The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-18
MlSCElLANE

The first public library in modern
Europe was founded by Nicholas Mic
coli, a Florentine, in the fifteenth CEN
fury.
If foreign visitors to the United
States wish to see our standing army,
they will do we'll to look into the horse
cars and elevated cars morning and
evening.
What makes you think she is
looking upon your suit more favor
ably?" when she came into the par
Tor last night she spoke to me before
a"e did to Fido. Inter Ocean.
The cost of the worlds wars since
Che Crimean war has been $13, 2G5, 000,-
coo, or enough to give $40 gold piece
to every man, woman and child on the
globe.
Newton abandoned the idea of pub
fishing several of his works for fear
of criticism. They were left in manu-
script and were published after his
death.
DO you believe that practice al
ways makes perfect?' mo; it hasn't
made anything but a row ever since
that idiot upstairs commenced with
his flute. Inter Ocean. ...
-Professor-"And now, my boy,
what is your ambition in life-the law,
the ministry, politics, science
Johnny-"Ef / can't be captain |
wanter be half-back. ''-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Bessie, how many sisters
has your new playmate?" Bessie-"He
60
by saying that he had two half-sisters,
but l guess that he didn't know that
! studied fractions. IN. Y. Sun.
An absent-minded man boarded the
express for Boston, and in d half reverie
greeted young man who sat in front
Of him: Good morning, Willie. How's
your father?" 1t was his own SON.
Harper's Bazaar
Tive been looking for my hus-
band for the last two hours, " said an
agitated woman to a calm one. Don't
be excited, madam replied the latter
eve been looking for husband for
the last twenty-five years. Wrappers
Bazaar.
Statistics just issued show that
during the past year but twenty-one
passengers and nine employees, thirty
persons in all, were killed in railroad
accidents in Great Britain and Ireland.
In the same period nearly 900, 000,0 600
passengers were carried.
"A single match requires from
1-200th to 1-100th of grain of phospho-
rus for its production, vet the consump-
ton of matches is so large that it is
estimated that the total of 200 tons
is less than the amount consumed in
Europe in their manufacture.
"A woman mail carrier, Rose Shell
ley, carries the mail regularly between
Dexter and Goshen, an eighteen mile
stretch of lonesome road, in Lane
county, Ore. Early or late, snow or
shine, she makes the trip and no stress
of weather or fear of road agents has
vet interfered with her performance of
her duty.
Cinnamon in southern California
are taking to cycling for business
transportation. Quite a number of
Chinese in San Jose and Los Angeles
own wheels and use them in going
about for orders and delivering goods.
They have found using a bicycle pays
in the time saved and the wider circle
OF customers gained.
The Russian authorities have in
tervened in behalf of the nightingale.
The police of Kew found some bird
catchers who were IN their way to
Moscow with 600 nightingales in cages.
The bird catchers were captured and
fined, and their little victims were
taken to the Botanic gardens and re-
leased. 1t is said they rose in the air
in song, which was responded to by the
other birds around.
The great oaks in Waverly, Mass.
are survivals of an oak forest that
must have existed in that region ac-
cording to the biologists. as far back
as the tenth century. They bear every
evidence of great age, and an elm tree
in the neighborhood is now almost dis
mantled with its great limbs lying
around on the ground. Only one other
oak tree in New England is known that
can be compared with them; that is
located at Ipswich, and is larger and
more venerable than the Wakerly oaks.
The so-called Russian thistle.
which has become such pest in the
northwestern states, is not properly
a thistle at ALL but an annual, nearly
allied to the saltworts. 1t has done
more than $4,000, 900 damage to the
crops last year. 1t was accidentally
introduced seventeen years ago in
some flaXseed imported from Russia
by man in Scotland S. d. 1t is esti-
mated that it will cyst fully 81, 900, 600
to eradicate it, and the department of
agriculture has been appealed to to
take the matter in hand.
James Farren, an eighty-four-vea
old hunter of Jackson county, Wash,
came back from trip in the noun
tains a few days ago bearing good
sized cougar skin. He was hunting
for bear, so he says when the cougar,
whose hide measures just seven feet in
length, appeared in his path. He
hadn't much ammunition, and wanted
it all for the bears, whose tracks he
was following SO he snatched up a
piece of rock and hurled it at the cOu-
gar. 1t struck the animal on the head.
stunning it, and before it could recover
Farren jumped upon it and slit its
throat with his knife.