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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
PEANUTS IN GERMANY.
Used in Paper Making and as Food for
Cattle.

SaiLIts
Many years ago the author of 1.-THE
Chemistry of Common Life indicated
the groundnut as probable or actual
substitute for cocoa-Or roasted, ground,
and prepared in the same way as choco-
late. He mentioned that in Spain the
earth chestnut was even then being
consumed as substitute for coffee.
The quality of peanuts, however, varies
much more than might be supposed.
The poorest are found on the Madras
coast, and the best in the region of the
Senegal, in West Africa, and it is, ar-
parently, only since they began to de-
velop an interest in Africa that the
Germans have discovered the food value
of this humble product.
In 1898 upward of 10000 tons of pea
nuts were imported into Germany, of
which $500 tons came from West
Africa, 5, 500 tons from East Africa. and
the rest from the East Indies. For the
manipulation of the peanut there are
now twenty-seven factories constantly
employed at Hamburg, Mannheim,
Hebron and elsewhere.
The imports from West Africa are in
the shell. which, while making them
more bulky and adding to the freight,
has compensating advantages. For in
stance, the nut is apt to be crushed or
injured when shipped without the
husk, and also to become strong, if not
rancid, in flavor by exposure.
The husls make up about 25 per cent.
of the weight of shipment, but are
not all loss, even when their protective
functions are over, for in Germany they
are used in rough papermaking, and
also, when ground up, as food for cat
tie. From West Africa and India the
nuts are usually imported without the
shells-the reason doubtless being to
secure cheaper freight.-All the Year
Round
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
THEIR SAIL.


Said Charlie to Sam on bright summer day:
Come, let us go sailing in Chesapeake bay;
Wen fish and Wen sail, and big storm will
come
And rock the boat SO that wen hurry back
home"
SAID Sam unto Charlie: 20 yes! let's jump in.
I'm ready, right now, for the storm to begin"
And just as soon as these boys got afloat
a big storm arose and kept rocking the boat.
Said Charlie to Sam: "There hasn't been time
For even one fish to nibble my line.
Such terrible storm ! didn't expect:
II it keeps on Ii this our boat will ge'
Said Sam unto Charlie: This boat keeps on
rocking,
Wen surely get drownded, and thcren be
great fuss,
And We won't catch the fish, but the fish will
catch us"
Said Charlie to Sam: "It is really too bad,
But Biddy is coming, ana looks very mad:
So guess that we'd better get out of her way,
And finish our sailing on some other day."
And so Sam and Charlie both hastened in fear
To get out Of the way before Biddy came near;
For when that big storm rocked their sailboat
so hard,
They were in Biddy's washtub out in the back
yard!
*. A Peters. in Outlook,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
FASHIONABLE FANCIES.


Little Odds and Ends of Feminine Toilets.
White undressed kid gloves are worn
with full-dress evening toilette, no
matter what color the gown may be,
and are of any length fancied, some
meeting the short sleeves, while others
leave the round elbow exposed. These
white gloves are also worn with call
ing costumes in the orchestra seats.
Small Empire fans are the newest
fancy, but many of larger size are car
ried. White kid fans painted by an
artist in such matters and mounted on
sticks of mother-of-pearl are charming
Gauze fans with bluet spangles or
those of glowing red forming the deco
ration are carried by young women.
The graceful Standardization fans are
still used, both in colors and black,
many having glittering spangles as an
ornament
White satin slippers with pointed
toes trimmed with rosettes of mousse
Inc de sole. very large and full, are
worn with dresses of any color. But
white gloves and white slippers give
the effect of large hands and feet, and
while there is nothing to vie with the
white gloves, the slippers may give
place to those made of the material of
the gown, or else to the black satin
slipper which makes the foot look very
small. -Harper's Bazaar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
THE FARM TOULOUSE.


