The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-12-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

used to being driven with one hand"
The English, Spanish and Aus
tralian governesses of the infantas OF
Spain each receives 81, 900 annual salary
besides home in the royal household
you like" said the young man
at the desk, ''rll nave your poem sub
mitted to the editor" NO" she an
swered positively, ''rll read it aloud to
him. prefer to have the editor sub
mitted to the poem. "-Washington Star.
1t is reported that upon the next
occasion Mr. Gladstone has to be in at
tendance upon her Majesty at Osborne
he will proceed there via Ryde, SO as to
keep as far away from Cowcs as posi-
ble.-Judy.
Little James, four and half years
old, was pointing at COW to a play
mate. "See the bell around her neck, p"
he said; ''do you know what that is for?
That's what she rings when she wants
to tell the calf that dinner is ready"
1t Was Hard on Townley Terri
BILE thing about poor Townley, amt it?
He has had to live on water for the last
week" Don't say so! What's the
matter?' Just got back from abroad.
Took him seven days to cross. Brook
lyn Eagle.
Lake Ronkonkoma, on Long Island,
New York, also another small lake in
the Adirondack region, increase in vol
umc of water for a number of years,
until they are nearly double their aver
agesizc and then they gradually shrink
The cause is not known.
-Pat-"Avast that noise moment,
Nora, while I'm a-listcnin'l" Nora
What We a-listenin' to, Pate" Pat
GIVE just been asliin' myself where I've
laid my pipe, an now I'm a-listening
for the answer."-Harper's Bazaar.
The first tomatoes in Indiana are
said to have been raised by Daniel
Guernsey, of Memphis, in 1880. He i'm
ported the seed from England, his old
home. At first the fruit was thought
to be poisonous, and was planted simply
as an ornament while it was called the
love apple.
In the limited space between Worth
street and the Battery, New York, where
there are many large wholesale houses,
it is stated that 10, 900 women are en-
ployed as typewriters. A single type
writing machine company finds en-
ployment, through its various Offices,
for 5000 women year.
Just before the sermon the other
evening, in a Cambridge Mass church,
the electric lights went out But they
were not initiated in that respect by the
congregation. On the contrary, every
body stayed and listened to the pastor,
while he threw light on the subject he
had chosen for his sermon.
The trainmen on Central Vermont
railroad train found a deer caught in a
wire fence near Pittsford, VT, a short
time ago They succeeded in capturing
the animal uninjured and brought it to
Rutland, VT AS it is against the law
to capture deer in that state at this
season of the year, the trainmen were
forced to take the deer back on the re-
turn trip and set the animal at liberty.
The pottery tree, found in Brazil, is
curious and useful. One would scarcely
expect to find pots and jars and pitchers
growing in, If not on. a tree, but the
material for them certainly grows in
this tree. 1t is found in the form of
silica, chiefly in the bark, although the
very hard wood of the tree also Yields
it. To make this curious pottery the
bark is burned, and what remains is
ground to powder and mixed with clay.
Historically it has been an almost
universal practice since the time of the
Dutch to extend East river to Throg's
Neck, and this practice has been uni
formly followed by the coast survey.
Taking physical view of the matter,
Goldthwaite's Magazine says: Eve may
say that the name East river is a misno-
mer, that instead of being river the
body of water is really a strait. The
strait commences where the tides meet
at He'll Gate"
The year of greatest growth in
boys is the 18th; in girls the l4th.
While girls reach full height in their
18th year, they acquire full weight at
the age of 20. Boys are stronger than
girls from birth to the llth year: then
girls become physically superior until
WIZ avn "HSu thC JdDleS are
again turned, and remain so. From
November to April children grow very
little and gain no weight: from April
to July they gain in height but lose in
weight, and from July to November
they increase greatly in weight, but
not in height
He Took the Boys Part-An immi-
grant from Limerick was taking his
first walk in the woods near his home
in Nottingham when he came across a
boy and man saving a log of wood
with cross-cut saw. He watched the
two for second, pulling and pushing,
and then he suddenly sprang upon the
man. After getting the surprised saw
yer down on his back and frightening
him with the fear of murder, the Hiber-
MAN said to the boy: There now, take
your saw, me boy, and run wild it. It's
spalpane of a man that'll snatch a saw
from a small boy"
A Vancouver furrier was exhibiting
short time ago what he claimed were
the pelts of five white foxes The man
is an expert naturalist, and has been
dealing in furs. in the northwest for
forty years. He says these are the first
white foxes he ever heard of, but he is
absolutely sure the pelts are genuine
fox skins. The conformation has been
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