The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-02-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

TO the name OF country, ID u NOAoAS
origin.
Corsica has 5000 square miles,
about the area of Delaware and Rhode
Island, and has made more noise IN the
world than both combined
Norway has 1913, 900 square miles,
almost exactly the size of New Mexico,
or about the combined area of Minnie
sofa and Missouri.
-WiseSt schemes by statesmen spun,
time has seen them one by one like the
leaves Of autumn fall-a little song out
lives them all.-W. f. II. Lecky.
Algeria has 100000 square miles, or
about the combined area OF the states OF
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Tennessee.
1t IS suggested that sounds too
high for our ears would be recorded by
the photograph, and might be made
audible by reproducing at lower
speed of the instrument.
"A gold-weighing machine in tiae
Bank of England is so sensitiN e that {
postage stamp dropped on the scale
will turn the index on the dial dis
tance of six inches. Ier(
Where's THAT joke I
left on your desk yesterday"
s--f m proBaoly Il ,v>s
home: it was certainly old enough ITO
know the way!'-Syracuse Post.
Ballads and popular songs are both
the cause and effect of general morals;
they are first formed and then react.
in both points of view they are an in
deX of public morals.-H Martineau.
What made him propose SO sud-
denly?" jealousy replied the de-
mure girl Il took off my hat at the
theaterand he overheard the young man
just behind call me an angel. "-Wash-
ington Star.
Rocking cradles for babies were
used by the Egyptians many centuries
before Christ. Among the pictures
copied by Belzoni is one of an Egyp-
tian mother at work with her foot on
the cradle.
1t 50 happens that the leap years
coincide with the years that are divis-
IDLE by four, and thus they may be
known. OF the years concluding CEN
turtles, only every fourth is a leap year,
beginning two thousand, which is di-
visible by four hundred, as is also two
thousand four hundred
The Erie canal is 1863 miles in
length. 1t was begun in 1877 and com.
pleted in 1925, at a cost of 1902, 900.
The enterprise was undertaken and
carried through by the state of New
York. 1t was subsequently enlarged,
and is now seventy feet broad at the
surface and tifty-six feet at the bot.
tom, with a depth of seven feet.
Rocking chairs of the styles pre-
vailing nowadays are believed to have
been invented in the present century.
The are mentioned by Venerable Bede.
The women now are so luxurious that
they do have chairs with wooden circles
on the legs and which sway back and
forth in such sort that it maketh one
sick to behold them
Among the Arabs a practice from
time immemorial has prevailed Of
churning by placing the milk in leather
skins which We're shaken or beaten
until the butter came. The Huns did
their churning by tying bag of milk
to short lariat, the other end of which
was fastened to the saddle. The horse
was put at a brisk gallop and after a
round Of some miles the churning was
considered to be accomplished.
Investigation into the cause of the
frequency of railroad accidents in the
state OF North Carolina has brought
out the fact that there are la1 ger
number of boys under Is years of age
handling train orders, employed by
the railroads of that state than by
those of any other state having the
same railroad mileage. The legisla-
ture will DE asked to pass law regul-
ating the age of railroad employees.
The cups of the Assyrans closely
resemble our saucers. Every noble
man and gentleman had his own cup
and cup bearer, the latter of whom al
ways accompanied him to feast.
carrying before him the cup of gold
silver, crystal or marble, which his
master only used on state occasions.
SaucepS for cups We're introduced in the
latter part of the eighteenth century
and ut first We're greatly ridiculed. the
persons who employed them being said
not to be able to drink without HAVING
two cups.
Here is an interesting idea foratbe
housewife who is troubled with the ap-
gravating flies hourishing in their fur
nace-heated rooms long after cold
weather is supposed to have DESTROYED
them The suggestion comes from
abroad that the fragrant geranium-
the old-fashioned rose geranium be.
loved by our grandmother keeps flies
away. moderate-sizcd geran I'm 81
this variety is said to be so Disagree
able to flies that they avoid its neigh
borhood, and two or three of those
plants in room will drive them ont
altogether.
The movement to unite Newfound-
land with the Dominion of Canada
gains strength in the province, but it is
not regarded with so much favor in
Canada. The question is raised whether
Canada would not pay too dearly for
the new acquisition, and good many
Canadians seem to be answering that
question in the affirmative. In taking
Newfoundland, Canada must take the
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