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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
GENERAL GLEANlNGS.

APPETITE for drink is the devils iron
chain on the drunkard's neck.-Ram's
Horn.
THERE is no sin that a man inhamed
with drink may not ommit..-Ram' s
Horn.
MANY man puts his family into the
dark to help the saloon pay it's gas bill.
Rams Horn.
RUM outwits alike the teacher, the
man of business, the patriot and the
Notwithstanding.
WHEN a man gets up early in tho
morning to drink he is apt to spend
the day in doing nothing e!se.-Ram's
Horn.
THE public houses of Cork, Ireland,
if placed in one line allowing 25 feet
frontage to each, would ext d 2 3-5
miles.
To TALK about a respectable saloon
is sheer nonsense. You might as well
talk about an honest thief or an in
nocent criminal.
SIDE by side with Father Mathew;
Ireland boasts of Mrs. Carlisle, who
in the declining years of her life in
duced 10000 men and women to aban-
don the drink, so impressed was she
with the havoc it wrought, while en-
gagged in prison mission work in Dub,
lin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
A SCHOOL FOR MONKEYS,
Calcutta's Novel Institution Where Our
Speechless Relatives Are Taught,

Calcutta's Novel Institution Where Our
Speechless Relatives Are Taught.
There has just been founded at Cali
cutta an institution for the education
of monkeys. Probably the prime
movers of the affair never heard Of
Prof. Garner, the celebrated American
simiologist, who has gone again to- At
RIGA to make an exhaustive study of
the language of monkeys, OF else they
have deemed it easier to teach the mop-
keys than to learn from them in SIM
ian tongue. At any rate, one of the
methods employed in this strange edu.
cational institution is the following:
young monkey is taken and before
him is placed a set of blocks on which
are painted in capitals the letters OF
the alphabet. These blocks are, in
fact, exactly similar to those which
children play with in every civilized
country in the world, and they are
used in precisely the same way as il
the monkey were a young specimen OF
the human race. There is one: profess.
or for each monkey, and the monkey
IS taught by means of the blocks tn
spell certain words. If the word is
fruit" for example, the monkey, after
having been taught to arrange the
blocks so as to spell the word quickly
and without error, received a bit o.
fruit as his reward. The same exercise
is repeated with other words, and it
is hoped that in time the simians will
learn how to read and spell and UNDER
stand English if they cannot speak it.
Only young animals are taken, for
they learn more quickly than old ones.
I here is 10 danger of this queer school
lacking scholars, for there are thou
sands of monkeys to be found in India
where Calcutta is situated An effort
will be made, it is said, to educate these
beasts so that they may become fairly
efficient domestic servants. The school
is so young as yet, however, that what
it will accomplish is entirely matter
of speculation. Its professors" are
enthusiastic about their novel work,
and seem to think that new field of
usefulness will soon be opened up for
these chattering little beasts.-Paris
journal DIES Debats.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
WATER NOT POPULAR,
An Exhaustive Medical Review of Its Use
Three Centuries Ago

AhToo Sehturies ago.
1t needed a very bold man to resist
the medical testimony of three
centuries ago against water-drinking.
Few writers can be found to say a good
word for it. One or two only are con-
cerned to maintain that when begun
IN early life it may be pretty freely
drunk with impunity," and they quote
thecurious instance given by Sir Thomas
Elyot in his Castle of HEALTH" 1541,
of the Cornish men, many of the poorer
sort, which never, or very seldom, drank
any other drink, be Notwithstanding
strong of body and like and live well
until they be of great age" Thomas
Cogan, the medical school-master of
Manchester fame, confessed in his
Heaven of Health" 1899, designed for
the use of students, that he knew some
who drank cold water at night or fast
ing in the morning without hurt; and
DIR. James Hart, writing about so years
later, could even claim among his ac-
quaintance some honorable and
worshipful ladies who drank little other
drink, and yet enjoy more perfect
health than most of them that drink Of
the strongest" The phenomenon was
undeniable, but the natural inference
was none the less to be resisted. Sir
Thomas Elyot himself is very certain.
in spite of the Cornish men, that there
he in water causes of divers diseases as
OF swelling of the spleen and liver" He
cOmDlainS oddly also tbat $50 A;++;+b
and swimmith," and concludes that "to
young men, and them that be of hot
compilations, it doeth less harm. and
sometimes it profiteth, but to them that
are feeble, old and melancholy it is not
convenient" water is not whole
some cool by itself for an Englishman,"
was the version of Andrew Borde-
monk, physician, bishop, ambassador
and writer on santitation-as the result
OF life's experience. And to quote the
"Englishman's Doctor"
Both water and small beer, we make no
question,
Are enemies to health and good digestion.
But the most formal indictment
against water is that of Venner, who.
writing in 1922, ponderously pro-
nounces ito jewellers in cold countries
it doth very greatly defect their appe-
tites, destroy the natural heat and over
throw the strength of the stomach, and
consequently confounding the concoc-
ton, is the cause of crudities, fluctua-
tions and windiness in the body
Hospital.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
CURIOUS SPORT IN CUBA.
Cruel and Barbarous Amusements with
Ducks, Chickens and Bulls.

