The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-08-18
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CHINESE women set very high value
on lhe masculine @tnucr, ana their even
ing prayer 10 baudha Is 10 transform
u. mem IN 'he't next existence INTO men,
Ihey heHeVe IN metcmpsychoSIs.
HE Queen of Holland on her death
bed wrote to Il kinswoman in Paris:
Dying people are said to have a pro-
phetlc vision. / wish | did not feel that
they have. | forcscc disastrous calami-
ties in France, and in this little State to
which have become so attached. You
will not see another Queen of Holland
and a republic will not take my place"
A SINGULAR drowning accident oc.
CURED at Grand Lake. Nova Scotia. re-
Gently. An English oirl named Emmett
aged twelve, sat on a loo AT the shore of
the lake to battle her feet, and getting
into "a day dream did not notice that the
log had tloatcd ont into the lake. Sud
denly realizing her position she lost pres
encc OF mind and sprang into the water.
Strange to say, this is the sixth child her
parents have lost by drowning.
IA Repujljque FRANCHISE writes that
among the little religious images and
pictures circulated in France by the re-
dictionary societies, one represents the
Pope chained in the Vatican. He wears
a crown of martyrdom and is bound to
the floor Of a prison whose doors are
fastened with padlocks that bear the
arms of the House Of Savoy. The de-
sign is distributed in many of the
churches of Paris.
THE British Government, in view of
the supply of rubber falling short in
South America, is sending young trees
to India. The native way Of supplying
the trade with rubber is wastctul, and
the demand is increasing at an enormous
rate. 1t has been the practice to cut
down trees $50 or POO feet high to secure
one hundred weight of rubber, and thus
the forests of rubber trees in Brazil are
being destroyed.
JENNu. .TI.yE is LOOKING arounJ in Lon.
don and She saws There i . l.rl, nf fash.
ionable STYLE there in vnmrn,s dress
Enolisbwomen do NOT alter rIntbino rv.
cept for the children. The consequence
is that, while the ideas in form which
France develops are copied in every part
of the United States, this elegance Of
style is the exception in England, the
majority still wearing the straight short
wasted basqueS and Jacket, short full
Oyerskirts, and baggy sleeves, loose at
the wrists.
MDLLE DoDU, directrcss of the tcle-
graph at Enghien, France, and who oC-
cupicd similar post at Pithiyiers
Ioirct in 1870, has received the mill
tary medal for an act of courage during
the invasion. The Prussians having ar
rived in the place and seized on her
office, she carried her apparatus into her
private room on the first floor. As the
wire passed through this apartment, she