The Republican., 1892-04-22
MISCELlANE

-Declsive.-A little boy, disputing
with his sister, exclaimed: '"Tis true,
tor ma says so; and if ma says so, it is so
IT 1t amt so. Once Week.
EDITORS Wife-"Before you go to
the Office | have long story to tell
you" Editor-"We arc going to have a
crush tonight; boil it down to about
two hundred words. N. Y. Herald.
Soda water is an American drink Il
Is as essentially American as porter.
Rhine wine and claret are distinctively
English, German and French. The most
interesting fact in the manufacture of
soda water is that it contains no soda.
Burglars in the town of Sulphur
Rock. Ark, found it very difficult to
open safe in an office they had on.
tered: so they suspended operations un.
til they visited livery stable, from
which they stole a horse and wagon.
They then returned to the safe, placed
1t on the wagon and drove off.
--Snails' eggs absorb moisture. The
most singular thing about them, how
ever, is their marvellous vitality. They
may be burnt in a furnace and thus re-
duced to powder, yet on the application
of moisture they swell and regain their
vitality, Matching out as freely and sue
cessfully as if they had been let alone
Farming in Colorado is done on a
huge scale, as will be inferred from the
following Information furnished by a
Glenwood paper: "E. Nipple, of Spring
Valley. has his ten-mile water ditch
nearly completed. The water is brought
from Devils Den, a few miles from Nyp-
sum Creek. The ditch has been two
years in building"
1t was at Newport. r. l., that the
eminent Bishop Berkeley, and also Sing
bert. the earliest professional portrait
painter in America, resided for awhile.
Daring the American revolution the
town was occupied alternately by the
British, American and French troops
the latter under Rochambeau, having
landed there in 1850.
A Mississippi man who has counted
the number of seeds in a bushel OF
various grains found that corn went
~. l30; wheat. $4,000 peas, 100. 900;
cotton seed. 164. 1866. This item would
have moro value if it stated the kind OF
corn, wheat and peas selected for the
experiment.
A writer in German paper gives
the following as the proper temperatures
for different sorts of beverages: Water,
81 degrees; scltzer water and beer, 81
degrees to 60 degrees; red wine. so de-
grces to 66 degrees: white wine, 60 de-
grecs; champagne, 46 degrees to 80 de
grces: coffee, 73 degrees to 70 degrees:
beef tea. 100 degrees to l25 degrees:
milk. 60 degrees to 64 degrees: hot milk,
81 degrees to 95 degrees.
Various governments pay their
chiefs as follows: The United States
S50,0 year; Persia. $50, 900. 900: Rus
sia, $4,000. 900; Siam, $40. 900, 900; Spain.
$4,000, ,000; Italy, 1000. 900; Great Brit.
ain. So, 100000; Morocco, S2,500. 900: Ja-
pan, $500, 900: Egypt, sl,575. 900: Ger.
many, $1,000, 900; Saxony, 800, 900: Por.
tucal. Sweden and Brazil each 5000. 900
France. 100000; IIayti S240, 900; swift
zerland, 81, 900.
The modern counterpart of the man
who recovered his lost eyes by second
jump into a blamble bush is found in
the person of A. A. Hubbard. of Stctson.
The other day Hubbard dislocated his
shoulder by falling from an OK cart, and
while ON the way to a neighboring law.
ycr's the horse twitched the sleigh in
some way so that the shoulder was
forced back into its original position.
The first printing press in the United
States began its civilized work at Cam.
bridge. Mass, in Harvard University, in
1863. The first American-made ill,> ira
ton. ii is believed, is in Tully's Alma nc
OF Boston, in 1893. The first American
copper-plate portrait published in this
country was in Increase Mather's "Icha.
bod, published in l703. The first three
engravers were Paul Revere. Benjamin
Franklin, and Isaiah Thomas, who dis
tinguished himself al the battle of Lex.
ington.
The inhabitants of Rat Portage.
Ont, are very anxious to have the name
of their town changed. Its growing
Importance. they think, demands for il
more 1ignifcd and delicate name. and
their pride and cultured ears arc hurt
by the appellation of Rat Pol'tagel,,, by
which they are known. Petitions for a
change have been sent to the authori-
ties, and the names suggested by the
petitioners include Van Horn, Sylvana,
Minncsobie, and Sultana The latter is
much favored. but the Rat Portagers
evidently do not see the danger of their
staid citizens being known a. Sultanas.
An Epic In Embroidery.
Probably The only epic in embroidery