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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10
WOMAN'S ARM IMPERFECT.
Difficulties a sculptor Has in Getting a
Proper Model.

Il find great difficulty in getting a
model with good arms" said a we'll
known sculptor recently to a reporter
1T is astonishing how very few women
have arms that conform to the standard
y perfect arm. measured from the arm
pit to the wrist joint, should be twice
the length of the head. The upper part
of the arm should be large, full and
well rounded. The forearm must not
lie too fiat, not nearly so fiat as mans,
for example. \ dimple at the elbow
adds beauty TO a well-proportioned arm
From a well-molded shoulder the
whole arm should taper in long grace
full curves to symmetrical and rounded
wrist. 1t is better to have an arm that
harmonizes, even if the parts do not
follow the generally accepted lines For
instance, full, round upper arm which
is joined to q fiat or thin forearm has
a very bad effect. 1t is only a degree
worse, however, than a graceful, we'll
nodded forearm tackled on thin.
scrawny upper arm.
correctness of form is not the only
thing necessary for a good arm. The
owner must possess the power of eX-
preston i'll her arms. AS a general thing
American women are deficient in this.
Those nationalities which show the
most expression in their arms are the
Spanish, FreEch and Italians. The
warmest admirer of Sarah Bernhard
would not claim that she had beautiful
arms, yet no one can say that the divine
Sarah ever appears ungainly i'll conse-
quence. Much more lies in the faculty
Of arm expression than is generally sup
posed. Boston Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10
a MISTAKE.

a tadpole sat on a cool, gray stone,
And sadly thought of his life;
ALIAS, must 1 live all alonew said he,
"Or shall 1 espouse me a wife,"
A wise old frog on the brink of the stream
Leaned over and said, with a sigh:
''Oh, wait till you're older, my dear young
friend,
You'll have better taste by and by!
'Girls change, you know, and the polly
wog slim,
That takes your fancy to-day,
May not be the polly at all you'd choose,
When the summer has passed away!
But the tadpole rash thought he better
knew,
And married a pollywog fair:
And before the summer was over he sat
On the brink of that stream in despair
For. would you believe It? His fair, young
bride
Proved to be but stupid frog,
With never a trace of beauty and grace
OF young Miss Pollywog.
And although the tadpole himself had
grown
Stout and stupid, too!
He only saw the faults of his wife.
As others sometimes do.
To all young tadpoles, my moral is this:
Before you settle in life,
Be sure you know, without any doubt,
What you want III the way of wife!
Mary H Olmstead, in Golden Days,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10
WHALES FROLIC.


Water Blown Upon Frightened Boatmen
and Their Craft Pursued.
Two men in row boat fought for
their lives amidst a school of ten whales
the other day off Newport beach.
The men were camping at Newport,
and had gone out for fishing trip in
rowboat. Having found a good fishing
ground, they were pulling in yelIow-tail
and barracuda rapidly, when suddenly
what appeared to be an island arose
from the water alongside the boat. The
swell nearly capsized the little craft,
and the terror-stricken men fell to bail
ing her out, realizing as they worked
that they had had a visit from a whale.
No sooner had they emptied the boat
of water than they had a similar eX-
perience on the other side, and this time
a sweep OF whales tail nearly shivered
their boat.
All about them, soon, were whales,
spouting water over the sportsmen,
toying dangerously with their boat and
having lots of fun. The great creatures
were apparently in a good-natured
mood, for they resented no familiarity,
such as having the men poke them
with an oar to push the boat from too
close proximity. They showed most
distressing curiosity about the little
vessel and its contents, however, and
the shouts of the men had no effect to-
ward driving them away.
For half an hour the two Riyersiders,
expecting each moment to be killed by
a smash from the tail of one of the
mammoth animals, maneuvered about,
trying to escape; but no sooner did they
pull few hundred feet away than the
whales followed, and the contest COM
menced anew. The men kept frantically
working for shore, and at last got so
close that the whales gave up the chase.
At times during the adventure the
occupants of the boat could have
touched the whales with their hands,
and the big ocean denizens appeared to
take mischievous delight in spoutng
water all over the hapless mariners.
When the men reached shore they
were very much exhausted, and were
bruised all over as a result of being
thrown about in their boat.-Ios
Angeles Cor. San Francisco Examiner
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10
A QUEER INCUBATOR.