To BullO one Does MOI Call Tor very
Much Expenditure.
No particular architectural ability is
needed in putting up an icehouse, sug.
gests the American Cultivator. All that
is needed is to put up frame, inclos-
ing it both inside and out, in a locality
where there is good drainage, so that
water from melting ice can be carried
away without letting current of air
come up through the ice. The filling
in of the air spaces between the double
wall is commonly done with sawdust.
This is cheap, and in localities where
there are lumber mills, it is often so
plentiful that it is given away to any
one who will take it. 1t is necessary,
however, even then, to get the saw.
Dust early, for as the time for filling
icehouses approaches, there is always
a demand for it. A new material
known as mineral wool has lately been
introduced. 1t is mineral, and, of
course, is not wool at all, though it
looks and feels like wool. 1t is the
glass fbers made in refining iron ore
by the action of heat on the particles
Stag remained in immense piles around
iron ore refineries. but it's value for
making mineral wool has caused a de-
lnand for all that can be got of it.
Tie cost of mineral wool if near to a
factory will probably be near SIT per
ton, but its bulk in proportion to
weigh is so great that it cannot be
transported far. 1t is the cleanest
and best non-conductor of heat. 1t
contains great amount of air, and
when laid in the walls is non-con-
ductor of heat and of sound also. No
kind of insect or other vermin will
live in walls where the filling is with
this glass material. For this reason,
as well as a non-conductor of heat, it
is considerably used for sheathing
dwelling houses. 1t also greatly re-
tards destruction when houses are at
tackled by fire.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
A MIRACLE IN TEXAS.
Enve stigated by the Texas Chris
tian Advocate and Vouched
for by DR.. O. H. STAINS
burV
bury.
(From the Texas Christian Advocated

(From the Texas Christian Advocate)
Our representative has made a careful in
vestigation of the H. E. Spaulding case at
Longview, which is here published for the
first time, and which will be read with great
interest by medical men everywhere In
reply to the Christian Advocates questions
Mr.. Spaulding said: About eight wears ago
while running a locomotive | contracted
sciatic rheumatism in my left side from
my hip down. 1t came on slow but sure
and in a few months l lost control en-
tirely of that member, it was Just the same
as if it was paralyZed, l was totally unable
TO move out of my room for wear and a
half, six months of which time was bed
ridden. l tried every remedy suggested.
and had regular physicians in constant at
tendance on me. l was bundled up and sent
to Hot Springs where | spent three months
under the treatment of the most eminent
specialists, all of which did me no good,
and | came back from the springs in a worse
condition than when l went. 1 came
home and laid fiat on my back and
suffered the most excruciating agonies
screaming in pain every time any,
body walked across the room, the only ease
obtained being from the constant use Of
opiates. After three months of this kind
OF agony, during which time my entire left
leg persisted away to the very bone, my at
tention was called to new remedy called
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, by
Mr.. Allison who is now train dispatcher at
Texarzana, and who was relieved of loco
motor ataxia of twenty years duration. At
his urgent and repeated solicitation | con-
sented to give them a trial, after taking
few doses began to improve. l continued
taking the pills and kept right on improving
until l was finally cured. My leg is Just the
same size now as the other one, and | am
sure that Pink Pills not only cured me but
saved life.
The reporter next visited DR.. c.. H STAINS
bury, a graduate of one of the medical
schools of Kentucky, and a man who en-
joys the confidence of everybody in Long
view. He said: II KIN ow that Mr.. Spaulding
had a teri Wy severe attack of sciatic rheu-
matism OF which l tried to cure him; used
everything known to my profession in vain
and finally recomm ended him to go to Hot
Springs. He came back from the springs
worse than when he went and / thought il
was only a matter of time until his heart
would be affected and he would die. l also
know that his cure is the direct result of
the use of DR.. Williams Pink Pills"
"That is rather an unusual statement for
regular physician to make, DOCTOR
81 know it is, but q fact is fact, and
there are hundreds of people right here in
LongvieW who know what | say is the
truth. l also know Mr.. Allison and know
that he was relieved of a genuine and severe
case of lccomotor ataXia of twenty years
standing"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

