The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

may cling to the rock of ages as she'll
that survives the deluge.-Bulwer.
-Cowper was melancholy child and
often would sit for many hours almost
motionless, gazing at the landscape
before him.
Some custom shoemakers discard
the graduated tape and do their meas
uring with piece of stout paper folded
once or twice. A nick is made as each
measurement is taken, and the record
Is transferred to page of the shoe
makers book bearing the customers
name. The paper is more to be de-
pended upon, because it is less elastic
than the tape.
In the Office of the Pail Mall Maya
zine the photograph has been put to a
novel use An article is read in front
OF the receiving funnel, and the waXen
cylinder is sent to the printer, who
sets it in duplicate machine and puts
the tubes in his ears. He then regu-
lates the speed to suit himself, and sets
by ear instead of by eye.-N. y. Mail
and Express.
-White-shelled eggs always sell bet
ter than others, and hence the special
value Of the white Leghorn fowls.
Their eggs are of almost marble white
ness, and, though small, their fresh
look makes them marketable. Guinea
eggs, however, which are brown and
specified, also have special sale, be-
cause some persons esteem them pecu-
liarly delicate. Ducks eggs are in
much demand for the Chinese restaur-
ants, where they are worked up into
tempting dishes.
The first independence flag dis
played in South Carolina was at the
taking of Fort jackson on James Is
land, September II, 1775. Col Moul-
trie, who had been requested by the
council of safety to procure a flag, had a
large blue one made with white cres-
cent in one corner. The crescent was
used in uniform with the dress of the
troops, who, besides wearing blue, had
their caps adorned with crescents in
scribed Liberty or Death" 1t was
the crescent flag that Sergeant Jasper
so gallantly rescued at the battle OF
Fort Moultrie. June IS. TITO
"A somewhat famous Frenchman
who has devoted himself to the promo.
ton of freer trade between this cOun-
try and his own, estimated nearly
twenty years ago that the population
of the United States would reach 10O,-
100000 at twenty-four minutes after :
p. m July "a. 1908. He has recently,
however revised his estimate, and he
now gives himself Il wider range He
believes that the 100, 900, 900 will be
reached between the years 1915 and
1920. All calculations on this subject
for the last fifty years have been alb
surdly out, and the Frenchman's esti-
mate may have to be revised again
should immigration remain at its pres
ent low ebb for five years longer.
Watches first came into fashion in
the year 1417, at Nuremberg, and on
that account and because of their
peculiar shape they We're known as
Nuremberg eggs" They were not all
egg-shaped, however, some being made
in imitation of pears, gourds, acorns.
birds skulls, etc. Morgan, the English
curiosity collector, has an old time
watch in the shape of a cows horn,
which discharges "a tiny pistol at the
end of each hour. The Earl of Stan
hope has one shaped like an egg, cut in
jacinth and set with diamonds. About
the year 1920 watches began to assume
the shape now generally worn; in the
seventeenth century, however, it be.
came the fashion to make them in the
form of a cross.
The ottice-seekers began to be a
burden to the powers as early as 1877,
for John Jay reported to congress in
that year on the application of Sir Ed
ward Newenham, that his son might
be appointed consul at Marseilles. that
honorary resolutions, a few offices,
very little money and much land" were
the only funds on which congress could
draw rewards for its friends. Not long
after that a resolution was passed re-
ducing the salaries of government
clerks, and providing that no clerk
should receive more than $3.50 a wear
and no messenger more than $50. The
pampered clerks of congress- who draw
$500 a year, would scorn to accept the
salaries that were good enough for
their predecessors a hundred years ago.