The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

only partly Supported by the city. but
the sum donated amounts to $780,
: AT small village in Kent, south
England, twenty shirts are annually
given away to deserving poor persons
| We take greater pains to persuade
others that we are happy than in en-
deavoring to be so ourselves. told
smith.
In England, France and Germany
the ratio of multiple births is 10 twins
per 1000; 100 triplets and $ quadru-
lets per 1000, 900 births.
1t is not what a man earns-not
| the amount of his income, but the re-
lation of his expenditures to his re-
ceipts that determines his poverty or
wealth. Anon.
I'm Paris, by an ordinance of the
senate recently passed, women who
stand Independently at the head of
mercantile business have a right to
vote in the election of trade arbitrator.
/ e--Clerk-'1 don't think you will be
J able to wear this collar. You can't
stretch your neck up like that all the
time" Its exactly what | want, I'm
going to the theater tonight" w..
| Human nature is not so much de-
PRAYED as to hinder us from respecting
goodness in Others though we our
| selves want it. We love truth too we'll
+, to resist the charms of sincerity
| Steele.
While young hoard up great stock
of knowledge, though in that season of
dissipation you may not have occasion
to spend much of it; yet time will
come when you will need it to main
tain ou.-Chesterfeld.
The Montana Stockgrowers' asso-
! citation has adopted resolution pro-
viding for the employment in each
roundup, from June to November, in
elusive, of an expert wolf poisoner, the
expense to be divided pro rata among
! the stockmen.
The total coinage, gold and silver,
| the total coinage of the reign OF Vic
! toria up to 1892 was G544, 100, 900, of
which e312 800, 600 were of gold and
2231, 500, 600 of silver.
The three or four weeks old Crown
Prince of Bulgaria has been made
Prince of Tirnowo, Duke de SAKE,
knight of two orders and honorary chief
of the Fourth infantry, the Fourth cav
airy and the Third artillery regiments.
1t is said that the Historical soci-
, ETY. of Pennsylvania has the most COM
/ plete collection of American colonial
laws in the United States. 1t was
made by Charlemagne Towers and in
cludes the laws of the Danish and Brit
fish West Indies
| yellow corn meal is sold to the
Italians of New York, though few
others of the inhabitants consume it,
unless, indeed, southern-bred negroes
retain their taste for corn pone The
Italians make of it polenta, an agree
able but soggy dish, beyond the digest
tive powers of any stomach save one
long Injured to garlic and onions.
in the museum of ivory collected
, by the Princess Maud of Wales are to
be found tusks of wild boars shot by
the ear of Russia and sent to enrich
her collection, the tusks of elephants
shot by her father and uncles, and the
teeth of allig ators, sharks, walruses,
seals and lions.
There was a general falling off in
the customs and excise duties collected
in all the British Australasian colonies
during last year with the sole excep-
ton of New Zealand. In New Zealand
the revenue increased 0. 81 per cent. In
New South Wales it decreased 10. So per
| cent: in Victoria 1920 per cent: in
South Australia, 1881 per cent; in
Western Australia, 1854 per cent; in
Tasmania, 9.74 per cent, and in Queens
land, 0.53 per cent.
The report of archaeological dis
coveries in the San Jnan Valley is
something that has been expected for
| long time past 1t was known to
few persons that there were interest
ing unexplored cliff dwellings there,
and doubtless many have had the mat
ter in mind. The San Juan region is
separated from civilization by rough
country, and the approach, whether
by way of Colorado from the east or
through Utah from the north and
west, is difficult. The region lies in
the southeastern corner of Utah.
Book thieves of the utmost APP
parent responsibility haunt the large
book stores of New York, and it is not
long since a venerab BILE gray-halred man
was arrested in a publishing house
with a satchel full of new books just
stealthily removed from the counters.
He had been Systematically robbing
the house for some months. 1t known
at one of the richest and most notable
clubs in New York that a few mem
bers make practice of cutting illus
trations from books in the library,
while doubtless every club that has a
library is despoiled of its books by it's
own members.
The district of Whitechapel, Lon
don, is rapidly ceasing to be, as it is
generally considered, a distinctively
Cockneypopulated locality. In 1891
one in every five inhabitants of the
district was foreigner, and since then
there has been a great influx of for
eigners, mostly Russians and Russian
Poles More than two thousand of
these foreigners settled in the district
during last year, driving out almost as
many Londoners. The birth rate in
Whitechapel is Al, as compared with