The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-09

stations.
Saloons are permitted on San Fran
cisco ferryboats.
\ burning sun will make hair grow
on the baldest head, says an expert.
The demand for electrical ventila-
tors in India is ahead of the supply.
The 1901 faXseed crop of British In
dia is officially estimated at $500, 14O
bushels.
The Oregon Agriculturist estimates
the prune crop of that state at S,OOO,-
900 pounds.
The plague germ is supposed to
have been produced by rats eating
moldy rice.
Ships built to-day average three
and one-quarter times the size of
those built in 1878.
Idaho advices place the area sown
to flax in Nez Perces County, Idaho,
in 1901, at 10000 acres.
Orient pearls are made of the scales
of the bleak. 1t takes 1900 fish to
obtain a pound of the substance.
Alfred Vanderbilt, who is now the
head of his family, is one of the best
amateur tents players in New York.
The favorite instrument in Spain is
the mandora, of the guitar family. 1t
is usually provided with six pairs of
wire strings.
BY the advice of eminent oculists,
the authorities of Munich have decid-
ed no longer to use gas or petroleum
for lighting school rooms.
Of the 712,OOO gypsies in Europe,
100000 are in Turkey and 10000 in
Austria. Great Britain has only 49,
900, and Scandinavia 1000.
The American hog is still asserting
his primacy in the market. The best
hogs have been selling as high as
seven cents a pound on foot.
An electrical generating plant al
most as large as the Great Niagara
Falls plant will soon be in operation
at the Falls of Glomen, Norway.
Ernest A. Hamill has been elected
to the treasureship of the Chicago
art institute, a place held for many
years by Secretary j. Gage, whose du-
ties at Washington forced him to re-
linouish it.
A Toledo judge has issued an iniunc-
ton to restrain flock of some forty
ducks owned by Louis Gould from
quacking at night, SO that they will
not disturb the slumbers of Harry C.
Teal, neighbor.
A friend of Pasteur's in Paris says
that the man who was to revolution
ize chemistry stood fourteenth in a
list of twenty-five boys in the high
school of Dion and was marked
weak" in chemistry.
In the chief room of every Japanese
house there is a slightly raised dais,
which is arranged so that it can be
shut off from the rest of the ROOM
This is the place for the emperor to
sit should he ever visit that home.
According to preliminary official
statement that wheat crop of South
Australia for the season of 1900-19O1
amounted to 11,607,T91 bushels
against 8,719,536 bushels in 1S99-19oO,
the increase being 2,SSs,255 bushels.
The municipal council of st. Peters,
burg is to send an electrical expert
to the United States in order that he
may study the telephone system of
this county, with view or reorgan-
izing the one in use in st. Petersburg
Emperor William has ordered that
the second regiment of life hussars,
at the head of which was the Empress
Frederick, shall hereafter be known
as the second regiment of life hus-
sars, Queen Victoria of Prussia, No.
g."
A new Scotch lightship will have
no crew. Gas stored in tank will
supply masthead lamp by a pipe in
the hollow mast, and fog bell will be
rung by the rolling of the vessel in
rough weather, and, failing that, by
the current of gas.
The officers of the Russian naval
commission supervising the construc-
ton of warships for their govern
ment at the Cramps yards, in Phila-
delphia, are noted for the excellence
of the tea which they brew specially
their favored visitors.
The total emigration of Swedes to
America during the last fifty wears
has eXceeCed $4,000, while about $780,
600 Swedes have gone to other coun-
tries. OF the emigrants to the United
States only per cent. have returned
to their native country.
According to a state official report.
the value of farm products sold out
side of the county of production in
Nebraska in 1900 was as follows: Live
stock, $76,336,334; cereals, $3s,665, FAB;
dairy and poultry, 1892, z23; hay,
fruit, wool. ETC., $2,S57,265.