The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-04-05
MISCELLANEOUS.


among the Romans. 1t means Gladness.
Some words in the Chinese language
have as many as forty different mean
ings-
Patrick came to Ireland through
the Latin, and signifies Patrician or
Nobleman.
"A Load Off His Mind. -He-''Will
you marry me?" She-''No" He
Thank heaven, that point is settled!
Any thing is better than suspense. Let's
go out and get some ice cream. Truth.
Parsley was used by the Greeks as
a funeral plant. ITO be in need of
parsley" was common euphemism for
death. On one occasion Greek army
was marching out on a campaign,
when four mules laden with parsley
We're encountered. The whole army
was panic-stricken and refused to go
any further.
Mr.. Charles E. Berry, of Hickman,
KY, owns an ancient relic in the shape
of a clock. 1t is an old fashioned
grandfather clock, and its works,
with the exception of one wheel, are
made entirely of wood. 1t is eight
feet high, and is made of mahogany
1t is said to have been in the family for
over century. 1t was made in 1858,
and is, therefore, 331 years old.
The baobab trees of Senegal are
denominated by Humboldt the oldest
organic monuments of our planet"
One he describes particularly as being
over 100 feet in diameter, and calcu-
lates its age at the very least as 5000
years. It's foliage forms gigantic
green semicircle over 100 feet high and
400 in diameter
Whatever may have been the origin
of some negro stories told by Joel
Chandler Harris negro nurses down on
the eastern shore of Maryland used to
delight children with the tar baby le-
gend long before Mr.. Harris had put
pen to paper. The eastern shore YER
sion of B'rer Rabbits adventure with
the tar baby is much like the story as
told by Harris Uncle Remus.
The National Lifeboat institution
at present embraces 3O4 stations, each
boat being manned by IS to 90 men,
and costs ESQ 900 per annum, which in
cludes building of boats, stations, up
keep and everything. The admins
tration expenses are only per cent. of
the income. During its SO years eX-
istence it has the magnificent record of
$4,000 lives saved.
The mezzotint was invented by
Prince Rupert. He himself was
practical engraver, and was seeking to
perfect the processes employed in his
time. One morning he walked out
from his house at Brussels and came
upon soldier about to clean his gun
which had been left out all night in
the rain and had become rusty. The
cloth applied by the soldier to the bar
rel brought away an impression, and
the mezzotint was soon a reality.
The agents for the smuggling
British tailors commonly approach per-
sons in New York with the reassuring
declaration that SIS will be charged to
cover the tariff duty. OF course, all
who stop to think know that this is
only a salve to uneasy conscience
Most of the customers are ignorant of
the method by which the garments are
sent ashore, but some suspect that they
are worn over another suit by en-
ployes of the steamship companies and
removed when the smugglers have
reached safe retreat. This seems
rather a bad guess, since the clothes
reach their destination with no sign of
disorder. Those who profit by this sort
of smuggling are restricted to no one
economic theory.
"Shawmut," a peninsula with three
hills, on which Boston was built, was
discovered by the Pilgrims in 1921. A
boat with ten men was sent to explore
Massachusetts, bay. Towards the south
they saw the blue hills from which the
Indian name Massachusetts was de-
rived. Two or three rivers entered the
bay, and peninsulas jutted into it; and
so attractive were its shores that the
Pilgrims regretted they had not seated
themselves there. When Winthrop and
a large colony came 1890 they landed
at Salem, and some of them settled at
Charlestown. Sickness prevailed among
them. Observing fine spring of water
on Shawmut, and believing its high
ground to be more healthy than at
Charlestown, Winthrop settled there
and founded Boston.
"A man of doubtful reputation was
on his way home one night and came
across pile of planks. which for some
reason had been unloaded upon the
roadside. He couldn't or thought he
couldn't resist the temptation to steal
one of them. He could not go through
the village with it, and so he took
cut through the fields. By and by, in
the gathering dusk, he wandered into
bog hole and sank in the mire. The
more he struggled, the deeper he
sank, until, getting alarmed, he
cried Justify for help. His shouts
brought neighbor with lantern.
''Why, Jones, what does this mean?"
asked the good Samaritan. "How in
the world came you here?" 81 was in
hurry to get home" said the thief,
land so l cut across. Then got into
this bog. The more l tried to get my
self out, the deeper l got in, and final
ly went back to the road and got this
plank to see if l couldn't get myself
out with that "-Christian Secretary.
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Tidal Lake in Western Tennessee.
ReelfOOt lake in western TenneSSee