The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-20
GENERAL.


agony in dancing.
Mrs. CYRUS CHAPMAN, of Ledyard,
Conn, eloped with boy 16 years of
age.
A YOUNG lady of Boston became in
sane because she could not afford to
wear real lace on her clothes. ~st
ITALIAN army officers are now exer-
cised in the practical running of railroad
trains, so that in time of war they NAV
know all about moving troops by rail.
A YOUNG lady of Portland, Me-, was
insulted on the street by rough. She
seized him by the collar, took him to
the police station and made complaint
against him.
A CASE is puzzling the doctors at Buff
falo. Some time ago a man fell into a
well and forced into his abdomen a
large piece of wood, which came out
near his shoulder. Nevertheless he is
now recovering rapidly.
Mrs. HARRIET HAwKER, of Provi-
dence, r. L., recently started for Sagi-
nav, Mich, to rejoin her husband, from
whom she has been separated twenty
four years. They were living in Wor-
ceSter, and the husband left to seek q
place to establish himselfin business, fin
ally settling in Saginaw. The letters
that he wrote to his wife were intercept
ed, and finally after some years each be-
lieved the other dead, and it was only
by accident that Mrs. Hawker discov-
cred that her husband was still alive.
WHILE an English man-of-war, the
Wild Swan, was cruising lately off Mo-
zsmbique, slave dhow was sighted and
overtaken. In transferring the slaves
to the man-of-war, slave boy fell over
board. One of his legs was Immediate
ly bitten off below the knee by a shark,
and then the other. A sailor from the
man-of-war seeing him, jumped to his
rescue, armed only with his sheathing
knife, and succeeded not only in rescu-
ing the boy from further harm, but in
escaping unhurt.
WILLIAM B. HARRINGTON, of San
Francisco, was possessed by desire to
take life. He went before the Lunacy
Commissioners and asked to be sent to
an asylum; but they decided that his
mental trouble, if he had any, was
brought on by drink, and refused to in
carcerate him. He declared that he had
murder in his heart, and some day would
be unable to resist it. One evening he
was drinking amicably at bar with an
intimate friend. Without warning, he
drew revolver and killed his compan-
ion. 81 couldn't help,it," he said; II
had to take somebody's life.'' s..
A ROMANTIC relic of Cowpens battle
was shown by Mr.. William j. Randolph
at Kings Mountain during the centen-
NAL observance. The relic is plain
22-carat gold ring, which was found on
the Cowpens battlefield in 1921. The
inscription reads: "This and ye giver is
yours forever, 1922" 1t was presented
to British officer by his sweetheart be-
fore his departure with Lord CORVALLIS
for America. The officer, who was
killed at the Cowpens, also wore but
tons of 20-carat gold on his uniform,
and some of the buttons are still owned
in the Carolinas. One was presented to
Gen. Lafayette in 1926, and others were
sent to England, the coat-of-arms on
them revealing the family to whom they
belonged.
AT Parkersburg, W. Va, the other
day, some children, in a spirit of mis-
chief ran after and caught one of the
pigs of litter, and carried it squealing
through the gate into the yard. The old
SOW became fearfully enraged, and,
rushing into the gate, seized the first
boy she came across, and, throwing him
down, caught him by the top of his head
with her tusks and carried him scream
ing into the street, where she would
have torn him to pieces, in very short
time, but for the neighbors, who ran to
his assistance, and with great difficulty
succeeded in getting him out of the reach
OF the animal. He was carried home
and physician summoned, when it was
ascertained that the brute had tore the
scalp almost entirely from the little fell
lows head, and had inflicted other terri
BILE wounds on his body.
Miss NORWOOD, an American mis-
sionary in China, describes how the
"golden lily" as the Chinese lady calls
her little foot, is formed. When the
child has learned to walk the binding of
the feet begins. The bandages are two
inches wide and two yards long for the
first year and five yards long for subse-
quent years. During the first year the
pain is so intense that the sufferer can
do nothing, and for about two years the
foot aches continually, and is the seat of
a pain which is like the pricking of
sharp needles. With continued rigor-
GUS binding, the foot in two years be-
comes dead and ceases to ache, and the
whole leg, from the knee downward, be-
comes shrunk, so as to be little more
than skin and bone