The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-12-08
MISCELLANE

-"Uncle Jack" said little Nel1 20
her uncle, who is raising a mustache,
doesn't 1t hurt to have all those splin-
tiers In your upper lip?" = Harper's
| Bazaar.
But Spelled With an E.-Judge-
"You are young, but hardened crimi-
nal Were you never taught to pray?"
Jewelry thief-"No. your honor; was
born to it"-Jeweler's Weekly.
You're the sleepiest looking indi-
vidual ever saw" said Dick to the
seedy man on the corner. Eyes, even
my coat hasn't had nap for some
time" quoth he.-Boston Post
| Pork Cake.-One cup of salt pork
| chopped fine; pour over il one cup of
| boiling water, one cup each of sugar
and molasses, one teaspoonful of soda
and one-half cup of chopped raisins and
| one teaspooniul each of cloves, CHINA
mon and nutmeg. This makes two
| loaves. Free Press.
The Worlds Fair Cooperative Blu
reau has Just closed a lease of ten acres,
on which will be erected the largest
hotel in the world, the Andreas, con-
| tanning 6,fe4 rooms. 1t will consist of
q series of buildings separated by wide
courts The location is just south of
the exposit on grounds
There is one fond parent in Hart
ford who is going to let his beard grow
without molestation hereafter. He had
| n shaved of the other day, and when
he appeared at dinner with a clean face
for the first time in number OF years,
his five-year-old daughter Remarked:
Say. papa, whose head you got on?'
! The boy had been passed on the con-
ductor at half-fare rates, and later the
official saw him in seat by himself and
began to talk with him. How old are
you. sonny" he asked. Ten years
DID," said the boy. Aren't you rather
large for your age?" Maybe am on
q train. but amt when at home" was
the ambiguous answer. And the con-
ductor let him alone.
| The horseshoe superstition is very
old. The ancients believed that iron,
as q metal had unknown powers, and
would drive nails into their walls TO
keep off pestilence. 1t has always been
thought uncommonlv lucky to find a
| piece of the metal, and as horseshoes
w>re the form in which it was most fire.
quently found, the superstitious regard
came to be transferred from the mate
rial to the shape.
s. A. Reyes OF Roclxland. Me-, has
gun which was made in England in
1T2e II formerly belonged to Mr..
Keyes' t-great-grandfather. and his
uncle carried il through the revolution
airy war. Mr. Reyes grandfather bore
IL with honor in the war of 1872. In
1878 the stock was broken by Mr..
Reyes father, who was then but IA
years old, in clubbing bear.
in 1851 e.4sI new miles of road were
constructed; in lsss, 1850, In 1855,
after the panic of 1854. the number of
miles ran down TO a.eSs. but in 1855 the
annual construction ran up to S,olS,
and in 1857 10 IA SIS In 1891. after the
panic of 1890, the construction ran
! down TO 5, 500. and this year will be
light The volume of grain and mer-
chandise moving is beyond the dreams
of twenty years ago.
lNs1-The Order OF the Carter was in
s.ituted by King Edward Ill of En-
gland, and although not the most an
cient. Is one of the most famous of the
military orders of Europe. IL was said
TO have been devised for the purpose of
attracting to the kings party such SOL
diers of fortune as might be likely to
aid in asserting the claim which he was
then making to the crown of France,
4 a 80 Id Il
Arthur's Round Table.
A curious industry has arisen as tho
result of the establishment OF the Paris
London telephone Skilled takers are
employed by the news agencies to do
all the telephoning for these enterprises
because of their rapidity and distinct
ness of utterance. As telephcuing is
expensive. these experts talk at the
rate of 100 words per minute. French
only is employed, because of the alb
sence of the his sing sound that renders
telephone talk in English frequently
unintelligible.
Two French gentlemen, with the
courage of their opinions to an extraor-
binary extent says the Paper Record.
have patented a hypodermic syringe all
| over the world. This fact arrested the
attention of writer in lie Figaro. who
at once became curious to know the
cost Of the operation. 1t seems there
are 81 countries where an invention can
claim protection, or rather where
patent fees may be paid. Sixteen OF
these are in Europe. eight in Africa,
four in Asia, twenty-seven in America,
| and nine in 0ceanica- The total price
Of these "a official scraps of paper
amount 10 the nice little sum of SI4. $50.
New Jersey carly became the bat
tle-grouad of the Revolutionary war.
some of its most important contests hav-
ing occurred within its borders Thirty
thousand British and mercenary troops
| once held Staten Island. and after the
battle of White Plains this enemy com
| pelled Washington to retreat beyond
the Delaware. But the tide of fortune
soon turned under the masterly strategy
! OF our great general On CHRISTMAS
day he rccross ri the river, surprised the
British at Trenton and captdred loo
| HessianS and nine days later defeated
| the enemy at Princeton soon after
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