The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-02-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

LOT her Gay out, so had TO.
He kissed her, and all the world seemed
afiame
And wonderful visions OF brilliancy came;
| The earth seemed revolving by jerks and by
| When, after her box on the ear, he saw stars.
L.-.~ Washington Star.
loves Laughter. - "At
lovers perjuries they say Jove laughs "
Wriggler-"Well, it's no wonder they
tell us that Jove is dead He must have
laughed himself to death many centur-
les ago-N. Y. Herald.
AT a recent family reunion in Mis-
souri, two unusually fat babies were
proudly exhibited by their fond parents
The Oldest aged 5 years, weighs 1O7
pounds, and the youngest aged az
years, weighs 90 pounds
-Adah Isaacs Menken, the dazzling
footlight favorite of a generation ago.
sleeps in weed-grown grave in the
Paris cemetery of Pere-la- Chaise. Out
side of an occasional curious tourist few
people visit her last resting place, but
her fate in this respect is hardly differ
ent from that of many others of her
kind who people that wonderful city Of
the dead
"A man weighs less when the bar
ometer is high, Notwithstanding the
fact that the atmospheric pressure on
him is more than when the barometer
is low. AS the pressure of air on an
ordinary-si2ed man is about fifteen tons,
the rise of the mercury from twenty
nine to thirty-one inches adds about one
ton to the load he has to carry.
Boards were ut various times taxed
In England, and the sheriff OF Canter-
bury paid three shillings and four
pence for wearing a beard. In the
first year of Elizabeth's reign every
beard of above a fortnight's growth
was taxed three shillings and six pence,
but the law was too absurd to be en-
forced Peter the Great imposed a tax
of rouble upon boards, but it was
soon cancelled
In May, June and July the weather
on the Neva is as hot as it is in sum
mer time in Queensland. and the chief
delights of the people whose official
duties detain them in the capital is to
be rowed about the Neva in the soft and
mellow cleaning and to experience the
pleasurable sensation of being able to
read the newspaper without the aid Of
artificial light at II p m.
| The number of water works in op-
Grafton or under construction in the
United States is 2,037, and the number
of towns and cities supplied is 2, 1877.
Pennsylvania has 2l6 works for sup
plying PAS towns, while New York has
1870 works for 2lS towns. Massachusetts
has 1913, Michigan 113, California 1903,
and Illinois 109 works Twenty-Five
cities have duplicate or triplicate plants
in its old use as ribs for umbrellas
whalebone has been superseded by the
| lighter and more durable steel. AL
though the demand ON the importers
each year has been growing steadily
less it's value has increased. In 1873
there were 3,544 hundred weight of a
value of 1888, 900; while in 1877, though
the quantity was only 1860 hundred
weight, the value was $4l4.9S5.
The second book printed in the En-.
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Playe of the Chesse," which the title
page says was "Fynshid the last day of
Marche, the yer of our lord god thou
sande foure hondred and LXXIIj.'
Only twelve copies of the work are now
known to exist. In 1918 an Englishman
by the name of Alchorne sold his copy
for sum equal to $40 OF United States
' lota L.,
the same volume ian imperfect copy
was sold for SO, 1870 The British Mu-
scum has refused an offer of $40, 900 for
its copy, which is imperfect to the ex-
tent of having seven leaves missing.
king Lobengula OF M atabelel and has
recently proclaimed that he will send
his regiments on raids no more, but
that he will develop his country with
the aid Of the white man. Four years
ago no white man was permitted to en-
ter Matabeleland without a special per-
init from the king, and missionaries
were advised not to attempt to settle in
his country il they valued their lives. Lo-
bengula has just made new treaty with
the British South Africa Company, by
which he cedes to them large tract of
! country in addition to Mashonaland and
gives them all the powers and privileges
they require. The company now con-
trolls 400, 900 square miles in Mantabele-
land and Mashonaland.
1t is reported that post norton
examination of Daniel Mummert, who
recently died in Adams county, Penn
sylvania, found his stomach literally
alive with lizards. He has been suffer
ing for some time with what the doc
tors called pulmonary consumption. A
short time ago he was seized with viO-
lent ft of vomiting and threw up six
small lizards. He gradually sank and at
his death an examination was held with
the aforesaid results 1t is said that he
travelled about a good deal, frequently
drinking from roadside springs, and it
is thought that he swallowed the lizards
in the water, though no theory is adj
vanccd as to how the lizards managed
to resist the action of the gastric Juices
and to escape sInothering.
Something Good.
Little Marjorie is by no means fond
of going to church. She has TO sit too