he has flock of children to take caro-
of he sends the mother and brood off in
one direction, while he draws the
hunters along, by some strategy, in
another. The ostrich rolls over the
ground as if he were hurt, and the
hunters, thinking to get so easy prey,
dart after him. Then cunning DIR.
Ostrich keeps up this game awhile uT4-
til he gets his pursuers at safe dis.
tance from his family, when he sudden
ly takes to his long legs for flight, leav-
ing his baffled would-be captors far be-
hind.
The ostrich feeds upon grain, roots
and grass, with few stones, pieces of
brick, nails and such trifes, by way of
occasional delicacies. The bird con-
structs a hollow nest in the sand, and
the eggs are taken care of there by
both parents. When the baby ostriches
are Matched out they are said to be fed
on ostrich eggs, these supplementary
eggs being furnished by kindly friends
of the ostrich for the use of
the young family. Ostrich eggs
are said to be very good to eat. An
egg weighs about three pounds, each
being equal to about three dozen of the
hens. These eggs are a great treasure
to the hunter finding them in the
desert, the eggs furnishing not only
food, but dish to cook it in. The egg
can be set on the fire, cooked in the
shell and then eaten out of it. The
shells are also used for cups and pals
to hold water and other articles by the
natives.-N. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
GINA, THE LITTLE PoMERANIAN.

and sports, and they have number of
courts connected with the kennels up
on which they scamper to and fro over
green lawns. There are umbrella-like
affairs on these lawns, where they can
lie in the shade if they wish to, and
in some of them there are pools of water
where the dogs can take bath, and in
which they swim and come out and
shake themselves just as though they
were ordinary yellow dogs rather than
royal puppies.
The queen has her favorites among
the dogs, and some of them become
jealous of the attentions she pays to
others. Among those she likes best is
one named Marco" This is said to
be the finest Spitz dog in England. 1t
has taken number Of prizes. Marco
is an auburn dog. His hair is of tawny
red. He weighs just about twelve
pounds, and he has brighter eyes,
quicker motion and sharper bark than
any other dog in the kennel. He is
just three years old, and he carries his
tail over his back as though he owned
the whole esta blishment
The queens collies are very fine, and
a number of them are white. One of
these is called 'Snowbali' and another
goes by the name of Lily"
Another little dog, an especial favor
lite with the queen, weighs just seven
and one-half pounds, or no more than
the smallest baby. This is the queens
toy Pomeranian ''Gina," who is one of
the most famous dogs of the world.
Gina came from Italy, and has won a
number of prizes at the dog-shows of
England. Gina is a very good dog, and
sat as quiet as a mouse while her pho
tograph was taken not long ago.
Among the other dogs of the kennel
are number of pugs, and one knock
kneed little Japanese pug which the
late Lady Brassey, the distinguished
traveller, presented to the queen.
There are big German dachshunds and
little Skye terriers, and, in short, every
kind of beautiful dog you can imagine
in these famous kennels. The queen
names the dogs herself; and near the
kennels is a little graveyard where
these pets are buried when they die
Frank j. Carpenter, in st. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
A Ring with n History.

A ring, studded with diamonds and
pearls, hangs suspended by sillken
cord around the neck of a statue in
one of the most frequented parks in
Madrid, Spain, and it is just as safe
there as in the United States treasury
The greatest thief in Spain would hest
tate to even touch it, for it is believed
to deal out death to anyone to whom it
belongs. The ring was made especially
for the late Alfonso XII, who gave it
to his cousin Mercedes. She died and
bequeathed the ring to her grand
mother, Queen Christina, who also
died within three months. The king
then gave the ring to his sister, who
died within month of receiving it,
The king then took the ring, placed it
in his own collection, and lived less
than year after doing so. His exc
cutors then gave the ring to the statue,
which it certainly can't kill.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
WAYS OF THE OSTRICH.
Something of the Family Life of Good
Sized Bird.

