The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-02
MISCELLANE OUS.

rubber stamps.
| -Threefourths of the inventions
used in binding are due to the
ingenuity of American binders.
There is consanguinity between
benevolence and humility. They are
virtues of the same stock.-Burke.
| Neither piety, virtue nor liberty
can long flourish in community where
| the education of youth is neglected.
| Cooper.
If honor be your clothing, the suit
will last lifetime; but if clothing be
| your honor, it will soon be worn
| threadbare.
Gutenberg invented cut metal
| types, very inferior in their workman
| ship and appearance to those of cast
metal which soon followed
Oatmeal Gems.-One beaten egg,
one cup sweet milk, one cup cold oat-
meal pudding; beat all together; add
half teaspoonful of soda and one and
| one-half cups of fiour.-Prairie Farmer.
Newspaper misprints are often
amusing. One of the funniest | have
| lately seen is the reference to ''Mr.
| Hanson, lazy vicar and sole tenor. st.
Paul's cathedral" That printer had
! obviously never heard of lay vicar.
London Figaro.
| A woman in Cambridge, England,
| who has built up a successful business
in typewriting, has obtained machine
| fitted with the Greek alphabet and
mathematical signs, so she can utilize
it for the benefit of mathematical and
classical scholars.
The Philadelphia Sterilized Milk
and Ice society was organized recently,
and the mayor of the city was chosen
president. The society intends to sup
| ply the poor with sterilized milk. pure
Ice water and disinfectants, at cost
pr ce.
"A blast of 100 pounds of dynamite
in - holes was made recently at
quarry near Providence, r. l., blowing
off the face of cliff and dislodging
about 10000 tons of stone some of the
! blocks weighing nearly % tons. The
| holes were 20 feet deep and the work
of drilling is said to have cost 81 900
with $3.50 more for the explosive.
| The mean temperature Of several
leading cities is as follows: Athens. is
| degrees; Boston, 40; Calcutta, rs;
Charleston, 66; Constantinople. So;
Dublin, 50: Havana. rs: Jerusalem. 60;
London. 80; Mexico. 60: Moscow. Al:
| Naples, 81: Paris, 81; st. Louis 30: San
| Francisco 30; Savannah. e.; Stockholm
d.; Washington. So; Zanzibar, So
Archie Taggart. one of the Broad
way giants of New Works police force,
is a member of family of large pro-
| portions. Eleven sons and daughters
average 2l3 pounds weight, and six feet
| two and a half inches in height The
sons are all over six feet and two daugh-
| ters stand five feet nine. The family
comes from north of Ireland stock. now
of Newburg n. Y.
A Norwegian invention for the pro-
ductiou from skim milk of new ma
| terial. which has been called lactite or
mild ivory, has just taken practical
| shape. and "A factory for its production
| is about to start opera lions in Iceland
| This new material bears a close resem-
| blance to real ivory, and. in addition,
| can be made in black or any color de
sired.
The largest and most wonderful
! spring of fresh water in the world is
on the gulf coast of Florida. in Her
nando county. The Wekochee river, a
stream large enough to float sn&ll
steamer, is made entirely of water
| spouted from this gigantic natural
well, which is ninety feet in diameter
and about seventy or eighty feet deep.
| The water is said to be remarkably
pure
| On the evening of August 81. 1865.
| a banquet was given to the Chinese
| embassy at old st. James hotel in Bos-
| ton. An idea of the intellectual feast
may be gathered when it is said that
speeches were made by Mayor Shurt-
left. Arson Burlingame. Gov. Bullock
| Charles Sumner. Ralph Waldo Elmer
| son, Cen Banks, Caleb Cushing and
| others. On August % the city govern
| ment gave the visitors an excursion
| down the harbor.
The few Italian photographers of
| New York seldom display photographs
| of laborers. Their show frames are
| filled with pictures of strenuous look
| ing men belonging to one or another
| business type, pretty, soft-handed girls,
neatly dressed children. singly or in
| groups, and comfortably clad old wo-
men, with that indefina BILE air of peace
so common in the faces of European
| old women, so unusual in American
| faces of any age.
-Collies are now used extensively
fer military purposes in the German
| army. AS dispatch carriers for short
distances they have been found excel
lent. The Scotch type of dog being
brilnful of intelligence. are given the
| preference for the kind of duty re-
! CURED which is usually the bearing of
messages from outlying piclets to the
supports and reserves. The dogs are
always owned by the company leaders
| to whom they will return by the path
| they took on being led away from them
| 1t is interesting to see how the age
| of the heroine of the modern novels
| differs from that of the older writer's.
| Out of thirty of Scott's heroines six
| teen are described AS under twenty:
| three are over twenty. and only one
| Amy Robsart is a heroine 'of an I'M
| certain age since she is historically
middle-agcd matrOn and fctitiously
| youthful bride. But the conspicuous
| character of the modern novel is wo-