\ firm in Regent street, London,
makes business of Matching out art-
fetal birds, chickens and the like, and
the incubators adapted for their Va
rious purposes are lined up against the
sides of the long room. They also
take infants that are prematurely born
and by keeping them in a certain and
unvarying temperature, and giving
them proper nourishment, develop
them into healthy and lusty babies.
Perhaps the strangest of all their
many appliances for Matching living
organisms is their biological incubator.
Here are "cultivated' whole colonies"
of deadly microbes for purposes of bac-
THEOLOGICAL investigation and expert
ment.
The cholera bacillus, the scarlet fever
micrococcus, the leprosy and tubercu-
losis bacilli and dozens of other varl-
cites of these pestiferous little organ
isms propagate themselves in these
forcing houses with marvellous rapid
ity. They are grown on small lozenee-
shaped pieces of gelatine, and a frag-
ment the size of quarter sutiices to
maintain colony" of SO,O0O,OOO of mi
crobes.
This particular incubator is fastened
by two locks of the latest design and
most intricate construction; and, in
view of the terrible results that might
possibly follow from an unauthorized
meddhng with its Srewsome contents,
the DTecautiOn seems "A wholly necSs-
sary one.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10
RENTING MOUNTED ANIMALS.
Almost Any Animal May BE Hired. from
a squirrel to an Elephant.

squirrel to an Elephant
Mounted animals and birds are re4ted
for great variety of purposes, and al
most any animal or bird may be hired.
The fur-bearing animals are rented prin-
cipally to furriers for use as show
pieces. Many turner's buy show pieces
but there are others who prefer to rent
them, thus getting a new or different
show piece every season. Sometimes
large number of animals, fred the
smallest squirrel to the ls-.gest tiger
and lion, are rented together for the
hecoratiop of a show room; and birds
in large numbers and in great variety,
from humming birds to peacocks, are
sometimes rented for similar purposes.
Animals and birds both are rented
for theatrical purposes. A stuffed dog
was needed in "A play. just the dog re-
quired was found at the taXidermist's.
There may be play with scene in it
in which a hunter comes in with a fawn
over his shoulder. The fawn can be
hired at the taXidermists. 1t may be
that in some play an eagle alights upon
the stage; an eagle may be hired. In
plays depicting circus life, if a parade
forms part of the representation, the
wagons can be filled with lifelike stuffed
tigers, bears and other animals, such as
might be found in a real circus. And
bears, elephants and various other
mounted ANIMALS are at one time or an
other used on the stage.
Mounted animals are renterd for va
rious civic displays and parades and for
ballroom decorations and other uses.
Tigers can be hired for political process
siOns. For presentation of Little Red
Riding Hood a wolf can be hired. Swans
are rented and all sorts of birds. Some
times dining-room. as on the occasion
of a game supper, is decorated with all
kinds Of game birds.
Lecturers hire mounted animals. Lee
turers on natural history to a school,
for example, the lecturer might upon
the stage caribou. an elk and deer. to
show the difference between them
Mounted animals and birds are rented
for various Photographic purposes. A
bear, or an eagle perhaps, to be photo
graphed for trade mark, or a parrot,
to be held by a child. The live bird
would not keep still; a stuffed bird will.
Birds are rented to artists to draw or
paint from.
For fish store openings big por-
poises, sharks and sturgeon are rented:
and crocodiles and alligators are rented
to leather and shoe stores.
The cost of renting mounted animals
and birds is much less proportionately
for longer than for a shorter period.
The charge for show pieces is certain
percentage of the value, graduated ac-
cording to the length of time for which
they are taken. For a single day big
tiger could be hired for so and a small
tiger for So; middle-sized elephant for
$25 day; big grizzly bear for SO, and
small grizzly for s.. An eagle, for a
single occasion. one or two days. would
cost So to 81. a squirrel could be hired
for day for so cents, a wolf for So, Il
parrot for 80 cents, a hummlnG bird or
Il robin for 25 cents, and an ostrich for
S: day.-N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10
A BUTTERFLY CATCHER.
An Old Man Chasing the Idlers for the
Richest Man in the World

