The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-03-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

Hairy Mall
-Cassandra is from the Greek and
means Reformer of Men.
When we advance little into life,
we find that the tongue of man creates
nearly all the mischief in the world
Paxton Hood
Titles are valuable; they make us
acquainted with many persons who
otherwise would be lost among the rub
bish.-H. w. Shaw.
He (audaciously)-" Suppose 1 were
to kiss you unaware" She (coyly)-"1
don't believe you could. "-Browning Sc
Kings Monthly.
is Hicks wife a nice house
keeper" Mr.. Hacks-''Well, / should
say so. Why, half the time Hacks can't
find anything that belongs to him. -
Inter Ocean.
--"And your wife aimed atand struck
your head with the cup?" Eyes, sir. :"
swell, then, all have to say is that
you should be very proud of her.
Inter Ocean.
The fastest time recorded was by
the Empire State express on the New
York Central and Hudson River rail-
road, May II, 1898, one mile being made
in 80 seconds, equal to liz miles an
hour.
-Mistress-"You must really break
off that dreadful habit, Babette, OF
always wanting to have the last word. :"
Maid-"But how am to know, ma am,
that you have nothing more to say?"-
Figaro
Brazil began railroad building in
1851 and has $3.50 miles. One of its
lines, the Pedro Segundo, is $50 miles
long through very difficult country.
On this line there are sixteen long tun-
nels. 1t cost $50, 900, 900
IF you'll be good boy, Jimmie,
maybe some day you will be superin-
tendent of a Sunday-school, like good
Mr.. Hanks" ''Will l, teacher? o, then
l will be good; and won't lamm the
dickens out O the boys that don't be-
have!'-Harper Bazaar.
1t is not generally known that
when person falls into the water a
common felt hat may be made use of as
upon the water rim down, with the
arm around it pressing it slightly to
the breast, it will bear man up for
hours.
DIR. Augustus Berggren, of Newton
county, Ga, sold mule the other day
and received payment in paper money
issued by wildcat bank at Brunswick
during the war. The doctor was in
such a hurry to close the trade that he
only looked at the figures on the bills.
Austria has at length abandoned
its refusal to recognize the American
citizenship of former subjects of the
emperor who had immigrated to the
United States without fulfilling their
military duties. Hitherto the imperial
authorities have chosen to regard them
as outlaws and deserters and punished
them as such.
Wigs were common both in ancient
Greece, France and Italy Yellow hair
was procured in great quantities from
Germany and Scandinavia, and with its
coils the raven-haired beauties of South
Europe concealed their own locks The
DIOilbSS ttDOIG NllOlll NdIulluS, roper
titus and Tibullus raved were bewigged
and not natural.
-Candied flowers of several sorts are
among the most expensive delicacies
of the modern confectioner, but the
old fashion of using the candied petals
of the orange blossom in tea seems to
be almost forgotten. If few of the
candied petals be put into the tea be-
fore it is stepped they give it flavor
noticeably peculiar, but once esteemed
very fine.
During the sixteenth century the
ladies wore at their girdles punches of
keys, rosary or two, a bag which
held a smelling bottle, powder-box,
looking-glass, a purse, knife, box
of needles, some thread, and OCCASION
ally silver-mounted dagger. These
articles ratified loudly when they
walked, and the social position of
lady could be judged from the noise
she made while promenading.
One of the latest fads for rich wo-
men is to have cast made of the
hand, the ear, the nose, or the foot. as
the case may be of course each select
ing the particular feature which will
best repay immortalizing. The hand
is the member which receives the most
universal notice. A beautifully posed
white plaster hand resting on velvet
drapery has place in more than one
fashionable boudoir.
w. D. Bogus, of Covington, Ga,
wears a ring made from the bone of
an Indian warrior whose remains were
recently exhumed on Dog Branch,
near Covington. There were a number
of curiosities in the place where the
body was found, such as beads, stone
pipe, AK, flints, etc, and by these it
was presumed to be the bones of big
Dog" the Indian chief after which the
branch took its peculiar name in the
year 1898.
In 17l5 an actress appeared on the
stage of Paris theater in the charac-
ter of rustic Greek maiden in the time
of Pericles. She wore a panier five
yards in circumference under a skirt
of silver gauze, trimmed with puffs of
gold and pink Grape, and bouquets of
natural roses here and there fastened
to the material. The underskirt was
of pink silk, and garlands of roses were
fastened on it with sashes of silver