The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-10-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

and was countenanced by several papal
bulls.
Emery comes from Naxos, Greece.
They exported $500 tons in 1862. Havre
and Hamburg were the distributing
points.
| Two s.-Waddle-"A woman
who wears dress like that one yon-
der can have no sense of fitness" Mrs.
Waddle-'I should say not. Why, it
must draw under the arms fearfully."
Truth
| isn't there money in this idea?'
said man. 81 mean the invention of
a metal that would wear black clear
through and could be used for eyelets,
for hooks on lace shoes, for umbrella
snaps, and for many other uses
| CT am surprised, Bobby" said his
father, reprovingly, ''that you should
strike your little brother. Don't you
know that it is cowardly to hit one
smaller than yourself?" Then why
do you hit me, pa?" inquired the boy,
with a pronounced air of having the
better oft.
On the plateaus of our southwest
ern border states the most furious
whirlwinds often fail to raise the sand
more than few feet above the level
of the plain till suddenly, perhaps an
hour after the crisis of the storm, great
columns rise to height of 100 yards
and swaying from side to side, waltz
about like tipsy giants.
-KillikiniclI, or kinikinick, which
the Indians are in the habit of mixing
with tobacco, is rapidly becoming ex.
tinct Several plants have received
this name. but they have no right to
it. The true herb is the inside bark OF
young willow, and, when smoked
alone, makes mild and pleasant
smoke.
BELL telephones fell off in mum.
Der in August 1916, a very remarkable
proof of retrenchment among business
men. Last April the net output of in
! struments was 1,712 over the same
month in 1892, and this or a like in.
crease had been maintained for many
months. In May, June and July the
net output showed a small loss from
the same months last year, and in Au
gust came a loss of 3,945 instruments
| No better indication could be given OF
the large number of persons forced to
sudden economics. -Philadelphia Press
Those pretty little baskets OF
woven wood, sold throughout this
country and Canada wherever semi
civilized Indians are found, were once
characterized not only by simplicity OF
form, but also of color, because the
Indians manufactured their own dyes
Now, however, the Indian basket
| 4l., nl I -
commerce, and the baskets glow in all
the colors of the rainbow. The best
and prettiest baskets now are those
left in the natural color of the wood.
| Wherever drinkables are sold"
said man, 1.-The price of beer is five
cents, and doubtless any attempt to
raise it would be resented with indig
nation. There is one thing sold on
street stands that bears the same rela
ton to the fruits and other things sold
| there that beer does to the other drink
ables, and that is peanuts. Whatever
the prices of the other things may be,
whether dearer or cheaper than else
where, the price of peanuts is every
where the same, five cents pint
. The amount of water passing over
Niagara Falls must, of course, vary
with the season. A scientist, who has
spent much time and labor in making
careful estimates, says that the aver
age amount that tumbles over the great
cataract for every minute day and
| night, year in and year out" is
$4,000, 600 cubic feet. Allowing 62h
pounds to the cubic foot. this would
give a total of 500, 800 tons of water per
| minute. About twO-thirds of the whole
passes over that portion known as the
| Horseshoe Falls
The Savoy was noted palace which
once stood in London, all remains OF
which We're removed upon the building
of Waterloo bridge. The Savoy was
built on ground granted to Peter, earl
of Savoy, and magnificently rebuilt by
Henry, first duke of Lancaster, it hav.
ing been purchased by Queen Eleanor
There lived the captive King John OF
France, who died there in 1864. The
| poet Chaucer was married in the SAVOY
to Philippe de Ruet. The palace was
destroyed by the rebels under Wat
Tyler in 1881, but was rebuilt as hos.
pital by Henry VII. Part of the Savoy
was used as prison.
The first orphan house in the United
States was the Charleston Orphan Asy-
lum, chartered in 1890 In 1907 the
Orphan Asylum society of the city of
New York and st. Stephens Female
Orphan Asylum of Philadelphia were
chartered. The former owes it's origin
to Joanna Bethune, and was organized
in 1906. For twenty years afterwards
no other orphan asylums were estab-
lished in our country. One was founded
at Annapolis, Md, in 1928, and since
1910 they have rapidly increased. In
1876 their number was a little over 400
Besides these there are homes for the
friendless, Juvenile asylums, industrial
schools, refugees for the tempted, and
in 1858 a Children's Aid society was
esta blished in the city of New York,
which is doing a vast amount of good
THAT curious quality of considera-
ton for the rights of others evinced by
the travelling Englishmen | saw exem-
plitied the other day" said the tourist
just back from his overland trip. "One
fthe passengers in the Pullman sleeper
| of the train eastward bound from Cali