The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-06-02
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

titled my Hydropathic Cure over
400, 600 copies were sold in eight years
The annual production of salt in the
United States, according to the most re-
cent figures, is about IA, 900, 900 barrels
of $50 pounds each.
Addington park, for a cent? and
until lately the official country /: ace of
the archbishops of Canterbury, has been
sold for 1915, 600 to new millionaire
from Johannesburg.
Electrically operated cabs appear to
| be a great success in London At least
the London Electrical Cab company adj
vertises in the public prints there an
increase in capital stock.
Fuller's earth, since its discovery N
Florida in 1884, has been discovered i'll
paying quantities III Colorado, South
Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Indian
Territory and New York.
The first woman on record who held
a medical diploma was Lnna Moranda
Mazz0ni, who, ii the middle Of the last
century, filed the chair Of anatomy in
the University Of Bologna
Trinidad is perhaps the pr. ncipal
breeding place fl sea lirds in the south
Atlantic. The e.! osit CT guano is con-
sequently great There are traces of
abundant extinct reputation.
What Is rrsl;1ly the most venerable
| piece Ct fun cir IN existence is now
in the British III m. L is the throne
of Queen E&tau, Nigo reigncd in the
Nile valley some 1000 years before
Christ.
If a Chinarlan dies while being tried
for murder, the very fact Of his dying is
taken as evidence Of his guilt lie has
departed, but somebody must suffer- and
his eldest son. if he has che, is sent to
prison 1or year =
1t has teen discovered that the native
African chiefs i'll the diamond regions
have great quantities of valuable dia-
monds which were accumulated years
ago. They treasure them as charms and
are unwilling to sell them.
Among the Phenicians the wearing
of earrings was badg6 of servitude,
the same custom obtaining with the
Hebrews. The latter people said when
Eve was expelled from paradise her ears
were bored as sign of slavery.
A new method of applying chemicals
to extinguish fires is being tried in
which recess is forced in the hose noz-
zle and solid chemical inserted to be
dissolved by the water passing over it,
when the chemical substance is removed
One whale will furnish from l, 900 to
5000 pounds of bone At San Francisco
the bone is split, sorted as to color and
tied in bundles. These split pieces are
called slabs and are three to eight feet
long and weigh from three to seven
pounds.
The romance of holly is very old.
Pliny tells US how bough of holly
planted near dwelling house keeps off
lightning or cast into water makes it
become ice, or thrown at any beast
causes it to return to the spot where it
is required to be.
A British spinster, who chastised her
servant merely with cher fists, a poker,
clothes pole, a stick, hammer and
the arm of chair and by COMPRISING
her neck and kicking her." has been
punished by the unusually severe sen-
tence of IL months Imprisonment.
Country roads in China are never
bounded by fences, but are entirely un-
defined. While the farmer has the right.
to pillow up any road passing through his
land, drivers of vehicles have an equal
right, and they exercise it, to traverse
any portion Of the country at large
Lake Superior is ZOOS feet deep, Coz
feet of this body of water being above
sea level and 407 feet below it. The bot
tom of this great lake is about 375 feet
deeper down than the channels giving
admittanee to New York harbor. Lake
Erie's greatest depth is but 210 feet.
A south sea islander greets a friend
by f1inging a jar of water over his head.
In Russia it is correct for gentlemen to
press the foreheads of ladies whom they
know intimately with their lips, and in
Germany and other continental nations
kissing between men is by no means un-
! common.
Projectiles used for the United States
army for its great modern guns cost as
follows: Solid shot, 8 inch, 500. 80 EACH
10 inch, $144. so each; IL inch, $212
each; 10 inch mortar shells, weighing
800 pounds, STA each, and ~ inch
mortar shells, weighing 1000 pounds,
$195 each.
A German military critic says if we
could have all the armies of the CONT
nent on a war footing and drawn up in
one long procession, with their guns
and ammunition and baggage wagons,
the column would be more than "a, 600
miles long, and, marching day and
night, it would take nearly q year to