The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

What was it?" He picked the winning
horse"
live caught you making love to
my wife," "Well?" 'I'u give you fair
warning. l did that once and I've been
| SORT. ever since. HALO
AS more than half of the railroad
mileage of the world Is in She United
States, Mr.. E. b. Cook, OF Hoboken, n.
j., suggests that our national flower
| ought to be a car-nation.
| One of Them-'There goes young
Billie Morse. They say his income IS
| so large he can't get rid of it. The
| Other One-"O. so he's single man,
then?'-Arkansaw Thomas Cat.
baby hammocks," reads sign on
a little hammock hanging outside a
| downtown store. The dealer said that
they sold more for use in the city; that
mothers bought them for sick children
A rude tramp, finding Mrs Picllard,
of Paris, Texas alone in her home, de-
manded dinner and some cash. She
grabbed a pair of scissors and punched
several holes in his cuticle. when he
fled in terror.
All well, let the summer girl laugh
and giggle and have good time. In
few years from now she will be married
and will wear her winter dress in sum-
mer, putting on white starched tie to
make it look cooler.
The Philadelphia Press. one of the
foremost snake organs of the country,
tells about a semaphora cocinea that
swallowed two smaller snakes and had
Indigestion. A large netic was adj
ministered and presently the swallowed
snakes We're recovered. still alive, but
very much frightened.
Most of the figures used for cigar
store signs. which formerly were made
of wood, are now made of zinc. and %
per cent. of these are of Indians. Some
of these figures are excellent: in some
cases the original model cost $1,000 or
Sl,j0O They are made in various sizes,
from small figure that can be bought
for $50 or $50 up. A good seven-fOot
Indian can be bought for 500. Y.
Sun.
A curious opening, according to
the London Globe, has been found for
the artistic gifts of women. In the
| great OSi)lldlS, "dJCI-COIO ShcITiltS
, are taken of rare forms of disease. and
in this somewhat grewsome class of
work women, it seems, have succeeded
At Guys hospital a woman has just
been appointed for such service for six
months the post having previously
been filled by her husband, who is tenn
porarily incapacitated.
The Washington club" woman's
club in the city of the same name, is to
have clubhouse of its own, which is
to cost 81, 900. 1t will be arranged so
that the rooms on the first floor can be
rented for concerts, theatricals, lectures
and banquets On an upper floor there
will be rooms to be rented to club mem
bers who may desire them. The floor
between will be divided into library.
reading. tea and card rooms The Wash
, fngton club has a membership of over
$50.
Shoppers have become used to buy
ing ice cream freezers and sealskin
cloaks. carpets and diamond rings
under one roof but live lambs are a
commodity that heretofore has not
been offered at bargain sales-as they
the other day. Those who bought the
lambs had to take them away them
selves and this the eager woman man
aged to do by grasping the little crea-
lures in both arms.
AS soon as the new city directory
was ont, copy of it was put into the
hands of a clerk of a large mercantile
establishment, with instructions to
read it from beginning to end. for a
: business purpose The reader who
expects to get through the letter by
the end of this week has become inter-
estcd in the book, and especially in the
, immense number of occupations fol-
!, lowed by residents of the city. He has
already found his task hard, however
and says that he will not be able to
work at it for more than four hours a
day.-N. y. Sun.
benjamin II. Wells. resident of
West Lubec, Me-, in eating an orange
several weeks ago, got one of the seeds
: lodged in his throat and was unable to
remove it. Lately his thaoat began to
swell. so that it became difficult for
him to breathe He obtained medical
| ADVICE ana was informed UndU Jne seed
had sprouted. and must be removed at
once. He went to Boston for a surgical
operation for its removal, but the re-
port was that Mr.. Wells can get no re-
lief as the seed, instead of being lodged
in the throat, is in the lungs and can
not be reached. The Boston physicians
can do nothing for his relief.
The belief that unsound teeth be-
long only to highly civilized state of
life seems to be prevalent one But
j. Howard Mummery informs us in
Nature that very different conclusion
was reached by his father, more than
twenty years ago after an inquiry ex-
tending over more than decade. Over
1000 skulls were examined, including
all the available collections in Great
Britain. Among Sc skulls of ancient
Egyptians there were Is with carious
teeth; among IS Anglo-SaXon skulls,
Il; among LAG skulls of Romano Britons,
Al, and among A miscellaneous skulls
of ancient Britons, o. Several other
collections gave like results. Examn-
ing skulls of savage races, ~. Z per cent.
of Tasmanians were found to have dem
tai carries 2O.45 per cent of native