The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-10-18
MISCELLANEOUS.


The father of Talma, the great
actor, was a dentist, and intended his
son for the same business. The latter
showed no enthusiasm for filling teeth,
and soon deserted his employment for
the stage
Say, waiter, are you positive this
is wild duck | am eating?' 80, yes, sir!
so wild that we had to chase it round
the back yard for fifteen minutes before
we could catch it.''-American Grocer
Andrew Johnson was the son of
very poor farmer. When ten years old
he was apprenticed to tailor, and ac-
quired taste for reading by hearing
gentleman read aloud from the ''Ameri-
can Speaker"
-Spohr, the viOlinist and composer.
was at first fonder of helping his father
mix the medicines used in a doctors
practice than he was of playing on the
violin, and he was frequently scolded
for neglecting his music.
For they the royal-hearted women
are who nobly love the noblest, vet
have grace for needy, suffering lives in
lowliest place; carrying a choicer sun
light in their smile, the heavenly ray
that pitieth the vile.-George Eliot.
-Husband-''You are naturally of
an unhappy disposition, that's all thats,
the matter" Wife--''That's your theory,
is it?" Husband-"I never saw you
happy" Wife-''Thats because you
never saw me before met you. "-Bos-
ton Home Journal.
In 1916 the first presumption right
of settlers on public lands was passed
by congress. not, however, without
uuch opposition. This act allows set
tiers on the public domain the right to
purchase 320 acres. This was the ini-
tial of long series of similar enact
ments
We'll, good-by till | see you again"
seems to be the customary form of fare
well with the Adirondack guides. Per-
haps it is their English equivalent for
'Au revoir." Many of the guides are
French Canadians or of French Cana
dian parentage, and they commonly
speak corrupt French, the remnant
of their bringing up.
The remarkable prevalence of
oiili'tllCoo III llcI HCS VI CCI ldlIl NlSlIlclS
of New South Wales has led to an in
vestigation by the veterinary college
of Melbourne. The cause is found to
be native tobacco (nicona sauvioleus),
/ which produces in horses effects sim
! liar in all respects to those of excessive
smoking in man.
Il like well enough to have people
N thair, SrNanaI
bar, but when my neighbor, Mr. Stay
- bolt, who is exceedingly precise in his
choice of words, asks me if | don't
think we ought to speak of second
hand shoes as second-foot shoes, | am
almost tempted to reply that l should
consider such an inquiry bootless."
Perhaps no resident of New York
greases his boots, and the practice of
boot-greasing is much less common the
country over than it was before gum
| boots and gum overshoes We're cheap
ened and improved Nevertheless. there
are places in the United States where
receipt for boot grease that shall i'm
prove upon the various old-fashioned
combinations of beeswaX and tallow
that used to look, when cold, like frost
on the boots, would be hailed with iov.
-Higashi Honwanji is the name of
magnificent temple in course of cree
ton in kyotO the old capital of Japan.
For ten years it has been going on. and
millions of dollars have been expended;
and it is yet far from completion. The
huge timbers used for pillars. frame
and rafters We're hauled from the for
ests by cables made of women's hair!
Twenty-nine such cables have been
worn out, and twentyfour are vet I'M
used. Evidently the old faith has still
a strong hold on the body of the peo-
pie, when the women make such won
derful contribution for one of its tenn
pies.
We have sixty divisions on the
dials of our clocks and watches, be-
cause Hipparchus, who lived in the
second century before Christ, accepted
the Babylonian system of reckoning
time, that system being sexagesimal.
The BabylOnians We're acquainted with
the decimal but for common purposes
they counted by ''sossi" and ''sari,"
the ''sOsso' representing sixty and the
''saros' sixty times sixty-36OO From
Hipparchus that mode of reckoning
found its way into the works of Ptol-
envy about the year $50 a. D., and on
that authority it has been perpetuated
to the present day.
Bee hunters of the Pine Tree state
often make good hauls of honey stored
by wild bees in hollow trees, but a
sturdy woodsman, Gorham Brown, of
GuilfCrd, recently went his fellow hun
ters one better in this branch of forest
craft Having located a swarm and
their hoard, he captured bees and
honey at one swoop. By observing the
bees as they came and went in his
clover field he traced their line of
flight, and, following it across his farm
and into the woods about mile. he
found it led to hollow tree the en-
trance to which was fifteen feet above
the ground. Having first taken bee
hive to the place, he cut down the tree,
and placed its hoard of some thirty
pounds of honey in the hive, whittier
the bees at once followed it. and made
themselves perfectly at home At
night he carried home honey and bees
together, and the insects have since
kept on at work laying up wax and