The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04
MiSCElLANE


sixteen.
American pumps are known in
China and Japan, as we'll as in all parts
OF Europe.
"A steel bridge is to be built across
che Niagara gorge near the old railway
suspension bridge.
The highest range of mountains is
the Himalaya, the mean height being
10000 to $4,000 feet.
With load of 400 pounds a camel
can travel twelve or fourteen days
without water, going forty miles day.
The city council of Pierre has
passed a resolution exempting from
taxation for five years any lots on
which artesian wells are sunk
1t is estimated that territory equal
to the whole surface of the globe has
been dug over 100 times in order to get
room for burial places.
"A four year-old boy in Cooper's
Mills, Me-, is a constant smoker, and
his parents are proud of his ability in
that line.
-Mantell and Fremantel remind us
of the covering OF ce worn by our an
cestnrs, the latter owing its origin to
the frieze cloth formerly worn in En-
gland.
Slightly 0Mixed- He-Qooking at
painting of Columbus first landing)
''Wife, what's this ERE paint'n all
about?" She-"Can't yer see? Why,
it's Wash n ton cross n the Delaware"
Silhouette was the name of a
French minister in ante-revolution
times He was stern economist, and
the courtiers had their pictures made
in profile and black. facetiously claim
ing that NJ. Silhouette had made them
so poor that they could not have reg
ular portrait painted.
-Tonmie-"Does Deacon Jones al
ways tell the truth?' Mamma-''Why,
Tommie, of course he does What
makes you doubt him?" Tommie-
"Well, he said his little boy could
whistle Gates Ajar, and | can whistle
louder'n he can, and l always have to
open 'em with my hands. Inter
Ocean.
The royal commission on labor
pays a tribute to the superiority of
feminine taste over that of men in
various industries. Barmaids are en-
ployed in England in preference to
men, on account of their ability to
'set forth the food in an appetizing
manner" and to arrange their counters
tastefully.
-Manetho flourished in the reign of
Ptolemy Philadolphus, about 200 b. c.
He was keeper of the sacred archives
in the temple of Heliopolis. He wrote
a general history of Egypt, now lost
and drew his facts from the sacred
columns of Trismegistus. He has also
had attributed to him poem, which is
praised, and a work on the rites and
ceremonies of the Egyptians.
The women of the west are taking
ample advantage of their new political
privileges, They took an active part
in the school elections in Seattle, Spo-
kane and other Washington towns,
going 20 the polls in companies of from
dozen to hundred. Candidates of
their own sex were nominated in sew
eral districts, which helped greatly to
enlist the interest of the women
There are but seven or eight of the
1904 issue of silver dollars known to be
in existence. This coin is called The
King of American Rarities " The
"legend" of its scarcity is that yes
sci bound for China had on board al
most the entire mintage CS04 was S19.-
570), and was lost at sea. BY others it
is claimed that the fiscal year ending
in dc, ( Tho
tered on the register of the mint in
1905 (S32D included the mintage of the
months of 1904 subsequent to the fiscal
report and entry of that year.
The few civilized inha bitants of
our westernmost island possessions,
the Aleutians and Pribyloys, have now
been left for some weeks in their lone
ly winter condition. The rockeries of
the Pribylotfs have once or twice been
raided by seal poachers in Decem Der,
but the thing is OF too rare occurrence
greatly to be feared, and even stout
Mike Healy, commander of the Bear,
has left those waters, The little com
iany at Ounalaslla and the smaller set
Element of whites in the Pribylov group
will see no new face until next May or
June, unless, indeed, some stranger"
of very tender age comes among them
not by way of the Pacific.
The tortoise is particularly sensi-
tive and fully twentyfour hours before
rain falls will look for convenient
shelter. However bright the weather
may be, whenever tortoises are OBJ
served making for shelter rain is GER
tain to fall shortly afterward. This
presentiment, which exists in many
birds and beasts, is doubtless partly
due to the increasing weight of the
atmosphere when rain is forming. In
our own country the robin is said by
its peculiar movements to give evidence,
of an impending change in the weather,
while in America the catbird is motor
ious for its unerring instinct in giving
warning of an approaching thunder
storm. Its method is to sit on the low
est branch of a tree and utter peculiar
notes which it never appears to use
except as storm signal. ...
Mr.. j. q. Scott has returned from
IA expedition among the Was, q tribe
of head hunters in Il portion of Bur-
NAH, lately transformed into British
territory. They are divided into