something Lne EGinily Lie OF u GOOU-
Sized Bird.
If any of your children should see a
bird nine feet high hopping about on
the pavement, picking up his dinner,
you would be astonished and fright
eped, no doubt. 1t would be Won
derful sight in city, but in the forests
of Africa or South America, where os-
triches are found, there are many Of
these great birds hunting their dinner.
An ostrich will weigh sometimes as
much as three hundred pounds. His
legs are very powerful as well as agile
for such a clumsy-loOking creature. he
can run rluch faster than horse and
gets over the ground in great leaps,
twelve or fourteen feet at time.
Using his legs as weapons, he can kill
a panther with one blow. He is not
stupid bird, as some old historians
would have us believe when they tell
that he sticks his head in the sand and
considers himself entirely concealed.
He is, on the contrary, very cunning
and employs strategy as well as swift
ness to escape the hunters who are al
ways after him.
For, unfortunately for him, nature
has provided him with exquisitely
beautiful feathers, and so hundreds of
men are engaged in the business of
trying to get them away from him.
At ordinary times the papa ostrich
finds it easy to escape from a hunter
by means of his long legs. But when
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

little now and then, with a gentle,
cleansing laxative, thereby removing of
Tending matter from the stomach and
bowels, toning up and invigorating the
liver and quickening its tardy action,
and you thereby remove the cause of
multitude of distressing diseases, such as
headaches, indigestion, or dyspepsia,
biliousness, piinples, blotches, eruptions.
boils, constipation, piles, fistulas and
maladies too numerous to mention.
If people would pay more attention to
properly regulating the action of their
bowels, they would have less fire.
quent occasion to call for their doctors
services to subdue attacks of dangerous
diseases.
That, Of all known agents to accom-
plish this purpose, DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets are unequaled, is proven by the
fact that once used, they are always in
favor Their secondary effect is to keep
the bowels open and regular, not to fur
Their constipate, as is the case with other
pills. Hence, their great popularity.
with sufferers from habitual constipation,
piles and Indigestion.
A free sample of the "Pellets," "a to 7
doses) on trial, is mailed to any address,
postpaid, on receipt of name and address
on postal card.
Address, WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDI-
CAL. ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
WAYS OF SPIDERS.
A Giant Insect That weaves a wonderful
Golden Web.

Golden wen
Among the great web-spinning
spiders is the Halaba. of Madagascar,
which spins shining golden-yellow
threads strong enough to bear the
weight of one of those cork helmets
such as travellers wear in warm coun-
trie They have womans suffrage in
the Halaba family, where the female
considerably outweighs the male and
is corresponding "bossy." She
grows to the quite remarkab BILE length
of five and one-half inches, while he,
poor fellow, never gets beyond the
quite insignificant dimensions of an
inch and a half. In consequence when
she, in all the glory of her shining
gold cuirass, with silvery down on
it, spreads her five red, blacl1-tipped
legs in the midst of her shining golden
web, he has to keep at respectful dis
lance and seek the seclusion of his
club, for he has no rights in that web
which his more mighty spouse is bound
to respect. She is very industrious
spinner, and have no doubt that the
airs of superiority she takes over her
husband are largely due to the fact
that she realizes she is the breadwin-
ner for the family. She has been known
to spin in : title less than a week 1921
yards. For over a hundred and 9fty
years men have tried to utilize the
SPIDERS silk for weaving fabrics With
but discouraging success. LIE Bon,
about the beginning of the last
century, succeeded in making gloves of
it, and Louis XIV had pair of hose
made of the thread. The web of the
Halaba and one or two American
spiders have led DR.. Wilder, of Cornell
university, to hope that he might still
make spiders webs commercially val
liable. The thread is quite as long as
that of the silkworm, one species in
Jamaica spinning a thread sometimes
three miles long, but the chief diff
Guilty lies in obtaining a long thread
unbroken.-Isabel d. Mckee, in st.
Louis Republic,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
QUEEN WCTORIA.s DOGS.


She Has Some of the Finest in the World
in Her Kennels.
Some of the finest dogs in the world
are owned by Victoria, queen of Eng
land. Her majesty is particularly fond
of animals, and she loves every species
of dog, from the largest st. Bernard to
the tiny King Charles spaniel, which
can be put into coat pocket. There
is man at Windsor castle who does
nothing else but take care of the dogs,
and the royal kennels there are of
stone, and the yards are paved with
red and blue tiles, and the compart-
ments in which the little dogs sleep are
warmed with hot water, and they have
the freshest and cleanest of straw in
which to lie. There are fifty-fve dogs
in these kennels, and almost all of
them are acquainted with the queen.
She visits them often while she is at
the castle, and she looks carefully
after their health and comfort. The
dogs of Windsor castle keep regular
hours. They are turned out at GER
tain time each day for their exercise
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
His Calling.

