The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-08-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

OF crushing out the small book dealers.
Coal tar yields sixteen shades of
blue, the same number of yellow tints,
twelve of orange, nine of violet and
numerous other colors and shades.
-Mirabeau L. Towns, of Brooklyn,
recently presented his clients case in
local court exclusively in rhyme. He
wants to be considered versed in the
law.
So there are no seats left for the
new play?" He-''No, but it doesn't
matter; know place where we can
see just as lovely hats as we can there.
Inter Ocean.
Topographic printing, the most
common words being cast in one piece,
was attempted for books in 1888, but
soon abandoned, not being so conven-
lent as the single letters.
-Judge-''Well, doctor, what is the
condition of the burglars victim?'
Doctor-''One of his wounds is abso-
lutely fatal, but the other two are not
dangerous. and can be healed
The blessing of an active mind.
when it is in good condition, is that it
not only employs itself, but is almost
sure to be the means of giving whole
some employment to others.-Anon.
All Long - mo checkee, no
washee." OFlaherty-''I'll bring the
check round later, begob." All Long
mo checkee, no washee" O'Flaherty
RATS. All Long-''Allee lightee,
blingee me lats, "--Arkansaw Thomas
Cat.
Russia and Italy are the two Euro
pean countries from which have come
the majority of the immigrants who
have landed at Ellis Island during the
first half of this year. The Russian
Jews have brought more money with
them than the Italians. N. Y. Sun.
Little Rock took its name from
boulder on the shore. 1t was said to
be the first bit of stone seen by the
early voyagers on their way from the
mouth of the river to that point, and
so they named the trading station
Little Rock
Additional evidence on the subject
of the supposed heat from the suns
rays is furnished by an experiment re-
Gently reported in France A balloon
with registering instruments was sent
up a distance of ten miles above the
earth's surface. where the temperature
registered was found to be lO4 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Count Renato Piola-Caselli, who
was one of the worlds fair commits
sioners from Italy, is about to marry
Miss Mary Phelps, of New Orleans. so
! L., /. .: Al
already large number of titled Ameri-
cans in Rome. Count Piola-Caselli after
his marriage will remain several
months in the United States.
Mrs. Martha Goslin. of Brown
county, Kan. earns good deal of
money as interpreter for Indian liti-
giants. Herself the daughter of an En-
glish speaking Delaware father and a
Pottawotomie mother, she has unusual
qualifications for her work, and a SUI
perstition has got abroad that the side
which retains her is sure to win.
What do you think of that?"
asked one man of another, exhibiting
a ninety-eight cent umbrella from a
bargain house. Il never pay more thaA
fifty or seventy-five cents for an UNI
brella," was the answer. but l usually
get hrst-rate silk one at that price |
buy regularly of a man that keeps a
parcels department at railway sta
ton, and he has so many forgotten
umbrellas that he is glad to sell them
to regular customers at low rates"
There were 4? war vessels launched
in 1893, aggregating 100. 900 tons. The
vessels, by nationalties, We're: France,
IS; United States, Russia and Brazil,
each ); Great Britain. 3; Austria, Den
mark and Haiti. each .: Argentine,
Chile, China. Germany and Italy, each
l, Three of T ance's. both of Den
marks and all of Brazil's vessels were
torpedo boats.
Theodore Jerolomen, prominent
citizen of Belleville, n. j.. found cher
ry thieves in his garden recently,
and struck at one with club as he
was trying to escape over barbed-wire
fence. The blow was aimed at the hips
as the man was bending over the fence.
but the wire broke and the man fell
backward, so that the club struck him
squarely on top of his head. The man
dropped like a log, and was dead in
two hours.
The black-eyed Susan. that brown
ana-golden lover of the sun, is here. 1t
loves the open. sunny meadows, and
the stalk and the blossom grow in
great luxuriance as the season adj
vances. Here and there the high brown
center is streaked with powdered gold
as if it We're touchstone newly used
to test the precious metal. The addi-
tiOnal touch of beauty, however, is only
conferred that the fertilization of the
seed may be insured. The gold dust is
pollen.-N. Y. Sun.
This is the time of year and this
the particular period when the house
dweller comes out after dinner and sits
on the stoop to get the fullest benefit
of whatever air there may be stirring;
and this is also the exact time when
the vender goes about selling those
disks of straw or dried grass which are
variously known, according to whether
they are sold in the cityor the suburbs,
as stoop seats, or veranda seats, or
lawn seats. One of these seats placed
carefully on brown-stone step softens
the stone materially, and adds greatly
to the Sitter'S comfort