The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-12-21

NAiDOOlls VI IONlutuCG, were JnH trSt
ladies for long time who found under
the bed the man for whom the sex so
constantly looks. He was hauled out
and tried for breaking in. 1t cannot be
denied that the number of men found
under beds is totally disproportioned to
the number of women looking for
them, and it is encouraging that at last
one should be found.
The divorce statistics of Vermont
for 1877 show an average of 1 divorce
TO every 10 marriages, against ] to
every q (nearly) in 1862, the increase
IN divorces in that period having been
pretty steady. Of the 175 granted in
1877, 26 were for adultery, 90 for deser-
ton, 70 for intolerable severity, and Ii
for refusal to support. Brutality to-
ward wives seems to be on the increase,
or else is more easily proven as GROUND
of divorce, the number of cases granted
for this cause having nearly quadru-
pied in 16 years.
by the death of Cardinal Cullen,
the number of members of the Sacred
| College has been reduced to So; viz: 6
Cardinal Bishops, 43 Cardinal Priests,
and Cardinal Deacons. OF these the
three senior Cardinal Priests prince
Schwarzenberg, named Jan. "a, 1912;
| Asquini, promoted Jan. %, 1874; and
Carata di TraettO, appointed July %,
1910 are all who remain of the crea-
tons of Gregory XVI. The remaining
80 were raised to the purple by Plus TX
L he reigning Pope has not yet created
any cardinals. Cardinal CullenS was
the fifth member of the sacred College
who has died since the election of Leo
Kill; the others were Brassais Sain,
Mare, Amat Berardi and Franchi.
About sixty years ago the paper
mills then in existence in the United
States employed 5000 people, and the
annual product represented money
value of S5,000,000. In 1880 the num-
Der of persons employed was about TO-
600, and the value of the product was
81, 100000 Since then there has been
steady growth, with the exception of
the past two or three years. In 1860
the number of persons employed was
$4,000, and the value of the paper man
ufactured S21, 100000. In 1870 this
| amount had increased to S4S, 1856, 665;
and in 1872, the last year for which
there are complete records, the value of
the amount manufactured in a thou
sand mills, employing 10000 persons,
was 500, $685. 1926. Between the years
1860 and 1870 there was general re-
vival in the book business, and the pa
per-makers pushed things with great
energy.
David R. Reeves, wandering sing
ing master, formed class in Pettis
County, Mo-, and fell in love with Anne
liza Yost, one of his pupils. She spurned
him, but he persisted in his wooing,
even threatening to kill her if she did
not accept his addresses. Still she was
cold. A letter in his handwriting asked
her to meet him at certain stile one
evening. Her father and three broth
ers believed that he intended to lure
her to the lonely spot and murder her,
so they armed themselves with guns
and hid near the style. Presently a
man appeared, looked around as though
expecting somebody, and then stood
leaning against a fence. One of the
1ost boys fired on him, killing him in
stantly. He was not Reeves, however,
but a neighbor and close friend of the
Yosts wearing Reeves hat and coat.
Why he went there in that manner and
dress is not explained. The Yost who
did the shooting is now on trial, but no
solution of the mystery has been
reached. The singing master has not
since been seen in the neighborhood.
Proof that the top of wagon
wheel, when running along ON the
ground, moves faster than the bottom,
is given, according to the Scientific
Anaerican, by instantaneous photo
graphs of q wagon in rapid motion. 1t
is obvious, says the writer, that an in
Simultaneous photograph OF a wheel, re-
volving upon its axle in the air, will
show all parts of the wheel with equal
distinctness. But if the wheel has q
progressive motion, and any one por-
ton has a greater motion than its cor
responding part above or below, there
must be a liability to blurring in that
taken with so brief an exposure that the
horse, though moving at 2:24 gait, is
sharply outlined. The wheels of the
drivers sulky, however, have differ
ent tale to tell. The lower third of
each wheel is sharp and distinct as if
absolutely at rest. Not so with the top.
that part of the wheel showing a per-
ceptible movement during the two
thousandth part of second of the eX-
posure Of the plate. The upper ends
of the spokes and the rim are blurred.
The women of Wyoming Territory
are said not to fully use their eXcep-
tional privilege of voting; They do not
take much interest in politics, and to
vote has not become fashionable among
them. A certain class of women vote
always, apparently for the sake of ex-
hibiting themselves, but the rest go to
the polls only when some man belong
ing to their own church or social circle
is candidate. Still the friends of
woman suffrage in Wyoming hope to
make voting general by their sex.
THE Sacred Way has been discovered
and traced through the old Roman
Forum up to the palace of the Caesars
on the Palatine. This discovery, only
made while the workmen were digging
last month, sets at rest vexed ques-
ton among the psychologists, who
have so long occupied themselves with
the topography of the ancient Roman
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