The Republican., 1894-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

1t pays to be Il worker in any cause
that Will make men wiser and better.
RAMS Horn.
Every husband hears great deal
about some other husband who lets his
wife manage the money.-Atchison
Globe.
After the surrender of the Turks
at Plevna the Russians took possession
Of SIT, 900, 900 worth of arms.
-'Shc must be really very fond of
him Treats him differently from the
other men," Yes; gave him picture
of Fido in exchange for his Inter
Ocean.
Algebra, almanac cipher, zenith,
zero, talisman, alcohol, alkali, amber,
camphor, cotton, crimson, jar, laud-
anum, lutte, mattress, sugar, amulet,
arsenal, magazine and "a few other
words are from the Ara bic.
Color blindness has been found to
occur in about 1 per cent. of civilized
European and American males and
among two-tenths per cent. of females.
The Finlanders and Norwegians run
up as high as 5 per cent, while the
Dutch go down to LAB.
The appearance of 'for sale" signs
on the Louisiana Lottery Company 8
big granite building in New Orleans a
few days ago is taken as conclusive
evidence of the concerns intention to
move to Honduras or elsewhere in the
near future. The company has pur-
chased two steamships to ply between
nil of Il
The word ''pelagic" means ''of or
pertaining to the sea-" The usual
method of taking seals has been to kill
them when on shore, so that only those
most valuable for their fur should be
slaughtered. Seal poachers in the
Rering sea have shot the animals
while swimming, claiming they had a
right to do so if beyond the three-mile
limit from shore.
Maj. NJ. NJ. Clothier, of Whatcom,
Ore, has a hickory cane cut at Ply
mouth Rock, Mass, in 1921 by
Nathaniel Pierce, who came over in
the May The cane has been
passed down to the oldest son or
daughter for many generations, and
came to Maj. Clothier from his grand
mother, Sarah Mason, who made the
scventeen-hundred-p pound cheese which
was given to President Jefferson.
New Orleans has the smallest police
force of any great city in the country,
in proportion to its population and the
area it has to guard, and, though it has
the remarkable record of making more
arrests than some forces double or tre-
BILE its size, the citizens of the ancient
city want it increased. With popula-
ton Of 242 900 New Orleans has a po.
lice force of but 256 men, and last year
these men made about % 00S arrests.
st. Louis, with population of 452 000
has police force of 500 men, who
made but 20,720 arrests during the
same period while the Cincinnati DO
lice of 4s9 men, with a population OF
$4,000 to operate upon, made but 49,
G44 arrests during the year.
-Gold finds are common in Alaska
just now, and Juneau is stirred ur
every week or so by the appearance OF
some miner from q newly inspected
region with rich specimens of ore, and
occasionally with pockets full of coarse
gold. About three weeks ago miner
brought in d pound of coarse golG
which he got on jacob island in Icy
Straits, 115 miles northwest of Juneau
He said the gold was mostly in decom
posed quartz, but there was also much
coarse gold in the region. A large
party of miners started immediately tC
locate claims on the island
Old records say that the law once
took hand in reducing the size OF
woman's sleeves in Venice That was
in 1903, and its effect was soon seen in
the eXtravagant trains that women
added to their gowns. AS soon as the
puzzled lawmakers realized what was
the matter they curtailed the skirt by
second edict, to be again circum-
vented by the great magnificence OF
both skirts and sleeves, which were
blazoned with embroideries of gold and
set with precious stones. These, too
We're enacted out of fashion, but only
while the women were getting breath
for a fresh contest and a sleeve that
exceeded in cost anything that had
gone before, for they were both wide
and long, reaching even the hem OF
the dress. These were the arm-cover-
ings that called forth the last fiat from
the Venetian senate.
The custom of giving gifts upcA
New Years day, though it has to a
great extent been superseded in our
time by the giving of Christmas gifts,
is one of the oldest, as it was formerly
one of the most universal, observances
of the occasion. The Persians cele-
brated the beginning of the year by
exchanging presents of eggs The
ancient Druids distributed as New
Years gifts among the early Britons
branches of mistletoe cut with pecu-
liarlysolemn ceremonies. The early
SaXons observed the festival of New
Years with feasts and gifts. Among
the ancient Romans the ''strena," or
New Years presents, already alluded
to were not only exchanged between
relatives and friends, but were eXacted
from their subjects. Under the Caesars
| these New Years gifts became such a
source of profit to the sovereign and SC
onerous a burden to the people that
Claudius limited their cost by a decree.
Old-Fashioned Customs.
The morning wrapper is nearly obso-