The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-06-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

I In attaining maturity, and will live
century and half.
| A Roman shoe or sandal-maker was
assisted in his business by twenty diff
ferent deities
! Many African tribes pray to snake
deities hoping to conciliate them and
SO not be bitten.
! There may be many good qualities
| in miser, but his love for money kills
! them all.-Ram's Horn.
Empires are broken down when the
| profits of administration are so great
! that ambition is satisfied with obtain
ing them.-Dr. johnson.
| The nests of the termites, or white
! ants, are, proportional to the size and
, weight of the builders, the greatest
structures in the world.
! -Giles-"Did he tell you he couldn't
speak French?" Merritt-''No." Giles
-''Then, how did you know?" Merritt
| -"He spoke some. Life.
Talent is the capacity of doing any
thing that depends on application and
: industry it is a voluntary power, while
genius is Involuntary Hazlitt.
Uncle Dicll-'Well, Rob, are you
getting on any better in arithmetic?"
/ Rob- should say SO. The boy that
sits with me knows his lessons always"
\ --inter Ocean.
Where ambition can cover its enter
! prises, even to the person himself, I'M
/ der the appearance of principle, it is
! the most incurable and infieXible of
( passions.-Hume.
I E,.oJl1--s
thing as-haw-a full dress cigah?' The
{ Tobacconist-"No, sir; but we have
some in very elegant wrappers. Pink
I'm, London.
AT the Police Court.-Magistrate
'Tell me under what circumstances you
committed the robbery Prisoner
"Under extenuating circumstances,
your worship. '-Tit-Bits.
! Tits better by noble boldness to run
the risk of being subject to half of the
evils we anticipate, than to remain in
cowardly listlessness for fear of what
/ may happen.-Herodotus.
On anniversary days the Chinese
place food on the graves of their ances-
tors. In a day or two it always disap-
pears and of course the spirits of the
deceased must have devoured it.
The East Indian ship worm will in
a few months destroy any vessel by
eating out the interior of the beams
| and planks. They will be left mere
shell that can be shattered by the fist.
Hundreds of experiments have been
made to determine whether toads could
live when inclosed in blocks of stone,
and in every case the toads died before
| the end of the second year.
Since the beginning of this century
no less than tifty-two volcanic islands
have risen out of the sea; nineteen disap-
! peared, being submerged, the others
remain, and ten are now inhabited.
Young girls in Greece and Italy
worshiped Diana until they were of
age, when they dedicated their girdles
to her by hanging them up in her
temple or grove, and turned to Aphro-
; dite.
-FiveY ear-O ld-B oy-"We've got lit.
tie chickens at our house" Clerk
''Have you and when did you get
them?" Five-Y earOld - why, our
old hen put hair on a nestful of eggs
and made chichens of them"
! Prof. Milton Whitney, of Johns
Hopkins university, has determined
that in an ordinary wheat soil there is
at least ten thousand million soil grains
in a'gram about pint, and in some
! of the finest soils this number has
reached twenty-four thousand millions.
| An Egyptian shoplIeeper had deity
! to whom he offered sacrifice every morn
ing, and whose duty it was in return
! for this reverence to stand in front of
the shop during the day, sort of celes-
tial barker" and direct the attention
of the people passing by to the shop
and its contents.
There is an exceedingly able woman
In Boston who can report a speech de-
! livered rapidly in German, she first
translating the speech into English
and then recording it in stenographic
| characters. Such celebrity of thought
is only approached by the tradition re-
specting Kossuth, who is said to have
thought in Hungarian, translated into
| Latin and retranslated and uttered at
a rapid rate the choicest English, born
of a study of the Bible and Shakespeare
Persons accustomed to see only one
form OF mdcdrOnl on Jne1r domestic
tables are astonished at the many varie-
ties shown by macaroni dealers There
are at least forty forms of the article,
! some of them interesting and artistic,
as the macaroni and egg, in which the
paste has yellow hue, is formed into
discs two and half inches in diameter
and stamped with various ornamental
devices. This retails at ten cents
pound. There are half dozen others
| quite as distinctive.
When the postage stamp was first
resolved upon the post office authorities
issued prospectus, and offered the
sum of 81, 500 for the best design and
plan for stamp. 1t is said that no
fewer than 3,7OO designs were sub
naitted by the artists, men of science
and the public generally to whom the
proposal was addressed The penny
stamp came first, and in July, 1910
two-penny stamp was issued, and sub
sequently a complete series ranging in
value from half-penny to five shil-
lings.
-Vesta was the Goddess of Life and
of home: her altar stood on every