The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-03-01
MISCELLANEOUS,

The marriages with the deceased
wife's sister or husbands brother num-
bered in France, in 1885, 355 per 100, 900
marriages.
One of the most disagreeable duties
of the Hawaiian police is the examina-
ton and arrest of persons suspected OF
having leprosy. ....
Some persons are so busy talking
about what they intend accomplishing
that they never find time to begin
Young Mems Era.
Some men are known by their
words and works; others by the color
of their neekties and the cut of their
clothes. Young Mans Era. ....a o..
-Bobbie-"I got awful toothache."
Jimmie-''Been eatin' candy?" Bobbie
Mo" What made it them" Look
in at the coal that's to be carried in. ?"
Inter Ocean.
-Goldsmith's improvidence caused
him great annoyance. He was more
than once compelled t6 dodge his cred
itors and on at least one occasion was
locked up for debt.
-VirgiPs sore point was the fact
that he could not converse pleasantly.
He often envied the tops of the Roman
court who could talk with ease on the
ordinary subjects of the day. 81. ~
-Glucll's life was made burden by
musical squabbles. He was a peace
able man, but it was his misfortune to
be constantly mixed up in the broils of
his admirers and their opponents.
Little Rock took its name from a
bowlder on the shore. 1t was said to
be the first bit of stone seen by the
early voyagers on their way from the
mouth of the river to that point and so
they named the trading station Little
Rock
From Arizona for three years past
has come the earliest car load of
American raisins shipped east. The
season there is ahead of that of south
ern California and the atmosphere is
peculiarly suited to the curing of rails
ms.
Gen. Booth, in opening the Saliva
ton Army congress in New York No
vember IA, said that during the past
year more than 15,OO0,0 900 persons had
attended the meetings in the halls of
the army and TO- 900 children had been
cared for while their mothers were at
work.
Henry Harrington. aged 65, of st.
Paul, Mimi. has arrived at Hazelton,
Pa, having walked the entire 1,500
miles in quest of work. He left St.
Paul September 30 and arrived at
Wellsboro, Tioga county, December g.,
covering the distance in eleven weeks,
making an average of 1914 miles per
day. ...
Cicero was the greatest book col
lector of antiquity. One of his letters
is eXtant in which he urges Atticus, a
learned friend, who was compelled
from poverty to sell his library at auc-
ton, not to dispose of the books at
public sale, but to keep them until the
writer is able to purchase them, Cicero
adding that he is saving all his rents
for that purpose.
Cato learned Greek at so; Plutarch
Latin at ~; DIR. johnson, a few months
before his death, began to study Dutch;
Chaucers Canterbury Tales" were fin
ished when he was 81; Monaldesco
wrote his memoirs at rs; Cellina his
autobiography at IS; Dryden began
his translation of the ''Iliad'' at 6S:
Franklin began the study of natural
philosophy at 20.
Tom bstone, AriZ, owes its name to
an attempted witticism. When Schief-
ferlin, the discoverer of the mines in
that locality, was starting on his most
successful prospecting tour he told q
friend he was going to discover a
mine this time sure" The friend re-
piled: You'll discover a tombstone"
In recollection of the rejoinder Schief-
ferlin named the mines he found the
Tombstone. ..... .....
New Zealand has twenty-five es-
Establishments in which mutton is
frozen for the British market The
output is some two million fat sheep a
year. The sheep used for this purpose
are chiefly crosses of Merino and
Down, long-wooled breeds. Shrop-
shire Downs and Lincolns are in much
favor for rich, level pastures, while in
hilly and broken situations Border
Leicesters have proved quite success
full for crossing on Merino ewes. b..
Birmingham, Ala, is called the
"Magic City of the South" on account
of its phenomenal growth. Within
easy reach of it is Red Mountain, with
millions upon millions of tons of hem
attic ore and inexhaustible supplies of
limestone and coal. Krupp once said:
SHOULD fate drive me from Germany
] would go to birmingham, Ala" The
London Times once prophesied that it
would become the greatest metal
working city in America. '
-Quacl grass, which is regarded
only as 4 troublesome weed in Europe
and America, is highly esteemed in
Australia. The Australian Agriculture
list says of it: 1T is most valua Die
fodder, thrives on any soil not easily
affected by frost, and is the first to
shoot out green in the spring. Cattle
are very fond of it, the milk produced
by it is of good quality, and the butter
and cheese manufactured from such
milk is generally frst-class article. "
Improving Bulgarian Town.
No European town has been more
conspicuously improved in recent years
than Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria A
series of splendid boulevards has been
cut through the mass of old narrow