The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-08-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

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place." Mrs. Nuwife-''Do? Why tell
them about the baby's new tooth, OF
course. Inter Ocean.
We comprehend nothing in the
world we are in, but by the light of the
world in which we are not; we are
much nearer to what we call the other
world than we are to this.-Martin. !
q say" said Fuddles, who some
times thinks he Is smart, "what sort OF
fruit can you raise on an electric
plant?" But Paddles, who also thinks
he is smart occasionally, promptly re-
piled Currents. Washington Star.
How did it happen that Johnny got
to be head of the class? He is not a
bright boy" 1.-The teacher asked
where the north pole was, and nobody
could tell. At last Johnny put up his
hand" And where did Johnny say it
was?" ''In the north"
July was the fifth month in the Ro-
man calendar and was called Quintilas
the fifth. Originally it contained
thirty-siX days, but was reduced by
Romulus to thirty-one, by Numa to
thirty, but was restored to thirty-one
by Julius Caesar, in honor of whom It
was named July on account of his hay
ing been born during this month. =
was also so called from the goddess
Juno.
You may see in small shops about
town horseshoes inconspicuously hung
up, not for luck, but as souvenirs of n
somewhat famous horseshoe-making
contest in Madison Square Garden.
The shoes were turned out at the rate
of one every half minute, and were
seized at once as mementoes of the oc-
casion. Some have been gilded and
used as ornaments, while others are
preserved in all their original crudity.
In villages near Chicago may still
be seen few log cabins of the pio-
neers-cabins that are as rude as any
on the frontier, if we have any frontier
now. Another architectural curiosity
in the neighborhood of the city is seen
in the houses raised above the ground
on piles to lift them out of the wet.
But wind mills and the eucalyptus
tree have sucked good deal of fever
and ague out of the soil within recent
years.
Wolves and coyotes are increasing
in numbers on the stock ranges in
Southern Alberta. as in the Dakotas
and other northwestern states and are
causing serious trouble and loss to the
ranchers. At a year old they begin
their depredations on sheep and young
cattle. and occasional hunts and round
ups afford only temporary relief. The
question how to deal effectively with
these pests is becoming serious all over
the range country of the northwest
Port Penn, the little village at the
head of Delaware bay, now congratu-
lates itself that the quarantine station
recently established hard by on Reedy
Island will help to make a market for
butter, eggs, and other country prod
uce and for shad. AS farming and
fishing comprise the entire business
interests of the place, the prospect of a
demand for the products OF 10t fs-s4nd
and sea rcconciles most of the peoPie'
to what at first seemed an unmitigated
evil
Two hotel cars, to be run from the
east to Chicago have just been finished
at Wilmington, Del, at a cost of $50, 900
each. They are new in design and un-
usually large. Each car has sixteen
passenger compartments, fitted up after
the fashion of the most luxurious hotel
rooms A space twenty-five feet long
in the cenier OF each car is occupied by
a complete kitchen, and beneath each
kitchen is large space for storage.
Gas tanks supply both fuel and light
Oregon newspapers tell of double
headed lizard alleged to have been
found recently near The Dalles. The
headsar said to be at opposite ends of
the body and the feet 80 arranged
that the reptile could propel itself in
either direction" The tail is not ac-
counted for. The story comes suspi-
ciously close after one printed recently
about the ''doubleender snakes" of
California, which are described as being
built according to specifications similar
to The Dalles lizard.
In former days it was usual for a
couple seated together to eat from one
trencher, more particularly if the rela-
tions between them were of an intimate
nature, or again if it were the master
and mistress of the establishment.
| Walpole relates that so late as the
middle of the last century the old Duke
and Duchess of Hamilton occupied the
| dais at the head of the room and pre-
served the traditional manner by shar-
ing the same plate. 1t was a token of
| attachment and tender recollection of
unreturnable youth.
| A citizen of the world being asked
what his russell shoes cost replied that
| he did not know. This was not because
| he had not paid the shoemaker for
them, but, as he explained, because
| cost of maintenance must be taken
into account in estimating the price of
russell shoes. 1t happens that no man
| polishcs his own russell shoes, and that
the usual price for polishing them is
| ten cents, or double that of polishing
| black shoes. II thus comes about that
| cost of maintenance in the case of rus
set shoes amounts, on the average. to
two dollars per month, and no man
| knows the cost of his russell shoes until
they are worn out.
| The foggers on an English farm