The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

DOOkkeeper, SAID one merchant 10 an
other. Then he is now a spotted adder"
replied the latter.-PittsburgC Chronicle.
When LouissNIN. was married to
Marie Therese, the Ballet Comique de
la Royne was presented. Half of the
performers were dressed in French and
half in Spanish costumes.
Lady Purchaser.-''Willy you gua--
antee that this parrot will not swear
Birdseller-"Why, no, ma'am, not I'M
less | know what kind of a family it is
going into. N. Y. World.
God is in this and every place" is
by Charles Wesley. 1t originally began:
and have measured half my days"
a coincidence being found in the fact
that he wrote it at Al and died at 50.
-Johnny-"Pop, what does this go
to mean in Shakespeare" Mr.. Briggs
That's the only way the old-time
printers could set it up. The two-em
dash was not invented in those days"
Cincinnati Tribune.
What is the essence and the life of
character? Principle, integrity, indie
pendence, or, as one of our great old
writers has it, That inbred loyalty
unto virtue which can serve her with
out livery.
That elephant Is vicious brute.
Why, sometimes he gets wild with rage
and slashes around with his trunk I'M
til everything within his reach is
smashed to pieces said the keeper.
''What do you do in such a case?' 80,
we take his trunk and check THAR
per's Bazaar
The old Indian woman who warned
Gen. Candy against meeting the Indi
ans under flag of truce in the lava
beds during the Modoc war, the disre-
garding of which cost him his life. is
still living in Klamath county, Ore. and
receives pension from the government
for services rendered during the war.
This country has the honor of hav-
ing issued the largest number of
stamps in the world for postal pur-
poses. These were series of five. ten
and twenty-fve-cent stamps, which
We're issued for newspapers. They bore
portraits of Washington, Franklin and
Lincoln. and were issued October /. 1868,
and continued in use until February,
1869.
The superintendent of a school was
catechising number of scholars, vary
ing the usual form by beginning at the
end of the catechism. After asking
what We're the prerequisites of confirm
alton. and receiving satisfactory re-
plies, he asked: And now, boys. tell
me what must precede baptism?
Nhereupon a lively urchin at once
shouted cut, "A baby, sir, Tit Bits.
The Art institute of Chicago has
received from Harriet Hosmer the cast
she made in 1858 of the clasped hands
of Robert Browning and his wife. This
is the east of which Hawthorne wrote
in The Marble Faun:' 1t symbolizeS
the individuality and heroic union of
two high poeticlives. The autograph of
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rome,
May, 1858. is on the wrist of one; Rob
ert Browning. Rome, on the wrist of
the other Miss Hosmer refused in En-
gland an offer of IS, 900 for this unique
cast
Tom Reed takes to young men. His
warmest friends in the house are among
the most Youthful When Lodge and
Dubois We're Youngsters there he made
intimates of them, and now that they
are gone he takes to the Young chaps
like Dolliver, Russell, Csuigg and Cous-
ins. He is friendly with everybody,
but when he wants real, good. lively,
sympathetic talk he invariably picks
out one of the young fellows for a com.
panion.
A new machine for flax dressing
has been brought ont in Melbourne.
Australia. 1t is very simple in con-
struction. consisting of seven pairs of
heavy tiuted rollers, revolving by steam
power. between which the flax is made
to pass. The woody parts are thus
crushed. and the flax is passed to the
scutcher. which removes the broken
refuse. leaving the clean fiber ready
for use. The new invention is expected
to give an additional stimulus to flax
culture in Australia.
1t is understood that the Canadian
government has decided to make some
changes i'll the northwest mounted po-
lice force with the view of making it
more tilcCIlFc' L nc ItlJleElcdl SlFengUn
OF the force will be reduced somewhat.
but to compensate for this three bat
teries will be established at central
points. The armament of the force
will also be improved by the adoption
of the Lee Metford rifle. The force at
present is composed of 933 men, in six
divisions. and stationed at eighty-nine
points
Zachary Taylor, the trough and
ready" of our American history never
lost the air of military command that
belonged to his profession, and he
often said at his receptions that he had
been 50 accustomed to Indians and
MeXicans that he hardly knew how to
behave himself when surrounded by
lovely women. His entertainments,
though few, were not lacking in the
elegance that had characterized the
official careers of his predecessors 1t is
well known that he did not desire the
office OF president. On one occasion he
remarked that he would rather spend
the remainder of his life in a log cabin
than live a life of luxury and trouble
in the White House
Walter Aldrich, the photographer,
of Providence. r. l., has in his posses
sion unique bandana handkerchief,
one yard square, made of silk of red
body, with portraits of Davis. Beaure-