The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-30
Beyond the County

WnaC is DelleVeu 10 De Cne OrlSlHdl
draft of our Declaration of Indepen-
dence. 1t was the property of the last
lineal descendant of William Penn,
founder of Pennsylvania.
On famous golf course in England,
the ashes of T. F. Halliburton were
scattered beneath a tree which was
his meanest hazard, his ball invaria-
bly, becoming mixed up in the tree at
the cost of one or more strokes.
Substituting two pennies for fuses
which had blown out, caused a serious
fire in New Mexico, which destroyed
residence and killed two children.
In the ultra-fashionable set of some
of the large cities fur coats to match
the coat of the mistress and fur-lined
overshoes, are being worn by dogs.
In New York at Lighthouse Kinder
garten for the Blind, the pupils are
being taught to use roller skates as a
means to restore their self confidence.
Their keen sense of hearing enables
them to avoid clashes to large de-
gree.
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AS shown by the latest Treasury
report, England paid on her war debt
to the United States total of $685.
795,000, two-thirds of which consti-
tuted interest charges.
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In Ottawa, Louis Dubue, 60, has
just become the father of his thirtieth
child. All the % children by his first
are living. His second wife
is SO years of age.
William S. Paley, president of the
Columbia Broadcasting system, has
just completed a penthouse apart
ment on Park Avenue, New York, of
six rooms, costing ten thousand dol
lars a room. In addition to other
compartments, he has wardrobe space
for 100 shirts and 100 neckties.
The number of known cases of lep-
rosy in the United States is 5000, 900.
The great number reported>is not due
to spread of the disease, but to i'm
proved methods of diagnosis.
In California, a power glider, with
a 40 horse power motor, having a
cruising radius of several hundred
miles, weighing 400 pounds and to
cost only 5000, is being manufac-
tured.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic ex-
plorer and oil promoter, who has
served five years of a fourteen year
sentence in Federal prison, for US
ing the mails to defraud, has been
recommended for parole. A few years
ago he claimed to have discovered the
North Pole, prior to it's actual dis
covery by Perry.
The population of the United States
is estimated at approximately 122
million souls. There is one birth
every Is seconds, one death every %
seconds, one emigrant entering every
one and one-half minutes and one en-
igrant leaving every five minutes. The
excess of births over deaths is esti-
mated at nine hundred thousand an
nyally.
Raymond Crawford, attempting to
initiate Jonah, crawled into an en-
balmed whale on exhibition, providing
himself with sandwiches, thinking it
would be cheap means of transpor-
tation. Instead of shipping the whale
to California, the boys home state, it
was switched onto a side track in Col
orado. On emerging from the whales
mouth, the boy was arrested.
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Wilhelm II, former Emperor of
Germany, in exile for eleven years at
Doom, Holland, celebrated his list
birthday the 9th inst.
In Oklahoma, 1O2 defendants,
charged by the government with be-
ing members of a well-organized
liquor ring in that state, are being
tried under the dry statute. Among
the number is former prosecuting
attorney and several other county Of
ficers. The chief witness, a former
sheriff, who had made confession of
the existence of such a ring and of
the conspiracy to evade the law, died
in hospital on Saturday.
Fear that Commander Byrd and
party, near the South Pole, would