The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-29
GENERAL.

"A
has been started in England to promoto
the emigration of the ''superGuopU
women" to the colonies.
AN English newspaper has an adver.
tisement calling for can organist who
can also take the village blacksmith
business"
LADIES who wear sealski1 sacoueQ
are very liable not to wear them, for in
Belgium rabbit skins are successfulIv
prepared to resemble sealskin, and
thousands of rabbits. are annualIv
killed in England whose pelts 90 to
Belgium, and leave that country as GEN.
uine sealskins.
A MINER of Winnemucca, New. wa0
seized the other day with lockiaw,
Greatly alarmed, he ran to drugstore.
and was so precipitate in his entrance
that the druggist installing him for a
tramp, knocked him down. STRANGE
to say, the lockjaw was cured in.
stantly.
The bronze god Daibootz, the great
Buddhist divinity of Japan is over six
hundred years old. 1t rises, majestic
image, sixty-five feet high. There is a
tradition that this great figure was cast
from copper and bronze coins thrown
into the temple bypoor pilgrims as votive
offerings to the god.
A CORRESPONDENT who met Mrs
Christiancy on the street lately writes
that she is mure-looking 11ttle ladE
with very white skin, violet eyes and
very handsome blonde hair. She dresses
in conventional black, and by her quick
step and averted look denotes that she
shrinks from public gaze.
THE deep well which is being drilled
at Petrolia, Ont, has now reached a
depth of 1880 feet. The last ninety
feet have been drilled in a bed of pure
salt, and is still drilling. This is the
largest body of pure salt ever found, and
with an unlimited supply of cheap fuel
in the shape of oil and tar Petrolia may
supply the world with salt.
PROF. FoURNIER, in q lecture on
alopecia, says of badness: "There is
nothing ridiculous or uniformed about
it, and it confers upon the physiognomy
an expression of wisdom, experience,
and venerability. 1t adapts itself mar
velously to certain heads which would
be deformad by wig, and is the severe
beauty represented in sculpture by the
classic head of Eschylus.'
IT would be interesting to know how
much Windsor Castle has, from first to
last, cost. In 1880, on the vote for
100000 to defray the expenses incur
red by the alterations of Windsor,
member objected on the score that S4,-
100000 has already been spent, and
there was no knowing when the expense
would cease. The bill was withdrawn
for the time. Enormous sums have since
been expended.
A MAN living at Montreal obtained
two young seals, and after feeding them
about a year they became very tame,
and would go into his house and stay an
hour or two by the fire, and then 90 out
and take swim in the St. Lawrence,
returning again to the house and strik-
ing their happers against it to gain en-
trance. Finally he decided to send them
off, and gave them TO a steamboat nil.
to carry forty OF fifty miles down the
river, which was done; but the next
morning the seals made their ap-
pearance again as usual.
OLD SHEN is dead, that good old
mandarin who used to govern the
Chinese provinces of Lang and Kiang.
Though the revenues of his high office
had amounted for four years past to
between $1,500,0O0 and $2,00O,000 per
annum, he had nobly spent them upon
himself anl died poor, but owing no
one aught. During his forty-eight
months tenure of Office he had SEN
fenced no fewer than 1000 evil-doers to
suffer capital punishment. His loss is
the more poignantly deplored because his
successor bears an unpleasant reputa-
ton for administrative severity.
THE middle of April. marked in other
parts of the country by hot weather,
followed by violent storms of wind and
rain, was accompanied in California by
furious snow-storm--the severest, we
are told, ever known in the Sierra Ne
vada since the Pacific Railroad was
built. The slides of snow down the
sides of the mountain were so heavy
that great lengths of the snow-shed
were crushed in, blocking up the tracks
and rendering them impossible. Snow
plows drawn by eight engines were en-
ployed to clear the track. The snow
fell for four days in binding clouds,
until it had attained depth of four to
six feet.
THE removal of the animals from the
Geological Gardens at Castle Shannon,
Pa, was q rather exciting affair. The
collection embraced bears, buffalo,
deer, wolves, foxes, wildcats, blood
hounds, spitz dogs, opossums, raccoons,
cockatoos, parrots, paroquets, monkeys,
chickens and other beasts and birds too
numerous to mention. A fearful fight
occurred between monkey named
Greeley, three feet tall, and Mr. Frizzle
his keeper, which, after lasting nearlys
quarter of an hour, was closed by an at
tendant killing the animal to save Mr.
Frizzle's life. As it is, he is dangerously
wounded, the tendons of one wrist be-
ing severed, besides many other wounds
inflicted. The animals had grown to
like the locality, and objected one and
all to being transferred to cages.
AN accident occurred on the Columbis
River, Oregon, a few days ago, which
strikingly illustrates the human instincts
and sympathy that exist in animals.
number of horses were being conveyed