The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-31
GENERAL.

creased $4,000, O00.
A TRAMP in West Virginia stole a
ride on a train, entering refrigerator
car, where he was shortly afterward
locked up and nearly frozen to death.
THE Indians are reaping a rich har.
vest in the vicinity of Quilent, Wash
ington Ter, by catching fur seals. The
profits of one days work frequently
So to $40 each, according to size and
quality.
| A GERMAN-Professor Siemering, of
Berlin--has received the commission to
execute the equestrian monument to
George Washington, to be erected in
Philad elphia. American, English.
French, and Italian artists were also
among the competitors.
A PARTY of seventy students and for
mer students of Elmira, IN. W Female
College has started for the Lake Supe-
rior copper district. 1t is the thirtieth
annual scientific and pleasure excursion
made under the auspices of the college.
PATRICK KEARNEY, an Oregon pio-
neer, who in 1862 threw into the sea
bag of gold, the hard earnings of many
years, to rescue little girl from drown
ing, is still hard at work in mine on
the Pacific coast. He says that he does
not regret the loss of the gold.
MANY American farmers have Hsan
idea that they must eat meat three times
a day. This is a great mistake, espe-
cially in summer, when it would be far
more for their health to eat fruit and
vegetables, and less meat. An English
laborer, who works as hard as the
American, seldom has meat more than
once day, and often finds himself
without it for days together.
The Queens baker having received
the first barrel of flour of this years
American wheat crop, has presented
loaf thereof to her Majesty, and issues
a circular to his customers saying that
of the many wonders of the nineteenth
century, to eat bread which is the re-
suit of an 1880 harvest in May,
1880, is not one of the least marvel
Gus.
A LITTLE girl visiting friends at Melrose
highlands, near Boston, while playing
in the barn, fell from the haymow into
a stall, and impaled herself upon the
horn of COW, the horn passing through
her cheek into her mouth. Luckily the
COW was gentle, and the little sufferer,
who was only five years old, was releaS-
ed without further injury.
THE British House of Commons has
only seats enough for about two-thirds
of the members, and part of these are
very undesirable. Ordinarily the atten-
dance is very light, but Gladstone's ad-
ministration has changed that. Amem-
Der recently complained that another
member had two hats and used one of
them to reserve his seat while absent
from the building.
A WEST POINT correspondent says
that ga civilian who dares to cast look
at a girl engaged in conversation with
cadet is at once rebuked by a glance
of the sterner kind, and told in words
not expressed, but understood, that he
is nothing but a contemplate citizen, a
thousand of whom she can have at her
feet at beck or nod, but her cadet,
with a halo of prospective military
glory about his head, is not to be easily
duplicated
ICEBERGs in great numbers have been
encountered during the past three
months by steamers plying between this
country and Europe. These mountains
Of the sea greatly increase the dangers
of crossing the Atlantic, for the officer
of one steamer remarked that "the
steamship, the Victoria, recently passed
safely through channel formed by ice
bergs towering high on either side.
This event occurred about 100 miles
southeast of Cape Race.
A FELLOW in Chico, CAL, went up
into the Record Office to clean out the
establishment. About three minutes
afterward man was seen in the street
with a pair of black eyes, bloody
nose, and a completely demoralized APP
pearance. A passer-by, attracted by
his condition, asked him what was the
matter. 81 went up to see if the
editor who wrote that piece about me
was up there" "Well," said the
other, "did you see himp" " Yes"
said the injured man, "he was in"
JOHN DUNN, who rules over all the
border country that stretches in South
Africa from the sea to the junction of
the Tugela and Buffalo Rivers, wishes
his territory to be called Dunnsland. He
told Sir Garnet Wolseley recently that
the Zulus, of whom there are ten thou
sand adult males under him, have re-
turned to their agricultural pursuits,
and that the young men are marrying
freely and building huts. The guns left
among them are gradually coming in,
and no Zulu is allowed to have arms in
his possession.
THE New York Commercial states
that "it is rather a curious fact that
girls seldom marry men belonging to
their fathers profession. There are ex-
ceptions, of course, but such we believe
to be the general rule. The farmers
daughter fancies city life, the city girl
a country life, soldiers daughter
Gen. Sherman's for example-affects
the Navy, sailors, the Army. You do
not often find that a minister's daughter
marries minister, or DOCTORS doc
tor. Editors daughters, of course, know
better than to marry editors, and hotel
keepers daughter generally waits a
little"
A New BEDFORD Comm druggist,
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