The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-12-14
MISCELLANEOUS.


The only way to change the Loop
ards spots is to tan his hide.
-Dimity was invented at Damietta,
a city which gave its name to the goods.
Lawn is fine linen bleached on the
lawn instead of the ordinary drying
ground.
-Astrology refuses to die out. An
astrological paper just started testifies
to its prosperity.
"A fur cloak on exhibition at the
worlds fair is worth S17,500. 1t is
made entirely of tails of the Russian
sable.
but, officer, we promised to meet
| a gentleman on this corner, and we
should like to be permitted to stand
here a little longer Cant listen to
We, sor. We've got strict ordhers to
kape the corners clane; an if yez want
to mate yer frind here, yez'n have to
| go somewhere ilse. boston Courier.
1t is estimated that since the build
| Ing of the famous Tower of Babel there
have been l, 800 distinct languages and
| 8, 500 colloquial or 5000 different forms
of speech. At the present time 600 of
the primary languages are dead, leav-
| ing 900 spoken all over the earth, with
| $500 colloquials
| -Silas Holbrook, of East Harpswep,,
| Me-, was out in boat with his dog
The animal discovered that the boat
was badly leaking, the plug having
been removed from the opening in the
| bottom. After placing its paw over
the hole, to stop the leak, it directed
the attention of Mr.. Holbrook to the
matter, and maintained its position
until the plug was found and replaced.
| Interesting relics of dead and gone
| Indian tribes are the great mounds of
oyster shells formed along the seashore
in southern Delaware. According to
local tradition, the Nanticokes of Penn
| sylvania were in the habit of winter
ing along the seashore in lower Della
ware and of eating enormous quantities
of oysters. The shells testify to the
! appetites of the Nanticolzes, and many
| Indian implements are found in the
mounds.
The very first steam locomotive
constructed in America was made by
the Kembles Company, of West street,
| New York, in 1S30-31. This pioneer
| American triumph of the mechanic s
art was shipped by sailboat from the
manufacturers shops to Charleston, S.
| c., where it was put together and first
used on short freight road between
| the city last named and small place
called Hamburg.
The title of elector is peculiarly
German, being found, in the same
sense, nowhere outside the limits of
the German states. They were so
called because in the thirteenth CEN
fury seven princes, the king of Bohe-
mia, the archbishops of Mentz, Treves
and Cologne, and the rulers of Bran
denburg and Saxony and the Palatine
assumed the privilege of electing the
emperor. An eighth elector, Bavaria,
was admitted to the circle in 1913, and
a ninth Hanover, in 1892.
-Grocers everywhere assert that
there is little or no profit in retailing
sugars, and housekeepers confirm this
by saying that there is small economy
in buying sugar by the keg. The ira
dition touching the small profit in
handling sugars at retail is certainly
more than 100 years old, for a writer in
the middle of the last century affirmed
that London grocers of that day were
often out 600 to $40 year for paper
and pack thread used in wrapping up
sugar, and some grocers would not sell
sugar to customer who did not at the
same time purchase some other article.
When John Howard Payne, the
author of Home, Sweet Home" died
in Tunis in 1852, the government owed
him S205.92 salary as consul at that
| place. 1t has been owing it ever since.
Payne's heirs are now trying to get
| congress to make an appropriation
to discharge the obligation. If com
pound interest should be reckoned on
the sum for the forty-one years that
have elapsed, the heirs of the poet
would receive a comfortable fortune.
| However, the bill that has been intro
duced for their relief only appropri-
| ates the amount of the original claim,
s205. %. which is not enough to fight
over The government does not allow
! interest on unclaimed money left in
| its possession.
| Fashions change in flowers as they
do in clothing, gems, plays, novels and
| dogs. A florist who does large bust
ness was asked if he had any orchids
Got couple at my greenhouse in the
country" he answered, but it's no
use having them here in town, for
| they're hard to raise and nobody wants
them. Cranks on orchids collect them
and pay fancy prices for them, but
| there is no call for the commoner vari-
cites. Begonias and crotons, and all
those fancy-leaved plants, too, sell
very rarely now, though there was
time when people couldn't get enough
| Chrysanthemums are ready sellers, but
| the fashion seems to be setting in for
green things-palIns, ferns, lycopo-
dunn. rubbers selaginella and such"
| The Missouri court of appeals has
sustained verdict for damages against
| St Louis hotel for the loss of a coat
and hat which a guest left in charge of
an attendant at the dining-room door.
| The coat and hat were stolen or deliv-
| cred in mistake to another guest while
| the owner was at dinner The hotel pro-
| pretors pleaded they had provided a
| GOA t-rOOrn whore checks Vpre cyiven for