The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-03-10
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and fine.
| As an example of the frauds TO
which the charitable are constantly ex-
posed, Philadelphia lady, directress of
a soup-house in that city, says that, in
stead of a pass book to record the num-
Der of quarts of soup served out daily to
an applicant, handbook was by mis-
take handed to her the other day, which
showed several hundred dollars on the
credit side.
An aged man arose IN one of Mr..
Moody's prayer-meetings in Boston and
asked for prayers for an unconverted
wife. How long have you been Chris
tian?" asked the evangelist Thirty five
years." was the reply. And she not
converted in all that time?" was the quiet
remark of 1Lr. Moody. The man was
touched with the reply, and before the
meeting closed asked for prayers for
himself.
The St. Louis Sanitarium is a char.
table institution for the reformation of
drunkards and opium-eaters. Patients
are treated as inmates, and medicine and
advice are also dispensed to outsiders.
Non alcoholic tOnics are prescribed for
those who babitually resortto stimulants
when overworked, and lectures are
i given in which the nature and conse-
quences of drunkenness are described.
The managers now ask that liquor-deal-
ers be taxed to support the Sanitarium.
A 1t makes an editor feel sad, and i'm
= pels him to abandon the idea of having
all his gold plate, diamond jewelry,
costly bronzes, and other valuables de-
posted in his tomb, when he reflects that
a few thousand years hence some DR..
Paul Pry Schliemann may come along,
break open his grave, and rifle it of its
contents. 1t would have been money in
old Mr.. Agamemnon's pocket7-or rather
in his tomb-if he had kicked can of
nitro glycerine instead of dying a natural
death.-NOrriStoao Herald.
A pleasant instance of true gener-
osity and its reward occurred recently at
Rockport, Mass. A woman who sup
ported her two children by hard work
was asked by fellow workman in the
mill TO aid in making purse g for poor
woman" She had but sixty cents left
to carry her and her children through
the month, but she gave twenty-five
cents A little later the person returned
and told the woman the purse was meant
for her, and handed her twenty-five dol
lars.
About midwinter city editors throw
out valuable hints and suggestions to
faTmers-something after this fashion
Now is the time to paint your peabrush
and perform other indoor work. White
Nt-aC oh,
look after your next seasons bean-poles,
and trim off all superfuous sprouts. Oil
your garden rakes before spring sets in.
Bury your grindstone in the cellar to
prevent its freezing" etc. Farmers can
save more than fifty dollars by not fol-
lowing this advice.
"A woman named Marie Celvet was
recently sentenced to twenty years at
hard labor for the murder of her sister
Julie in Paris. While the trial was 60
ing on she constantly wore long Grape
veil. Why do you wear this veil?"
asked one of the officials. To which the
sweet girl gently replied: 81 am in
mourning for my poor sister" This
fairly matches the French parricide who,
on being asked what he had to say after
his condemnation for killing his father
and mother, entreated the court to
have mercy on poor orphanm
The bill for REFRESHING abuses by
the clergy, now before the Italian Parlia-
ment, provides that any clergyman who
breaches or writes against the laws or
acts of the Government, or who dis
tributes papers to provoke disobedience,
shall suffer two years Imprisonment and
pay fine of $500 If the Pope issues
an encyclical against the Government,
and a priest repeats or circulates the
document, he will also be imprisoned and
fined. If priest refuses the sacrament
to any citizen, or disturbs the public
conscience or the peace of families, he
will be exposed to similar punishment by
the Kings Government.
"A very peculiar feature in life-in-
surance business has been brought out
by the testimony in the case of the in
solvent Continental Life-Insurance Com
pany of New York. One Hammond was
employed as an agent on salary of
, $4,000 a year, to travel in the South
and West and freeze out policy holders
He represented that the company was
, insolvent, and, by creating a panic
among the policy holders, bought up the
policies for twenty-five cents on dollar,
or Whereabouts. This effected an enor-
nous saving to the company on policies
nearly due, and was done for that pur-
pose. Mr.. Hammond states that risks
amounting to $500, 900 in California were
extinguished by this process, and policies
outstanding to the amount of $4,000
600 were brought down to $6O0,0 in
two years.
-Mdlle. Titiens, in concert at Ply
mouth, England, in response to an en-
core, gave the well-known song "Kath-
leen Mavourneen" In noticing this a
local paper says: The author of Kath-
leen Mavourneen' was Mr.. Crouch, a
Plymouth music-master, who received
for the copyright five-pound note. He
left the town quarter of century ago
About a year ago Mdlle. Titiens, being in
New York, gave Kathleen Mavourneen'
as an encore, the only time she did so
while in the States. 1t excited Juror
of applause, and when it had subsidized
she was told that some man, presumed
to be a lunatic, was fighting his way
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