The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS,

New Haven is the Elm City. Its
principal streets are beautifully shaded
by old elms.
-''All l want" said the opera singer,
sis notes for notes; large notes for high
notes. Vogue
He who learns and makes no use OF
his learning is beast of burden with
load of books.-Saadi.
Cecil was originally from the Latin,
meaning the dim-sighted one. 1t was
originally used as nickname.
For every evil there is remedy, or
there is not; if there is one | try to
find it; if there is not, never mind it.
Miss MULCH.
How 1t Is.-She-"You are so diff
ferent from what you were before we
were married." He-"Iow? She
indifferent. Detroit Free Press.
Will Mington--"Dop't you think
Sue has peachy complexion?" Della
Ware-''Yes; it's failure. ''-Yonkers
Statesman.
The power of applying attention,
steady and undissipated, to single
object is the sure mark of a superior
genius. -Chesterield.
No man can be brave who considers
pain the greatest evil of life; or tenn
perate, who regards pleasure as the
highest good. Cicero
Potter seems to be familiar with
number of the pictures in this dis
play" Dash-''Yes; I've noticed he
poked his umbrella through two"
II didn't think that Raggles could.
get any lower than he has been the
last year" 'Well, is he?" Eyes; he's
got down to work in coal yard. -
Inter Ocean.
Most of the so-called marble houses
of the Rome of Augustus were not
such in reality. The plasterer's art
had then reached high state of per-
lection, and gave to stucco the appear
ance of the finest marble
Robert Stephens, an early English
printer, was so anxious to have his
books free from typographical blunders
that, after having the proofs carefully
read, he hung them up in public places
with standing reward to any one
who could find mistake.
In the early days of the last CEN
fury there was a fashion prevalent in
both England and on the Continent of
writing poems in the shape of various
objects. Hearts, wings, affairs, true
lovers knots gloves, spectacles, shears
and other articles were thus utilized.
Dignity had to be sacrificed for
safety the other day at Kansas City
when maddened bull broke from the
stockyards and rushed at party of
Missouri Pacific railroad officials. Some
OF the men found safety on and under
cars, but General Manager Dodridge,
who is short and fat, Skinned up
nearby telegraph pole, ungracefully
perhaps, but not less hastily.
A certain lady of worldwide &C.
lebrity is in the habit of having bac-
carat parties at her house in London.
A short time ago three or four intimate
men, friends of hers, dressed themselves
as police officers, and having knocked
at the door, boldly walked up to the
room where they knew gambling was
going on Their entrance was the sig
nal for general stampede, and great
was the relief to all when the raid was
found to be joke.
O-There is remarkab BILE sand dune
near the lighthouse at Cape Henry, at
the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The
sand from the beach has been piled up
nearly 200 feet at an easy slope on the
ocean side, but on the inland side it
descends in an almost sheer precipice
and particles of sand blown up the
slope fall over the edge and are spread
far and wide by the wind. 1t is sup
posed that the precipice-like peculiar
ity of the mound is due to the action of
conflicting wind currents that blow
about the cape.
AT one period of the last century
there was fashion of writing didactic
works in verse. Brumoys cart of
Glass Making" Vaniere's ''Treatise on
Raising Pigeons, Du Cerceau's
Tribes of Butterflies are notable
examples, while works on orange Gull
ture, on kitchen gardening, on the
care of fish, on cooking, on the keep
ing of cows and the best way to make
butter are still extant. La Brun wrote
q DOClll Ou SWceILucdJS SOneOUe else
on mineral waters, Vida one on chess,
Huet one on the use of tea, and an
other on the benefits of salt.
The Cooperative Union Laundries,
of Indianapolis, joint stock concern
owned by laundry girls, was started
with an investment of So, 500 in cash.
A dispatch to the New York Tribune
states that the report of the manager
at the recent meeting shows that the
years total receipts were over $40, 900,
with 81, 500 of good book accounts. The
average number on the pay roll during
the year was twenty-one, the lowest
wages paid, $3.50, with overtime at
once and a half the regular rate.
Counting the debts paid and the
amount paid for new material, thelnet,
earnings above the expenses yielded
| profit of over 80 per cent. Considering
the business depression the girls feel
that they have no cause to complain.
"A pretty fad of recent birth among
members of New York society is to per-
senate NEUROLOGICAL nymphs and god
desses in their photographs, and this
is done with great success by many
fair women whose forms and faces
would not discredit the originals. Of
| course, such pictures are not for gen.