The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

Egyptians moved their blocks of stone
are to be seen in the Cairo museums
-Narragansetti is corruption of the
Indian name Naiaganset, ''at the point. F."
There goes a man that really and
truly loves the game of football" rs
he the captain of the" Great Scott,
no! he's druggist. Inter Ocean.
Topping" tobacco plant means
breaking off the upper end of the stem
in order that the strength of the plant
may all be concentrated in the leaves
rather than in flowers and seeds.
-Snuff-taking is still largely prac-
ticed in Great Britain, France and Ger
many, though by no means to the ex-
tent that it was in the last century,
when, whether he used snuff or not,
every gentleman carried box.
"A new thing in womens clubs has
been organized at Princeton, Me. They
call it the Snow Plow club, and its
members are to hold teas, socials and
fancy fairs during the winter with the
object of raising funds to keep the
streets and sidewalks clear of snow.
There is a breed of cats little
known outside of Maine, and desig-
mated in that state as coon" cats.
Animals of this species are tortoise
she'll in color, and the fur is remarl-
ably thick and long, the tail being 81
bushy as to suggest that of young
fox.
-Twenty-four carat gold IS all gold;
22-carat gold has 90 parts of gold. of
copper; 1s-carat gold has IS parts of
pure gold and parts each of silver and
copper in its composition; 12-carat gold
is half gold the remainder being made
up of 81 parts of silver and 81 parts
of copper
One of the queer customs of Russia
is shown in the recent death of the
car. When the disease of Alexander
at Livadia was announced the people
made merry over the accession of the
new ruler, and after the festivities
were concluded they began mourning
for the dead monarch.
"A Mexican paper states that new
project for the sanitation of the sewers
in the city of Mexico, at cost of about
S25, 900, calls for the building of some
twenty-five windmills in different parts
of the city to rotate paddle wheels in
the sewers and quicken the current to
one meter per second.
The late Mrs Josephine NJ. BAG
chus, of Brooklyn, left to each of her
two daughters diamond to be worn in
hand, that by this the daughters might
be reminded of the three virtues she
most wished them to possess-truth,
purity and patience.
Have you ever felt your heart best
fast, and the tears rush to your eyes,
and a sense of victory flood your soul
as the sunlight floods the skies? And
and whence those sweet tears rise; but
you know, though you age with thou
sand worlds, that youth beyond them
lies.-W. R. Thayer.
The members of the chorus of the
Imperial Opera at Vienna are in-L-
sudden danger of becoming million
aires. During the first two years they
are regarded as students, and receive
no compensation. The next three wears
they get twenty-five forms about $40
a month, to which 50 a month is annu-
ly added till, in eight years, the maxi
mum of $2S month is reached.
The greater part of what we see
when we look at Jupiter is probably
mass of more or less heated clouds,
suspended around the hot core of the
planet within-a cloud ball, Sc, 500
miles in diameter. Above Jupiters
eQu2 tor the surface of those clouds is
whirling along at the rate of more
than $1,000 miles an hour in conse-
quence of the planets rapid rotation
on its axis.
In making treaties with China,
each foreign country has chosen its
own name. England is Wing kwo, the
fiourishing country; France is Fa kwo,
the law-abiding country; the United
States, Mel kwo, the beautiful country:
Germany Je kwo, the virtuous coun-
try: Italy, kwo, the country of Justice;
Japan is il kwo, the land of the sun, but
she prefers to be called il pen, the land
of the rising sun.
People are apt to confound mere
alertness of mind with attention The
one is but the flying abroad of all the
faculties to the open doors and win
dows of every passing rumor; the other
is the concentration of every one of
them in single focus, as in the
alchemist over his alembic at the mo-
ment of expected projection. Atten-
ton is the stuff that memory is made
of, and memory is accumulated genius.
--Lowell.
During the reigns of William Ru-
fus, Henry /. and Stephen all sorts of
extravagant shoes We're worn. The
toes were sometimes long and pointed
and sometimes made to curl like a
rams horn. Occasionally they were
twisted in different directions, as
though the feet were deformed The
clergy protested and threatened, but
the fashion continued in spite of the
maledictions. Several persons were
communicated for wearing pointed
Shoes but they took the risk
The jaw bones of whale are some
times twenty feet in length, and the
mouth when wide open is twelve by
eighteen feet. The throat, however, is
so small as scarcely to admit hens
egg. The whale gets his living by
straining the animalcul9 and small