The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-12
GENERAL.

ST. LOUIS furnishes Italy with great
deal of its macaroni.
Mr.. FRANK HENRY, the lighthouse
keeper at Erie, Pa, is the father OF four
pairs of twins.
TWENTY American cities to-day con-
tain over 100000 people each; twenty
American States contain over 1,000,0 900
people each.
AT recent silver wedding in Wash
ington, a cake baked for the original
ceremony, twenty-five years ago, was
served. They cut it with arip-saw.
THE streets of Constantinople are
narrow, dirty and irregular, and paved
with such large powders that in most
places it is impossible to drive car
riage. With a population of between
100000 and 100000, the city has 10000
priests, mostly Greeks and Mohammed-
ans.
A New YORK undertaken has caught
the rage for tableau show windows now
existing in that city, and in his show
case displays small hearse drawn by
four small horses-and in the hearse is q
coffin with q doll in it, while group of
dolls in mourning costumes are arranged
about the vehicle.
THE Sag Harbor branch of the Long
Island Railroad, from Manor to Sag
Harbor, has been blockaded by snow
since Christmas, leaving the residents
along its line without communication
with the main line, excepting by tele-
graph and with s1eighs. Through the
Shinnecock hills the sand was drifted
into the deep cuts and packed SO hard
that snow-plow driven by three pow
erful locomotives was useless. From
Atlanticville to Northampton, nearly
seventeen miles, the snow, mingled with
sand, lies in the cuts from eight to ten
feet in depth. 1t is packed so hard that
the only way to remove it is with picks
and shovels.
A LoNDoNER, who has travelled over
the United States, writes: 81 do not
think the women of America quite APP
preciate the Difference and respect they
receive at the hands of their country
men. They are too apt to accept spe-
cial courtesies as q right. No wonder
so many of them dislike England, where
men too often give them merely an
equality of position, letting them fight
their own way in crowded railway de-
pot or omnibus station without the
slightest acknowledgment of the priv
llege OF the stronger sex, which is to be
kind and gentle in its treatement of the
the weaker
THERE is an old sign-board of the
"Old Oak Tree public house, over
which great fuss is being made in old
England. 1t has found it's wav to the
Court of Appeal, after passing through
bankruptcy and chancery. One might
fancy an ordinary sign-board not worth
this furry, but this is not an ordinary
one. 1t was painted fifty years ago by
David Cox of the Royal Academy, and
is valued at 1880. 1t represents an
old oak tree, after which the public
house where it hung, in Bangor, was
called. The point at issue is whether a
sign-board is fixture or piece of fur
niture. 1t was seized as the latter. But
the two decisions already given 60 the
other way.
| W. SoHuitlOHo dLo pIcSollt WHICH,
will make the opening of the next spring
a season of apprehension. In Virginia
and all through the Middle State, sexcept
in Northern New York, there are vast
deposits of snow and unusual thickness
of ice in the rivers and lakes. The event
of having unusually disastrous floods is
therefore only question of weather. II
day succeeds day with sunny warmth
and slow disintegration of the great
drifts, all will be well. But if the rain
descends, the SHOWS melt suddenly and
the rivers break up in flood, there is the
certainty not only of the enormous
damage which simple rise of waters
causes along swift rivers, but of the ice
dams which concentrate and intensity
disaster. For many years the two
potent causes of great spring floods,
namely, thick ice and deep snow, have
never appeared with SO threatening as
poets as they do now.