Two strangers in first-class railway
carriage have got into a somewhat
friendly conversation. The windows
nave just been let down on account of
the closeness of the day, and the de-
sultory clatter is consequently turned
to the subject of ventilation. IF make
it," says one OF the two, 81 make it an
invariable practice to advise people to
sleep with their bedroom window open
all the year round" ''Ha, hal" laughed
the other; 81 perceive that you are a
doctorw Not at all, " was the conf
dental reply. ITO tell you the truth,
strictly between ourselves, | am. %
urglarr'-London Tid-Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

Good roads in a rural country
mean better schools, better church,
es, better markets, higher prices
for land, and better times every
way. When the good roads are
SECURED. the long-distance travel on
bicycles will become something very
considerable, as it already IS in Great
Britain. Review of Reviews.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
A Devotee of Browning.

"Some of Browning's works?" re-
peated the gentlemanly bookstore
clerk. Certainly, ma am. Which vol
umes did you want?"
co." said Mrs. Nurich, languidly,
wrap me up a quarter of a Dozen
Chicago Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
Two Brave Girls.

Here is the record of two brave girlss
A fourteen-year-old girl st Beecher
Bay, b. c., killed with a Winchester
the other day big panther which her
dog had freed; and another girl, seven
teen years old, of Benton, Ore, killed
cougar which was making off with Q
young pig.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

"AND about the salary9" said the actor
"Well," said the manager aftera moments
thought, suppose we call it $3.50 week. -
GAN right" ':Of course, you understand
that $3.50 is merely what we call it. You
will get So. '-Indianapolis Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

"FooTBALL, sir, is brutal. II is based
largely upon the exercise of brute force, and
the opportunities of unfair tactics are such
- ''Oh, say-hold on. Have you ever
seen game of football2" "No: but hold
clinics in three hospitals in college town"
Chicago Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
Brainy Men in Demand.

a successful government for the peo-
pl9 and by the people, implies that
thert are brainy men who can build
godh roads economically. Extrava-
ganee should be sat down upon; for if
1t ia not, il will kill the good roads
gooSe that would otherwise lay the
golden egg.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

CUSTOMER "See here, l want to change
this coat 1 bought yesterday. My wife
doesn't like it." Cooney Heidelberg
"Change dot coat You must be crazy !
Dots de finest piece uff goots you ever wore !
tell you What, mein frient, ids peter you
keep dot coat unit go home and change your
wife p'-Smith, Gray q Co.'S Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

STRANGER (reading the local paper of
Highland town)-"I suppose the birth of
twins is rather common occurrence in this
neighborhood2" Intelligent Native-"Cer-
the system of bookkeeping by double entry
at our registry office. '-KasselerT agespost.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

RICHARD-'I don't understand what has
come over Harry he doesn't come to see
me at all now" Robert-"Surely, you can
not have paid him that ten dollars you bor-
rowed of him last summer. boston Tran
script
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03
No Substitutes

For Royal Baking Powder The "Royal"
is shown by all tests official, scientific and prac-
tical, stronger, purer, and better in every way
than all other Baking Powders. It's superiority
is privately acknowledged by other manufac-
turers, and we'll known by all dealers.
If some grocers try to sell another baking
powder in place of the "Royal," it is because of
the greater profit This of itself is good evidence
ofthe superiority of the "Royal" To give greater
profit the other must be lower cost powder and
to cost less it must be made with cheaper and
inferior materials, and thus though selling for the
same, give less value to the consumer.
LOOK with suspicion upon every attempt to palm off
upon you any baking powder in place of the
"Royal" There is no substitute for the Royal"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

WITTs-"Talk about word paintingl
know man who is the equal Of any in that
line" Watts Done something wonderful
in books, has hel" Witts-"Er-nol in
signs. Buffalo Courier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-03

81 ALWAYS like to see pa and ma dressed
up in their best Clothes" said Jacky "They
let me do as please then, cause they can't
Harpers Bazaar.