The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS

i 1t Is reported that a trenchman has
| invented an electric mosquito bar which
| electrocutes insects which come in con-
tact with it.
| A cheerful temper, joined with in
nocence. will make beauty attractive
| knowledge delightful and wit good ma
tured.-Addison.
| The French colonies are exceed
| ingly expensive to the home govern
ment, the outlay far exceeding both
the income and commercial gains re-
| sulting from their trade
| Who has not experienced how, on
nearer acquaintance, plainness becomes
beautitied. and beauty loses its charm,
according to the quality of heart and
mind?-Fredrika Bremen.
| -Hardup-''I wish this was the North
Pole. with nights six months long
Chasup 'Why?" Hardup-'So that
could tell my creditors to call again
tomorrow. Halo.
i don't see how they expect to be
happy" why, they lik4 the same
books same plays and music and -
so yes but she likes vanilla zee cream,
and he strawberry Inter Ocean.
-'Toodle had narrow escape at the
reception. He came near losing his head
| from hattery" That's always the wa
| with him. All his chances for luck h,
loses. Inter Ocean. SG
The COLONY of New Hampshire waJ
for many years dependent of Massa-
chusetts. Its short line of seacoast was
probably first discovered by Martin
Pring in 1908. 1t was visited by Capt,
John Smith in 1914.
India has 27.OOO,O00 acres in rice.
1S.00O00O in wheat. rs. 10000 in other
food grains. 100000 in sugar cane,
25l.000 in tea. 10000. O00in cotton. ,O0O,-
600 in indigo. 100000 in tobacco.
Doctor. | want to know if you can
pull tooth for me right away?' Doc
tor Certainly; will you want some
thing to kill the pain?" 80 it doesn't
matter; its my husband tooth. Inter
Ocean.
-Mamma-''Didy you ask God tomake
your little brother well, Freddie?"
Freddie-''Well. | should think so. How
could forget it when he has to have
all the playthings while he's sick?"-
Inter Ocean.
st. Augustine, Fla. was sacked and
plundered in 1865 by John Davis, bold
buccaneer. who, with a fleet of seven or
eight vessels. made descent on the
coast of Florida and plundered the city.
The Spaniards there made no resist
ance.
The average rate of travel of storms !
across the country is about six hundred
miles day; some have travelled from
the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic
coast in thirty-siX hours, while others
have taken seven or eight days in cover
ing the same distance.
In real friendship there is always
the knitting of soul to soul the ex-
change of heart for heart. The high
est of all examples of friendship is to
be found in Jesus. and his behavior is
the mirror in which all true friendship
must see and measure itself.-James
Stalker.
The Austrian army. at the close of
1892, consisted of 1,044,000 privates and
$4,000 officers of all ranks: the navSeseH
go officers and 21.O0O seamen. There
were nearly 500 cases of suicide and at
tempted suicide in the army and navy
during the year.-Chicago Army Maya
zine.
Only two strikes were ever known
to occur in Turkey. One was of dosll-
yard laborers in the government en-
ploy for arrears in pay, and the other
was OF cigarettcmakers in government
factories for the exclusion of women.
The dock men got their money and the
women were turned out.
-Nleteorities are growing common in
Australia. One fell in the vicinity of
Pukekohe few weeks ago. but did no
damage. Another that fell during a
thunder storm at Williamstown, Vic |
toria, two days later. proved more de-
structiye, crashing through the roof of
a house and capsizing the chimney.
The statistics of desertions from
the British army seem to indicate that !
the service is not very popular and is |
certainly not growing in favor. Last |
year the desertions cost the nation
100000, and the amount for rewards |
for the capture of deserters in the esti- |
mates for this year is a large increase
wv i"'I fSul' SillCdSo ATlllN Maya |
zine.
According to some recent statistics |
on the cost of living, reprinted in the |
Scientific American, an Englishman |
spends, on an average. S4S a year for |
food; Frenchman, S47; German. $40: |
a Spaniard, 1913; an Italian, S24, and a |
Russian, S23. OF meat, the Englishman
eats 100 pounds a year; the Frenchman.
eighty-seven; the German. sixty-four:
the Italian, twenty-six, and the Rus
sian, fifty-one. OF bread. the English
man consumes $50 pounds the French
man, 540 the German, $780, the Spaniard. |
$50; the Italian, 400; and the Russian,
635 ---rS- s
The earth's inha bitants number |
1,479, T29, 900. OF this horde s26 100000 |
live in Asia, 357 600, 900 in Europe. 1914
100000 in Africa and 122 800. 900 in North |
and South America In the United |
States there are 66,O00,000 people, or
about twenty-five people to every square
mile. In all America the rate is eight
persons to the square mile in Europe
it is ninetyfour, in Asia forty-seyen,
and in Africa fourteen. If this is so
think how queerly and unevenly we
are distributed in towns. as in New
York. where hundreds and hundreds of