The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-27
MISCELLANEOUS.


I'm gomez She (vawning}-''Yes,M Mr.,
Staylate, if you will give ne an oppor-
tunity. Harlem Life
Powdered charcoal if laid thick on
burn causes the immediate abatement
Of the pain. A superficial burn can
thus be healed in about an hour
He who believes nothing, VINO be-
lieves only the shows of things, is not
i'll relation with nature and fact at all.
CARLYLE.
1t is harder to blow out a candle
with a cotton than with fax wick,
because the porous cotton absorbs 50
much more of the tallow.
There never was a great institution
or a great man that did not, sooner or
later. receive the reverence of man
kind.-Theodore Parker.
Be assured that if pain could have
prevented my application to literary
labor not a page of ''Ivanhoe' would
have been written.-Scott.
Abraham Lincoln was the Rail Split
ter, from his farm work. He was also
called Honest Old Abe, the Martyr
President and Father Abraham.
retract her claws, because the bone to
which the claw is attached has a rotary
movement on the bone above. and a
powerful ligament draws the former
down and exhibits Che claw.
People hiccough because of a mus
cular contraction of the diaphragm. 1t
is supposed to be sympathetic and to
arise from an effort of The diaphragm
20 assist the stomach to get rid of
some indigested or disagreeable matter,
In Sweden, if you address the poor
est person on the street You must lift
your nat. The same courtesy is in
sisted upon if you pass lady on the
stairway To enter a reading room or
bank with ones hat on is regarded
a. impolite.
OF siXty-seven queens of France,
only thirteen have died without leav-
ing their histories a record of misery.
Eleven We're divorced, two executed,
nine died young. seven were widowed,
three cruelty treated, three eXiled: the
poisoned and broken hearted make up
the rest.
~ four-legged chicken came into
Viz ltitlIiIN u iJGNt VI ltI. " JollllSjH
City, Mo. As two of the legs were for
forward Iocomotion and the other two
always insisted on walking backward,
that unfortunate chicken found it diff
ticult TO advance in the world and gave
up the effort in despair
-"Awalled by Sinai's Awful Sound"
is the only hymn known to have been
written by an American Indian. 1t
was the work of Samson occum. an In
dian preacher of great ability. He Wis
tied England in 1866 to raise funds for
an Indian school, and secured 100000
for the institution that afterward be
came Dartmouth college.
The Sunday laws were rigidlv en-
forced in the New England colonies.
For more than one hundred years after
the settlement of Massachusetts people
were not allowed to sit on Boston
common, to walk in the streets. except
TO church, nor to take a breath of air
on hot Sunday by the seashore in
front of their own doors. Two young
people were arrested in Connecticut for
sitting together on Sunday under a
tree in an orchard.
-tnc OF the things which II seems
difficult for the public mind to grasp is
that there is a decided difference be
tween the knot and the mile. 1t is cor
tainly about time to have it thoroughly
understood that the two are not the
same thing. 1t seems easy enough to
remember that a mile is only about S.
per cent. Of q knot the latter being,
approximately, 6,Os2 feet in length,
while the statute mile measures 5,.60
feet.
The idea of postpaid envelope or
iElnated III 1913. The first application
OF 1t was by NJ. dc Nolfyer, who estab-
Hshed a private post Office in Paris,
placing boxes al the street corners and
having regular times OF collection and
delivery The plan did not work, how
ever, because OF the reluctance of the
people to lntrust their correspondence
to these unguarded receptacies. The
BOXES were repeatedly plundered, and
We're finally removed and the system
aoandoned
ne greyhound runs by SIGHT only,
ne Garner pigeon ines ms hundreds OF
miles hoineWard BY eyeslght, noting
from point TO point OBJECTS that he has
marked. inns Is only conjecture. The
dragon ny with 100 lenses IN ms eye,