The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-06
MiSCELLANEO

at Tenby in that year.
safely Through Another Week
was written by John Newton. 1t was
originally intended for Saturday
| night service. and has been materially
altered to adapt it to Sunday.
-Perugino is noted for the remark
able versatility of his style. This was
due to the fact that he moved from city
! to city. and wherever he went he adopted
the style that was popular in that place
20 might my lot be cast with these
Is part of hymn by Charles Wesley on
the primitive church. 1t had originally
thirty verses. Many of Wesley's hymns
We're very long, some having forty or
fifty stanzas.
| -Leadville was called California
Gulch from 1859 to 1864. 1t was then a
gold-producing point, and from 1864 to
! 1876 was almost abandoned. The dis
covery of the great beds of carbonate
gave it new life.
A spoonless mustard pot is recent
invention. BY pressing a piston rod in
an air-tight receptacle the requisite
spout mustard is forced through suit
able spout. The air being excluded, the
mustard is always fresh.
The public building of Philadel-
phia, when finished, will have the high5
est tower on any building in the world.
1t will be 537 feet high. The building
covers four acres, and will be finished
next year at a cost of Sl0.O00.000.
Ben Jonson was the Bricklayer,
from his occupation. He was also des-
| ignated Father Ben, Honest Ben, Old
Ben, Rare Ben, Young Horace, the En-
| glish Juvenal. the Father of Poets, the
Soul of Numbers and the English Cory
phaeus.
Well Worth the Winning. -Albino
| Lady-"The Armless Wonder looks so
happy! He must have won his philo-
pena from the Fat Lady. What was
the forfeit, anyway?" Wild Man of
Borneo-''A box o gloves, b'lieve. -
Puck.
Landlord of Bulls Head Ito Gus
| toner who has rendered him a bad
| t1orin)-"I knows as how you're the
cove as steals my pewter pots. but hang
me if it amt adding insult to injury tC
bring EN- back by installments. Lon
| don Spare Moments. 'tl
bismarck is credited with having
recently said: My trust in man. my
trust in the future. rests in the atti-
| tude of German women. The convic-
! ton of a woman is not so changeable
1t forms slowly and not easily, but
once formed it is less easy to shake"
The railroads of the country carry
| in year 600, 900, 600 passengers and
transport 500, 5000 tons of freight
| The earnings from freight business are
| about three times greater than from
| passenger business. The railroads of
| the United States earn, from all sources
of revenue, about $1,000 900, 900 in a
| year.
The greatest known depth of the
| ocean is midway between the islands of
| Tristan d Acunah and the mouth of
| Rio de la Plata. The bottom was here
| reached at d depth of 46, 236 feet, or
| eight and three-fourths miles, exceed
| ing by more than II 900 feet the heighth
| of Mt. Everest, the loftiest mountain
in the world. The average depth of all
| the oceans is from -, 900 to $4,000 feet.
An ingenious inventor has provided
himself with a pair of bicycles for his
| feet. The wheels are about four inches
i'll diameter and are strapped to his
feet like skates. They have rubber
| tires and glide over the concrete pave
ment with great ease. They are very
superior to the common roller skates
and the owner moves along almost as
fast as the bicyclist.
| Jamaica long Island has lately
been invested by a Jack the IIugger,
who was brought to bay the other
evening hv a Miss RemSen. He threw
| his arms around her in a dark part of Il
etreet as she was walking toward her
home. when she suddenly did the same
for him and yelled the high c forte in
| staccato style. The gentleman who
| captured him land who also gave
him very nice little thumping) recog-
nized him as Michael Ferrao, "a young
barber of the place. When it comes to
hugging-well, he isn't in it just now
| Attendants of all sorts in the law
| libraries of this town acquire a note
| worthy acquaintance with the dates
and uses of law books. This is true
even of the boys, whose duty is merely
to fetch and carry, while the librarians
come to know constitutions, statutes.
and even decisions almost by heart.
| William Winters. of the Law institute
| library, is. perhaps, the most famous
for his knowledge of law books, but
there are others who can pick out a
| needed volume almost instantly from
among thousands, and can name at call
the date and compiler of the latest re-
vision of laws in any state of the Union.
| One hundred years ago Benjamin
| Franklin left bequeSt of $1,000 to the
city of Boston, the same to be held in
trust. the interest each year to be
added to the principal until the end of
| the century. 1t now amounts to $780,
600. One hundred thousand of this. by
the terms of the will, must be rein
vested and allowed to accumulate for
another hundred years. The other
$3.50, 900 Boston will apply to the build
inc of an industrial school. The $780,
600 ought to amount to a very good
sized fortune at the end of one hundred
years At per cent. compound in
terest the school boys ought to find in
this Il good example,
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