The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-04-11
or GENERAL INTEREST.

streets now docked, now with long
Iails. The manufacture of false tails
TOT horses has reached so high a de-
gree OF perfection that IKE counter
felt may be bucIied onto the stump of
locked horse and he will travel along
beside mate with natural long tail,
defyiLg detection.
deorge Washington'i private Sec
rotary, Isaac Andrews, lies buried Just
east OF the old Baptist church in the
yllagS of Dundee, Yates county. n. y.
bis death occurred in 1929, at the adj
vanced age of 30 years. For great
lufny years he was a prominent man
IN That section, and was a particular
taetor in the organization of Yates
county. At the beginning of this CEN
fury he surveyed the old ana ,lew pre-
emptlon lines, upon which all suisse
qqent surveys have been made.
IA man who lives to the limit Of
three score years and ten, il in fair
health and average appetite, will have
eaten IN that time about 13, 900 pounds
OF meat, about 10000 pounds of bread
and vegetables, about %, 900 eggs and
5000 pounds of fish, chicken and game.
he VIII also have consumed about
lS,OoO gallons of various fluids, or
AAugh to make lake covering four
lsSAn extent and two feet deep. In
.sftas, he will have eaten four
tdeA lions of solid and drank three
hfndred barrels of liquid refreshments
consul Penfeld's report that not
ohe merchant ship flying the flag of
the United States passed through the
Suez canal in 1894 does not greatly
differ from the reports on the subject
in other years For the decade in 1870
and 1880 Only fifteen ships flying the
United States flag passed through the
canal, and of these several were ships
of the nav. Only one ship flying the
United Safes flag was reported as
passing tie canal in 1888, and there
have beer years since when no Ameri-
can vesse of any sort passed through
the canal
Another one of those rare instances
in whichthe ''forked fury has drawn a
photograph upon glass is reported
from the observatory situated on Mount
Arie, near the summer resort of West
Baden. One of the astronomers of that
institution on making an examination
of the object glass of one of the tele-
scopes was surprised to find a perfect
photograph of a flower upon both
lenses Of the instrument 1t is be-
lieved that the photograph was drawn
by lightning, the glass having been
left exposed during storm on one of
the upper platforms of the observatory.
The flower is one known only in the
Mount Arie country.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd is the
largest steamship company in the
world, its vessels measuring Is, 900 tons
more than the Peninsular & Oriental.
which comes next. 1t began IN 1873
by running 3 small steamers be-
tween Bremen and England. and three
years later opened line to New York.
1t now has % lines, including 2 to
South America, to eastern Asia.
and l to Australia. 1t has SO steam
Aels with total of 242, 367 tons Of
AS4ek;ther great companies the PENN
sdSs1 ~ Oriental steamers measure
227060 tons; the Navigazione Generate
Itaiana, 191, O37; the Messageries Mari
times, ia, 900; the Campagnie Generate
Tnnsatlantique, 173, 800; the Ham burg
American, 166, $50; the Austrian Lloyd,
1882; the Anchor line, 1876, SIP; the
Allan line, 1877 sci; the Cunard line,
1859, and the White Star line, 90. 226
TheSa fiU1lreS are for 1902
There was one smirch of a foreign
made article about the famous ship Old
Ironsides When she was at Boston,
shortly after the war of 1912, being
fitted for cruise in the Mediterranean,
she was visited by a distinguished
British naval officer. He went all over
the ship, and after having made
thorough inspection of her he returned
to the quarter deck and said: This is
one of the finest frigates, if not the
very finest, l ever put my foot aboard
of, but, as | must find some fault, I'll
just say that your wheel is one of the
clumsiest things l ever saw and it is
unworthy of the vessel" The Ameri-
can commander, who had accompanied
the English officer on his tour of in
spection, replied: THAT wheel, sir, is
the only thing English in the ship
When the Constitution captured your
British frigate Java in 1912, Our wheel
was smashed into splinters by shot
from the Englishman. After the bat
tie was over the Java's wheel was
taken aboard the Constitution and
q IL Il
and, although we think it as ugly as