The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-07-05
MISCELLANEO US.

If Jupiter is inhabited the people
there must be of an average height of
sixty feet, according to the scientists.
The Viking ship, which was one of
the attractions at the worlds fair, has
been presented to the Field museum, in
Jackson park, Chicago.
-He-"Well, for my part, l like a
picture that tells story" She-"Mrs.
Witherby's portrait ought to suit you,
then. 1t makes her positively hand
ome."-Harlem Life.
lie Proved -Emeline-''Willp pro-
resed to me last night" Angelina
Yes? | thought he would; he told me
the other day that my rejection of his
offer had driven him clean out sof his
mind. Brooklyn Eagle.
An invalid after returning from
southern trip. said to a friend: 20,
shure, an it's done me a wurruld o
good goin' away. I've come back an
other man altogether. In fact. m quite
meself again"
"A size" in a coat is an inch; in
underwear two inches: in sock, an
inch: in a collar half an inch: in shoes
one-sixth of an inch; in trousers, one
inch; in gloves, quarter of an inch, and
in hats, one-eighth of an inch.
The real estate mortgage debt of
five counties in the state of New York,
mainly those close to the city, and of
six counties in the state of New jersey
is $1,279, 343, 7O3 or 21.25 per cent. of the
whole real estate mortgage debt of the
United States.
-Mulhall estimated that the agricul-
tural earnings of the United States are
S. 400 100000: the earnings from manu-
features. S4,33O, 900, 900; from mines,
$3.50. 900 900: from transportation. 81, 1867
100000; from commerce. S160, 200. 900;
from shipping, SGO,OOO,OOO; from bank
ing $500. 100000.
The internal revenue tax Welded
our government last year Sl53, 600, 600;
of this sum S91 900, 900 was from the tax
on distilled spirits. Sd 200, 900 from that
on tobacco, $50, DOC. 900 from fermented
liquors. S1.266.OOO from oleomargarine,
and the remainder from miscellaneous
sources
During the reign of Solomon the
taxation of the Hebrews became so
heavy that Immediately on the Access
sion of his son demand for a reduc-
ton was made, and upon its refusal the
chief tax collector. Adoram, was stoned
to death and a secession of the ten
tribes at once followed.
There are go members forming the
house of commons, while the United
States. with nearly twice the popula-
ton. has hardly half as many congress-
men. The American senate numbers
lightweight, and even when all the
territories become states can never eX-
coed 100 while the house of lords has
$40 peers.
The display of sugar canes at the
recent agricultural exhibition of the
island of Mauritius is said to have been
the finest ever brought together in one
room. More than seventy varieties of
cane were shown, including seedlings
of all skies, from the tiny shoot to the
full-grown cane twelve feet high, grown
in single season from homegrown
seed.
ocracy The taxes were very severe.
There was a poll tax of half shekel,
about thirty cents. tribute of the first
fruits and first born of animals, a re-
demption tax of the tirst-born son. a
1.-THE for the tabernacle, another for
the Levites, and third. every third
year. for the poor. 1t has been COM
puted that the total taxation exceeded
80 per cent. of the land valuation.
In a paper recently read before the
New York Electrical society on Flee
trio Heating from an Engineering Point
of View" it was shown that electric
street car heaters cost only five cents
day more than coal stoves. the figures
being twenty and fifteen cents respect
lively. 1t was also stated that present
installations of cooking appara. us dem
onstrate the success of electric cooking,
both as regard cost and simplicity of
operation.
The glory of such a city as Phila-
delphia is that she early started and
has bravely kept to the system by which
every man of spirit can and does own
Ais Wv II iiO''1N' IiV oICLll VI SIOuuu
rent there favored plan which is hap
PLY working out from Philadelphia 80
that it is taking hold in other cities.
In every part of Philadelphia where
this system holds-that is, where the
street is inhabited by the people who
own the houseS-the street is well cared
for and the section well administered.
1t is said that 100000 workingmen in
Philadelphia own their homes
-Moslem has its famous widow in
the person of Ayesha. the third wife of
Mohammed. The first two were widows
when he married them; she was young
girl, but such was the ascendancv she
obtained over her husband that though
she was repeatedly charged with being
unfaithful to him. and on one or two
occasions the statement was proved. he
never could make up his mind to part
with her, but in her vindicatiOn. com
posed a chapter for the Koran. After
the death of Mohammed she retained
much of his authority among his fol-
lowers She was called the Mother
of the Faithful" and in all difficult
points the Interpreters of the Koran
consulted her to ascertain what had
been Mohammed's meaning. She re-
tanned her influence until her death,
and was buried with her husband