The Republican., 1894-08-23
MISCELLANEOU


delicacy.
Lots Wife.-The Sunday-School
Teacher-''What can you tell me OF
Lots wife. Mamie?" Mamie promptly
Nothing. Mamma says we should
never speak of people behind their
backs. Truth.
A steel rail costs twice as much as
an iron one. but the universal use of
the former means millions to the far
mers of the west It has enabled rail
roads to use larger and heavier ears.
and the results are cheaper freights
and quicker transportation.
No Formalities Necessary.-''A to
this case of yours. my friend. said the
lawyer. TO be perfectly honest with
Won - There needn't be any Cuff
of that sort between you and me. in
terrupted the client. I'm a horse
jockey. Chicago Tribune.
There is one thing" said the new
boarder, emphatically. that will have
to be settled before | make up my mind
to remain with you" And what is
that?" inquired the landlady, anxious
lv; the new boarder paid high price
and paid it promptly. The coffee.
was his response.
Those races of men who are milk
drinkers are the strongest and most en-
during in the world. The Aryan folk
are indeed characteristically drinkers
of milk and users of its products. cheese
and butter. 1t may well be that their
power is in some measure due to this
resource.
AT , a. m-"What's the matter
with the babv?" Mr.. Firecracker said
eXplosively. There must be a PIN
wheel sticking into it somewhere. pop
per" sleepily replied his wife, lighting
Roman candle. why don't you
rocket then. And with these words
Mr. Firecracker went off to sleep. -
Truth.
Mrs. Nellie Jones. pretty widow,
who was employed as cook at the
Boone County Und.) jail. has received
word from Boston advising her of the
death of relative who had bequeathed
her $4,000. She is the widow of Viii
liam Jones. who died two years ago,
leaving her destitute. Since then she
has earned living as a cook.
A famous London will bequeathed
"all my black and white horses" to a
certain devisee. After the lawyers had
wrangled to determine whether all the
black horses and all the white ones
We're meant, or only the piebald, or
hlacll-and-white ones, witness testi-
fed that all the horses of the dead man
were mares. and confusion was worse
confounded.
Hens will stand almost anything.
There was one in Calais. Me, which
swallowed Il pin and became nervous
and irritable. The owner administered
ether cut the gizzard open. took out
the pin. sewed up the wound with
needle washed in dilute acid, and the
hen is now all right again. testifyinC
its gratitude vociferously whenever its
benefactor draws near.
-"God moves in a mysterious way
was written by Cowper in 1773 just be
fore his second attack of insanity. He
intended suicide and engaged coach
| man to drive him to a point on the
River Ouse, purposing there to drown
| himself The coachman lost his way
and Cowper, instead of carrying ont
| his intention, returned home and wrote
| this hymn. COWper gave it the title
Light Shining Out of Darkness
The highest recorded speed on the
| Atlantic as an average for the whole
| passage is 21.9 knots per hour per-
formed by the Cunard line steamer
| Lucania. This has now been nearly
equalled by her sister ship, the Cam
| pania. which has just made the passage
| from New York to Queenstown in 5
| days, 13 hours, s minutes, over a total
| distance of 1905 knots, her average
| speed having been 21. S? knots per hour
| An Arkansas man the other dav
raped on his coffin just as the minister
was about to begin the burial service
| over him. A man in the room, who
| thought some one outside was knock
ing at the door, yelled. Come in,"
hearing which the supposed dead man
in the coffin exclaimed What's the
| matter with you? am in already and
want to get out" He finally became
so obstreperous that the funeral had to
be postponed.-N. Y. Tribune.
| Mrs. Thistlethwate who died in
England quite recently. was. in her
| youth, remarkable for her exceptional
beauty. \ celebrated episode in her
| life was when, some forty or forty-two
years ago at the opera. the whole
house rose to its feet to watch her
leave the theater. Her eyes and fore
| head were beautiful beyond descrip-
tion, and some idea may be formed of
them by the well-known picture of the
Nun for which she sat, and the pho
tographs of which are sold by thou,
sands for scrap albums.
| A remarkably droll wedding. at
the registrars Office, Bristol. attracted
an immense crowd not long since. The
bride, prim spinster fair and forty
| pushed into the Office of the astoLished
registrar a family perambulator. in
which was the bridegroom. man of
forty-tive, so crippled in both legs that
from his birth he had not been able TO
walk. lie was permitted to remain in,
the perambulator during the customary
declarations of the civil contract. and
when the bride again appeared. push
ing the perambulator containing her
husband. the crowd wished them Joy and
| gave them DlPntN of t.irH N y nduo,