The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-14
GENERAL.

body, living there expected would be
found.
w. ii. VANDERBILT, it is announced
authoritatively, pays for bringing the
Alexandrian obelisk over. He stipu-
lated that it should not cost over So
900.
WIN. BANKS, noted Liverpool ship
builder, has left 100000 to his grand
daughter, Susan Meyers, the wife of a
laoorer at Greenpoint, opposite New
York city.
The uncertainties of the theatrical
business aye illustrated by the fact that
Miss Nelson, after q season of great
success in the East, has been playing to
almost empty houses in San Francisco.
TEN families will soon depart for Taco
MIA, on Puget Sound, Washington Ter
ritory, under the direction of the Brook
Ign On " Cooperative Colonization
Society. They will settle under the
Homestead Law.
A TRAMP consented to do small job
at digging post-holes at Carson, New,
though labor was contrary to his Gus
tom. He returned to his employers
house in an hour, threw down his
spade, and said he had changed his
mind. He had found $3.50 worth of
gold bars which some miner had buried.
LABOULAYE, President of the Franco
American Union, states that Bartholdi,s
statue of Liberty would be ready for
erection in the harbor of New York in
1888, the centenary of the Treaty of;
Versailles, which concluded peace be-
tween England and America.
The people of Maryland demand that
the law against dueling be enforced.
The people of neighboring States have
got notion of going to Maryland to
fight their duels, and the results are very
fatal to the cattle pastured near the
places where the deadly eombats take
place.
A SOCIETY for prosecuting the sys-
tematic excavation of ancient sites in
Egypt is in process of formation. Sew
eral Psychologists have promised their
support. Miss Edwards is contemplate
ing lecturing tour in the United States,
with the object. of assisting the fund.
A GREAT effort is being made to i'm
prove the dietary of the German SOL
diers. 1t is now recognized that it is not
sufficient to merely supply man with
enough bread and meat to keep him
alive, but that his bodily vigor, and con-
sequently his efficiency as soldier, will
be increased if his diet partake of a
more varied character, and if cooked in
more varied manner.
Miss SUSIE PEARY, seventeen years
old, a student in the New York Normal
College, recently swan from the foot of
Ninety-sixth Street, North River, to the
dock above Fort Lee, a distance of more
than five miles. The tide and wind
were against her. She has not been in
the water for two years to swim any
considerable distance. Before long she
is to make ten-mile swim up the Hud-
son to Yonkers.
Mons. LIE PAGE RENoUF suggests
that the ancient obelisks of Egypt
might have been intended to serve as
lightning conductors. The evidence is
found in an inscription from the tenn
pie at Edfu, published by Brugsch-Bey
in September, 1875. In the thirty-fourth
line of this text 'two large obelisks" are
expressly said to have been constructed
"for the purpose of eleaving asunder
the storm-cloud of heaven"
OLD Mrs. Sheppard collects about
$4,000 in rents every July at
Dayton, Ohio, and puts the money in a
bureau drawer. AS she lives alone, the
folly of keeping so much money by her
was long ago explained to her. In 1873
masked robbers entered the house and
took the treasure. In 1879 the robbery
was repeated in precisely the same
manner. This year she hid it carefully,
but the rascals choked her until she
told them where it was. She now
promises to put the receipts for 1881 in.
the bank.
A BOY temporarily in charge of an.
elevator in the Syracuse IN. W Savings
Bank building, thought he would like
to see the elevator work. He pulled
the rope, and to his surprise the elevator
assembled rapidly. Reaching the top it
struck and reversed itself, breaking the
starting rope, and the car descended ,
rapidly to the bottom. When the car
was raised the body of the engineer was
found beneath it. He had been killed
instantly.
THE Dumas family has always. been
remarkable for strength and address.
One night at the play Gen Dumas, the
grandfather of Dumas the younger,
flung a man out of stage box ON to the
stage. Dumas the elder was of Her.
culean strength, and Dumas the younger
excels in all games of strength and skill.
He is master juggler, and he can put
a frame of knives round a human head
leaning against board with the most
consummate surety of hand, George
Sand was brilliant pupil of Dumas the
younger, and in her later years she used
to amuse herself for days with this peril
GUS pastime.
THE agitation for seats for shop and
saloon girls has taken practical shape,
in Scotland. Recently "a staff of ladies.
made tour of the chiOf warehouses.
and shops in the leading blaoroughfares
of Edinburgh, and made inquiries as to.
the accommodation ia tie desired direc-
ton. The subject haA been agitatedi in
daily newspaper fo5' some time back,
and the committee found that in several
instances shopkeepers. and milliners had
provided seats for their saleswomsn, to
be used during GO the intervals of BUSH
.oco No fano,,. thoo 11f establish