Chasing butterflies for the richest
man in the world 10 now the occupa ton
of one Cd the mos, striking looking
characters seen in the stycets of Los
Angeles He is So years old, K&en-eyed
straight and vigorous, with the step and
alertneSs of Il man whose life has been
spent out OF doors. His name is George
W. Dunn. and he has been sharing but
tertiles since 1S49, when he came to the
state. He is naturalist of the Audubon
type. He knows all the books by heart.
but he knows better than all the book of
nature, and has spent his existence turn
ing its leaves. He has searched the fields
and forests of all tbs Pacific states, of
British Columbia, lower California,
Mexico and South America, and has IL
times tramped over central America
always after plants and insects.
Over at Trig, England, lives an old
man who is chiefly known to the world
because of his immense wealth, but who,
if he were poor, would be famous be-
cause of his researches and knowledge
as a naturalist. He is Baron de Roths-
child, and at Trig he has a large three
story building, which ne is filing with
chronological specimens. He heard of
Mr.. Dunn some time ago. and has en-
ployed him to make a collection on the
coast of Mexico. Dunn has already sew
eral thousand butterflies ready to ship
to August Belmont at New York, who
will forward them to Trig, Each is
placed in three-cornered envelope, so
arranged that the delicate Enclosure
cannot be injured. In few days he will
leave for Revila Gigedo, on the east coast
of Mexico. He has an indefinite COM
mission. and will be a long time com.
plotting tAe baron's collection. As he APP
pears ce.tain to be good for halfa century
more of life, he does not need to hurry.
Indeed, he says the philosophy of life
is ths-live slowly.-San Francisco Ex-
aminpr
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10
Can Live without Air.

The common snail, although it has
lungs, heart and general circulation,
being in every respect an air-breathing
animal, can yet live for an indefinite
period without inhaling an atom OF
air. On the approach of winter the
snail retreats into its shell, and her
metIcally closes the opening or the
mouth with "A secretion of silky text
ure, which is absolutely impervious tc
both air and water Spallauzani kept
snail hermctically sealed in glass
tube, from which all air had carefully
been removed, for four years and two
months, and yet it resumed its normal
functions within less than an hour
after being exposed to temperature
of 80 degrees.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10

During the reign of terror, David had
Houdon, the sculptor. arrested, and
wished to have him guillotined, as he
had declared war against all the artists,
his colleagues. Nine. IIoudon went to
Barrere and urged him to save her hus-
band. 81 see no way" Barrere said,
''but tell me, for which of his works
has he been imprisoned?" For statue
of st. Scolastica," said Nine. Houdon.
What does she look like?" "a fine
woman, with scrap of paper in her
hand" At that moment entered Collot-
d'IIerbois. Barrere said to him: 'Hou-
don has made a statue of philosophy
nIeditating on the revolution; you must
have it bought by the assembly and
placed in the room in front of the as
semblyroom, and declare that Houdon
has deserved well of the country" This
was done and Houdon was saved.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10

1t used to be the favorite amusement
of college boys to lead horses or cows
up to the second story of buildings in
order that the college authorities might
have the satisfaction of taking the an
imals down again by means of derricks.
1t is very seldom that one of the poor
creatures ventures to make the ascent
itself, but such instances occasionally
happen. One is reported from Miry
Brook, Conn, where farmer missed
one of his cows. and as his family had
gone to call on a neighbor, he locked up
the house and went out to hunt for the
missing animal. He trampcd into dusk
and searched every place he thought it
possible that the COW might have
strayed to, but without success. When
he reached home his attention was at
tracted by peculiar noise in the house,
and hurried inside, and there was the
COW in room on the second floor. The
animal had climbed the stairs after
wandering in the open door. 1t took
the farmer three hours to get the COW
downstairs again.-Troy Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10

Germany is fast turning out its old
er generals, 80 having been forced to
retire within year, which beats the
record. The average age of brigadier
commander is SO years, to 81 in the
French army, where the average age Of
all ranks is higher than in the German.
No German brigadier is more than IS,
while 80 French brigadiers are over O1.
German cavalry colonies average As
years 4 months, only seven being over
80 years ) months. SO colonies being
over Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10
Some Beresford Storics.

