list of chap
lains in the United States navy, is the
only one who has the rank of commo-
dorc. lie resides in Philadelphia. lie
has been in the service over fifty years.
-Merritt-"rhat was a pretty hard
doctors bill had to pay" DeGarry-
"How was that?" Merritt-"You see IL
was for injuries | received by being
thrown from horse | was rapidly rid
ing by the doctors advice. IN. Y. Sun.
"A curious spot has been noticed as
the selection of a pair of wagtails for
the propagation of their species This
is on the railway near Stanton, Eng
land, where nest is to be found in the
hollow of a sleeper on the main track,
over which something like dozen or
more trains pass in day
Down in Connecticut the other day
Stiles Belfeld's family was startled by
binding flash during thunder
shower. There was a crash of glass
and the family rushed into the parlor.
The bolt had entered at the back of the
motto God Bless Our Home" broken
the glass covering into thousand
pieces, Clipped off the gilt in the frame
and gone out.
The most expensive municipal hall
in the world and the largest in the
| United States is the city building of
| Philadelphia, upon whose yet unfinished
| tower the largest clock in the world is
to be displayed. Nobody knows exact
ly how much money it has cost. but it
cannot be far in the aggregate from the
amount invested in the state house of
New York.
| There are fifteen national banks in
New York City which have deposits ex-
ceeding $15, 900 each, the largest
amount being $50, 900, 900 in the Ma
tional Park bank, and the next largest
amount, $25, 900, 900, in the Chemical
National. Ten banks have over $l5,-
600 900 each loaned, the National Park
having the largest amount, and the
First National the second largest.
-Brownstone fronts on Fifth avenue,
New York, used to be considered the
abodes of wealth and gorgeousness ex-
clusively. Subsequently they came to
be transformed into shops and now the
national committees of the two great
parties have taken up their abodes
there for headquarters. The glory of
the Fifth avenue brownstone front may
be said to have vanished before the
march of business and politics.
| The dam porpoises are said to help
their young in their efforts to breathe
by bearing them up TO the surface of
the water on their flippers. The spira-
Gle or blowhole appears to be sensi-
tive part of the head, for when
touched with the hand the porpoise in
variably shows signs of great disaom-
fort by flashing the tail very violently
and beating the sea into foam, as it
does when wounded.
There is now on exhibition in Paris
boat which, it is said, is as exact re-
production as can be made of the cara
vel which took Christopher Columbus
to America. The ship floats around in
| large DdSlH, whose cuRe Is maze I'd
represent the shore of the island on
which Columbus landed, and there are
Indians and other accessories to give
realism to the picture. A pantomine
representing the landing of Columbus
on the shores of tho new world is given.
| Hunting dogs, when they grow old,
| become rheumatic, or at least debili-
| tated with pains. We know, too, that
they crave heat, and get as near the fire
as possible-a craving which increases
as they grow older. One such dog,
older than the Others and slower in
getting into the lodge on returning
| from the hunt, was often crowded
away from the fire by the other livelier
dogs getting all the best places before
him. Finding himself thus turned ont
in the cold, he would dash toward the
door barking, when the others, sup
posing it was an tlarm, would rush
away too while the old rheumatic went
to the fire and selected place TO suit
him.
| An uptown pharmacist has a novel
| fly trap in his store window. IL is run
| by n little electric motor and gathers i'm