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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Property in Milwaukee exempt from
the regular form of taxation amounts
to $179. SO7 1862. while the total
amount of property taxed in the city
is only $15S, 174,s73.15.
Nail biting among French school
children of both sexes has been made
the subject of study by Prof. Bertillon,
His statistics show that the boys are
in the majority. The girls prefer to
nibble their penholders.
In the course of lawsuit in Liver
pool recently the fact was developed
that millions of eggs are annually inn
ported to Belfast from Russia and then
sent over to England and Scotland and
sold as fresh Irish eggs
A French statistician seriously pro-
posed the establishment in Paris of a
baby market, where the children of in
different or poor parents may be
placed, to be sold to persons who can
give security to care well for them.
The Argentine Republic is without
the pale of International law. There
are no Argentine neutrality laws,
though the question of the advisabilit
of enacting such laws has been agi-
tated. Since 1870 there have been few
eases in the diplomatic rela tions of Ar
gentina involving the question of neu-
trality.
Besides being the seat of the Trans
vaal government Pretoria is the most
beautiful town in South Africa. 1t
nestles in valley. Nowhere else in
South Africa is there such a blending
of new and old or are there so many
contrasts in the way of architecture.
There are quaint, low, Dutch roofs,
sturdy English architecture and the
big government buildings completed
ten years ago at a cost of 81 100000.
Nuts are used as food in Corea. By
far the most common food nut is the
chestnut, which almost takes the place
with Coreans as the potato occupies
with us. The chestnut is used raw,
boiled. roasted, cooked fifth meat.
made into CONNECTIONS, powdered and
mixed with candy and dried whole, in
which latter condition it becomes
sweet, but is apt to be affected by
worms. Walnuts, pine nuts, peanuts
and beech nuts are also extensively
used as food.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
Where They Dance in Church.

During the octaves of the festival of
Corpus Christi and on the three last
days of the carnival strange scene
takes pace in the cathedral of Seville.
On either side of the open space in
front of the altar, within the iron
screens, five boys dressed in the cos
tune of the seventeenth century. with
tunics of white and blue silk. hats
topped up with plume of feathers.
scarfs fastened across the shoulders
and silk mantles hanging behind. take
their stand. Presently they begin a
slow and measured movement, singing
the while hymns to the patroness of
Spain and keeping time with ivory cas-
tanets. For half an hour do they
dance, and then the magnificent organ
peals forth. the bells ring and the con-
gregation that has assembled to view
the dancing streams out of the cathe-
dral
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
Paper Made from Leather

A novel use of leather is in the
manufacture of tibroleum, a new pa
per product, which is the invention of
g. Brigalant, of Barentin, in France.
This is sort of leather paper on
board, which is made from waste cut
tings of skins into small bits, and
then imp~Fsing them in large vat
containing an alkaline solution, which
dissolves the glutinous matter, but
leaves the fibers unaltered. The re-
sultant fiber is then beaten and after
ward pressed through a refner. The
stuff is run onto the wire and a very
thin paper is made, which is cut into
sheets, and while wet is placed in
piles and subjected to pressure to
squeeze the water out.-N. Y. Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
Smart Dressing at Carlsbad

The international character of the
visitors at Carlsbad never alters.
Rothschilds, Russians, French. Span
iards, Egyptians, pashas, and, of
course, Viennese, English and Amer
leans; the conversation at the springs
is very babel of tongues. Women
dress very smartly at Carlsbad, Vien-
nese and Americans sharing the sar-
torial honors. White is worn a great
deal in the early morning at the
wells, and later on in the day elab-
crate costumes prevail, but the best
dressed women keep more or less to
the tailor-made style.-London An
SWerS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

The collection of photographs from
life of foreign naval vessels in the DOS
session of the office of naval intelli-
gence IS probably not excelled by any
similar collection in the world. Through
our naval representative abroad this
department has been steadily gather
ing information in this form for many
years past, and it is not too much to
say that with the information in store
here the navy department can inform
itself at once of the exact force of any
nation at any designated point of the
globe. This information relates to
personnel and material, and is in the
main exact and official.-Chicago
Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

Among the papers presented before
the section of zoology at the recent
meeting of the American association
was one on "The Fishes of Africa as
Opponents of Former Geological Con-
ditions," by Theodore Gill, of the
Smithsonian institution. These fishes.
it seems, represent two very different
elements. One is composed of Asiatic
types, the Others of South American
types. The testimony of these fishes
is corroboratory of other evidence that
has been accommodating in the last
decade of the former existence of a
vast southern continent which united
by their southern eXtremeties Africa,
South Ar-erica and Australia and to
which the name Antarctic has been
given.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
Some Startling Figures.