A laborer once wrote to Lord Charles
Beresford saying that his wife had just
had twins-a boy and girl-and he
wanted to call one Lord Charles Eeres-
ford Brown" and the other princess of
Wales Brown" Lord Charles gave his
permission, and obtained that of the
princess. Four months later the man
wrote again: Il am happy to inform
you that Lord Charles Beresford
Lrown' is well and strong, but that
Princess of Wales Brown died this
morning." Lord Charles is man of
few words, and those very much to the
point. Speaking in the house of COM
mons one day, in reference to the Arab
slave leaders, he said, with great en-
phasis: "Mr. Speaker, we ought to
catch these men, give EN- fair trial,
and then han EN-" Unconventional
Lord Charles ,as always been. Receiv-
ing an invitation to dinner at Mari
borough house one evening. he replied
by wire: Sorry can't come. Lie fol-
lows by post."-Strand Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10

The City of the Salt Mines is stu
ated several hundred feet below the
surface at Weilicska, Galacia. This won
derful subterranean city has a popula-
ton of over 200 men, women and chill
dren, scores of whom have never seen
the light of day or the earth's surface.
This remarkable city has it, town hall,
d theater and it's assembly room, as
well as Il beautiful church, decorated
with statues, all being fashioned from
pure crystalliZed rock salt. 1t has well
graded streets and spacious squares
all well lighted with electricity. There
are isolated cases in this underground
city, where not a single individual in
three or four successive generations
has ever seen the sun or has any idea
of how people live on the outside of the
earth. Their rock salt houses are said
TO be perfect sanitariums, and the av-
erage longevity of the denizens of the
'City of the Salt Mines" is said to ex-
coed that of the surface inhabitants Of
Galicia.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10

When Marshal Berthier was in
Egypt with Napoleon he was insanely
in love with Nine. VicGnti, and commit
ted 50 many absurdities that among
MS intimates he was known as Chef de
la Faction DIES AmoureauX. Among
ais other follies was the erection Of u
tent, next to his own; he converted it
into temple to the madame; erected
an altar to her picture, before which he
burned incense every morning.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-10

1t may be said of the thGater hat,
like some other disagreeable things,
that there is likely to,be woman at the
bottom Of it..-Tenas Sitter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-22

Fungus plants are OF two elasses-sap-
ropbytes and parasites. Saprophytc
fungi live on dead matter. ToadstOols,
puffballs and the half-moOn shaped,
bracket-like growths on dead trees and
stumps are saprophytes. MOulds, fer
ments, yeast (the microscopic plant used
70 raise bread, and the still smaller
bacteria that cause putrefactiOn and de
cay are also saprOphyLc fungi. Inc
SHUTS. rOts, blights, rusts, etc, are par
asltic fungi, and il is these with which
the sprayer has TO deal. They fasten
themselves on trees, vines and various
living tissues. much as heas, lice and
ticks secure their food from the living
animal upon which they prey. just as
a puny animal falls an easy victim 10
apt 10 sucCumb 70 the attacks of fungi
therefore, the FIRST step IN tghtnB fungi
and by proper fertilization and cultiva-
ton keep UP vigorous growth. some
varieties strongly resist the attacks of
fungi-rust-prOOf oats. for instance.
These should be planted in sections liable
10 the ravages of rust. IL IS not pracu-
cable TO spray field OF oats, wheat OF
with smut should not be used; but II
used it should first be dipped for ten
minutes into a barrel of water heated
to 1872 degrees, and then fifteen m-nuceS
into another barrel of water heated TO
1873 degrees. The first dipping is 10 warm
the seed; the second is to Kill the smut
spores.
Parasite fungi are Of three classes: First
those which remain inside, floating in the
cell-sap, absorbing its vitality. Such are
the pear blight and the various rots of
vegetables. Second those which form and
live on the outside. such as the powdery
mildeW Of the grape. Third, those which
remain within the plant attacked TIL ready
to reproduce by means Of spores, when
they come through the pores to the outside
of the plant attacked. Rusts, smuts,
black-rot and brown-rot of apples, etc,
are of this class.
AS a rule, fungicides are applied as pre-
ventives rather than as cures. u has
been found that fungus spores will not
terminate In the presence of the salts Of
copper, and various spraying mixtures
contain these salts The best Of all these
is the Bordeaux mixture. Ii is composed
Of pounds, copper sulphate (buestone),
pounds quick lime and 80 gallons water.
1t is always well to add ounces London
purple to kill insects as we'll as fungi.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-22

