The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

Oporto.
We never have any difficulty in
seeing our own faults-in other people.
Young Mems Era.
"A gentleman that loves to hear
himself talk, will speak more in
minute than he will stand to in
month. Shakespeare.
Since Time is not person we can
overtake when he is gone, let us honor
him with mirth and cheerfulness OF
heart while he is passing. -Goethe.
Guatemala, or Guatemala, means
'decayed log of wood" 1t is said
that wooden statue was honored by
the aborigines as their principal deity.
Two classes of men benefit the
world by leaving it: Those who are in
the way, and those who practice post
mortem benefcence.-You Mems Era.
Wales was thus named by the
Anglo-Saxons, the word meaning the
land of the foreigners" The native
name is Cambria, or the country of
the Kimri"
The government has instituted pro-
ceeding to test the titles of over 1000
settlers to land in Kansas, purchased
by them many years ago of the Union
Pacific railway, the ground taken being
that through technical error the
grant Of the lands to the railroad COM
pany was invalid, and that !, "a,
should revertDto the governmenc and
be open to settlement under the home
stead law. -Bradstreet's.
Does any one really buy these
things?" asked a customer of dealer
in plated ware, pointing to shelf filled
with silver of forid decoration. 1.-The
worst designs sell best" was the an
swer. 1--WE sell thousands of those
things to dozens like that small piece
that You admired. These articles sell
the country over for wedding presents,
and the thing demanded is elaborate
chasing and odp designs rather than
simplicity and beauty of outline"
Shoes made in whole or in part from
the skin of the Canadian hair seal are
now sold at about the price of other
good ready-made shoes. The leather
is very heavy, though plant, and is re-
puted in Newfoundland to be almost
waterproof. 1t is notable for a some
what coarse pebbled surface. Porpoise
leather, now somewhat scarce, is also
reputed to turn water 1t is one of the
most expensive materials known to the
shoe trade.
Western men going to New York
like to stay at the large new hotels
One of the new Broadway hotels has
recently picked up much of the western
clientele that formerly belonged to the
Hoffman house, and another compare
lively new hotel in Fifth avenue which
is reported to be the most expensive in
the city, started off with large west
ern trade and still keeps it. Mean
while the Victoria holds on to its
Spanish-Americans, the st. James to
its sporting men, the Fifth Avenue to
the politicians and the Windsor to the
spectators.
1T always seemed sort of strange"
said citizen of New York City, ''to
see coal and ice vended from the same
wagon, and in the cellars about town.
where they sell coal in any quantity,
large or small, they sell ice, too A
coal dealer told me once that this had
come about naturally enough; that
vendors of coal when the demand for
it fell off in the summer, had taken to
supplying their customers with ice
then, so as 10 keep busy through the
year, and that so customers had come
to look to the same vender or dealer
for coal and ice the year through"
An engineer has pointed out that
inch of rain, falling upon an area of
one square mile, is equivalent to nearly
1880, 900 gallons, weighing 145, 200, 900
pounds, or -, 600 tons. Assuming this
water to have fallen from clouds about
half mile, or say 5000 feet above the
earth, we have for the energy repre-
scented by it about %, 900 II. p With
pumping machinery working at the
low rate of consumption of pounds of
coal per horse per hour, it would take
200 gross tons of coal to raise the water
represented by 1 inch of rain on a
square mile to the assumed height of
5000 feet. AS matter of fact, rain
often falls from clouds which are at
much greater height than 5000 feet
dOO'C SlCuhI1 oO eiidO bllt uTeS
just given are quite conservative ones.
Several Chinese shops in New York
sell the native canned goods. Some of
them come in tins labelled in Chinese
and English. These timed delicacies
include lichee, kind of sweet fruit
with q great stone The stone is re-
moved before the fruit is packed.
There are also bamboo shoots and what
looks like sort of banana. Ginger in
half dozen forms is also canned.
Among other delicacies are Chinese
candles, sold at rs cents pound The
merchants seem to believe that Ameri-
cans are fond of sweets. and the stran-
ger is assured that all the canned deli
cacies are sweet. There are also
curious sailed fruits, offensive to eau
casian taste, and a great variety of
nuts.
What place, if any, does history
hold among the sciences? Is there any
thing in the phenomena which she in
vestigated, or in the means of investi-
cation at her disposal, which should
exclude her from such place alts
gether? Let us begin by making some
concessions. The historical student
labors under several serious difficulties
and is exposed to some peculiar dam