At recent meeting of the Congre-
gational club, of Chicago, the general
secretary gave some startling facts
about Chicago saloons. He said: "In
one saloon on Madison street, con-
nected with theater, at seven p.
m. one Sunday there were counted
<s5 young men, and between seven
p. m. and nine p. m. 524 more young
men were seen to enter. Some of
these were standing in a row six
deep about a gambling table"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
I've a praying

mother, Tom, who has been all her
life praying for me, and | had forgot
ten till moment ago that song re-
called it all. / am lost, forever lost"
Mot if that song be true, VIII. /
had praying mother myself once,
and God knows l loved her, though |
have never sought to follow her coun-
sell"
The young men gazed on each other
in blank despair.
What is there in the name of Jesus
to save?
As if in answer the sweet, childish
voice reached them still:
''Oh, the precious name of Jesus,
How it thrills our souls with joyi
When His loving arms receive us,
And His songs our tongues employ
81 can't give up drink now" said
VIII, as he clasped his hands in mute
despair.
"Oh, Win, let us break away from il
altogether; it is destroying our lives"
IF l only could! Oh, if l only
could"
"If that song be true we need not
despair. The dying thief was saved
on the cross and we haven't got far
yet. Come to my room. I've Bible
there in my trunk that mother gave
to me-"
The young men entered the room
ard bent over the open book which
had been sealed to them so long.
"Whosoever will, let him come Ho.
every one that thirsteth. come. I
came not to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance" What new
and wonderful meaning the words
held! How they thrilled the hearts
of the young men with hope and cour-
age!
Though your sins be as scarlet!'
that's me-" sobbed Will.
'But read on, read on" he says.
"'They shall be as white as snow.
Oh, the beauty of such religion
which can blot out all the iniquity of
the past and preserve US from future
evil"
1t is three weeks later and in a
quiet and humble home far from the
Oln OF Ine Guy Sau-1aceu mother is
performing her usual round of duties.
at is so long, now" she sighed" and
then it was a mere line. stating he
was well. Oh, God, preserve my boy
and bring him into Thy kingdom
Good day, neighbor. Here is a let
ter for you" cried CHEEKY voice.
From Will.' she said as she seat
ed herself and tore the envelope.
Saved Oh. God. | thank Thee
she cried a moment later. land my
faith had grown SO weak. | shall
never doubt again, but rest forever
in the fullness of His words"
Little Bessie. the saloon keepers
daughter, never knew the wonderful
influence eXerted by her simple song,
but VIII and Tom never passed by the
attractive room where Brown dis
played his choice liquors without
thanking God that the owner had a
praying wife who had early in life in
structed her daughter about Jesus,
who is mighty to save.-National Ad-
vocate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
Science Improves on Nature.

A diseased larynX caused loss of voice
to man in Sydney, Australia. Prof.
Stuart, of the University of Sydney.
made an artificial larynx, and it can
be so regulated as to make the voice
soprano. tenor, contralto or bass,
whichever the man chooses.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

Nell-She was very popular at The
shore this summer, i understand. At
least the men seemed to like her.
Believes; the designing thing!
She went around boasting that she
didn't care for ice cream or soda wa
ter.-Philadelphia Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

Willie-Ma, what's financier?
Maxwell, l don't know as | can
explain it so that you would UNDER
stand it, but it's something very diff
ferent from your father.-Somervill
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01

The earl of Dyssrt is presenting a
piano to each family on his estate
where he finds that any of the children
show an aptitude for music.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-11-01
French Wine from California

California wines reimported from
France with French labels are sold at
prices that pay all expenses and give a
good profit.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-20


him and spoke to hira Just now, think
ing he was JUST lying there, and he
didn't answer, and then ] saw he was
asleep. But | never knew him to sleep
50 Sunday night. He usually reads up
in the study"
Perhaps he is sick. l will go and
see
Mrs. Hardy rose and went into the
other rooms and just then the younger
boy Will, came down stairs. He said
something to his mother as he passed
through the room and her came in
where the girls were, carrying one of
his hooks in his hand.
Say, Alice, translate this passage
for me, will you? Confound the old Ro-
mans anyway! What do I care about
the way they fought their old battles
and built their old one horse bridges!!
What makes me angry is the way
Cesar has OF telling a thing. Why
can't he drive right straight ahead in
stead of beating about the bush so?
II | couldn't get up a better language
than those old buffers used TO write
their books in I'd lie down and die. \
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-20
tgo Ms CONTINUED
MGnano 9nnfeetfonery.

