The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-06-15

Out in Lewis county u hicycler.
who was Il beginner and had not
learned 10 guide his wheel properly,
caused he death of two persons, the
fatal injury of another, two of the
three being women, and the Gripping
of child, by attempting to pass a
carriage containing the victims in a
narrow road on a hill side. The
driver stopped his horses at one side
of the road and requested the wob-
bly, wheelman to dismount The
young man would not do this, the
wheel ran against one of the horses,
and there was II runaway, with the
above result. If it had been the
bicycler who had been killed the
world would have passed on and not
have given the incident much further
concern further than to congratulate
itself that justice had been properly
melted out.
Last fall | sprained my left hip
while handling some heavy boxes.
The doctor | called Oh said at first it
was "A slight strain and would soon be
we'll but it grew worse and the doctor
then said had rheumatisln 1t CON
tinued to grow worse and could
hardly get around to work | went
to a drug store and the druggist rec
Ommended me to try Chamberlain S
Pain Balm. | tried it and one-half of
a 50-cent bottle cured me entirely. /
now recommend it to all nv friends.
F. \. BABCoCK, Erie. Pa. 1t is fog
sale by Oakland Pharmacy, OaklanE
and j. w. Iaughlin, Deer Park
In list of "AmericanisIns' in an
English dictionary published some
years ago, is the following: jag
An American term for an umbrella,
as will be seen by the following Illus
tration from an Albany, n. V. paper:
Mr.. Blank. prominent citizen.
returned from his club in hilarious
condition, and after vainly trying to
unlock the front door with his UNI
brella, climbed through the coal hole
He was found asleep in the bathtub,
fully dressed and with his jag.
\ clever swinding scheme is being
worked by a pair of sharpers in
neighboring towns. One goes through
the country on a bicycle and when he
strikes a town he pretends to be hard
up and offers his wheel cheap to get
some money The boys bite readily.
paying a small price for Il first class
wheel. After a few days the other
sharper turns up and claims to be
looking for a man who stole his wheel
He describes it well, giving its make
and number, and the owner has to
part with it. The sharpers raise from
twenty to thirty dollars a trip, and
then depart for greener fields.
For the last few wears the observant
man might have noticed the declining
condition of the locust trees, and the
possibility that it might lead to the
total humiliation of that valuable
article for fence posts. With but few
instances where the locust tree is now
found it looks as though it had hard
time to foliate and retain it, They
are late in putting forth leaves and
one of the first to shed them in the
fall. This trouble all comes from the
activeness of a borer. or larva of a
beetle, which lives on what substance
it can obtain from the wood by eating
its way through it. Examination
of some of the affected trees shows
them to be bored till they are verit-
able honey combs. Many attempts
have been made to introduce some
thing that would destroy this larva,
but nothing yet proved successful.