The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-05-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


-Gihtt.c read nothing that diduot
have a,eEring on his history, and
everything ne could find that, even re-
motely, had reference to his work. He
said he had no time for miscellaneous
reading.
-Muffs were adopted by women
after these articles had been invented
for the use of doctors, to keep their
from the house of one patient to that
of another.
The Moslem women attach such
Importance to covering the face that
when taken by surprise without reil
a woman will often take up her SHIRT
and veil her face with it, leaving he
lower limbs bare to the knees.
The average weight of womea's
clothing in winter is much greater tlan
that which adorns the opposite SIX.
Worth once said that the weight Of a
mans winter clothing averaged fifteen
pounds; of woman's eighteen.
The old colonial house at Mantia,
King and Queen county, Va, once he
residence of Carter Braxton, one of 5he
signers of the Declaration of Indepmd-
ence, and at present owned by Dr..
Gresham, was recently burned to the
ground.
The Western Publishing 6 Adver-
Using company of Winnepeg has leased
from the Canadian Pacific railway TIE
advertising privileges of all its stations,
offices, telegraph poles, fences and
premises generally. This con tract
covers 1000 miles of line and | 100 sta
tions.
"A French medical authority as
serts that death caused by fall from
great height is absolutely painless.
The mind acts very rapidly for time,
then Unconsciousness ensues. An Irish
man, who had been injured by tum-
bic of this kind, declared that it was
not the fall that hurt him, but the sud-
DEF stoppage.
The sleeping carriages of the Eng
fish Northwestern line are partitioned
off into eight separate bedrooms, each
containing two brass bedsteads. A
corridor runs along the side of the car,
from which all the rooms open. In the
center of the car is sitting room for
men and one for women, and there are
lavatories.
Clovis Hughes celebrated the ami
versary of the Commune this year by
producing at the Maison du Peuple a
dramatic parody in verse on the Cruel
fiXion. The scene represents the three
figures on the crosses on Calvary, where
the impenitent thief protests against
the hardship of his lot in this world
and the injustice of his fate in the
next.
Among the laws passed by the
North Carolina Legislature, just adj
journed, was one requiring railroads to
redeem unused tickets. The usual de-
tails are specified, and this, with the
law making it a misdemeanor for any
person except the agents of railroad
may drive the scalpers out of business
i'll that state.
The Pittsburgh fire department
the other morning prevented the Bal
timore & Ohio blocking the building
of the Mouongahela connecting * =
road by building a track across the
right of way of the latter. The Balti-
more & Ohio engaged fifty men to lay
the track, and they refused to quit
work when ordered to by the city Of
fcials. A fire stream was then turned
on them and they we're held at bay un-
I'll a preliminary injunction was Sc
cured and served on the i. g. O. Off
Gals.
In preparing to handle the worlds
fair business in 1892 the Pennsylvania
company built five hundred cars called
excursion cars, and so constructed that
after their use for that purpose they
could be converted into Gondola cars.
These cars were equipped with good
seats, but not highly upholstered, and
many of them were never used. Now
the company is selling these seats,
which cost ten dollars or more, for two
dollars and converting the cars into
gondola cars, they being of very SUBJ
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