The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
MlSCELLANE

"A death from sea-sickness occurred
recently on a vessel in the Gulf of
Mexico.
The city of Topic, the capital of
new Territory in Mexico, has $1,000
inhabitants and not a newspaper.
"A. j. Holland, of Mason Valley,
New, has raised three kittens that he
obtained from the nest of wild cat
that he had killed. They have become
thoroughly domesticated, and, though
but four months old, are good ratters.
The greatest advance has been made
in glass cutting lin this country during
the last few years. Only five years ago
the glass was limited to very ordinary
quality, but the present production is
superior to English manufacture
Chicago Times.
An epigram of Rhode Island
magistrate, Judge Sherman, says
RoaperS Weekly goes far to justify the
saying of a Massachusetts lawyer. that
genius is less a gift than industry. A
lazy lawyer was ridiculing the restless
activity of a younger brother, when the
Judge dryly remarked: 'Well, well,
an engine of one cat-power running all
the time will do more work than an
engine of forty horsepower standing
still"
A Montreal hackman, who took a
couple to church the other night to be
married and quietly slipped off dur
ing the wedding ceremony to earn
---l ~ l.,sStra Nancy, was surprised. on
returning to hear tie bridegroom 7bold-
ly ask for the money! he had made
while away. The coachman, however,
seeing constable on hand, and not
being DESTROYS of becoming defendant
in lawsuit, handed over the cash
and drove the newly-wedded pair home
Montreal Witness.
--Horse-cars in cities are the SUBJ
jeets of much dissatisfaction. While
the Chicago man says that he had rath-
er walk half a mile from the station
than ride out in the cold street-cars,
the Boston man maintains that he walks
the same distance to avoid blockade
of cars. In Rutland, Vt, horse-cars
are the subjects of remarks of differ
ent nature. In the citation of pride,
Rutland editor says: There were two
horse-cars running all day yesterday,
and the tinkling of bells and the roar
on the track had really metropolitan
sound. Chicago Times.
/ The greatest thickness of ground
ice ever actually measured in America
was by Sir j. H. LEROY, who in June,
3S44, on the banks of the Mackenzie
River, in latitude sixty-four degrees
sorth, saw perpendicular cliff broken
a r hty 1anHc1i,n in ,ol, h.
was solidly frozen for distance of
forty-five feet below the surface. Half
century ago, Russian merchant at
4akntsk, in Siberia, which is situated
in J litude sixty-two degrees north, had
to dig SS2 feet before he could get
through the ground ice.
R. W. Hanscom, of Lewiston. Me-.
says he happened to be in Skowhegan
in 1869 when the late Josh Billings lee
tured there. The morning after the
lecture was rainy, and mud was ankle
deep in the streets. Josh glanced
obviously out of doors and then asked
Hanscom, ''Have you any rubberS?"
No" said Hanscom. ''I'll tell you
what I'll DO, said Josh. 'I'll flip a
cent to see whether you or l shall take
the other on his shoulders and wade
across the street from the hotel to the
shoe-store and buy pair for both"
Hanscom agreed. The cent was tossed
and he won. Josh took him pig
back through the mud to the shoe
store and bought rubbers for BOTH
Boston Journal
1t has been industriously circu-
lated that during his reign the late King
Alfonso, of Spain, accumulated the
enormous sum of 200 100000 reals
(S25, 900, 000. There is not one word
OF truth in this. The expenses of the
royal household, pensions, charities
and more thay once the liquidation of
the debts of relatives not as careful as
himself, absorbed the major portion of
the appropriation which Alfonso re-
ceived from the State, and the sum
which he has left, including the amount
OF insurance upon his life in various for
eign offices, can hardly in any sense be .
termed fortune. Liberal, without
being extravaganza, Alfonso endeavored
to set something aside for his children. |
N Y. San.
South America is more than double |
the size of the United States. The en-
pire of Brazil seems on the map quite
as large as Australia. It is twenty-four
times the size Of England. The Argen-
tine Republic is nearly as large as
Europe, taking Russia out. Bolivia and
Venezuela are each twice the size of
England, New Grenada and Peru each
as large as England and Scotland,
Ecuado" something less, Paraguay
equal Great Britain, Uruguay and
Chill about the same, and the little |
known regions of Patagonia and Terra
del Fuego at least double the dimensions
of Great Britain. British, French and
Dutch Guiana are nearly as large as
~reat Britain.--N. Y San