The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-11
MISCELLANEOUS.

--Reaping Harvest.-Willie Wilt
"Hello, old man! What makes you
look so seedy to-day?' Chasehen, jr.-
"Been sowing wild oats. Truth.
-"Did you know that Miss Dalton is
taking salt baths?" Mrs. Miggs-"No,
but I'm glad some one was brave
enough to tell her she was too fresh"
Inter Ocean.
-DicR-"How did it happen that
Miss Blanche refused you?' 1t was I'M
derstood that you were her favorite."
-Jack-''The regular way-the IA
vorite didn't win. It'll
Once Was Enough. -Barber-'If
you are not in too great a hurry. can
20 over the chin a second time" Van
Pelt-"No, never mind; guess l can
remember most of it."-Truth.
| -Mother-"No wonder you catch
sold. Every night you kick all the
:overs off. Why do you do it?" Little
Boy don't know, mamma. You'll
have to ask me when rs asleep"
| Little Josie-"What do you suppose
all these holes are in the cheese for?"
Little Leah-O, I'd think you would
know; it's to let the smell out. Inter
Ocean.
II hear that Blinker father left him
an immense fortune, and you told me
he was a self-made man, well, you
see. when he came into the fortune he
made perfect fool of himself. Inter
Ocean.
Jones'" said the boss, on the
twenty-ninth day of last month, to one
of his clerks, my memory is so treach-
erous, forget everything. Just re-
mind me on the first to give you notice
to quit"
Seventy million of people in Eu-
rope, it is said, wear wooden shoes.
The leather industry of this country
would receive a tremendous impetus if
these people could be persuaded and
conditioned so that they could afford to
wear shoes made of leather.
In connection with the recent bill
before congress providing for automatic
| couplers for freight cars, it is interest
| ing to note that over 5000 patents for
such devices have been granted and
| that large number of applications are
on file at the patent office awaiting the
decision of the examiner.
Something new in the knocking
out line was recently witnessed near
Lyndon, Kan. Ed Carey and Billy
Waring fought a pillow fight, each
welding seventytwo-ounce pillow.
In the fifth round Carey was struck on
the neck and back of the head, and was
rendered senseless for ten minutes.
An earnest hand-clasp caused the
death of Dennis O'Leary, of Bristol,
Pa. He was walking in Boston park,
where he met robust friend. The
latter squeezed his hand so forcibly
that the nails entered O'Leary's palm,
causing a slight wouIfA from which
few drops of blood issued. Blood-poi-
soning resulted, and in a few days
O'Leary was corpse.
The states of Virginia and Tennes-
see have for years been engaged in a
legal controversy over the town of
Bristol. The state line has been sup
posed to run along the main street of
the town. There are two city councils,
two mayors and two sets of police. A
settlement of the dispute appears as
far off as ever.
There was finished at the diamond
plate glass works at Kokomo, Ind,
the other day the largest plate ever
cast in the United States. 1t is 150x
129 inches. or 1215 feet wide by is feet
in length. Other plates as large as this
have been cast, but never before has
one of this magnitude run the gauntlet
of the tiniShing-rooms without break
age.
A plea for a universal telegraphic
hour is made by the journal Telegra-
phique, the proposition being to count
the hours from one to twenty-four for
telegraphic purposes from a fixed me-
ridian We in America read of events
that have happened in Australia day
after the date the news is received
here, because the telegraph can beat
the sun by almost a whole day. A uni.
versal Geographic time would obviate
this anomaly.
1t is not land vegetation merely
that is large in the northwest, but the
plant life of the sea. Among the shoals
of the British Columbian coast the
alge and kelp, which on the Atlantic
be more than six feet long, are found
thirty feet in length, and at the ebb
and flow of the tide their long, leathery
leaves are often seen in parallels along
the surface like exaggerated lily pads
While conducting a prayer-meeting
in a series of camp-meetings in south
ern Georgia, the Rev. John Farrar
suddenly started off on a run and was
soon followed by his entire congrega-
ton. At a distance of several hundred
yards little black dog, which had
caused the stampede by running off
with the preachers hat. dropped the
tile, and the excitement was over, but
the flock, upon learning the cause of it
all, was in no mood for further PRAYER,
and the meeting was abandoned.
"A prominent physician says that
the average cook is absolutely ignorant
of sanitary cause and effect. and that
the kitchen processes are sources of
illness more often than is imagined by
placing milk, jelly, butter and other
absorbents in the open air without
covering them up. If medical man
wants to secure organisms for investi-