The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-11-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

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| Detroit Free Press
-Teacher-"Emma, what do you
know of the orchid family?" Emma
"If you please, madam, mamma has
forbidden us to indulge in any family
gossip. "-Fliegende Batter.
| -She-''You see all this talk about
hoopskirts coming back again has died
out" he-"Yes. The women have
compromised by putting the hoops in
their sleeves. IN. Y. Herald.
-Hicks-"Dr Thirdly is pretty
! sharp" Mrs. .Hicks-''How so?" Hicks
Il don't suppose you noticed that
after he announced the Sunday-school
| picnic for Thursday he began to pray
for rain. Once Week.
| The Nashville was noted privateer
| of the Confederate army in the war OF
| the rebellion. She was one of the
most active and formidable vessels
afioat, but was finally. destroyed by
| the Montauk, under command of Capt.
| Worden.
| I'm the spire of q church at Brigh-
ton, Mass, there were recently found
three cats of species hitherto un-
known. Their fur is long and shaggy,
their teeth are like tusks, and on the
the nose of each is a tuft of hair. They
had evidently been in the spire for
many years.
-Rattlesnake oil is believed to be
remedy for rheumatism. In Connecti-
cut there are several persons who make
living as rattlesnalSe hunters. Armed
with long pole, which has keen knife
at the end, they bring it down on the
reptile, and dexterously decapitate it.
There is point near the famous
Stony cave, in the Catskill noun
tains where ice may be found on
any day in the year. This locality is
locally known as the Notch, and is
walled in on all sides by steep noun
tains some of which are more than
5000 feet high.
The long looked for application Of
aluminium in bicycle making is now an
assured fact. Its deafness or lack of
flexibility and its fibral weakness are
said to have been overcome, and now
the desired qualities will be added to
lightness and bicycles will be light,
! strong and cheap.
The kings of Sardinia formerly de-
scribed themselves as by the grace Of
God, King of Sardinia, of France,
Spain and England, of Italy and Jeru-
salem, of Greece and Alexandria, of
Hamburg and Sicily, Ruler of the Mid
way Sea, Masters of the Deep, Kings
of the Earth, Protectors of the Holy
Land
Cold Dreamed Tapioca. two
tablespoonfuls of tapioca in water,
/ drain, and add one quart of milk, one
cupful of sugar, yolks of three eggs,
J we'll beaten. Cook in double boiler,
stirring all the time. When cool, add
the whites of three eggs beaten to a
stiff froth, and set in an ice box over
night
The most curious of all class jour
nails is surely the Beggars' Journal, Of
Paris, which is published daily and
gives its subscribers a complete list of
baptism, weddings and funerals to
take place the same day. Begging let
ter writer's are provided for by a special
section, which gives the arrivals and
departures of persons of known charit-
able tendencies.
The censor had charge of Roman
morals, and was always kept busy.
There were two censors, and their
Office was held sacred and regarded as
superior to all others save the dictator
ship. 1t was part of their duty to
preserve register of the citizens and
their property, and they acted partly
as superintendent of the census, part
ly as assessors.
The full bench of the Boston SUI
preme court has decided that man is
justified in preventing dog fight, and
that if in doing such thing he gets
bitten the owner of the dog must pay
damages. The decision is given in a
case in which Daniel b. Matteson was
plaintiff, and Homer C. Strong the de-
PENDANT The jury awarded the plain
tiff verdict of 1915 and the defendant
excepted.
People who are bent on fun can
have it in spite of poverty. Small, I'M
washed boys are often seen in City Hall
park, New York, playing marbles with
out marbles, the substitutes being
rounded pebbles. Along the river front
it is no uncommon thing to see long
shoremen playing checkers on squares
they have chalked on the sidewalk,
the stringpiece of pier, or perhaps a
cellar door that does not slant too
much, the checkers being grains of
corn for the white pieces and pebbles
or beans for the black ones.
Persons returning from the worlds
fair bring back droll stories, says the
n. y. Sun. One eastern man in passing
through room full of paintings was
! stopped by a stranger, who inquired
"Are all these hand painted?" A lady
in the same gallery was approached by
man, who said: "See that picture
over there? When you stand beside il
it looks like nothing at all, but when
, you get out here you see it is full OF
trees and houses and men. Now, that's
what | call art, when painter puts
down line that means nothing until
; you stand off and look at it." A lady
in the Delaware building rose from a
nap in private apartment to meet the
eye of m intruder of her own sex. Il
just wanted to see real live Della