The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-05-31
MISCELLANEOUS,

ing India, had a population OF 5000, 000;
now it is II, 400, 900.
Young man, you can't reach the
vice presidency by taking stock IN vicei
Young Mems Era.
Russia has two vassal states in
Asia, Bokhara and Khiva. Both are
really governed by Russian residents.
The Spanish colonization period
began with the discovery of America,
and the first colony was Hispaniola.
Zanzibar is under the protection of
Great Britain, though the government
is administered in the name of the
sultan.
The British governor of Hong Kong
receives a salary of $4,000 a year,
with $1,000 additional added as a able
allowance.
Dwell not too long upon sports;
for as they refresh a man that is
weary, so they weary man that is re-
freshed.
Important reforms were effected
in the charitable institutions of En-
gland as a result of the satirical writ
ings of Charles Dickens.
In 1929 there was formed an Aus
trian colonization society and company
to establish trade with the east, but
nothing was accomplished.
The man who can not wonder, who
does not habitually wonder and wor-
ship, is but pair of spectacles behind
which there is no eye. -Carlyle.
Power will intoxicate the best
hearts, as wine the strongest heads,
No man is wise enough, nor good
enough, to be trusted with unlimited
power.-Colton.
India is, in every sense of the word
crown colony. The governor gen
eral, in council, has power to make
laws for all persons-British, natives
or foreigners-in the Indian territories.
AS to being known much by sight,
and being pointed at, | can not COM
prehend the honor that lies in that
Whatever it be- every mounteban has
it more than the best doctor.-Cowley.
The use of Australia as a convict
ground was strongly objected to by
the population as soon as the country
was occupied by actual colonists, and
the transportation system was given
up in 1851.
Holland gets more profit from her
colonies, in proportion to their size and
population, than any other colonizing
country. Almost the whole trade of
the Dutch colonies is with the mother
country.
When thy brother has lost all that
he ever had, and lies languishing and
even gasping under the utmost ex-
tremities of poverty and distress, dost
thou think to lick him whole again
only with thy tongue?-South.
Cutting off the ears of cats level
! with the head and removing with
scissors the surrounding hairs will
! keep cats out of the woods Drops of
water will fall in the ear, and after
one experience the cat never wants
another.
United States Consul Lastremski,
at Callao, Peru, who has been concern
ing himself with the problem of better
ing the trade regulations between the
United States and the nine million
people on the west coast of South
America, ascribes to inadequate means
of transportation the present small
trade relations, and gives some remark
able figures to prove how great is the
I discrimination in favor of Europe and
against the United States under the
present system.
The University Club in Boston has
| decided - build new set of apart
ments consisting of parlor and din
ing room into which women will be ad.
( mitted, while the precincts of the club
itself will be exclusively for masculine
use as heretofore. These new apart
ments are to be in the basement, under
! the deck" on the water side. This
/ deck is wide piazza extending across
I the rear of the club house, but com.
handing a fine view of the river, and
very breezy and comfortable in sum.
mer.
| Col. Fred Grant has promised, it is
! said to accompany the Burgesses'
Corps. of Albany, or its projected trip
i to Japan. All guests will be military
and in uniform, and act as the staff OF
the commandant. The corps will cross
the continent on a special train and
| have steamer to itself; and for ten
days on shipboard, if the weather per-
mits, hard drilling will be done to put
| the command in shape for an exhibit
ton drill before the Mikado. The pres
ident of the corps, Col Elliott F. Dan.
forth, visits Washington shortly to OBJ.
tain the cooperation of the state de,
| partment.
| Hundreds of mirrors have been
ruined by lamps being placed close to
them to assist in toilet purposes, and
the average glass seems to be eXcep-
| tiOnally mean in respect of tempera.
ture. Of late years lamp glasses have
been made by secret process which
makes them so tough that, even if
touched with a red hot iron, they will
seldom crack. Now an inventor has
gone a step farther and has produced a
| glass which will stand greater heat,
without bending or breaking, than
iron If this can be put on the market
on a commercial basis it will promptly
| revolutionize our ideas of building and
enable much larger panes of glass to be
used than is practicable now.
Australia is greatly perturbed over
the emigration movement to Paraguay.
The government of Paraguay has given
| nearly 500 600 acres of good land for