The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-17
MlSCELLANE

is engaged in very small business
Ram Horn.
u don't see why you think this boy
takes latter This mother. He" Il
suppose it's because I've refused to give
him another cent Inter Ocean.
SO They Are.-Mullins-"A fight is
often called a mill" isn't it?" Kilduff
Yes, and prize fighters are usually
wind-millers. Detroit Free Press.
Unsuitable Homicide Belle-"And
to think that Desdemona was murdered
on account of a handkerchiefr' Jack
$50? Did she use musk or patchouly?'
Puck.
He is a cold-hearted joke-writer
who won't give tramp the price of a
drink. Such refusal is default of
interest on the capital furnished for
capital jokes.
I'm the case of the word onion"
inquired the teacher, where does the
accent fall?" And the sad-eyed,
thoughtful boy with the freckled face
said the accent fell mostly on the nose.
First Tramp-''These be hard times
when we has to walk the streets after
10 o'clock every night" Second Tramp
Right you are, Jim. But de bar keep
ers has to sleep some time. Arkansas
Traveller.
-Versateil.-"Yes; I married the
mother instead of the daughter, to
avoid having n mother-in-law." "And
were you happy?" "Alas, no! She
proved capable of officiating in both
capacities. Truth.
On the Piazza-She-"I'm afraid
it's growing late, must go inside
now" He-"Why, it's early. Its
only eleven o'clock" She-"But I've
got To go and find my chapcron. |
haven't seen her since dinner and she's
probably tired. Truth.
An Empty Epistle. Wife lat the
seashore)-'I have just received a let
ter from George" Boarder-"Did he
send you anything worthy of note, any
money!" Wife-"No. He only sent
his love to me and his regards to the
landlord. "-Arkansas Traveller.
staff, with which the cold storage
warehouse that was burned at the
worlds fair grounds was veneered, is
composition of cement and plaster of
paris. While the stuff will not burn it
will crack and peel off from heat, thus
allowing fire to burn through any
wooden framework upon which it is
laid.
The first free town library in this
country was not started in any literary
center, but in the country village of
Peterboro, n. H., when in April, 1888,
the town voted to purchase books for
town library, and has ever since then
continued to support it. From the be
ginning it has been open on Sundays as
well as on week days.
Some jewelers. in New York send
valuable Jewels hundreds of miles in
order that customers may have the OPP
portunity of making a selection from
several samples. 1t is usually required
that customer to whom this privilege
is granted shall be known to the house
or vouched for by souIe reputable pat
ron. Jewels are usually sent by ex-
press rather than by post.
Running diagonally over the East
st. Louis race track is a bridge. From
it road runs to small settlement
near the race course. AS the horses
were going to the post in two-year-
old race one day not long ago a funeral
procession started over the bridge.
Some of the more superstitious of the
spectators hurried at once to the bet
ting ring and plunged on n horse
named Coroner that was in the race.
The contest was run and the winner
was Coroner.
The Yorktown started back to the
Pacific with somewhat unwilling
company on board. Several of the Off
GERS have already been twice through
the straits of Magellan in the York
town, and the third passage will be
made in the early weeks of this cruise.
One officer assigned to- the ship was
excused when he made protest, accom-
panied by the statement that he had
cruised for eleven years in the Pacific.
1t is long way between ports on the
Pacific coast of South America. and
each port is so dull and SO much like
the last that it is scarcely welcome even
after many days at sea.
Nevada formed part Of the Next
can cession to the United States by the
treaty Of Guadalupe IIidalgo. The ter
ritory of Nevada was created by act of
Congress- March ,, 1861. from portion
of Utah. BY act of July IA, 1862,
further portion of Utah was added
The state constitution was framed by
a convention and Nevada was admitted
as state to the Union October 81, 1864
Nevada had few inhabitants until after
1859, in the summer of which silver was
found in the Washoe district. when set
tiers began to pour in. Virginia City
sprang up as if by magic, and in 1864
was the second city west of the Rocky
Mountains.
Sixteen of the newly-formed town
ships on the eastern side of the Connec-
ticut river, wishing to escape the
heavy burden of taxes imposed by the
war, applied to the isolated and indie
pendent Vermont to be received as
part of that state. They were adopted
in 1879, under the pretense that by
Mason's patent of New Hampshire that
state extended only sixty miles inland,
and that those towns were west Of that
limit. AS Vermont yet hoped to be ad-
mitted to the Union, and the CONT
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