The Republican., 1894-02-08
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hardly man who would know his
next door neighbor. .-Ram's Horn.
She Knew Jack.-Sweetie-'
told me last night he loved me, and
then he kissed me-" Vettie-"Ah?
He usually kisses the girls without
telling them that. "-Detroit Free
Press.
Long and Short. t.-Brown-'How
long have you known that man you
lent dollar to this morning." Jones
II never knew him long Hes been
short ever since t.rst met him. De
troit Free Press.
Tom was awAv only one day and
when we met he said it seemed an age
since he'd seen Me" Mrs. Bitterly
''The horrid wretch; I don't see why
he should want to tell you how dread
fully you re breaking. Inter Ocean.
The blood of Rizzio, Mary Stuart
favorite, cannot be seen on the floor
where he was murdered by Darnly and
tle other conspirators. What is seen
there is a daub of red paint, annually
renewed for the benefit of gaping tour
lists.
Baron Haller, German poet, when
a young man, risked his life to save
his manuscript poems from burning
building. He laid them away, and a
few years later, sitting down to read
them over, was so disgusted with them
that he threw them all into the fire.
Aristotle was small man, with a
hoarse voice and thin legs. He stam-
mered and was i'll at ease in company.
He dressed magnifcently. was fond of
jewelry, and SO eHtravagant in his
pleasures that he wasted his fortune
on female favorites.
The bee works harder than most
people would believe. There are about
sixty flower tubes in every head of
clover, and only tiny morsel of honey
in each. In order to get enough sugar
for load the bee must visit about
5000 different flowers, and each bee
makes, on an average, twenty trips a
day.
The California Indians bow is
made from the white sap of wood of
the cedar, the outside of the tree being
, the outer side of the bow. The stick
is scraped and polished with pieces of
, obsidian. Then it is roasted in ashes,
al bent into shape. Their arrows are
made of button willow, twigs of the
buckeye and canes
If train, moving at the speed OF
Twenty-Five miles an hour, was sud
denly stopped, the passengers would
experience shock equal to that OF
60 4
thirty miles an hour they might as
well fall from the height of three pairs
of stairs: andan express train would,
in point of fact, make them fall from a
fourth story.
I -Percen the great English com
poser, had termagant wife, who was
accustomed to lock him out when he
did not come home at the houF she
designated as proper. On one occasion
he arrived late and drenched to the
skin from a sudden shower. The door
was locked, and, before he could reach
an inn where he could change his wet
clothing, he was seized with chill
. which ended in fatal illness.
Half dozen men in New England
and elsewhere treasure interesting
lleepsakes that James Russell Lowell
gave to a faithful few of those who sal
under his teachings at Harvard. He
formed large class for the study o.
Dante and plunged them, ignorant o.
Italian, into reading the Divine Comedy
in the original. Few persevereC
through the course, and to those few
Mr.. Lowell gave an engraving of the
then newly discovered portrait OF
Dante. Each picture bore line from
Dante in Mr.. Iowell's handwriting.
! Mr.. Edison has challenged the skep
teal to name one substance, organic OF
inorganic, which is not to be found il
! his laboratory. Every department o,
nature has yielded its tribute to the
potent wizard. The bones of birds anC
animals, feathers, hides, teeth anc
horns, shining metals, lucent crystals
, variegated minerals lie scattered il
profusion: dainty shells and coral re
/ pose among mosses and seaweed; fra
grant gums and spices recall memories
of the fair Babe of Bethlehem. Chalks
! resins, salts and chemicals are heapeC
/ about in lavish plentitude. The collec
ton embraces not only raw products
| but specimens of nearly every human
industry.
1t would be difficult" says the
st. Louis Republic, ito convince the
average man that fir is stronger wooc
than oak, but such has been proven
! by actual tests that were made by {
! fair and impartial committee appointed
for that purpose. The timbers usec
! were each two by four inches. and -four
feet long both ends sol:dly braced
and the weight applied in the middle
of the span. Yellow fir stood a strair
of 5000 pounds; common Oregon
oak, 2,922 pounds. Fine-grained vel
| low fir from near the butt stood q
! strain of 3.635 pounds, and best Michi
gan oak snapped with strain of only
{ 2,429 pounds The tests We're made by
the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
/ pany at Tacoma, Wash"
Among the Latin Christian coun
tries there were seven different date.
for beginning the new year March |
January /, December %, March 25
used in two ways-frst, by beginning
| the wear nine months sooner than q