The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bright violet is the Turkish mourn
ing color.

bnOulu one 20 10 appear Wcll ia oO-
ciety?" Take good blood purifier"
Yankee Blade.
When man measures his neighbor
he uses the best man Re knows for the
standard; when he measures himself he
uses the worst.-RaM's Horn.
81 read Schopenhauer in German"
"Why, l never knew you understood
German?'' Il don't. But Schopenhauer
is no harder to understand in the orig
inal than in English. Bazaar.
"A Chicago literary club recently de-
bated the question; WAS the inventor
of the barbed-wire fence a barbarian"
1t is safe to say that everybody took
sides, and nobody got on the fence.-St-
Paul Globe.
Making Progress. drawing teach
er (despondently)-"That thing You
have drawn looks more like a cow than
it does like horse" Fair pupil
(brightly)-'Why, of course, Professor,
it is a cow" -Tit-Bits.
Here's an article about woman
stage driver" said the tenor to the
manager Did you ever see one?"
YES" was the reply. THE average
prima donna answers that description
pretty closely. "-Washington Star
The Lately Married One-'I never
siss = sS1s sy a ss So n ssss r
TsE-''f -f'Sfieh~-d One-"Don't talk to
me! The other day sent r..ticix out
for egg plants: he came back with two
hensv'-Scribner's Magazine.
-Mistress-"What have you marked
that IT NJ" on all your pies for, Norah?"
Norah-"Sure, ma'am, that's to tell tn
mince pies from tn apple pies IT. M
on tn mince pies is "tis mince' and
IT. M on tn apple pies S faint mince'
SO kin tell EN-, ma'am, widout cut
tin 'em.-Boston Budget
The bugle horn was once called the
buffalo horn, and it apparently derives
its name from the bugle, or extinct au-
roch, the wild OK of Great Britain. In
the Isle of Wight the bulls head on inn
signs is often accompanied by the word
bugle, and the French term for the low
ing of cattle is still beugler.
Something wonderful in the clock
line has been constructed by a mechanic
in Warsaw, Poland. 1t represents
railway station with clock tower CIV
ing the time in four countries. Trains
run into or depart from the sta ton every
fifteen minutes. Station agents, tele-
graphers, ticket sellers, with lines of
passengers, are seen in action, and the
usual hustle and tumult of a station are
heard and seen, bells ringing, whistles
blowing, etc.
Mrs. John Ogilvie Roorbach, of Mys-
tic, Conn, has copy of the prayer
book printed in the Mohawk language
for the Rev. John Ogilvie, assistant
minister Of Trinity church, New York,
in 1863. Only twenty copies were
printed. Mrs. Roorbach, it is said, has
received an offer of $4,000 for the book
from the British Museum.
The proposed building for collee-
tive exhibit by merchant tailors at the
worlds fair, will probably be near the
Fisheries building. As planned, it will
be SIS feet square with portico extend
ing to the lagoon. The tailors of Chi
cago have raised 10000, and SIS, 900 is
expected from members of the trade
outside.
The famous handwriting expert
David n. Carvalho, asserts that mo
man does or can write his signature
twice exactly alike" He therefore adj
vances the startling proposition that
when two signatures purporting to
have been written by the same person
are precisely alike it is safe to conclude
that one of them is forgery"
The most ingenious of all inven-
tons is that produced by patient
German. He has made mechanical
boy which will, by simply winding up,
walk up hill and down dale regardless
of the condition of the roads, and will
push load of passengers or freight.
The figure is five feet in height and is
dressed in shirt and trousers, and can
push weight of $50 pounds at speed
of fast walker. AT present it makes
rather too much noise, and in this
heightens its resemblance to the human
boy.
An order has been issued from the
Siamese military headquarters that the
troops in one of the largest garrisons
are to be employed every day in fly
catching. Every man is expected to
capture each day match box full of
blue bottle flies, and if he does not per-
form the duty he will be compelled, as
penalty, to row around the island
where the troops are in camp. The
order seems to be ridiculous but the
Siamesc are taking it seriously. They
| say there is great need for cleaning out
myriads of flies that are making life
miserable at that particular encamp-
ment.
A novelty in sewing machines has
been introduced by an English mven-
tor. The device, which can be adapted
to almost any sewing machine at a
small expense, enables the production
of not only the ordinary lock" and
"chain" stitch, but, in addition, a third,
called the embroidery" stitch. The
last named is both useful and orna-
mental, possessing the strength and re-
liability of the lock" stitch, combined
with the elasticity of the chain" stitch.
| Work done by the aid of this mechanism,
fitted to various types of machines, was
shown at a recent exhibition in the
gallery OF the Society of Lady Artists,
| TOnlno and attracted CON sid ora hla 4.