Ducks, Chickens and Bulls.
Cubans of the middle and lower
classes indulge their sporting blood in
pastimes which would not be tolerated
in a country having society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
On fete days in the smaller towns
and villages which can't support a
bull fight, favorite sport is to hang
sleek fat duck by the feet from wire
or rope stretched between two trees
or posts on the village plaza. The head
OF the duck hangs just out of reach OF
man on horseback, and the sport"
consists in riding under the poor duck
at full speed, grabbing it by the neck
and pulling its head off. A ducks neck
will stretch great deal, and it requires
firm hold and a determined jerk to
yank off the prize.
The duck frequently resists the eff
forts of half dozen riders before part
ing with its head. The horsemen some
times miss the duck entirely, lose their
balance and roll out of the saddle into
the dust. This furnishes fun for every
Douy eACepI Ine DUCK.
The game may also be played on the
water, in which case the line on which
the duck hangs is stretched between
the masts of two anchored boats, and
rowboats are substituted for horses.
In another country game chicken is
buried alive in the ground to the neck,
its head alone being visible. The men
who enter the game are blindfolded
and armed with a machete, a long knife
used in cutting cane. They are walked
around in confusing circles for few
minutes and then released for an at
tack on the chickens head. The one
who cuts off the head clean in the few
est number of strokes wins the prize.
In default of a bull fight the Cubans
indulge i'll bull batting game onwhich
money is wa9ered. A bull is released
in an Enclosure which is too small to
cannot escape. Anyone who wishes
may enter dog to fight the bull. The
dog which succeeds in securing a necl;
or nose hold on the bull and brings
him to the ground wins the game.
From half dozen to fifteen dogs are
often entered against one bull and
their owners bet large sums on their
candidates. Although all the dogs wor
ry and fight the bull and consequently
all are responsible for his ultimate
overthrow, yet only the dog which
actually brings him to earth is the
Winner-N Y World
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
ARTISTS IN COOKERY,
Attractive Dishes Displayed at a Recent
Philadelphia Exhibition.

Philadelphia Exhibition.
Expert chefs develop skill and taste
in preparing fancy dishes that fairly
entitle them to be ranked among art
lists. Philadelphia has just had an tex
hibition Of masterpieces" in this line,
and number of the fancies in jelly,
wax, pastry and other eatable mate
rails were marvels of ingenuity. Some
of the pieces had been several weeks in
making and had cost $500 or more to
fashion. The little boys who came
with their parents had to be held firm
ly by their coat collars to keep them
from trying to eat their way through a
Swiss chalet of white sugar or a min
aret of pate de fois gras crowned with
truflies. When the orchestra played
lively music one expected to see the
white horses and lions and cherubs
dance i'll saccharine glee and the little
boys in the sugar farmyards turn
handsprings, which is tribute to the
realism of the modelling of the figures
and basrelief work.
One Of the most gorgeous pieces was
"Le Buffet Moderne" From base to
top the structure was ten feet high,
tapering all the way. The several
stories were supported by columns and
arches, and the material of manufac-
with stearine, cleaning like white
marble. A tiny fountain played at the
base, and real live fish swan in the
white basin. On the wings of the airy
structure We're luscious baked fish.
fianled by artistic designs in pressed
meat, jellies, truffies, pate de fois gras
and scarlet prawns, the colors blend
ing tremendously. In the middle, to-
ward the top, pheasant in gorgeous
plumage sat within wall of dainty
pheasant patties, and the topmost
turret was made of prawns that
showed dark red, like roof of Moorish
lie.
Then there was a great beehive, or
Ruche d. Abeille," made entirely of
macaroni and spaghetti; big sticks for
the walls, fine yellow strands for the
matched roof, while in the decorative
tiny pieces of macaroni of varied
shades in sort of mosaic work. An
other chef watched over Russian
sleigh drawn by two horses, that could
not be made to order for less than $780,
'There are SIS worth of truffles in that
piece" said the creator proudly. The
horses were admirably modelled and
the sleigh was so tempting that the
hanqueters in the evening wrecked it
and looted the marble-like slabs of
meat jelly, in which all sorts of designs
we're clcverly imbedded. One chef
touched Il patriotic chord, and on lofty
pedestal Washington and La Fayette
shook hands, with the tri-color and the
star-spangled banner over them. The
molds fol these figures, modelled after
the statue III Paris, cost $3.50, which
shows that the chefs take this exhibit
very seriously. And all these wonder
full creations were not only beautiful
but good--to eat.-Troy Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
CALIFORNIA WINE TRADE,
Statistics Showing the Immense Business
Done During 1894.


