The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-22
GLEANINGS.

THE term Nihilist is said to have
originated with Tourguenietf, the nov
elist.
The collection of Chinese works in
the British Museum includes 10000
volumes.
A PoTTsvILLE lad jumped the rope
three hundred and eighty-four times
and died.
A LARGE eagle, while soaring in the
air at New Hamburg, Va, was struck
by lightning.
UNDER the new law of Iowa no insur-
ance company can rebuild, but must
pay all losses in cash. -
A CHINAMAN at Happy Camp, Jose
phine County, Oregon, offers to build
a new wagon road for $4,000, and to
give bonds for the faithful performance
of his work.
COPPER rings for ringing bulls look
better than steel rings, but are not so
safe. We have never seen the green
slime from the copper, that some writer's
tell of. Perhaps it was grass.
Mr.. YATES says that there seems to
be no end to the literature of quarrels
among authors. The last, which Gre
ates much amusement in literary Cir
cles, is between novelist and journ-
alists. The story goes that the novelist
has drawn the journalists portrait, and
has made him the villain of q novel
now passing through a monthly maya
zine.
THE labor markets at Denver, Lead
vile and other places in Colorado are
so overstocked that wages are less than
the cost of decent board. A letter to
the Chicago Times, from Denver, April
18th, says: "Last week over one thou
sand men came in, and yesterday five
hundred more, over the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, and it is estimated there are
ten thousand transient men in Denver,
and almost as pany in Leadville, that
have arrived this spring, seeking work
and finding none"
Rock CREAM.-Boil a teacupful of
the best rice till quite soft in new milk,
sweetened with powdered loaf sugar,
and pile it upon a dish; lay on it in diff
ferent places, square Jumps of either
currant jelly or preserved fruit of any
kind; beat up the whites of five eggs to
u stiff frOth, with a little powdered
sugar, and flavor with either orange
flower water or vanilla; add to this, when
beaten very stiff, about teaspoonful of
rich cream, and drop it over the rice,
giving it the form of q rock of snow.
This will be found to be a yery orna-
mental as well as delicious dish for a
supper table.
THERE is a district in Belgium
where chain of villages along the val
ley of the Geer form a sort of immense
street. The soil is clayey, but crossed
at intervals with chalk, which gives to
straw raised there an exceptional
strength, pliability and brilliancy. This
district is the seat of the Belgian straw
trade, in which some $4,000 persons are
engaged, who earn upward of $780,
600. Every spring four or five thou
sand migrate to work in the principal
cities for a few weeks. The chief seat
of this industry to-day is Roclenze, a
beautiful village surrounded by the vii
las of wealthy straw makers.
A YOUNG lady, one of Baltimore,s
society bellies, made painful and terrible
mistake the other night. She was about
retiring to rest, and had turned out the
gas. She had been using glycerine for
chapped lips, and, recollecting that she
had neglected to use it, she went to the
wall-bracket, where she kept it, and
took what she thought in the dark was
the glycerine bottle. 1t seems, how
ever, there was bottle of about the
same size on the shelf containing nitric
acid, which her mother had been using
for some purpose, and it was this that
the unfortunate young girl got hold of.
The sad probability is that her mouth
will be disfgured. p