The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-21
GENERAL.

Two MEN were recently arrested IN
Keyport, N. j., for using profane Ian
guage in the streets, and each was fined
| $500 for the offense. 4-rf =.
THERE is said to be an apple tree on
the premises of William Plymire, in
Washington County, Pa, which bears
nine varieties, some of which are now
ripe, while others will not ripen until
late in the fall.
Mrs. HANNAH HALLETT, P. T. Bar
NUNS mother-in-law, lives near Bridge
port, has good health, is deaf in one
ear, can read the finest print without
specs, is a great teller of stories to
children, is cheerful, and ninety-five
| years old.
THE bodies of fully two hundred per-
sons drowned in Cayuga Lake within
forty years have never been recovered.
Various explanatory theories have been
| advanced, late one being that the
rocky bottom of the lake has many
cavities in which the remains lodge.
AT weddings among the nobility of
Samoa the numerous relatives of the
bride are presented with roast pigs,
three hundred having been given on a
recent occasion. In return the relatives
of the bride give mats fringed with
feathers, some of them being valued at
$1,000 each.
'.HSNCERT was given at Mechanics
\ fialf, IN Boston, lately, remarkable from
the facts that the night was warm and
the seats in the audience room had been
recently vanished. The concert was
interesting, the varnish melted, and the
critic says the audience was riveted-
literally glued to their seats"
A CORRESPONDENT telegraphs from
Madrid that I" Prince Demidoff, who re-
Gently sold his estate of San Donate, has
just lost at play, in one night, S1,00O,-
600. The winners were Messrs.
Beutern, Boblinski and young Count
Schouvaloff. The game was baccarat,
and was played at the Yacht Club"
For forty years a centenarian ex-
soldier, who recently died in Russian
village, was stone blind. He continued
his business of tailor up to the day of
his death, threading his needle by
means of his tongue. His sense of touch
was so acute that he could distinguish
the denominations of bank notes with
his fingers.
THE two maps made by Joliet, CO.
discoverer of the Mississippi, to Illus
trate his journeyings have never yet
been printed. A third map, however,
which is regarded as of earlier date than
the others, has just been published by
M. Gabriel Gravier, President of the
Norman Geographical Society, and ap-
thor of several works dealing with early
American explorations.
INDIGNATION among the passengers
in railroad car is reported because a
lady let her pug dog drink out of the tin
cup attached to the water cooler She
replied to remonstrance by assuring
that her dogs lips were cleaner than
those of the tobacco-chewing man who
objected. He retorted that he could
whip any man who would become her
champion, but nobody volunteered.
The Soldiers Daughters Home is an
interesting British charity, twenty-five
years old. More than eight hundred
soldiers' daughters have been reared
within its walls, and three hundred and
fifty have been placed out as school
mistresses and other teachers or in
domestic service. Of the girls admitted
during the lastyear fifteen were daughters
of soldiers who were killed or who died
during the war in South Africa
! MISS GOoDsELL, of New York CITY,
heroically saved four other ladies from
drowning in the Passaic River the other
evening. Their boat was capsized by
! collision with another, and the occu.
pants OF both were thrown into the
water. Two men swan to the shore.
and Miss Goodsell, by personally swim.
ming to the shore with Mrs. Olsell.
saved the latter's life. Then she swan
back in the darkness, and by her efforts
managed to get the remainder ashore,
when all fell exhausted. i
AMONG the patients at St. Luke's Hos
! pital, New York, is Miss Lucy Osborn,
a young woman who carries on her head
an artificial scalp. 1t has taken six
years to construct this scalp The ma
terlal for building the scalp has been
furnished by 100 volunteers, and $4,000.
different pieces have entered into its
construction. Miss Osborn belongs to
New Bedford, Conn, and lost her nat
"A'.. "S"AP W ohO O1eSiiiHS VI us luAuTldHI
curls in the revolving shaft of button
factory where she worked.
In this season of boating and bathing
it is well to remember that, in a late
communication to the French Academy,
Professor Fort declared that he had re-
stored to life child of three wears old
by using artificial respiration, without
becoming discouraged, for four hours,
not having begun for three and half
hours after apparent death. Some time
before, DR.. Fournol, of Billancourt,
resuscitated a person one hour after
being taken from the water by the same
means faithfully applied.
In st. Louis saloon there is an ap-
paratus intended ostensibly for desig-
mating the weight person can lift. At
tached to the machine, and concealed
in the wall, is galvanic battery, which
the barkeeper behind the counter can
turn on in an instant. An innocent and
unsuspecting Chinaman was bantered
to test his strength. John answered,
"Me pullee i'm alice samee likee you, !"
and after the other had pulled 290, the
Chinaman caught the knob The cur
rent of electricity was turned on. and
the Celestial demonstrated his ability to
| dance the Highland fling. He sWore tc