The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

Inc past has been the greenest
summer within the memory of the old
est inhabitant.-BoSton Budget.
The total number of self-support-
ing women and girls over ten years of
age, in New York is 2,G47 157-M Y
Post.
England has 1913, 995 women teach
ers' many of whom occupy positions as
professors and instructors in the higher
branches of learning.
When Philadelphia society girls
want to indicate that one of their num-
Der IS rather rapid they say: 30, she's
a regular bird. "-Ne10 York Journal.
A Massachusetts COW got hung in
the woods by her tail and was held fast
thirty-sIN hours before she was found.
All this time she had nothing to say
She could not tale unfold.
Five gypsies were lately fumigated
in a Spanish town so thoroughly as to
forever prevent the cholera from at
lacking them. They were all killed in
the process.
"A man at Lewiston, Me-, drives a
spirited horse without breeching, the
animal having been educated to "hold
back by his launches in contact with
the crossbar. '-BoSt07e Journal
The Waterbury Comm Watch
Factory makes about three thousand
watches in one year. Most of the work
which requires the finest touch and the
most delicate manipulation is done by
women IheT wages aversfbroabout
S1.50 a3day.-Hartt0rd Coua,fuEe
"A shocking case of cruelty to ami
mails has come to light in an up-country
village. An able-bodied man appeared
at the village store and told the doleful
tale that Mary had went off to work
in the mill this mornin' an hadn't lef'
me bite to eat or any money either"
boston Post
1t is estimated that every year
about so, 000 100000 letters are posted
in the world America leads, with
about $500, 600, 600 and England fol-
lows, with 100000, 900 Japan, which
established a postal service only ten
years ago, now mails annually %, 000,.
600 letters. - Chicago Tribune.
The Jewisb Messenger appeals to
the young men and women of the old
faith to abstain from publishing in the
newspapers their matrimonial engage
ments. No one is interested in such
announcements, it says, except few
near relations, and they can be reached
by mail.
Beet sugar has overtaken and
passed its only rival-cane sugar. The
estimated supply for the coming crop
year is 2,5Oj, 900 tons, while of cane the
yield is estimated at 2, 1905 900 tons. OF
the total amount, 605, 900 tons-the
United States will probably consume
about one-fourth. IN f. Farmer.
If every soul, saint and sinner in
the Union were to 90 to the ports of the
Great Lakes each could get to carry
home half bushel of grain. To put il
in cold figures, there are 50000,000
people in America, and stored for ship
ment 'twiXt Duluth and Toledo are
$4,000, 900 bushels of wheat, corn and
oats. - Philadelphia Press.
Rather fine bean-poles, those"
said a tourist to a suburban trucker who
was engaged setting out his winter
crop. "Bean-poles, thunder! Why,
stranger, them's handles-hoe-ha handles.
Our crop of hoes will be ten bushels
more to the acre this fall than last"
And the stranger went on Illuminating
on the remarkable fertility of land in
ColOrado.-Dcnrer Opinion.
The chemical reactions daily TAX
ing place in the laboratory of nature
are immensely interesting, both from
their magnitude and their direct in
fluence upon human affairs. The
waters of the Schuylkill undergo
number of chemical changes. Above
Reading they are SO impregnated with
sulphuric acid from the drainage of
mines as TO be unfit for use in boilers,
and have but few fish living in them.
At Reading however, the acid is neu-
tralized by being brought in contact
with lime water flowing in from Tulpo-
hockon Creek. and the resulting insolu-
BILE sulphate of lime is precipitated,
forming a bed of gypsum. PHILADELPHIA
Press.