The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-09-25
GENERAL.

AT some of tho fashionable funeral.
in New York two or three furniture wac
ons had to be hired to carry the dorsl
decorations to the cemetery.
A BBE-sTING caused the horses of M,
0. w. Wilson and Miss McGaghey's car
riage to plunge down steep bank At
Newcastle, Cal. The ladies escaped with
slight injuries, but the horses were killed
and the buggy wrecked. ...g~
THE passes of officials of the State
railways in India are made of gold on
silver. The General Manager, who has
the freedom of all the lines, wears a GOLD
pass on his watch-chain, about the size
of 500 gold piece. His subordinates
wear silver.
THE port of Guaymas, the Mexican
terminus OF the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad, on the Pacific coast,
is all aboom with busting preparations
for the great changes so close at hand
Property has advanced 300 per cent. and
hundreds of Italians are grading the
roadways, depots and wharves.
A LADY at White Sulphur Springs.
when asked by reporter for descrip.
ton OF her dress, said "I don't wear
very handsome costume, but have
the incest husband and two of the sweet.
est children in the room.' For sound
sense and happy fortune she deserves
to rank with the mother of the Gracchi.
AT a ball given on board ship by the
officers of the British war vessels
Calcutta and Excellent, the decks were
put into good condition for dancing bv
sailors, who, before the arrival of the
guests, danced on them ~senae--hours
with vigor to the music of whistles and
other Instruments played by the officers
quite Ia Piraafore. t. ~
The widow of Charles De Long.
formerly a minister to Japan, has a CUP
and saucer which were presented TO her
husband by the Mikado. They are of
jade, dark green ware, regarded by
the Japanese as possessing miraculous
powers. They are valued at about
$1,000. A Chinese visitor stole them
from Mrs. De Long, in San Francisco,
but she found them in pottery store.
FROM Mayor Harrison's speech at
Chicago, on the occasion of the dinner
given by visiting Baltimore Masons:
Baltimore was the first large CITY I
ever saw. AS boy went to it. Walk
ing along Baltimore Street, seeing its
beautiful women, oh, how l wished I
were man! l did not visit it again for
long years. A little while ago l went to
it. Gray hairs were upon me. I walked
along Baltimore Street and saw its won.
en-, and said, sob, how wish were a
boy!"
The annual number of deaths among
persons engaged in sorting camel's hair,
alpaca and mohair wool is so large as to
have led to an inquiry into the causes Of
such mortality. The inhalation Of dust
and fine hair, as we'll as the exhalations
of decomposing animal matter, produce
low form of pneumonia, which be.
comes rapidly fatal. Of nine wool
sorters in the same room, three died
within about a month of each other after
a short illness. They had previously
been healthy men and lived miles apart.
THERE is story that the Duke Of
Argyll and the Duke of Sutherland were
once travelling together. by rail, when
commercial traveller entered the car.
riage. The new conner took his share
in general conversation till one of the
peers got out at a station. The com,
mercial traveller then asked his compsn-
ion if he knew who the "party" was,
and enlightened exclaimed, "Dear me!
was that really the Duke of p Just
think of his talking in that there affa-
BILE way to a couple of little cads like you
and mel"
THOSE who attend church services
sometimes suffer annoyance from
failure to catch the number of the hymn
by reason of the imperfect enunciation
of the clergyman. In the First Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in New Haven,
Conn, the numbers of the hymns to be
sung are posted in neat gilt figures on
one of the central pillars of the organ
front. The present pastor of that church
is model in distinctness of utterance,
but if any auditor, from a defective
sense of hearing or other cause, should
fail to understand the number, he has
only to glance at the figures on the
organ.
In the spring of 1873 some intelligent
women of New England village an
nounced that on a day named there
would be the best dinner they could pre-
pare for men who would come for a
day tree planting. The result was the
setting out of thirty trees. The year
1874 was dry, and anxiety was felt about
the trees. A few were cared for by
those who lived near to them, but twenty
three remained to be looked after.
Twelve women induced man to send
his horse with water barrel, and with
their own hands they gave to each tree
a barrel, and saved it. This is pro-
ceeding which deserves wide imitation.
A FUNNY scene took place not long
ago in the House of Commons. Mr..
Gladstone and Lord Elcho rose at the
same moment to present petitions. At
ter the usual amount of courtesy between
the two gentlemen, each offering to give
way to the other, Lord Elcho sat down
and Mr.. Gladstone had his turn first.
Thereupon he presented long petition
from tenant-farmers of Haddingtonshire,
Lord Elcho's constituency, against the
hares and rabbits bill. This raised
laugh, for the noble lord is most stur-
dy opponent of the bill. But the laugh
had hardly died away when Lord Elcho
rose in his turn and presented petition
against the bill from Sir Thomas Glad.