The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-06-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

knows not how to hold his peace.-Plu-
Idrch.
The sexes were made for each other,
and only in the wise and loving union
of the two is the fullness of health and
duty and happiness to be expected
w. Hall.
-Customer-''I this hair tonic that
you know well Or" Clerk-Well,
should think so. It's been on the shelves
here for the last ten years without ever
being disturbed. Inter Ocean.
In Parvenudom. - Sculptor 81
should think you would like marble
bust of your husband" Mrs. P.-"I
think not; the three-nights-a-wee kind
is enough for me. Detroit Free Press.
Of the presidents of the United
States eight have been of Welsh de-
scent-John Adams, Thomas jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe, William
Henry Harrison, James A. Garfield, Ben
jamin Harrison and John Quincy Adams.
The patents applied for in Wash
ington last year numbered 100000 The
total number of patents outstanding on
January was $4,000. The receipts of
the patent office were $1,000, 900, and
the expenses S150,000 less. New York
stands first in the number of patents
applied for.
The photographic office has issued
a report concerning wrecks and dere-
lets. 1t is estimated that the average
period of drift is thirty days, but notice
is called to the case of the three-masted
schooner Fannie E. Woolston, aban-
dOned October Is, 1891. and last seen on
February 20, 1894, period of $50 days.
during which she drifted 1925 miles,
the longest track of the kind on record.
catherine de Medici. widow of
Henry H., ruled France with absolute
power for many years during the NOM
lnal reigns of her sons, Francis II. and
Charles TX. 1t was under her auspices
that the massacre of st. Bartholomew
was planned and executed. In her last
days she perceived the evil consequences
OF her policy in regard both to the
people and the nobility, and advised
change.
One of the most famous widows of
antiquity was Agrippina, the wife of
NNl lAluhIttto' DllI my IIt lllcllllc VI
her husband she attended him in all
his campaigns and shared his dangers.
SuSpecting that her husband had been
poisoned. she had his presumed muir
derer assassinated, and was herself
soon after treated with such indignity
by Tiberius that she was driven to
despair and starved herself to death.
old Sco+nb l. Il i, !, j., 4 -, ,,,1 ;sl,
for modern church music was express
sing her dislike to the singing of an an
them in her own church one day. when.
a neighbor said: Why, that is very
old anthem, David sang that anthem
to Saul To this the old lady replied:
"Weel, weel. | moo for the first time
understan' why Saul threw his javelin
at Dave when the lad sang for him. -
Presbyterian.
Lady Huntingdon, the illustrious
patron of the Methodists, was a widow
of forty-tive years. She lived to be 90
years old, and retained the vigor 81
middle life almost to the end Her
benevOlenceS We're innumerable, and
she founded number of chapels and
schools for the Methodists Not long
before her death it was estimated that
from moderate income she had ex-
pended over 100000 in public and pri-
vate charity.
Some one who understands human
nature has written the following:
Mother-''l wish you would rake up the
dead leaves in the yard" Small Sammy
1--we got a sprain in my wrist, an
the rheumatism in my back, an grow
ing pains in my right leg, an'-an'
cramps in my left one, an headache,
an toothache." Mother-"After you
have ral1ed the leaves into a pile, you
may set it on fire and jump over it"
Sammy "Whoopee! where's tn, ralke?"
The Carlisle Pa.) Gas and Water
Company recently asked for an injunc-
ton restraining the Carlisle Traction
Company from laying its tracks above
the water mains because of electro
lysis. The case was argued May 3, and
Judge Sadfer said, as it is an important
issue that involves millions of dollars
worth of property throughout the
country, it must be fully investigated.
The ca was continued so that the
IA lway company may take testimony.
English collars have somewhat lost
popularity in New York 1t is not
many years since collars of English
make were usually offered to man
when he asked for the best; but some
of the houses where this was the case
no longer keep such goods in stock
One dealer in mems furnishing goods
gave as excuse for the change that En-
glish collars are too heavy for summer
wear, and added that buyers sometimes
complained that such collars shrunk in
the washing.
Some unpleasant appearing Stats
ties have just been issued by the French
government. Explanations of the fig
ures may come later to tone down the
evil impression, or explain it away. In
1885 about 81 900 hectolitres of absinthe
were retailed in France; in 1892 over
126,0OO hectolitres were similarly sold,
and there has been marked increase
in the consumption of all other alco-
holic drinks in the republic. Between
1861 and 1865 the average annual num-
Der of condemnations by the law courts
was 81, 900; in 1885 it had risen to 127 900.
Increase of population had little to do
with the increase of figures, for in re-