Like the American girls, Hindoo girls
are ~passionately fond Of sweet things.
One Of their candies sadu-is very
much like y plain sugar candy. It Is
made OF sugar aud milk and Favored
With altar - roses Baddhikabal, OF
haii Of Bualia, is one Of their most
" ulat aeats- 1t Il 80 called Ike
Illta il is ID ilc lags stri Hike YER
miceili. fhis is made OF Sugar aud
cream from br.ifaio milk. which is ex-
cee3iagly rich Tta Women pass most
OF their Inae cutting candy and gossip
ing.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-20


.sSag. Bess. I goetast some sgtoasg eqatl,.n
can find tie old verb to that sentence.
anyway. Maybe frs around on the 9th
ei page somewhere, or maybe Cesar
lett II out Just on purpose 10 plague us
boys.
And VIII SHE'D che book over to Al
ice, who good aatgredly began to read,
while that, much suffering youth sat
down by Bes5 and began to tease her
and Clara.
What are zen and Cara doing at
this time OF day? Tire yeu youngsters
were going up Stairs. Play us a little
tune, Bessie, will you? What You been
crying for, Clara We're de vere?'
Il should think you would be asham-
ed of yourself. VIII, studying on Sun
day nights!!" said little Bess reproying-
~ and with dignity.
No worse than sparkling Sunday
nights" retorted the incorrigible Will.
81 haven't been replied Bass, indig-
nantly. I've been with Glara"-
:.she doesn't need, any neips does
sheY' ina1ired VIII innocently. And,
going over where Clara ley with her
face hid III the pillow of a large couch.
VIII tried TO pub the pillow out from
under her head.
Let me alone, Win. / don't feel
we'll" said n mufiied voice from the
pillow,
"Pshawi youtre foeling!m
'No. lsfil not. Let me alone.'
"Colne ilera, or Won't read your SEN
tence for YOU" called Alice. And viii
reluctantly withdrew, fer he knew
from experience that Alice would keep
her word.
"All right. Now, so ahead; not too
fast. Here! Wait a minute! Let me
Write her down. | don't intend to miss
tomorrow if l can help it. And old
Romulus will call me up on this very
passage, | know. BE just like him,
though, to strike me on the review"
AT that mlnnte the door opened, and
in came George. the elder boy and the
oldest of the group of children. He
hung up hat and coat and strolled into
the room.
where's mother?'
shes in the other room,a answered
Bess. Fathers been asleep, and moth
er was afraid he was going to have a
fever
'4rhat's one Of your s~toties,' said
George, who seemed in q good natured
mood. He sat down and drew his little
sister toward him and whispered to
her:
"say. Bess, want some money
again"
"Awfully?" whispered Bess.
yes; for a special reason. Do you
think you could let ME have a ~little?D
why, of course You can have ali
my months allowance. But why don't
you ask fatherg'
NO; / have asked him too much late
ly. He refused point blank last time.
| didn't like it the way he spoke"
"Well. you can have all mine,' said
Bess, whispering.
George and she were great friends,
and there was moi a thing Thai Bessie
would not have done for her bie broth
er, who was her hero What he want
ed with so much money she nevar
asked.
They Were still whispering together,
and Clara had just risen to 90 up
stairs, ana .llice and Will had finished
the translation. and Will was Just on
the point OF seeing how near he could
come to throwing the"Cemmentaries of
Caesar Into an ornamental Japanese
jar across the room, When Mrs. Hardy
parted the curtains ut the arch aud
beckoned her children 70 come into the
next Her face was exceedingly
pale. and she was trembling as if with
some oleaf tarrnr
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-20

In India there is more wealth than in
ttHg country in the world. Colo, fall
4cs, jewels and spices for ages these
have Been produced and found in this
iand- One Of the Indian princes owns
ie,vels valued at $4,000. 900.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-16
SLUMP IN BRITISH BUTTONS.
London Toy Merchants Complain of
Too Much War foy Their
Business

