The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-06-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

One of the athletic clubs of New
York city offers a silver medal &c
any member that rides 1000 miles
on a bicycle. The offer was made be-
fore the wheel became fashionable
rage, and as many men ride 200 miles
week, the club is likely to find the full
tillment of the offer rather taxing.
Berlin is to have a ''Sport Exhibit
ton" in preparation for which, and
to save the German language from for
eign taint committee offers prizes of
1928, $50 and s25 for German equiva-
Tents for all foreign sporting terms
The prospect of new jaw-breaking
compou nds suggested by this idea is
appalling
-Japan's small losses in men in the
battles with the Chinese were due iu
part to the accidental use of bullet
proof material. Owing to the severe
quantity of floss silk under their
clothes; this, when they were hit, was
found in many cases to have stopped
the bullets
The following were answers re-
ceived by teacher in an uptown
school from her pupils during recent
examination: The cotton gin was in
vented by Robert Morse shortly before
the war broke out" The Boston tea
party was Il famous dinner given BY
one of the colonists to the Indians.
Many celebrated people were there"
THE gold fever is fatal disease which
those who dig gold sometimes GET
Philadelphia Call.
There will soon be great reduc-
ton in the number of lawyers in
France. By recent law each one must
take out yearly license, for which he
pays an amount equal to about twelve
per cent. of his house rent Many per
sons admitted to the bar who are not
in active practice have asked to have
their names taken from the roll, among
them NJ. Fallieres, formerly prime min
lister and minister of jnstice, and SEN
ator Berenger, author of the law re-
hitting the penalty for first otfenses,
and also notedfo his efforts to improve
French morality.
1t is no easy task to sound the
whistle on fast express train" said
an engineer, recently. Take a run Of.
say. l40 miles through thickly-settlcd
country and figure it out The train
runs 35 miles per hour, and there are
about five crossings per mile. Five
times 140 is 700; now multiply 700 by 4,
the number of blasts given at each
crossing, that's $500; add the station
signals, the call to engineers of side
tracked trains, etc, and about 3,Oco
blasts are necessary. Who says that
the whistle-puller has an cas-: time?"
Conductor Pershing,, of the Pan
handle. who has just returned from the
west had a novel experience in Kan
sas sandstone, the train on which he
was passenger having been stuck in
sandstone for nearly four hours The
sand defed the efforts of hundreds of
men who had undertaken the task OF
digging it out, and there was no alter
native but to calmly await change in
the direction of the wind. Mr. Per-
shing had seen trains stalled for the
want OF sand, but never before had
he observed locomotive hopelessly
blocked by a sandstorm.
Female nudity in art comes from
prehistoric Greece, and not, as is corr
monty believed, from Babylonia, SAYS
NJ. Solomon Reinach, of the French
Academy of Inscriptions. Istar (As-
tarte) as a warrior goddess is fully
clothed and in arror; it is only in her
humiliation, when she goes down into
hell, that she disrobes. On the other
hand, statuettes of nude females have
been in the Archipelago, at Troy and
in Thrace that go back to 1900 B. C.
He infers that nude divinities penetrat-
ed from prehistoric Greece to Babvlo-
MIA, that the type was preserved by
Ph@nicia. and thence passed back to
historic Greece and to Rome.