The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

1t is singular fact that many mer
of action incline to the theory of fatal
ism, while the greater part of men OF
thought believe in Divine Providence.
-BalZac.
-Raillery is sometimes more insup-
portable than wrong; because we have
I. right to resent injuries, but it is
ridiculous to be angry at a jest,
foucauld.
Cambria was first introduced into
England during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. The first piece imported
was presented to the Virgin Queen to
make ruff for her neck.
If you tell good jest, and please
all the rest, comes Dinghy, and asks
you, What was it?" And before she
can know, away she will go to seek an
old rag in the closet.-Swift.
The first use of gas in place of
public amusement was in the Lyceum
theater in London in 1903. 1t was be-
gun as an experiment, and for time
was discontinued, because the audience
complained of the odor.
O-The first London street to be light
ed with gas was Golden Lane, in 1907.
Two years later gas lamps were put up
on Pail Mall, and between 1914 and 1920
the entire central district of the metro
polls was thus illuminated.
The starfish kills the oyster by en-
veloping it closely in his arms, then,
placing his mouth to the crevice of the
shell, he injects very acrid and ven
omous juice within. The poor oyster,
disguised by the poison, opens his shell
to admit water and so rid himself of it,
and thus falls prey to the destroyer.
The sea-galley in tropical seas is
very dangerous to bathers. One of
these creatures fastened to the body
causes pain so intense that swimmers
have been known to faint ere they
could reach the shore. The pain has
been compared to that of a very acute
attack os infiammatory rheumatism.
In the county of London there are
1913 open spaces of less than ten acres
in extent. Thirty-eight are maintained
by the county council, eighty-four by
vestries, forty-one by ecclesiastical au-
thorities, the rest by various civic
bodies it is now proposed by the park
committee of the council that they be
all united under one management
Mrs. Louise Seymour Houghton,
whose translation OF Paul Sabatiers
Life of St. Francis d'Assisi" has been
so widely read, has been connected
with the New York Evangelist, OF
which DR.. Henry M. Field is editor, for
many years, and yet all these years of
hard editorial work failed to bring her
the fame she has won by the transla
ton of this popular book.
"A Central Pacific railway land
agent says there are more than two
hundred thousand head of wild horses
in Nevada. They are source of much
trouble and loss to stockmen, because
they eat off the best grass on the
ranges and leave little for cattle and
sheep. The last legislature passed
law permitting any one to shoot stall
lions found running wild.
1t is to the manner in which differ
ent colors are absorbed or reflected by
a body that its color is due If white
light falls upon red rose bush, the
red alone is reflected from the flower,
the other colors being absorbed. The
green leaves, on the other hand, absorb
the red entirely, and reflect nearly all
the green light. A rose in green light
Or a leaf in red light would appear alb
solutely black, for in each case the
light which the object can reflect is alb
sent.-Inventive Age.
Jean Francois Gigoux, the we'll
known French painter, is dead. He
was born at Besancon, in 1908, was edu-
Gated in the School of Fine Arts, and
began exhibiting in the Salon about
1881, his earlier works being chiefly in
crayon. Later he devoted himself to
historical genre and portrait painting.
Among his works many are to be found
in public galleries and institutions
He achieved great distinction by his
life-lil1e portraits of persons eminent
in public life.
Glucose, it appears, is the greatest
of all adulterants. 1t is used for max
ing cheap candy, sugars, jellies and
sirups Apple sauce is pumpkin boiled
in cider. 1t is said that the cheap con
fectionery and liquors are the articles
most injuriously adulterated. Candy
commonly contains much fusel oil and
other poisons. Strawberry ice cream
a plate of it-often contains almost
more fusel oil than five glasses of poor
whisky. 1t is colored with red aniline
dye. Licorice drops are usually made
out of candy factory sweepings. Wine
is frequently nothing but water with
percentage of crude alcohol from grain
or the refuse of beet refneries, colored
with burnt sugar, favored with oil of
cognac and given an agreeable woody
taste with little catechu. -Phila-
delphia Star.
Some idea of how much money a
successful doctor in England may accu-
mulate in the course of long life is
shown by the sworn statements made
to the probate office of the personal
property they have. In the last five
years sixty-five doctors have left e3. 5OO,-
600 an average of 0000 or $250,00O
each This is in part due to careful in
vestments by Sir William Gull, who
was physician in ordinary to the queen
and the Prince of Wales, and when he
died, at the age of ~, left fortane of
81, 720, 900. He once spoke of making
over $4,000 in single year. Seventy
five thousand dollars is probably as