InsOluble phosphoric acid. says the Con-
necticut Experiment Station. implies va
rious phosphates insoluble both in water
and in hot solution of nuetral ammonium
citrate. The phosphoric acid Of Canadian
"Apatite." Of South Carolina and Florida
rock phosphate" and OF similar dense
mineral phosphates as well as that Of
'.bOue-ash" and "bOne-black" Is mostly
insoluble in this sense and in the ma
1ority Of cases gives no visible good re-
suits when these subtanccs. in the usual
ground state, are applied TO crops. They
contain, however, small proportion of
citrate soluble phosphOric acid. and some
times, when they are reduced to extremely
fine dust (hoats) or are applied IN large
quantities, especially on sour soils" or
IN conjunction with abundance of decay
ing vegetable matter (humus), they oper-
ate as efficient fertilizers.
Available phOsphoric acid is an express
sion properly employed in general TO sig
Nifty phosphoric acid IN any form or
phosphates of any kind that serve to
nourish vegetation. In the soil. phOsphoric
acid and all phosphates, whatever there
solubllltes as defined In the foregoing
paragraph. are more or less freely and ex-
tensive.y available 10 growing plants.
Great abundance Of "inso.uble" phosphorus
acid may serve crops equally Well with
great solubhity of small supply, cspe-
cialiy when the soil anu The crop carry
with them conditions hishly favorable to
the assimilation of plant-f0Od
In commercial Fertilizers available
to be the sum total of the water soiu-
BILE and the citrate soluble" with ev-
clusiOn Of the "iusoluble"
Tne 'insOluble phosphOric acid" In a
commercial fertilizer costing 500 to $50
per ton has very little or no value 10 the
purchaser, because the quantity of n
winch can commonly 30 upon an acre
OF land has no percepthle effect on the
crop. and because its presence in the
fertilizer excludes an equal percentage of
gradients
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-22

Any time now will answer for sowing
beggarweed, provided moisture is suf-
ficient to sprout the seed. If the farmer
wishes to cut 1t for hay, probably he had
better wait little longer, so as not to
bring on the harvest until after the rainy
old land, provided ii has not been too much
broadcast sowing will ansewr; If in dry
weather the seed may be sown in drills,
covered carefully, and the soil packed
slightly in order to insure termination Of
the seed. If the sowing is intended TO pro-
duce a crop of hay, the seed should bee
sown thick in order to make the stalks
grow small If sown thin, they will grow
so large that stock will refuse the stalks
and consume only the foliage, which Will
entail a serious loss. A sowing of fifteen
to eighteen pounds of clean seed, or a
bushel and a half Of rough seed, per acre
viii be about right. Do not be in a hurry
to SOW beggarweed until the ground is In
the right condition of moisture, even If
you have to wait for the beginning Of the
rainy season. The seed viii not terminate
in the dust, and the Florida summer Is so
long that time can be had for the har-
vesting and curing of the crop after the
close of the rainy season, when we have
some decent hay-making weather. Where
beggarweed is sown very thick, grown
the blOombuds appear-not waiting for a
bud to open-and cured bright, without
rain falling on II, IL is worth % per cent.
more, ton for ton, than the average timo-
thy hay shipped down here from the north.
Florida Citizen.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-22
Lice on Young Chickens.

When small chickens droop without any
apparent cause, lice may always be sus-
pected, and you should give relief at once
by applying a solution of Scotch snuff and
a few drops of carbolic acid moistened
with a little grease, and. taking up every
chicken in turn, put some with the tip Of
the finger on the poll back of the neck,
Under the wings and here and there about
the body. Treat the mother hen in the
same manner, but using it more freely
With her. The coping ground and sleep
ing box should also be well sprinkled with
carbolic disinfecting powder and there
will be little further trouble. 1 would also
recommend for chicks that are lousy the
following: Mix few drops Of carbolic
acid with powdered sulphur, mixing or
rubbing well together and no more of the
acid than will mix up dry with the sui
pbur. Give them few dustings with this
end you will not see any more lice for
some time, while the chicks recover as if
ny magic.
! also find it a good plan to sprinkle the
house all over inside with water in which
little carbolic acid has been diluted, for
1t purifes the premises as well as destroys
insect life.