The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Mississippi from being one Of the
poorest, has attained excellent rank
among the southern states. Its wealth
is valued at Sl1O, 69S, 1923.
The total amount of gold coined at
our mints from 1893 to 1892 was 81, 5sa,-
0o0,n oA; of silver, during the same
period, there have been S657, 900, 900;
and of subsidiary coinage of all d.
nominations, $4,000 900.
The report that the use CT bicycles
has become so common as to serious'S
diminish the income of street railroads
now comes from San Francisco ana
Oakland as well as from Denver ava
other places. The president of street
railroad in Oakland says that only one
street line in that city is earning more
than its expenses
-Irllby's latest appearance the
role of defendant in criminal court
Her name was used by a San Francisco
lawyer few days ago to cover the ext
gencies of legal requirements as a.
designation for defendant whose
real name he did not know, Just as
John Doe figures in the police courts.
The case in which she is thus mixed up
is the notorious Pacific bank scandal.
The memory of Mrs. Betsy Ross,
the maker of the first American flag,
was appropriately honored on Flag
day, June A. the one hundred and eight
eerth birthday of the national en-
blem, by a profuse decoration of the
house in Philadelphia in which Mrs.
Ross lived. Thousands of public school,
pupils and many other persons visited
the little house on Arch street in the
course of the day
Two quarts of whisky is pretty
fair record for weak woman. That
is the average capacity of Marion NJ.
Davis, as sworn to by numerous wit
nesses who appeared against her in a
Philadelphia police court the other
day for securing board and whisky
under false pretenses. One man testi-
fed that she drank two pints and a
quart in one afternoon and evening
and maintained this average during
the several days she was at his house,
waiting remittances from wealthy rela-
tives.
"A hungarian inventor asserts that
he is able to spin ordinary wood pulp
or cellulose into yarn, from which all
sorts of textile tissues can be made in
the ordinary way-equaling in ap-
pearance, durability and fastness of
color the best cotton goods. The
method is applicable not only to cellu-
lose, but also to every sort of short.
fibrous material--for instance, rags,
cotton, etc. The fiber, whether paper
pulp or textile refuse, can be dyed be-
fore being spun into yarn, SO that the
dyeing of the woven material is not
necessary.
"A souvenir craze in connection
with the new yacht Defender was
started some little time since bv the
workmcn selling the round pieces of
iron clipped out of the rivet holes.
These, however, were soon exhausted,
and the latest development of the
craze is the sale to a novelty manufac-
turing concern of all the SCRAPS and
chips of aluminium from the yacht. A
''Soo Ci < ~. u az the NdTC
all the time to see that every fragment
OF the white metal that came from the
yachts plates was gathered up for
this firm. The form the souvenirs will
take is not yet decided.
Edward III. of England assumed
the title liking of France" in 1910. He
claimed the French crown in right of
his mother, ISABELLA, daughter of
Charles ~. of Franco, as against
Philip VI, cousin of Charles ". The
title was discarded by George III. on
January l, 1901, when the present
title was assumed: "Of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
king (queen),' etc. Calais, the last
British possession in France, had been
lost to the British in 1858, and there
was and is no sense in maintaining the
empty title king of France" Ed
ward III. had no legal claim to the
French crown anyway.