The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-10-30
GENERAL.

selves ''funeral directors The world
moves.
THE widow of President Polk is living
at the old homestead in Nashville, and
is remarkably vivacious for her years.
CHow-PHYA-BHAMM-W oNGEsI, the
Siamese Ambassador in Paris, is to re-
ceive civilized decoration as Com
mander of the Legion of Honor.
A CIRCUS company didn't pay salar-
les, and one of the riders put an attach
ment on the center-pole of the tent, for
the amount due him, while the show
was in Kingston, n. Y, the other day.
He might just as well have taken the
backbone of the manager.
THE death of Phineas Buntnall, of
Buffalo, N. Y, in his eighty-eighth
year, closes long and eventful life in
the local history of Buffalo. Mr.. Bunt-
nall was noted for his size and strength
He was a soldier of the war of 1912, and
has lived in Buffalo since it was but
village, in 1919.
A HUNGARIAN officer named Seer
kremeshy swan across the Platten Sea.
The distance was twenty English miles,
and the time seventeen hours. The
swimmer did not suffer from exhaustion,
and frequently conversed with the occu-
pants of a boat which accompanied him.
rhe only refreshment taken was little
wine.
The commission that was appointed
to choose nurses for the royal infant at
Madrid selected five young women of
the Province of Santander, all of very
dark complexion. The one who at
tracted the most attention, Leocadia
Fernandez, is said to be of the highest
type of Arab beauty, with large soft
eyes and glossy hair.
SOME days ago letter was received
at the Kingston (Canada) post-office,
addressed "Ema Grashion, Agent,
Kingston" The question arose who is
"Ema Grashion?" After the conun-
drum had occupied official minds for
some time, a happy thought solved the
difficulty by suggesting that the letter
was not for woman, but for the emil
grafton agent at Kingston.
A RECENT visitor to FIJI says: "There
is wonderful amount of comfort to be
found in native house of good class,
if traveller have the true instincts of
one. The wish of Henry ". for his
people is here realized. There are no
beggars, and the pot is never empty.
never yet entered house where the pot
was not on the fire, and the yams,
bread-fruit, sweet potatoes, or taro pre-.
pairing for the family
THE natives of the Orkney Islands are
said to enjoy good health and to live
long. For these blessings they are in
debted entirely to the bracing climate
and to their own healthy outdoor occu.
pations. A young woman from one of
these islands was asked lately whether
her people were generally long livers.
With unconscious naivete she replied,
eyes, they live to great age; there's
no doctor on the island"
THE Hartford Comm County Supe.
rior Court has granted the petition OF
Henry Ratz of Thompsonville, praying
that his name be changed to Henry
Rates. 1t was shown by the petitioner
that his peculiar name was the cause of
a great deal of annoyance to himself and
members of his family. Mischievous
neighbors spoke of him and his wife as
the "old rats" and the children as ''lit-
tie rats" some going further and teas.
ing them by calling them "mice."
THE daughter of an official in high
life in Vienna recently wore several
times superb dress of dark green ma
terial, trimmed with wreaths of leaves
in another and lighter shade of green.
During the season the beautiful complex
ion of the young lady underwent sud-
den change, and was ruined by pain
full and offensive eruption. After time
her physician, baffied by the symptoms,
thought of the dress, had it subjected to
chemical examination, and found
enough arsenic in the coloring to pro-
duce all the mischief, and a great deal
more.
A WEDDING which was to have taken
place at the South End, Boston, has been
indefinitely postponed, the expected
bridegroom, John Worth Jordan, prov
ing to be a married man. He kept his
wife and daughter out of sight, sending
them to Washington to live part of the
time, dressed in faultless attire, and
boarded at the st. James Hotel. Rep
resenting that he was Lieutenant in
the Navy, he courted and won a young
woman of good family, worth S30O,O00
in her own right. The appearance of
his wife and child on the scene spoiled
his plans.
IT is a curious fact that the locomo-
tive which, with its train, went down
with the Tay bridge, is now running
regularly between Glasgow and Edin-
burgh. For three months it lady in the
bottom of the Tay, but when it was
brought up it was found uninjured, ex-
cept the funnel, dome and weather.
board, which had to be renewed, She
ran on her own wheels to Glasgow, just
as she came out of her long bath.
Strange feelings might arise in the tray
eler's breast on learning that his train
was drawn by that engine-but there is
a locomotive engineer, it is said, in this
country running regularly upon a rail-
way upon which he was one time the
cause of a most terrible disaster.
He Lost His Bet.