The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-12-14

damaged, the loss to the insurance com
panies and to Turkey will be great.
Miss Susan and Miss Rachel Reich
enboch, of Providence, were the first
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 ID marriages, against ] to
every p (nearly) in 1862, the increase
in divorces in that period having been
pretty steady. OF the 175 granted in
1877, rs were for adultery, 80 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 a grouud
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
Carafa di Traetto, appointed July %,
1S44) are all who remain of the crea-
tions of Gregory XVI. The remaining
50 were raised to the purple by Plus TX.
The reigning Pope has not yet created
any cardinals. Cardinal Cullen was
the fifth member of the sacred College
who has died since the election of Leo
Kill; the others were Brassais Sain,
Marc, 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 a money
value of S5,000,000. In 1880 the num-
Der of persons employed was about 10,-
900, and the value of the product was
| S7,O00,000. Since then there has been
a 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 $4S, 1856, 665;
and in 1872, the last year for which
there are complete records, the value of
the amount manufactured. in thou
sand mills, employing 10000 persons,
was 500, 500, 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, a wandering sing
ing master, formed a class in Pettis
County, Mo-, and fell in love with Ame-
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
man appeared, looked around as though
expecting somebody, and then stood
leaning against fence. One of the
Yost 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,
american, by instantaneous photo
graphs of wagon in rapid motion. 1t
is obvious, says the writer, that an in
Simultaneous photograph OF wheel, re-
volving upon its axle in the air, will
show all parts of the wheel with equal
distinctness. But if the wheel has
progressive motion, and any one por-
ton has greater motion than its cor
responding part, above or below, there
must be a liability to blurring in that
part of the picture. These pictures are
taken with so brief an exposure that the
horse, though moving at a 2:24 gait, is
sharply outlined. The wheels of the
drivers sulky, however, have a 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.