The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-06
MISCELLANEOUS.

fo'?' Jeems-"Do yo' s'pose Pse gwine
to wear it inside SOS people CANT see
it?"-Smith, Gray& Co.'S Monthly.
i never turn out for scoundrels,"
said bully, meeting Quaker and step
ping up squarely before him to lnaugu-
rate a quarrel 81 do" said the Quaker,
and placidly took the other side OF the
way.-Christian at Work.
Killed the Hero Mrs. Hicks lin
ecstacy at a lovesick drama)-'O.
wasn't that youth lovely? Why did that
horrid villain kill the only sweet man
in the play?" Hicks" probably to save
me the trouble "-Once Week.
There is a strange colony of Irish
women usually to be found camped on
the northeast corner of Hester and
Orchard streets. in New York, amid a
community almost exclusively Jewish.
The colony sometimes numbers thirty
or forty persons and spreads from the
one corner to the other three. The
women apparently wait to be employed
by the Hebrew residents in temporary
household work
dealers in antique furniture espe-
cially prize as rarity those old-fash-
Toned carver's chairs made in this city
from 90 to 100 years ago. The best are
of carved mahogany and of the designs
recognized as classic by dealers in such
things The carver's chair has arms
its seat is little higher than that Of
an ordinary dining chair, and it has a
broad rest for the heels of the carver
1t is associated with the great turkeys,
| whole pigs and rich roast beef of three
generations ago
The largest collection of news
| papers in the world is owned by Oscar
Won Forstenbeck, at -Chappelle,
and includes 10000 papers, among them
the largest and the smallest ever pub
lished. The largest, the Illuminated
Quadruple Constellation, published at
London is of the size of billiard tai BILE,
81 by 6 feet. The smallest, IL Tele-
gramo, bearing the motto, Much meat
but little BROTH" published at Guada-
| laya, Mexico, is not larger than 8 by
215 inches.
The pretty custom of drinking to
| the health of loved ones is still kept up
| in the wardrooms of the vessels of our
| navy. Alto o'clock in the evening the
captain or commander will cause glasses
| to be filled, and, rising, will deliver this
sentiment: Gentlemen, | ask you to
| drink to sweethearts and wives. May
| the sweetheart soon become the wife.
| May the wife always remain the sweet
heart" The assembled officers drink
| this toast in silence.
"A New York woman wears ring in
| which is set in circle of diamonds her
| baby's first tooth. A London lady of
high degree wears set in the jewels of
| her bracelet tooth extracted from the
mouth of her pet poodle Another af-
| fectionate creature uses the skin of a
once favorite horse as Il hearth rug for
| her boudoir, and has defunct pet pug
| mounted in lifelike attitude by the
| taxidermist for an ornament on her
| writing table.
Foreign residents OF New York
| quickly learn the business advantages
| of speaking to the English-sp akng
public. Accordingly many Italian
tradesmen have their signs painted in
both Italian and English, often with
sad photographic blunders in the latter
tongue. Even in the Syrian quarter,
business signs begin to appeal to others
| than the Syrians. Beneath an odd.
looking line of Arabic over door in
| Washington street is the word car
| penter," with inverted IN" and other
letters curiously mishappen
Newark, Del, has postmaster and
| ~,
have administered the office through
the political changes of the past eight
| years When the administration is
democratic, so is the postmaster, and
the deputy is republican. When the
administration is republican, the demo-
cratic postmaster and his deputy simply
| change places. AS the change cannot
be made Immediately upon the inau-
| guration of a new president, there is a
period of some months when the citi-
| zens are in doubt which officer is post
! master and which deputy.
In one New York family three chill
| dren were aft icted with whooping
cough. They coughed and coughed and
| coughed, and the family parrot took it
into his head to initiate them. When
any one of the children coughed he
would accompany it with coughing
| paroxysm SO natural that it was impos-
| sible to tell whether il was one of the
children or the parrot that was cough
| ing. The bird seemed to enjoy having
the whooping cough, and after awhile
| he clamored for medicine whenever he
saw that it was heing administered to
| the children.
Cavalry soldiers often sleep in the
saddle after fatiguing march, but it
would seem almost impossible to march
on foot and sleep at the same time
| There are Authentic instances of this
| kind, however, and a member of the
Grand Army says: when / was pri-
vate of infantry | marched miles as
sound asleep as if | was in my bed, and
did not fall out of the ranks" Artil-
| lcrymen have been known to sleep from
exhaustion under their own guns, which
were constantly firing in battle. Ben
| jamin Franklin slept for an hour float
ing on his back in the water, at least
one of his biographers says so.
The French colony OF New York,
although one of the oldest foreign ele-
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