The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-12-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

LANCE, chocolate, hOmlny, maize,
opossom, tomato, tomahawk and some
others have come to us from various
Indian languages.
81 say, Weggie, lend me a five?"
''Sorry, old man, but I've only got
three" "Well, lend me that and you'll
owe me two!'-Wrinkle
WHO was Louis XIV. of France?"
asked the teacher. 81 know" said
little Miss Fifthave. "He was the man
who made all our chairs"
old Gentleman Ito contented-look-
Ing workman-"I am glad to see, young
man, that you do not think your work
beneath you" Worl1man-"No, sir,
I'm ceiling decorator"
1t is very pleasant to follow ones
lnclinations; but, unfortunately, we
cannot follow them all; they are like
the teeth sown by Cadmus-they spring
up, get in each others way and fight.
L. +. Landon.
Croft was an inclosed field, and in
various notifications gave it's name to
Crofter, Meadowcroft. Ryecroft, Ban
croft, which was originally Bancroft,
Berecroft, that is Barleycroft and Hay
croft.
An interesting inter-racial game of
cards at Winnemucca, New, was rudeiy
disturbed-the account does not state
that it was entirely broken up-by one
of the players, an Indian, shooting and
instantly killing another Indian and n
squaw and wounding a colored man, a
Chinaman and two other Indians.
Heretofore the convict labor of
Minnesota has always been given to the
highest bidder, but at the last meeting
the board of prison managers found
themselves in a predicament that has
never existed since the state was or
ganized, no bid having been received
from October 1, 1898, to October /, 1895,
which places 400 convicts on its hands
with no work for them to do.
In 1894 Joshua Pine settled on a
farm near Walton, n. V, and planted
a fine orchard. Although nearly nine
ty-nine years ago when the trees were
first planted, they do not show much
signs of their great age and number
of the trees are yet vigorous, giving
promise of many years of life and
fruitagc The largest measures 177H
inches in circumference, the next larg-
est 1O5 inches, and another 1O2 inches,
all of which are bearing a good crop OF
fruit this year
Delaware has been turned into
something very like great game pre-
serve. A strong association, chartered
by the legislature, has for some years
past been stocking the wilder parts of
the little commonwealth with the
finest game birds. The concern is in
fuential enough to procure from time
to time penal legislation in protection
of its game, and, in spite of some pro-
tests from local sportsmen not men,
bers of the corporation, these laws ara
so strictly enforced that the game is
constantly increasing.
The cratic Missouri river is threat
ening, and will most likely soon ac-
complish, the complete destruction OF
the town of East Atchison, Mo-, on the
opposite bank from Atchison, Kan.
The stream has been eating new
channel for several months, and during
the past summer has washed away over
800 acres of land. 1t Is now within an
eighth of a mile of East Atchison, and
the destruction of the little town, with
many thousands of dollars worth OF
valuable property, is regarded as inev-
table, and the people are moving away
as rapidly as possible.
al In IN
have lately struck some Maine towns,
and there is much interested specula-
ton as to where they come from.
Thirty were taken in one day by a
Biddeford merchant, and they have ap.
peared in circulation in Lewiston, Ban
gor and other towns. 1t is suggested
that hard times has brought out some
old miser's hoard. Other suggestions
are more picturesque, but less likely.
Some of the smart folks are appraising
them at the rate of siXty-one cents, but
with many they pass at par.
One of the oldest pieces of work
we have yet had to do" said New
York typewriter, "came in the other
day. The manuscript, covering half a
dozen loosely written small pages was
in "A woman's hand. 1t scheduled the
daily work of domestic servant The
request was that we typewrite it so as
to leave a wide margin on the right
side of each page. The lady had just
hired Swedish servant who speaks nc
English Each item of the schedule
was to be repeated in Swedish on the
margin of the page, and the English
was typewritten that the girl might
the more easily make out the foreign
words"
The first settlement in Tennessee
was made by immigrants from North
Carolina led by James Robinson, or
the Watauga river, one of the heao
streams of the Tennessee, in 176s
1t was on lands of the Cherokees, from
whom the settlers obtained an eight
year lease in 177l. They there organ
lied themselves into body polite an,
adopted a code of laws signed by eacl
adult member in the colony. Others
soon joined them. and extended settle
ments down the va Hey of the Holster
and other intervc ming regions to thu
Clinch and one or two other streams
while others penetrated Powell Valley
and began a settlement in the south
west corner of Virginia.
One who goes on a pedestrian
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