The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-15
MISCELLANEOUS.


The Sarcastic Business Man.
Stamp Collector-'Do you get many
letters with Columbian stamps on
them?" Business Man-"No, but we
get lots of the new Columbian stamps
with letters on EN-. "-Somerville Jour
nal
Feminine n.-Cicely-''Why
do you always have Mrs. Markham for
your chaperon?" Nina Because
she's such an excellent one." Cicely-
Hypnotic subject or morphine eater"
Judge.
Father writes to schoolmaster:
II desire that you give my son, Johnny,
sound thrashing whenever he misbe-
HAYES himself or neglects his lessons.
You may rest assured that l will be
ready to return you the compliment at
any time.-Fliegende Batter.
There are several fearless fellows
in Saginaw. Mich. Although it has
been reported that a lovely young
damsel, with silvery laugh, jumps
out of dark corners kisses young men
on the street, and then bounds out of
sight, the aforementioned young fell
lows are not afraid to prowl the streets
at night.
"A new patent Misunderstanding
chair, which projects from the window
sill and upon which the maid can sit
while she shines the glass, has found
favor with Brooklyn folks, and in one
part of the city where an agent
worked a block of flats IL is put in
pt $50. Ia, u,,,,., - tln
who in this way manage to create de-
cided sensation.
C. l.. Maxwell, of Oakland Cal,
owns n bulldog that has always been
very fond of music. Several DAYS ago
an Italian stopped in front of his mas
ter's house and played some topical
melodies, This was all very well until
the organ began to screech "Ta-ra-ra
Boom-de-ay," which was more than the
dog could stand, so he proceeded to
chew the organ into fragments
The bodies of John Shull and wife
were exhumed and reburied in st. Jo-
seph's cemetery, at Tiffin, o., one day
lately. Shull had been buried for
years, and his hair it is said, has grown
to the length of eighteen inches. His
wife had been buried about seven
years, and her body waS found to be
completely petrifed and required the
strength of four men to lift it from the
grave.
In February, 1881, an arrangement
was made between the legislature of
Vermont and convention held at
Corinth, by which the New Hampshire
grants east of the Connecticut river
and west of the "Maine line'' were
taken into union with the former state,
and on April the union of the grants
east and west of the Connecticut river
was consummated. On the following
day thirty-five representatives from the
grants east of the river took their seats
in the assembly of Vermont.
While quarrying for rock near
Broken Bow, Neb., recently, workmen
discovered a ledge of limestone on
which the print of several gigantic feet
was clearly outlined. In shape these
marks are of human foot, though
four out of the seven of the prints have
six toes. the rest have the regular num-
Der, and are the marks of well-shaped,
lOOIs AhC ldbbCI appear 10
follow the others, which are nearly
twice as large and much broader and
better defined in the rock, sinking
| nearly a quarter of an inch below its
surface.
The map of New Jersey is a poly
glot spelling book, for the local names
are Indian, Dutch, English, French
and even Hebraic. The Indian names
survive in great natural features, and
the ''congs' of various kinds are scat
tered all over the northern half of the
state. The Dutch ''vly'' for meadow,
sometimes corrupted into "fly," is of
frequent occurrence. Scriptural names
are scattered far and wide, and ''villes"
in all sorts of homogeneous syllable
combinations are found everywhere.
A few gems of the map are Tranquility,
Success and Comical Corners.
There are 6s1, 900 natives of Ireland
in the chief cities of the United States,
207, 900 natives of England, and SO, 900
of Scotland. New York and Philadel-
phia have the largest proportion of
Irish born inhabitants; Baltimore, st.
Louis and Cincinnati have the least.
There are more Englishmen in Phila-
delphia than there are in New York.
In proportion to the whole population,
there are more natives of England in
Pittsburgh than there are in New
York. They are least numerous in
New Orleans. The census returns less
than 800 natives of Scotland in New
Orleans. Boston has $500, Chicago
1900, and New York IL 200.
Jean Nicolas Bouilly, a now-forgot-
ten dramatist, although a sentimental
list in matters literary, was keenly
practical in some respects. When they
brought him an article falling foul of
him, he quietly went to his writing
took from one of its drawers pocket
book bound in green morocco, and be-
gan to add up the profits derived from
his dramatic works during the year.
when the writer of this article shall
have earned as much as that, will be-
lieve in his remarks; until then. pre-
fer to believe in the public and in the
cashier of the theater. 1t is not IA quos-
ton of self-respect it is question of
figures"
The following are the names of the