The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

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lings month, a knight "a 10, a field
marshal els.
An Italian laborer has soup in the
morning, soup, bread and potatoes at
dinner, bread, wine and macaroni for
supper.
-Dressmakers in France in 1870 av
eraged nineteen pence a day in wages;
| fiower-makers, embroiderers, lacemak-
ers and laundresses averaged twenty
i eight pence.
The food of working people in Hol-
land is mainly potatoes, vegetables,
| beans and peas. With the exception of
| horse flesh, fresh meat is a rarity.
! "A Definition. -Teacher-"What is
the feminine of man, Thomas"'
Thomas Teacher-"And
the feminine of gentleman Thomas
| unhesitatingly)-"Du de!"-Puck.
| Napoleon once called attention to
bright star he saw shining in his
room, and said: 1T never deserted me.
! see it on every great occurrence urg-
ing me onward. 1t is my unfailing
omen of success"
If wife in India is abandoned by
her husband, she waits eight years if
he has gone on a pilgrimage, six if he
went to study and three if he travelled
fof} pleasure, and then is legally di-
), vorced and may remalry at her pleas
ure.
doctor, do you think that the Gig
arctic habit really affects the brain?'
DOctor-"That is question that will
probably never be answered" so,
doctor, why?'' "Well, a man of brains
has never been discovered smoking
one."-Inter Ocean
-Madam-"Well, Mary, what do you
think of the pictures at the academy?'
Mary-"O, mum, there was a picture
there called Two Dogs after Land
seer, but looked at it for nearly half
an hour and | couldn't see no Land
seer. Spare Moments.
In the shifting movement of this
restless country some people yet have
been content to abide by the ancestral
roof tree DR. George Adam died at
Canaan, Conn, at the age of 81 years,
in the same house in which he was
born, and in which he had lived all his
life.
Two men uprooting peach trees on
the farm of Mrs Richard Diehl, near
Chestertown, Md, on the eastern shore,
unearthed the other day an iron pot
containing a hundred and fifty dollars
in old coin and an Open-face silver
watch, doubtless the forgotten treasure
of some one who buried it when many
persons were boarding coin during the
| tod of i,,H 40
Those South American medals and
decorations that await some officers of
the United States navy were doubtless
actually manufactured in New York or
possibly in Paris. The South Ameri-
can republics go abroad for nearly all
such things, bank notes and even coins
included, and New York does larger
share of the work than any other city
of the United States
Although the curfew perhaps never
passed the Alleghenies, something
=, nearly its equivalent used to prevail in
~, JishoD. q. the county, seat of
Columblana county. The stroke of
nine on the court house bell was gem
orally accepted as indicating the hour
for closing shops and for fastening
homeWard. The lives of many families
We're regulated by the bell, and the
younger members in particular We're
held to account when they reached
home long after its stroke of nine.
Women lecturers on labor topics
are novelty on the Pacific coast, and
much interest is aroused in Oakland
over the fact that in course of lee
| l111la,. Ia hn- union
women lectured on the labor problem
as women see it Women of the Pacific
coast ere only now beginning to join
the labor unions, and the accession of
three lady cigarmakers'' to the ranks
of Federal Labor union of Oakland a
few days ago, was made the occasion
of an enthusiastic demonstration.
California prospers apace. At the
close of last year the state had popu-
lation of 1900 600, and since 1850 the
assessed value of property has just
doubled. She has the largest per
capita wealth of any state in the
Union, and her savings banks now
have on deposit S13S, 900, 600. She ranks
first among the states in the produc-
ton of gold wine, honey, oranges, al
monds and walnuts, and is running
close to first on many other products.
Last year her mines yielded gold to the
value of S13, 900, 900, and other precious
metals to the value of 1000 600 San
Francisco is now the leading whaling
port of the world.-N Y. Sun.
One of the most ingenious expedi-
, ents for overcoming the difficulties of
! sinking shafts for mining or other pur-
poses in wet measures is the 'freeZ-
, ing process" Surprising that the bot
tom of the shaft is so continuously
flooded that the miners are unable to
use their picks or in any way proceed
with the excavation, pipes are run
down from the surface to the flooded
. locality, and through these pipes is
forced a powerful freezing mixture.
The consequence is that the impeding
water becomes solicited, and the work.
mau can quarry his way through the
, ice, which now becomes protection
, from the body of water beyond, and
, the sinking of the shaft can be con-
tinued.
Rare Egyptian Antiquities.
IN accordance with a promise an