Done During 1894.
The San Francisco Examiner gives
the following statistics of thewine trade
of CALIFORNIA;:
The shipments eastward by rail in
September were 3S1,9OO gallons (eXclu-
sive of Los Angeles and south) and
1887 500 gallons for the nine months
ended September 30. During the first
nine months of 1894 the shipments by
rail were S,155,2OO gallons.
There were 26S,931 gallons and 80
cases sent to New York, etc, by sea in
September, and 1861, 400 gallons and
AIS cases during the first nine months
of the year. The shipments east by
sea in the first nine months of 1894 were
1912, 141 gallons and 80 cases.
Foreign countries took 1888 gallons
and 1,016 cases in September and 472,-
GAS gallons and 11,174 cases during the
zine months ended September 80. In
the first nine months of 1894 there were
371,5S4 gallons and 1855 cases sent to
foreign countries.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

Moderately strong salt and water
taken by the teaspoonful at intervals
it cure for catarrhal cold.
Old potatoes should be put into
cold or boiling water according to the
kind of potato. Boil for 20 minutes
with the lid on the saucepan. Then
strain off the water, shake well, and
stand at the side of the fire for ten
minutes to drain.
Beef Croquettes. One cup OF
chopped cold beef, one cup of bread
crumbs, one egg we'll beaten, pinch
of salt, pepper and tiny bit of sage.
Noisten the bread crumbs with lit
tie gravy or stock, then mix thorough
~, form in cakes and dip in egg and
cracker crumbs and Try in boiling lard.
Boston Budget.
delicious Potato Pancakes.-Boil
six medium-sized potatoes in sailed
water until thoroughly cooked. mash
them and set aside to cool; then add
three well-beaten eggs, quart of mill;
and Hour enough to make a pancake
batter. Bake quickly on well-greased
griddle and serve very hot.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
-Eoast Beef.-Remove the ribs from
a roast of beef, roll the meat and tie
1T up; place it in baking-pan and
dredge lightly with pepper. Add
teaspoonful of salt to cupful of boil
ing water and pour in the pan. Set il
in very hot oven; haste every ten
minutes, and let bake Is minutes to
every pound. One hour before the
meat is done make the pudding. Pour
the gravy from the pan, turn in the
pudding, and bake one hour.-Ladies'
Home Companion.
Apple Meringue Pie.-Pare, slice
and stew juicy apples, sweeten, and
season with nutmeg, or stew some
lemon peel with them. Line your pie
pan, fill with the apples, and bake.
When done, spread over the top a thick
meringue made of the whites of three
eggs whipped to a stiff froth, three
tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar, and
rose or vanilla f1avoring. Beat until it
will stand alone. Cover the pie three
quarters of an inch thick and put back
INTO the oven until the meringue is
well set. Sift powdered sugar over it
If it should get too dark colored. Serve
cold. Peaches are even more delicious
when used in this way. - Prairie
armer
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
CHUMS NO LONGER.
Frsfdly Amenities Cut In Twain by Army
Regulations.

