The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-11-29
MISCELLANY OUS.

Among the Turks the bodies of the
dead are held in extreme reverence,
though the cemeteries are used a pic
mic grounds.
The leaders of flock of migrating
wild geese become tired sooner than
others, and are frequently relieved by
their fellows
The average golden eagle weighs
twelve pounds, is three feet from the
tip of his bill to the tip of the tail and
has wings of seven feet spread.
Dude MISUNDERSTANDING to
shoot here?" Countryman - "Haint
been nutnin till you arrived. I'll git
me gun."-Iarper's Bazaar.
A gentleman of the court of Pepin
had a wonderful pair of brooches that
cost 500. They were embroidered with
gold, and all the figures We're traced
with chains of small pearls.
After the philosopher Speucsippus
died his widow sold his library at auc-
tion, and it was hidden in by Aristotle
for $1,000 The number of the books is
not stated
According to the accounts found in
the library of Nebuchadnezzar, wheat
cost about 10 cents of our money
bushel, and wine II cents 'cupful,"
about two quarts.
rs gwine ter write pohtry," said
Erastus Pinkley. "Who's gwine ter do
de spellin' fob yer?" Use gwine ter
staht wifi dialeck same as de uddah
poiclls does Washington Star.
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in two, to the tail there grows head
and to the head there grows tail and
two animals are formed. As the wound
heals small white button is formed,
which afterwards develops into rings
and a perfect extremity.
Animals are often able to bear very
protracted fasting. In the Italian
earthquakes of 1895 two hogs were
buried at Soriano in the ruins of a
building. They were taken out alive
forty-two days later, but very lean and
weak. A dog, at the same time and
place was buried for twenty-three days
and recovered.
w. 5. Morris, superintendent of the
motive power of the Chesapeake &
Ohio, has completed a new stock car,
which, it is said, will revolutionize the
business of transporting stock. The new
car will only weigh about %, 900 pounds
and will be made largely of iron. 1t
will he the lightest stock car in use.
When an American meets an ac-
! quaintance after dark, no matter the
hour, he says, Good evening"" and
when they separate he says, Good
night" But in Canada one often hears
the latter phrase in salutation as well
as in good-by. To an American it seems
| odd when, on seeing a friend, the latter
advances with, Good night, sir. How
are you?'
| When the new bell of the Philadel-
| phia State house was hung in 1853 a
noteworthy bill was rendered for the
| hanging 1t included charges for half
a bushel of potatoes, forty-four pounds
of beef, four gammOns of bacon,
! cheese of thirteen pounds, thirty-siX
| loaves of bread, 300 lines and three gal
! Ions of rum. When another bell was
! hung toward the end of the century
customs had so changed that the bill
was merely for the pay of so many rig
| gers and their assistants
Miss Sadie Monroe Swift, of Massa-
chusetts, has won distinction in two
ways She is the official reporter of
the MiddleSeX and Barnstable terms of
the supreme court, being the first
woman officially recognized as a court
stenographer; and this summer she
made bicycle record of less than ten
hours over the route from Yarmouth to
Boston, lightweight and half miles.
She is said to be the first woman to
make the run.
-AmericaniSm in politics. -Wherever
| Americans plant stakes, we hear of po-
litical agitation. The speeches at the
great mass meeting of Alasllans at Jul
neau had the true American ring.
There may have been other political
mass meetings in Alaska, but the news
of them has not reached us. The Jul
neau meeting was the first important
political demonstration in that part of
our domain, the northern shores Of
which are laved by the waters of the
Arctic Ocean.
AT some of the Canadian post offices
the sign is displayed: Omitted States
stamps sold here" This has no sane
ton from the authorities, but the
clerks are allowed to buy and sell for
their own profit and the unquestioned
convenience of Canadians who want to
send small sums by mail, or to enclose
stamps for answers They charge ii
profit of about 10 per cent. on stamps,
in bulk Any one who has spent two
hours running about New York trying
to find a ~ penny stamp to secure an
answer to a business letter addressed
to London and has had to pay 10 cents
for it when he finds it, must realize
that here is an industry that might be
profitable in American cities.
Congress to-day would be rather
surprised at proposition that it should
print an edition of the Bible. Yet such
a proposition was made in a memorial
of DR.. Allison, on which a special com
mittee made a report in September,
TIL The report of the committee was
adverse, chiefly, it would appear, on
the ground of expense. The decision
was reached after conference with
the printers and the recommends
ton was made that instead of advanc-
ing money for importing type and