The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-03-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

Gertrude was nrst used among the
Germans and means All Truth.
New York owns one-fourth of tho
commercial shipping of the United
States.
One of the greatest troubles man
kind experiences is how not to say
what it desires to y.-Milwaukce
Journal.
| Ancestry. -Dude-"My ancestaws
| came ovah in the Mayfower, don't you
know?' Bluff-''As ballast?'-Detroi5
Free Press.
Polite Gentleman lin street cary
'Take my seat, madame" Lady
| "Never mind, thank you. L get out
here, too.-N. Y. Weekly.
-Colored population of the United
States in 1890, according to race-per-
sons of African descent 7,470, 040: Chi
nese, 107. 415; Japanese, 2, 039; civilized
Indians IS, sos: total 1888, 800.
The most changeable period of
feminine fashion was in France be-
tween the outbreak of the revolution
and the restoration in 1915. During this
time $50 different styles are recorded.
| Mandy Lands sal1es, Josiah,
these city folks are awful plain
spol1en!' Josiah - How do you
know?" Mandy-"Didnt you notice
| the gentleman standin by the carriage
we passed." Josiah-"Yes." Mandy
just as got opposite, he said, right
out loud, "A hanson, LADY,"
| -Hoopskirts first appeared in 1880.
An iron cage was prepared and the
skirts We're stretched over it. The cage
was tipped to one side, the lady
| crawled underneath and the cage was
| fastened to her waist by "a strong
leather belt. The cage and skirts some
times weighed as much as forty pounds.
| -Muffs first came into use in 1910.
| They were introduced by doctors who
wanted to keep their hands warm and
soft while riding from the house of
one patient to that of another. The
women adopted them. and the doctors
| at once abandoned the fashion and be-
gan to use great fur gloves instead.
"A National Housekeepers' Eco
| nomic association has been Instituted
for the express purpose of rousing .wo-
men to sense of their responsibility
| not only as housekeepers. but first as
| house builders or as directors of how
| houses should be built in order that
home making may be started upon the
right basis.
| Eight aqueducts supplied ancient
Rome with water, delivering forty mil
| lions of cubic feet daily. That of Clau-
dia was forty-seven miles long and one
hundred feet high, SO as to furnish the
] IF
| which thirtyseven We're on seven thou
sand arches seventy feet high. These
vast erections would never have been
built had the Romans known that
water always rises to its own level.
! Our western cavalrymen are keep
| ing up their reputation for hard riding.
| The Third cavalry travelled in all is, 00G
miles last year, chiefly scouting on the
western border, and one troop of the
regiment & troop, covered as high as
eighty-ive miles in one day, the longest
days march made in 1898 by any sol
| der of the United States army. Last
| years record, seventy-eight miles was
| achieved by the same smart company
in the Cara campaign in southern
| Texas.
Sectional calamities have given OPP
portunity for the Red Cross society to
make itself power in the country.
Into the midst of the desolation
wrought by fires, floods, cyclones and
earthquakes, messengers have gone
with medicine, food, clothing, tents,
lumber and furniture, and, by the
method which is a characteristic of the
associate have done more to restore
comfort and hope than any morgan
| lied efforts could do.
The first printing press esta blished
in America north of Mexico was
brought to this country by Elizabeth
Glover the widow of Rev. Josiah Clio
yer, of Surrey, England, who died on
his way to this country with his wife
and five children. His widow settled
in Cambridge and married President
Dunster the first president of Harvard
college Part of the revenues of the
college were derived from the use of
this printing press and it was upon
this that was printed the famous Indian
Bible of John Eliot.