The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-04-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
New South Wales produced 1920,
GAO hounds of sugar last wear.

GAO pounds of sugar last year.
Professor Balm says that "the pos
session of a spot of land is the most
powerful of all known motives to in
dustry."
"A picture of Abraham Lincoln
worth 81, has stood boxed up in
dark and dingy corner of the Capitol at
Albany for over four years.-Albafsy
Journal
The New York police recently ar
rested a professional beggar who, when
lat home" lived luxuriously in ele-
gantly furnished apartments.-N T.
MAIL
The mean duration of life in France,
which was twenty-nine at the close of
the eighteenth century. and thirty-nine
from l817-l831, increased to forty from
| 1S40-1S59, thanks to the progress of
sanitary science.
A grand old man said at the bar of
the Supreme Court the other day that
the life of a gentleman included mot
I only good manners, but good morals,
courtesy, kindness and honor and high
minded principles. ~. 0. Picayune.
The State of Arkansas derives $25,-
cooper annum from its pententiary by
leasing the labor of eighty convicts to
cigar manufacturers and handing over
$50 others to farmers, the consideration
being 1913 per month and all expenses.
N, Y. Post.
The editor of Russian daily thus
explained its semi-occasional appear
ance; The paper is often in want of
| information, often in want of writers
and in want OF money, and sometimes
when it has all these it is in want of
readers"
San Francisco has a feminine Will
helm Tell, who has outshot everything
on the coast, and, having challenged
Carver, Bogardus and others and re-
ceiyed no response, now signs for male
shooters to conquer. San francisco
Call.
Mr.. Gladstone has made but four
changes in his Cabinet since he first
formed it, the Duke of Argyll, W. +.
Forster, John Bright and Mr.. Dodson
retiring, to be superseded by Lord Car
lngford, Sir Charles Dixie. Earl Derby
and Mr. Treyelyan, respectively.
A Key West paper says colored
man went to the fish market recently,
bought conch, and upon cracking the
| shell was surprised to find hidden
treasure in the shape of a handsome
pearl the size of an ordinary bean,
which he subsequently sold for ninety
dollars.
The old idea that slow-grown tim
Der was stronger than that grown
| quickly is disproved by recent tests in
| England, so far, at least, as oak is con-
cerned. Second-growth hickory is
usually more valued for the handles of
axes, hammers, etc, and the annual
rings show it to be of sWifter growth
than the first stock.
-Duelling in Germany shows no de-
| crease, Notwithstanding the cutlery
against the custom, and moreover is
now practiced on the most trivial plea.
Two officers fought recently in Cologne
| simply because one of the combatants,
when leaving cafe, had taken up a
wrong cap by mistake. Twenty-seven
shots were exchanged, and one of the
duellists was killed.
The Territory of Dakota pays more
revenue to the Postof1ice Department
than any one of thirty-two States of the
Union, and has population as large as
Nebraska or Connecticut, and nearly
twice as large as Vermont and Florida
1t boasts $500 miles of railway, 2,0O(
school-houses and 275 newspapers, OF
more periodicals than any New England
State except Massachusetts. - F'arqc
ATguS.