The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-10-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

-1ne council OF lne University Col
lege of London have created profes-
sorship Of electrical engineering.
The Supreme Court of British Co
lumbia is the only place in America
where the Judges and lawyers wear the.
wigs and gowns OF English usage.
The popularity of Southern Califor-,
MIA as a sanitarium is such that there
are over 200 cottages, worth from 5000
to =, 800 apiece, in course of construc-
ton in Los Angeles and suburbs.
"A man in Franklin County, Tenn,
wears beard six feet nine inches in
length. He keeps about four-fifths of
1t wound about a cardboard and car
ries it in his coat pocket Louisville
Courter-Jour,1di.
"A druggist of Lancaster, Mass, has.
taken contract to keep the stately old
elms of that town free from canker
worms for year at twenty-five cents
per tree. There are about four hundred
of the trees in ALL and if he does not
succeed he is to get no money.-BoStola
Aeraid.
"A society paper in describing the
order in which bridal party passed
down the church aisle, says The
BRIDE walked on the arm of her father"
This may be all right but it seems Is
us that church was hardly the place,
Tor her to display her acrobatic accom-
phshments.-Cb Chicago Sun.
The growth OF American public IL
'7 o. since the revolution has been
something phenomenal. There were IN
the country in 1916 but twenty of these
institutions, with an aggregate of 49,
623 volumes. At the present time there
are nearly 4, 200, containing more than
1900, 900 volumes.-N. \. lrjbu1ee.
The Misses Green, of Atlanta ladies
of literary talent and artistic culture,
are making collection of negro songs,
and setting them to music. The music
is composed as the songs are sung by
old,fashiOned darkies, and will perpetu'
ate accurately the strange and weird
melody of the old plaatation.-Atlanta
Constitution.
1t was hoped at least that these Uni
ted States might claim the invention OF
the great American game of poker, but
now turns up a mythial Mr.. Ben
jamin, fresh from Persia, who asserts
that from time immemOrial the game
has been known in Oriental lands, anG
that it was played in Persia centuries
before Columbus discovered. America
N. T. Iri61ne.
Mrs. Rider, whose name has been
widely mentioned in this State as a re-
markable instance of the faith cure,
died recently at Grass Valley, and a
postmortem showed the presence of
large tumOr in the abdominal cavity
and badly diseased condition of both
heart and lungs. San Francisco Chr0n-
icle
In the ancient graves in Tennessee
are found human skulls that are some
inches larger than any modern human
head. Within the last forty years there
has been a very marked diminuton in
the size of heads in Philadelphia. Old
and experienced hatlers in this city and
New York, says the Ledger, will cor
roberate this statement. Somebody
writes to an exchange to ask: us there
a similar change taking place elsewhere,
and what will be the RESULT"
"A fresh aesthetic movement has
| broken out in Dresden. German artists
have been lamenting over the pictur-
es Iue costumes of the Middle Ages
being replaced by practical modern
garb; so the Dresden painters have
formed society to promote return to
medieval attire. Over eighty of the
members have adopted the medieval
German artist costume-black over
dress, with tight velvet trimmed sleeves
over white under-sleeves lined with red
satin, and black wooden close-ftting
neither garments reaching down to low
shoes.
1T is customary" says the Scien-
tjfc american, Ito use ammonia for
the purpose of neutralizing acids that
have accidentally or otherwise de-
stroyed the color of fabrics. This must
be applied Immediately or the color is
usually imperfectly restored. After
careful use an application of chloroform
will bring out the colOrs as bright as
ever. Plush goods and all articles
dyed with anilne colors faded from ex-
posture to light, will look as bright as
ever after sponging with chloroform.
The commercial chloroform will answer
the purpose very well.