The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-19
GENERAL.

4 DETROIT mule accomplished the
feat of kicking two men at once. Al
though they stood several feet apart,
each received one of the beasts hind
feet in his face.
Qowa) County Clerks Office, one man
applied for copy of decree of divorce
from his former wife, and another man
for license to marry her. The former
wished the latter joy, but sarcasm was
detected in his tone.
AN Irish servant girl who was sent
by her master to the Post-office in Lew
iston, Me-, to deposit some letters and
get his mail, took out his letters from
the lock-box, and then carefully depos-
tied the letters she had been told to
mail. The next day. upon repeating
her errand, she was very indignant at
the Postmaster upon finding that the
letters had not been sent to their desti-
nation.
DR.. MILLER LUTHER, Secretary of
the Pennsylvania Board of Charities, is
prosecuting number of Dunkards for
stealing his grandfather's skull from a
grave at Ephrata, a Dunkard village.
1t is said that they committed the dep
relation in obedience to a reputed
witch, who told them that by perform
ing certain ceremonies over that partic-
ular skull they would learn where some
valuable papers were hidden.
TRADE in children is not unknown in
Great Britain, as appears from an adj
vertisement in the London Ecening
Standard: "To Clergymen, Heads of
Schools, etc.-The principal of school
wishes to exchange her daughter, aged
eleven, and her son, aged eight, for two
girls, any age beyond thirteen; highest
references given and required. Ad-
dress -, Bookstall, G. w. R., Lean
ington."
A NEGRO woman was entering the
Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia, five
years ago, with ticket which she had
purchased. Admission was denied, and
an usher was ordered to put her off the
premises. She resisted stoutly, and was
considerably injured before the man
finally elected her. She sued for dam
ages and got a verdict of 5000. Mrs.
John Drew, who manages the theater,
contested the case to the utmost, but
the Court of Appeals has finally sus-
tanned the verdict.
A BOY seven years old stood at the
bar of London Police Court. He had
been arrested for picking ladies' pock-
cts. The testimony showed that he had
often left home on the same errand, and
about 800 was found stitched in the lin
ing of his coat. A small girl, his COM
rade, had $40. These children were
skilled not only in theft, but in the
means of concealing it. At their tender
age they had become expert thieves.
Should ladies wear pockets so open and
so far behind as to become tempters of
their fellow-creatures?
AMONG the arrivals in Berlin is a
Swedish tourist, who has made his way
to the Prussian capital in very curious
conveyance. This is no other than a
carriage drawn by three dogs, which
are expected to drag the man and his
luggage, consisting of provisions and
clothing and also firearms, all over the
continent of Europe The man has al
ready Travelled in his peculiar vehicle
over greater part of Norway, Sweden
and Denmark, and is only now at the
beginning of his tour, which he expects
to last six months and to finish off by
getting back to the north by way of
Paris, Brussels and The Hague.
THE prepossessing appearance, gen.
tlemanly manner and foreign accent of
the man who called himself Carlo Cor
ella, Botanist to the Court of Brazil,
convinced number of wealthy San
Francisco ladies that he was truthful.
He said to each that the failure of a re-
mittance compelled him to sell some
rare bulbs of Brazilian lilies which he
had intended to present to Mrs. r. B.
Hayes. "The flower" says the Chroa-
5cle, "was to be great scarlet bell,
with corn ruchings on the petals, SOL
ferino fri around the pistil, and a whole
bottle of perfumery in each stamen."
He sold about fifty almost worthless
bulbs at 81 each.
ANTHONY DE COSTA, of Fairhaven,
Mass, owns an interesting old docu-
ment, deed from King Philip of Mount
Hope, Chief Sachem of the Pokanakett
tribe of Indians, conveying Vests ISL
and, in the Township of Dartmouth
(now Fairhaven), to John Cooke, his
heirs and assigns forever. Part of the
deed (Which is engrossed upon vellum
and the writing legible) has been cut off,
so that the amolnt of land conveyed or
consideration received can not be ascer-
tanned. The deed was read in open
court at Plymouth, Mass, on the 25th
of August, 1866, and has attached the
"mark " of Philip and other Indians.
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