In anticipation of the demand which
will set in with the coming of Santa
Claus, manufacturers of toys in Ger
many and France are engaged in turn
ing out novelties for the Christmas
season, and the wholesale merchants
of London are laying up huge stocks
of goods says the Mail.
| For n forecast of the toy of 10000
a representative of the Daily Mail
sought in the busy quarter of Hounds
ditch, where a member of Fraenkel
Bros. was found behind the ramparts
of novelties for the coming season.
LET me tell you one thing" said
he; before ] begin to talk about
Christmas goods. The Chinese war is
an absolute failure from the toy sell
er's point of view. Those who mag
ined that the success of the South At
rican war toy would be repeated in
the case of China have fallen in badly.
There is mechanical Boxer, for in
stance. You wind him up and he
swishes an AK around, but no one
wants him, and although the Boer war
toys are dying slowly there's more
life in them yet than ever there will
be in any of those designed specially
for the China business. Even an ash
tray bearing Admiral Seymour's like
ness was an utter failure.
I'm buttons there has been an awful
slump, one merchant of my acquaint-
ance having no less than 100000 of
them in stock, without the faintest
prospect of clearance. And stocks
elsewhere throughout the United
Kingdom are equally large.
''1n spite of these evidences of wan
ing popularity, however, | still think
that the war toy will figure largely
this Christmas, and / know that
swords, guns, helmets and soldiers are
asked for in such quantities that man
ufacturers are having to refuse fur
Their orders.
THE ingenious mechanical toy will,
I think, fall off in the market for the
coming season, but dolls, especially
the coon ones, will be Unprecedented
ly brisk.
"Among the novelties will be found
the choral top, which on being set
going plays a variety of melodies.
Magic lanterns, with war slides, will
be in great favor, and for those who
can afford a high-class toy here is the
coon gentleman, who puffs
most naturally at his cigarette. That
will cost you five pounds, but that ex-
cellent imitation of Cinquevalli's UNI
brella and ball trick may be had for
one shilling.
ut will certainly be season of good
toys at a moderate figure"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-16
"STAR-EYED EGYPTIANS"
Their Social Condition Is Far from
EnviabIe In These Degen-
crate Days.

The condition of the women in
Egypt has greatly changed since the
old days when Cleopatra reigned SUI
preme upon the Nile and had the
whole wrold at her feet. Miss Carrie
Buchanan. a missionary of seven
years experience, testifies that wom-
ans lot is, perhaps, the most deplora-
BILE feature of the country. "They are
rated below brutes," she says. "A
man might speak of his domestic an
imals, but to mention his wife's name
in public is breach of etiquette in
its worst form. Ii it does happen
that by a slip of the tongue the wife's
name is spoken the husband splits on
the ground Immediately afterward,
to show his contempt and cleanse his
mouth.
Most of the people in Egypt" says
Mrs. Buchanan, "are of the Moham-
medan faith, and are yet controlled in
a large measure by the ruling hand
of the Turkish empire She says it
is the religion that has caused numer-
GUS uprisings in Egypt and that the
spirit of the Mohammedan faith is
responsible for the riotous and I'M
ruly Boxer element in china.
But Egypt is facing a brighter fu
ture, and with the 1876 schools flour
ishing, with an enrolment of 10000,
1900 of which are girls, there is ample
ground for. encouragement. Many of
the wealthy Egyptians and those of
the higher classes are now DESTROYS
of bringing their daughters up in the
sending them to the mission schools |
for American education.
"0ne of the greatest hindrances the
missionaries experience is the lack of |
home life and influences, which form |
foundation on which 10 build char
acter. When a woman enters into |
the matrimonial contract under the |
Mohammedan law she practically en-
tiers upon life's imprisonment. A
small percentage of the population
that is not Mohammedan is less strict |
in imposing matrimonial obligations,
and a wife may leave the house five
years after the marriage ceremony,
providing there has been no death
in the family. Each death adds one
year TO a wife's exclusive domestic
duties, and so many members of the
same family live under the same roof
that unless health is extraordinarily
good chances are very meager that
the wife will get an outing until the
last rites are said over her body.
This condition has eliminated all that
% implied by the word home"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-16
WEN | GIFTS HOME.

It's moughty tiahsome layin' 'roun'
Dis sorrer-laden eartiy groun'
An oftentimes | thinks, thinks l,
Twould be a sweet ting DIES to die,
An go long home.
Home whaih de friens l loved II say:
Yves waited fu' you many day,
Come hyeah an res yo'self, an know
9ou's done wild sorrer an wild woe.
Now you's at home"
Wen | gifts home some BLESSED day,
| lows to th'ow my caihs erway,
An up an down de shinin' street,
Go singin' sof an low an sweet,
Wen l gifts home.
1 wish de day was neah at han,
is tiahed of dis grievin' Ian,
Is tiahed of de lonely yeahs,
l want to des dry up my teahs,
An go long home
Oh, Mastah, won't you SEN de call?
My frien's is daih, my hope. my all.
rs waitin' whaih de road is rough,
l want to hyeah you say: Enough,
T. or man, come homer'
Paul Laurence Dunbar, in Saturday Even
ing Post
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-16
Deafness Cannot Ne Cured

BY local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear There 10
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition of the mu-
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets infamed you have rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases of Of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
81. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-16
Monument Nenr Sahara Desert.

A monument statue of the late Car
dinal Lavigerie was recently dedicated
at Biskra, on the confines of the Sa-
hara desert. The cardinal is repre-
scented standing, his eyes turned to-
ward the desert, holding in his right
hand his pastoral cross, which he
seems TO be planting in that desert
land toward which went forth all his
aspirations as bishop and colonizer.