The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

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If there is any person to whom you
feel dislike, that is the person of whom
you ought never to speak.
-Remorse is mans dread preroga-
tive. Remorse, if we exclude the no
ton of responsibility, is an enigma in
human nature never to be explained.
Isaac Taylor.
How He MAJ red It.-Willis-
''How do you manage to keep in cook
all the time?' Wallace-"O, that's
easy enough. I have standing 'ad.
in a daily paper. Truth.
-Dantes Inferno was not original
in its form. The dream of vision was
then popular style of writing. Sew
eral dreamers had visited both the up
per and the lower regions before Dante
wrote.
-"What l need said the man who
complains, sis a change of climate. y
"Well." replied his friend you stay
right here in Washington for four or
five hours and you'll probably get it. >
Washington Star.
The talent of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do well,
and doing well whatever you do with
out thought of fame. If it comes at
all it will come because it is deserved,
not because it is sought after.-Long-
fellow.
Japanese coal has found its way to
Bombay. A quantity of it was lately
delivered alongside in Bombay harbor
at prices ranging from eleven to twelve
rupees per ton. The great Indian Pen
insula Railway Company is trying
some Of it.
Its funny about Dawson: he
knows exactly how many stars there
are on silver dollar, and Fisl1e
How many are there" 81 don't
remember, and that's why | wanted to
ask you to lend me a dollar. Inter
Ocean.
Whenever cold snap visits Fort
Myers, far down in sub-tropical Flor
ida, the inha bitants, who have no
method of heating their houses, come
out into the streets and keep warm by
sitting round great fires of wood. The
cold snaps are rare, but when they
come everybody, even the northern Wis
itor' is thoroughly uncomfortable, and
poor folks with few and thin garments
really suffer.
In guns the old-style flint locks,
with stocks carved and painted in
colors and with the barrels painted in
peculiar hieroglyphics, are sold to the
Arabs and African tribes in quantities.
The South American takes a dainty
barrel of the smallest gauge, with the
stocks also deliberately carved and or
namented. The European buys gun
eXquisitely finished and inlaid in trac-
ings of gold.
The Emperor DucTu, of Cochin
China, protects his treasures by placing
them in followed trunks of trees,
which float about in a huge tank situ-
ated in the center of the royal palace.
There are twenty crocodiles in the tank
as well. When he wishes to draw upon
this bank, all of the reptiles are killed;
but this cannot take place without the
joint consent of the emperor and his
minister of finance.
The earliest known scale of wages
is that fixed for the whole Roman en-
piiS " titS LIN 'CIOi DlOClCIitil III n
d. 303. A shepherd was to be paid zoe
day; day la orer and a mule driver
received the same as the shepherds: a
baker got 40c, and the same was paid
to the masons and carpenters and
smiths: Stonecutters got SOC and paint
ers soc. brichmaker got 24c per 1000
bricks; sheep shearer got SLIGO per
100 pounds. A common school master
received 60c month for each pupil;
one who taught Greek or geometry, 81
per month. A lawyers fee was S12.
Jacob Stullenger, who lives near
Piedmont w. Va, lost a good many
chickens last November, owing to a
big owls fondness for poultry. He set
a steel fox trap in the top of a cherry
tree, fastening it with wire, to catch
the owl. One night the trap disap-
peared and after that the chickens
were not molested. Stullenger sup
posed the owl would starve with the
trap on his legs, but he was mistaken,
for on the 9th of January the owl was
caught again. twenty miles from Pied
mont, this time by Ebenezer Kitzmil-
Ter. Ebenezer had been annoyed by an
owl since Christmas and set trap for
the bird near the chicken house. The
owl got caught and found two traps
too much baggage to carry away. 1t
had one on each leg.
1t is ever a surprise to the novice
in the painting of human studies to
find out, let his subject be blond or
brunette, the large proportions of blue
he must mix with his white and car
mine colors to produce the natural
tints of the human face divine. Where
this ingredient is lacking, a Chinese
doll effect, unnatural and unpleasing,
is produced. This truth would appear
to be often unappreciated by those
silly women who use paints with the
purpose of identifying the face, though
it may be that the snowy red and white
tints they choose precisely satisfy the
taste of the kind of person who would
thus try to enhance her charms. AT
all events, the woman on the street is
unfortunately frequent whose glar-
ingly pink and white cheeks challenge
attention to their unredeeIled arti-
ficiality.
Annapolis is just about entering
upon her third century as the capital
of Maryland. The earliest capital was