Fnefdly Amenities Cut In Twain by Army
Regulations.
old saying that truth is stranger
thar fiction is most truly exemplified
ana the memorable army regulations
mos perfectly illustrated by the odd
casd OF two young men now wearing
the Iolue at Fort Thomas. The strange
nesy OF their positions would give, in
th7 hands of one expert at story build
ln3, an excellent theme for u good
Try.
he army regulations provide that
any young man under % years of age,
w1p has served for two years in the
ranks, and who passes the prescribed
dioral. mental and physical eXamina-
ton, shall be commissioned a second
lieutenant. Last September there were
ht Fort Thomas two young men who
had enlisted for the purpose of OBJ
Gaining this coveted position. During
the two years preceding these two
young men had been inseparable. They
roomed together, were "bunkies," in
soldier parlance, ate and studied to-
Fgether-in fact, they shared each 9TH
'er's pleasures and worries. They re-
ported before the examining board and
returned together to the fort to await
che report of the result of their examin-
ations. A day or two after their return
an official letter was handed to each.
With trembling hands each opened his
etter, for he knew how much depend
coupon the contents.
From one envelope was drawn a COM
mission as second lieutenant, and from
the other notice that the candidate
had been found physically disqualified
by being under weight, and, therefore,
could not be commissioned. Picture
the happiness and disappointment of
these two young men. They knew from
that moment that wide breach was be-
tween them, and that their companion
ship for two years was at an end, for
in one moment one had become a cont
niissioned officer and the other re-
manned sergeant, and between the
rank and file the regulations allow
no intercourse, except in an official
way. They had together saluted every
officer who had passed them during
their life together. Now the sergean;
must salute his old "bunky" every time
he passed him, must stand at attention
and answer: Eyes, sir" when spoken
to, and never sit down in the presence
of his superior officer Such is the
queer status of those two young men,
who are still attached to one another,
but by the memorable army regulations
so widely separated. Their case has
probably never had a parallel in the
history of the service. 1t frequently
happens that two young men go from
the same station to be examined By
the same board of officers. One NAV
pass and the other fail but the one
who passes is sent to fill vacancy in
some other regiment. In this particu
lar case there happened to be vacancy
in the regiment and at the same sta
tion, thus bringing about this peculiar
state of affairs, and very trying state
indeed, to the young men in question.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
BOY SOLDIERS OF GERMANY.
Their Patriotism After the First Napoleon
Captured Berlin.


Captured Berlin.
About the same time that Steffens
was stirring the war passions of the
Breslau studens, the father of the Ger
man gymnastic clubs, the "Turnvater
jain" was kindling in Berlin a patriotic
fire that was soon to SINCE the French
garrison with its flames. All through
the winter he had been drilling the
schoolboys of the capital in manly ex-
ercises, addressing them in stirring
language on the duty of patriots, and
teaching them rousing war songs, which
they sang on the march to and from
the field of exercises. Like Stetfens, he
could name the common enemy with
out saying Frenchman; and one of the
most stirring of war-calls was an i'm
aginary speech which he placed in the
mouth of the German champion Ar
minus (Hermann), who with it is pre-
sumed to inflame his followers against
the Caesar in Rome. He delivered
learned lectures on German national
life, which drew crowded audiences, for
jain spoke straight to the German
heart. One day he marched with band
of schoolboys under the Brandenburg
gate, the triumphal arch from which
Napoleon had carried away the bronze
chariot of victory which had formerly
stood on top. He stopped the lads and
said to one boy: do you see that our
Victory has been taken away? What
do you think of that?' The boy
answered, indifferently, that he thought
nothing about it. jain was too good
a teacher to waste such a chance. He
boxed the boys ears, and then said:
Now you have got something to re-
mind you of this, that you must lend q
hand in getting this Victory back from
Paris, and put it up again on top of the
Brandenburg gate The story was
known all over Berlin; and Berliners
who passed the gate from that time on
thought of Jahn's reminder.
- AS soon as the kings call for volun-
teers reached Berlin, jain was on his
way to Breslau. Hardenburg had fol-
lowed the king OH January "a, but be-
fore leaving he had talked with jain
about the impending war, and had en-
couraged the idea of forming an indie.
pendent corps made up of volunteers
from all parts of the Fatherland-what
Germans called Freikorps, or free corps.
jain eagerly seized upon this idea;
called his patriot friends together; told
them he was going to Breslau to pre-.
pare the ground, and would give them
the signal when the right time should
have arrived.
On February 7 Berlin first heard of
the kings call for volunteers, four DAYS
after publication in Breslau. The uni
Versity at once enrolled 25S of its stu.
dents rs wariors:" one grammar
school sent 113 boys; another, 1874. The
French government sought to arrest
those who tried to make their way to
Breslau, but with no effect. The
youngsters started in different direc.
tons, and united when well beyond the
city walls. They travelled at their own
expense, and cheerfully ran the risk of
their lives for king whom they i'm
agined hero in temporary Distress
1larper's Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
Made-Up Horses.

