The Republican., 1894-01-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

native born Americans, being over six
seventns of the whole.
What queer boy that is OF
Tompkjns." "Yes; TomplSins says his
boy is the only symptom he has OF
paresis. "-Harper's Bazaar.
-Petrarch read and wrote day and
night. On the table where he dined
and by the side of his bed pen and ink
were always ready.
What is your daughters dowry?"
asked Jimpson. Just about enough
to pay the gas and fuel bills of your
courtship period, - retorted the cautious
father.
Harmony of Color.-Palette $50
Sincere got mad when you criticised
his picture. l suppose he got red in
the face, as usual?'' Dauber-"No;
madder. Truth.
The translation of Quintus Curtius
by Naugelas occupied thirty years.
The translator rendered every sentence
five or ten different ways and finally
chose that which pleased him best.
"A valise containing the manuscript
of forty sermons was lost by an express
company. The owner Chicago cler-
gyman, made claim for the value of the
sermons and received S417.
The largest fresh water lake is
Lake Superior 1t is 400 miles long, 100
wide, and has an area of $4,000 square
miles, or about half that of Missouri
It's surface is 634 feet above sea level.
"A Clear Case.-Mrs. Farmer-'I
think that young man from the city is
tritling with our daughter" Mr. Far
mer-'Im m sure of it. He's the most
tritling man | ever saw. ."-Detroit Free
Press.
--Drapers and others showing win.
dow goods liable to lose color by fading
are advised to put yellow colored glass
in their windows, as the bleaching is
caused by the white rays of the suns
light
Some incautious burglars, while
blowing open a safe at Lebanon, ILL.,, ,
used such big stick of dynamite that
the explosion startled the town. Every
body seemed to have been awakened
and the burglars We're easily captured.
The most wonderful machine is
that which makes pins. 1t measures
and cuts the wire, points and polishes
it, puts head on one end, repolishes
the pins and puts them by rows into
the papers in which they are sold.
Prospective brides may be inter-
ested to learn that there are thirty-two
days in the year on which, it is said, it
is unluclly to marry. They are Janu-
airy l, p 4, 5, :, TO- Is: February 6, Z. s.:
March l, g. S; April 6, IL May ), q Z;
June :, Is; July 5, 10; August II, 49,:
September 6, I; October g. November
Is, 1G, and December 15 16, II.
-Thatnoble institution in New York,
the Children's Aid society, had under
its charge during its fiscal year Just
closed 34,277 children. Homes were
found for l,940 of them, and &, 227 boys
and girls were sheltered and fed at the
six lodging houses. The expenditure for
the year was 1895, ,S45, but how paltry
the money side looks when compared
with the amount of good ddone.-Spring-
field Republican.
"A Bible, printed from the type
called brilliant, which is the smallest
size used in English printing has been
published by the Oxford University
press. The volume contains 1916 pages,
with map, and weighs less than three
ounces. 1t measures three and half
by two and an eighth inches, and is
tive-eighths of an inch thick
Careful observers have noticed that
fish hawk, after securing its prey.
will often rise very high in the air,
drop the fish, qYichly swoop down upon
and seize it, and then fly homeward
The object of this, as explained by an
old skipper in the Lower Bay of New
York, is to get the fish head on" as a
hawk will never fly with the tail of its
prey foremost. So, if it has caught it
that way, giving it a twirl it drops it
and seizes it again with the head point
ing in the right direction.
"A Deaf Mans Blunder.-A bride
tells of difficult moment of her recent
wedding trip. A few days of it were
spent with an uncle of hers. very deaf
and very pious. When they sat down
to dinner on the night of their arrival
the uncle asked the groom to say grace.
Much embarrassed, as he was unaccus-
toned to otficiate in this way, he leaned
forward, murmuring a request to be
excused. Whereupon the uncle watch
ing him, only waited until his lips
stopped moving to utter sonorous
'Amen!' in response 1t is hardly nef~
essary to add that the blessing for that
meal went unsaid.-Argonaut.
"A side show attached to a circus
which showed in a country town in
West Virginia last summer had a big
sign: only 10 cents to see the most
wonderful thing in the world PER-
sons curious enough to pay the dime.
found man sitting on chair inside
whiting piece of wood. AS he cut
away, with an outward sweep of his
knife, he remarked: Gentlemen, al
ways whittle like this, and you will be
in no danger of cutting yourselves"
This was the whole show People who
had been duped were so anxious to
have company that they went out and
advised their friends to go in, and it is
claimed that the side show did more
business than the circus.
Sailing ships sometimes spend long
intervals at sea without raising a sail
of onU kind a hoy,ea thai, o,,o,, aLr..--: