The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-11-17


S road Company has contracted with
the Pullman Company for the con
: struction Of large number of pas
senger coaches, to be used at first
for Worlds Far travel These will
: bc the equal of any coaches in use
on any of the great railway lines in
the United States, and will be
greatly superior to most of the
coaches in the regular service of any
line.
The new return postal card is
out and Is now on sale at the pOst-
offices of the country. 1t is a folded
card of about double the size of the
large postal cards and sells for two
cents. a person who wishes to
write another person and desires an
answer at scndcr's expense buvs
a return postal and writes his mos
sage on one side and posts it, The
rcceiVer t@ars of the fmeesaee and
writes a reply on the other part OF
the card. It is handy and saving
IN unlmportant matters.
a point worth noting in the re-
cent report of the Adjumnt-Gcncral
of the army is That out Of the 9.S4f
accepted recruits for the last year
6,652 were natives Of this country.
against 3,l95 OF foreign birth. A
/ popular misrepresentation may bere-
moved by thus observing that such
a ratio Of the men who enlisted are
Americans by birth The remain
der, too, are taking a short cut to
citizenship, since the laws give spe-
clal privileges in naturalization to
those who serve honorably in tn,
army.
The best plaster. Dampen a
a piece of flannel with Chamber
laln's Pam Balm and bind it ovel
the seat of pain. 1t is better than
any plaster. When the lungs are
sore such an application on the
chest and another on the back, be-
tween the shoulder blades, will
often prevent pneumonia. There
is nothing so good for lame back
or pain in the side. A sore throat
can nearly always be cured IN one
night by applying flannel bandage
dampened with Pain Balm. so
cent bottles for sale by druggists.
Here is a stork story from Ger
many. For several years a pair of
storks built their nest annually in
! the yereante +Ihaoe'a~t'r.rP~h~'"S.-
name of the place and the date on
the leg of the male bird, in order to
be certain that the same bird re-
turned each year. Last spring the
stork came back to its customary
place, the bearer of two rings.
The second one bore the inscription:
''India sends greetings to Ger
many
A few days ago, while Mrs. John
W. Purnell, who lives on farm
near Snow Hill, was airing one Of
the rooms in her house which had
not been used for several years, she
was startled by the sudden appear
ance of eight or ten large black
snakes lazily gliding about the
room. Her screams brought DIR.
Purnell and a hired man to her as
sistance, who killed five Of the rep
tiles, but the others escaped and
crawIed back Of the mantel-picce,
which has since been removed and
the other snakes dispatched. The
snakes ranged from Is inches to
four feet in length.
Last week THE REpUBLICAN
contained an article from a promi-
nent educator Of Garrett county
advocating the discussion Of educa-
tional matters through the columns
Of this journal and also suggesting
that we open an educational depart
mcnt for the teachers Of the county.
The REPUBLICAN has alway been
an advocate OF all matters looking
toward the bettermcnt Of our pub
lie school system and we with pleas
/ ure open our columns to whatever
the teachers or public have TO say
! ON this most important subject.
We hope the teachers win lay hold
on this question and send in con-
tributions.
The discovery has been made
that on one side Of the new quarter
dollar there are thirteen separate
representations Of the number thir-
teen, IL was probably The injen-
ton Of the designer Of the new
quarter TO have thirtccH TO occur
thirteen times, bat there arc few
people who have noticed this fact.
There are 13 stars, Is letters in tho
scroll held in the eagles bcak, -
marginal feathers in each wing, u
parallel lines in the shield, l3 hori-
zontal bars, l3 arrow heads in one