There are, perhaps, half a dozen
horses in New York that have false
tails. The horse so provided is gener-
ally fine animal, perhaps a fine car
riage horse. 1t may have been pro-
vided by nature with poor tail, or it
may have lost it's own flowing tail in a
fire. 1t is easy to get a tail to maj CHI.
4 small portion of the hide is removed
with the tail, and when this has been
cured the tail is provided with straps
and buckles on the under side to hold
it to the tail of the horse that is to wear
it, and the hide attached is stitched to
the crupper of the horses harness.
The fact that the tail is false would not
be discovered except upon close and
careful inspection. The tail is taken
off with the harness. Horses are occa.
sionally provided with false names, in
the same general manner, and some.
ZINES with false ears.--N. Y. Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
Isn't 1t Our Business. Though

We are told that it is none of our
business what men sell or drink; and
so we are to hold our lives in constant
peril, and at the mercy of drunken en-
gineers, drunken conductors, drunken
sea captains, drunken drivers, drunken
policemen, drunken doctors, drunken
hoodluns, drunken men of every class,
any one of whom may cause our death
when intoxicated; ard yet we have
no right to protest against the traffic
which works ruin and destruction on
every hand.-Safeguard.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
A STARVED MIND.


ems was Mentioned
1t is a fact that the children who have
had in abundance the old nursery tales.
who have worn out numerous copies Of
Mother Goose, to whom Christmas and
birthdays mean new books, of rhyme
and story, being led thence by gradIia:
steps to the uplands of history, poetry
and romance, seldom go down before
the malignancy of the blood and thun-
der" SO freely offered them. 1t is the
starved childhood that seizes and feeds
upon these.
a girl of 12 years had occasion to
call at the home of lady who had be-
friended her. Scattered about the floor
of the sitting-room were the books Of
small nephew, among them a copy OF
Little Red Riding Hood. Her life, bar
rem and hard, had known nothing of lit
erature save her few school books. She
picked up the volume and was soon
absorbed in the story. When the lacy
came in, she extended it to her, saying.
eagerly: SIS it true?"
1t was her first step in the realm OF
enchantment, but it came too late She
hdu eNpeTlehceu lne real, IL was ndrC,
bitter. The same girl few years later
awaited her turn at the library, and
begged the attendant to choose for her.
The lady hesitated, then extending
volume by Dickens, said: Twill you
have this?"
She shook her head, saying: 81 triel
to read one of his once. He writes of
rags and poverty and hard times Give
me something livelier, please. "-Iippin-
colts Magazine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27
Nationality of saIoonkeepers.

An inquiry into the nationality of
persons engaged in retailing liquor in
Philadelphia mas resulted in the follow
ing statement: Cinnamon, 2; Jews, 2;
Italians, IS; Spaniards, 14O; negroes.
265; Welsh, 100; French, 1856; Scotch,
497; English, sos; Germans, 2.S51;
Irish, 3,041; Americans, 205. Total,
S,o34. OF this number 1898 are Roman
Catholics; 1906 are women, all for
eigners but one, and all Roman Cath
olicT
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27

A man named Simmons is said to
have declined to become the private
secretary of man named Green for a
peculiar reason. The salary was tempt
ing and the work would have been
light and agreeable, but, then, as he
said, he couldn't bear the thought of
signing letters: Green, per Simmons"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27

New Yorks most famous church would
be completely immersed If dropped into a
great key containing the 10, 53l, 900 gallons
of liquor which the city drinks annually.J
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-02-27

Newark, N. j., has Is square miles
Of territory and 100000 population.