The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-24
GENERAL.

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regular summer vacation. About fifty
clergymen left New York for Eurone
during a single week in June.
WHILE thousands of men, women
and children battle in the Great Sail
Lake yearly, accidents from drowning
are unknown.
IHE Baltimore american saws that
the young ladies of the Normal School
in that city short time since sensiblv
discarded frizzes and puffs, etc.. but
soon became tired of the change and
have resumed wearing them.
A CAT, evidently opposing the tradi.
ton of her race that there is no place
like home, rode on car-truck recentlv
from Worcester, Mass, to Waterville.
Me-, where she arrived covered with
dust and cinders, but still possessed of
sufficient attractions to be adopted by
passenger.
A WORKMAN employed by the Tele.
phone Company was engaged in erect
ing wire on the roof of the St. Law.
renee Hall, Montreal, the other morn
ing. While resting he fell asleep from
the heat, and when discovered his BODY
was partly over the edge of the roof.
But for timely assistance he would have
PROBABLY rolled over into the street,
about one hundred feet below.
THE King of Dentists, as he ,ealss,, J
self, is Philadelphia curiosity. He
wears jeweled crown and gorgeous
robes, rides in respondent chariot,
and extracts teeth without charge.
While a glib-tongued attendant sounds
his praises, the King takes out teeth for
all who apply, sometimes pushing them
out with the point of his sword. Then
he sells an ache destroyer at fifty cents
a bottle.
A COW, owned in Cambria County,
Penn, has recently evinced extraordi-
nary humility and kindness of DISPOSE
ton by accepting the care of seven
young pigs which had been neglected by
their lazy and shiftless mother. No
COW could or would do more for her
own offspring than this worthy creature
does for these orphaned Stockings.
THE will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth
R. Learned, of Oxford, Mass, who was
a maiden lady sixty years old, and
whose mother still lives at the age of
ninety years, provides that after the
mothers death the testator's property,
some $4,000, shall be safely invested as
permanent fund, the net income of
which shall be distributed annually to
INDECENT widows, maiden ladies, and
orphans who are actually legal inhabi-
tants of Oxford, all such assistance to be
without distinction of party or sect.
PAUL KUNKEL, who died natural
death at York, Pa, a few days ago,
came dangerously near being hanged in
1864. A stranger begged lodging at
his house, and departed in the morning,
leaving behind an umbrella and pair
of slippers. These were identified as
belonging to woman who had been
robbed and murdered. Kunkel was in
dicted as the murderer, and his guilt
was foregone conclusion with most
persons, nobody believing his story of
the ledger. but in the nick of time the
real criminal was discovered.
COLONEL GORDON. the Enolishman
famous for bravery in China, refused
his appointment as private secretary
to the Viceroy of India. The Colonel
is said to be particularly eccentric
man, and is so honest and clever in his
own special line that his eccentricity is
overlooked. On his last visit to Eng
land he was invited to dine with the
Prince of Wales, and refused. 1t would
be impossible for him to go, he SAID;
he was always in bed at half-past nine;
and he did not 60.
Miss ALICE BENNETT, M. D., of Phil
adelphia, received from the old Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia at
the recent commencement the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy. She wore cap
and gown. She is the first woman who
has been graduated with any degree
from the University of Pennsylvania.
Miss Bennett was recently elected fe-
male physician to have the entire charge
of the female department of the new
Hospital for the Insane in Pennsylvania,
and she is the first woman who has been
assigned to a duty of that kind. She
has been Professor in the Philadelphia
Medical College for about five years.
A MODESTO in Fourteenth Street, New
York, has on exhibition an elaborate
satin gown, whose history can be traced,
without a break, it is claimed, to its
original wearer and owner, Queen Marie
Antoinette. 1t is of pale yellow, or
rather it was, for age has mellowed it to
an old-gold hue; it is richly embroidered
in clusters of flowers of natural color,
which still retain their first brilliancy.
The unfortunate queens fondness for
flowers is well known, and the models of
the pansies and roses and carnations on
this gown might have been chosen by
her from the gardens of her favorite
Petit Trianon.
TURKISH officers do not enjoy the
consideration at home enjoyed by their
profession elsewhere in Europe. A
Turkish Captain is regarded by his
senior officers with but little more respect
than private, and is sometimes struck
by his Colonel or General in moment
of anger. Even Major is barely secure
from such treatment. The pay of an
officer under the rank of General is very
inadequate and irregularly received.
The families of officers in garrisoned
towns are generally with them, and the
latter are often sorely pushed to feed
their charges. They may be seen daily
with baskets, returning from market,
seedy and partially buttonless.
Miss ROSE HARDING. q Young lady