The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-02-14
MISCELLANEOUS

of villainy; atfectation, a part of the
chosen trappings of folly.-Johnson
An able man shows his spirit by
gentle words and resolute actions He
is neither hot nor timid. Chesterfield.
-Circassia took its name from the
Scherkes, tribe of Tartar warriors
who established themselves between
the Black and Caspian seas.
How did Scrawlins get his reputa-
ton for originality?" Very simply.
He makes it rule to know nothing
whatever about the topic on which he
writes. Washington Star.
The difficulty of registering the
temperature at the bottom of the
ocean is due to the fact that at great
depths the thermometers are crushed
by the pressure.
The greatest sum of coin that was
ever collected in one spot was in the
national treasury of the United States
in the silver crisis, when no less than
$500, 900, 600 was contained there.
when lived somewhat quietly in
Boston" said New Yorker. Il discov-
cred novel use for the conventional
hat box. My chum and myself found
that our pitcher would sit up beauti-
fully in the hat box, and we used the
combination to work the GROWER No
body in Boston could suspect the pres
ence of a pitcher full of beer beneath
the innocent exterior of hat box"\
The longest distance letter cay.
be carried within the limits offhe
United States is from Key West, Fla,
to Ounalaska 6,271 miles, and all for 2
cents. People who would save money
will at once start for Key West or
Ounalaska and so address their CORE
spondence that they shall get their full
moneys worth.
China took its name from Tsin, an
emperor who founded dynasty 300
years before the Christian era. He was
the monarch who built the great wall
and accomplished many other works of
utility to the empire. 1t is also called
the Celestial Empire" because most
of its early rulers were, in the popular
belief, deities, or NEUROLOGICAL person
ages.
At Brighton, England, a Christmas
dole of half sovereign has been dis
tributed for years to the oldest poor in
habitants. 1t was given this year to
$50 persons, 95 women and So men, who
averaged over SO years of age, and, as
the day was fine, 96 of them appeared
in person, headed by an old lady of 95.
She was followed by eight more old
1,,.l, 1 4
man present was 50, but an old gentle
man of 100, who could not come, headed
the list.
Rock candy, which is only sugar in
large, hard crystals, is now produced
wholesale in tin buckets inclosed in
wooden firliins. Strings are stretched
across the buckets and upon these the
crystals form. 1t happens often that
the rock candy of to-day is not the
white, semi-transparent product of
twenty-five years ago, but a cloudy,
reddish-Drown crystal, as if made from
cheap sugar. 1t is not easily adult
terated, and crystalizat ton is an essen
TALLY honest process.
Portsmouth, N. H., claims the bis
cult in the toll bridge contest, there
being half a dozen toll bridges Wy,ss4sIirs
radius of ten miles thereof. Norther-
ly and easterly from Portsmouth are
the bridges from South Newmarket to
Stratham, from Newington to Dover
Point, from Dover to Eliot, Me-, and
from Kittery, Me-, to Portsmouth
Further east is one from Kittery to
Kittery Point, and the one from Ports
mouth to Newcastle furnishes the last
link in the chain. The only escape
from the city by land free gratis is via
Greenland and Rye.
Lovers of flowers not rich enough
to buy often have various ways of pro-
! longing the life and freshness of the
few they get. Violets may be kept
fresh if kept in fresh water and COW
cred over night with tumbler. Most
flowers will retain their freshness for
several days if kept overnight in the
open air. Any one possessed of one of
those delicate French clocks that have
to be covered with glass dome cannot
do better than sell or pawn the clock,
usually an object of neither use nor or
nament, buy flowers from time to time
with the proceeds, and use the glass
dome as protector for the flowers at
night. 1t will keep them fresh for
/ days.
-Well-were it not pleasant thing
to fall asleep with ones friends; to
pass with all our social ties to silence
from the paths of men; and every
hundred years to rise and learn
| the world, and sleep again; to
i sleep through terms of mighty wars,
and wake on science grown to more,
( on secrets of the brain, the stars, as
wild as aught Of fairy lore; and all
that else the years will show, the poet
forms of stronger hours, the vast re-
publics that may grow, the declarations
and the powers; titanic forces taking
birth in divers seasons, divers climes;
for we are ancients of the earth, sd in
the morning Of the times. -Tennyson.
One sometimes sees in showcases
filed with cigars wet sponge placed
there to keep the cigars from getting
dry. II wouldn't be just the thing to
put wet sponge in box of smoking
tobacco, but slice of carrot or a small
piece of potato will serve the purpose
there. The carrot is preferable.
| simply because it looks better its