The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-02-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

iment in Carson's speech that you spoke
of. "-Benton-'No, his wife is away
visiting at present "-Inter Ocean.
WHATS this card in your pocket
John?" asked his wife. THAT? @, be.
fore went Z, luach that was bill Of
fare. Now ssNe my table of contents"
-Kate-"Don't you think it wrong
for girl to wink at man?' Maude--
Its almost impossible not to wink
when there's spark in your eye."-
Boston Transcript.
Settled. How are you, old man?
Haven't seen you in an age. How is
your brother James? Settled down
finally?" "Yes. We buried James .
year go"-Truth.
-Lenient.-Young Tutter-"Do you
mind me calling on your daughter
Mrs. Slimson, in business suite" Mrs
Slimson-"No, Mr.. Tutter, not if you
really mean business. "-Clothier and
Furnisher.
The Proper Medico -Banks-"Old
Soak has got an awful attack tonight
You'd best go for his doctor, and say ?"
Tanks-'Well?" Banks-"If he isn't
In, bring around q snake-charmer. :
Truth. "a
-Bessie-"Joe, dear, did you hakc
any trouble getting papa to consent 10
our marriage?" Joe-"Well, l should
say 80. He said he couldn't see auy
sense in our waiting q whole year.
Inter Ocean.
Old Mr. Bentley (rcading the papsf)
~ see that In recent storm ut sea a
ship loaded with passengers went
ashore" Old Mrs Bentley (placidly)-
SLOW fortunate! ! can imagine how
glad those passengers were to get on
dry land. Tit Bits.
Make small dot on paper, then
look at 1t through a diamond. II you
can see but one dot you can depend
upon 1t that the stone Is genuine but
II the mark is scattered or shows more
than one, You will be perfectly safe in
refusing to pay ten cents for stone
that may be offered you at $500.
On Silver Heights, near Winnipeg,
few buffaloes are kept, remnants of
the enormous herds that rolled like a
brown tide from the Texas plains to the
Saskatchewan. The experiment. is being
tried of producing race Of hardy stock
by breeding the buffaloes with cattle.
The offspring resembles the COW rather
than the bison, but has a somewhat
shaggy coat and an Ill temper
A Pennsylvania railroad conductor
hap IL lnl h. On.
to the city on the morning trains
Those who take the train between
and are workers." those between Z
and are ''clerlers;" those between
and are ''shirkers," while those be-
tween o and 10 are 'smirkers." BY
'smirkcrs" he means people Of leisure
as well as ''mashers."
Bottled beer especially that pre-
pared for export, is much stronger in
alcohol than draught beer, aud much
of the American beer sent abroad bor-
ders close upon pale ale. 1t has been
discovered, too, that some, at least, of
such beer does not suffer by transit in
ship. A United States ship now in port
has on board some beer, now nearly nine
months old, which has made two voy-
ages across the Atlantic, and 10 not the
worse for its travels.
The best gold fields in America to
day are in North Carolina, Is the Opin-
ion Of DIR. Herman, an old miner Of At
lanta. and the statement is backed up
in local paper by other gold miners OF
that region. This should be interest
ing news for the crowd of disguised
miners now trying to get away from
the San Juan country, Colorado, and
recalls a remark Of a Connecticut gold
mining expert: There's a great deal
of gold in Connecticut" he said; lust
about enough to ruin any company that
undertakes to get II out"
The Chinaman is progressing In
American ways Three celcstials ia
Stockton, Cal, last week engaged in a
bold safe-craclsing job. with chloro-
forming trimmi~ gs, that would not be
counted amiss by any Mclean cracks
man. They broke into the store Of a
Chinese merchant at night, found the
old man and his two sons awake,
knocked them down. chloroformed and
bound them, and then drilled square
piece out of the safe large enough to
admit an arm. They emptied the safe,
and at last accounts were at large with
the two or three thousand dollars in
cash that it contained.
Several young wives in Chicago.
who had become dissatisfied with the
high prices and poor work of their
dressmakers. formed an amateur dress
making club for the purpose of work
ing cut the problem of making their
own gowns At their meetings, each
sets forth her own ideas and con.
tributes of her skill and experience for
the general good One has good eye
for color; another can drape and an
other trim, and still another has a
knowledge of fitting They first con.
fined their attentions to tea-gowns and
common dresses, but now all the best
dresses are made, and made satisfac.
torily, in the club.
The following Is a list Of the local
ities of the principal headquarters OF
Washington during the old war for in
dependence: Nassal house, Cambridge
l77j-G: at No. $50 Pearl street and No.
Broadway. New York City. 1870; also
Morton house, at the junction of Varich
and Charlton streets; Roger Morris