The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-23


ly presented Bismark with superb
meerschaum pipe, bearing the Princes
arms. The latter returned it, with
a note from his secretary, saying
that when he wanted pipe he could
afford to buy one.
Kissing is a dangerous practice in
more ways than one. A medical
journal of Munich says that diph-
liberia caught by kissing is likely to
assume much sevsrer form than (
the disease were contr acted or the
contagion impaired in any other
way.
An ole lazzarone has just died at
Naples who married seven times I'M
der King Bombs, and had seventy
six children, who are still alive;
under the Savoy dynasty he was
married six times, and raised up
forty-seven children, only two of
WI ON died.
The carpenters and ioiners Of New
York will tomorrow demand from
their employers an increase Of wages
from 1915 to 1926 day, with only
eight hours work on Saturdays. The
Blacksmiths and Wheelrights' Union
is also organizing to demand an in
crease of pay.
The estimates of the peach crop in
Middle and Southwestern Georgia
indicate less than half tive usual yield.
Nearly all the fig trees have been
killed. and only half crop of plums
is expected. Pears and cherries are
damaged. while apples and straw
berries are only slightly affected.
The Lecompte pear is complete
failure.
The recent report of the Paris Gas
Company shows that the receipts for
last year were $1,000. 600 more than in
1879, and, consequently, under the
terms ofthe charter, 81, 500, 900 accrues
to the corporation of Paris. This
magnificent result. however, was OBJ
tanned by compelling the gas con-
sumner to pay double what he pays in
London.
The 81. Louis Cremation Society
of that city now numbers among is
members some forty or fifty gentle
men of high social position. many of
them quite wealthy, and all terribly
in earnest. 1t is announced that the
body of lady who died in that city
a few days ago will be sent to the lie
Moyne furnace at Washington, Pa,
for cremation.
The legislature of Connecticut has
authorized the city of Waterbury to
purchase lot of land and present it
to the Silas Bronson Library. Mr..
Bronson's gift of $4,000 to the city
for the library has increased to $685.
600, and STE, 900 must be kept as a
permanent fund. The $4,000 is
thought sufficient for the building,
but not for the land also.
Anthony Comstock. agent of the
Society for the Suppression of Vice,
has been indicted in New York for
assault and battery committed on the
person of Mrs. Fanny NJ. Hoffman,
whom he arrested q few months ago
for writing indecent letters to Der
neighbors. When the case was first
laid before the grand jury. in Febru.
airy last, that body dismissed the
complaint.
In 1877 Mr.. de Layergpe estimated
the value of the agricultural produce
of France at 81 100000, 900, including
wine, cattle and all other products of
the soil. In 1878 Mr.. Laird, who is to
England what NJ de Lavergne is to
France. estimated the total value ot
the agricultural products of the Uni.
ted Kingdom at $3.50. 100000. The
area of France is double that of the
United Kingdom.
There are consumed in the United
States annually 100000 ounces of
quinine. Since the duty on quinine
was removed, the richest bark has
gone to London and the poor has
come here. The stock in five years
from 1924 bales to no, l05 in 1880,
and yet to-day there is on hand in the
united markets of the world only
about four months supply.
Francis Bedell, destitute colored
man. hung himself on Sunday in the
cellar of a boarding house in Brook.
Ign. where he had been sheltered ont
of charity by the butler. He was sent
into the cellar to get coal, but not re-
turning, was sought out, and found
suspended with chain, the end OF
which he had wrapped around his
neck.
j. II. Bradley. who was charged in
the United States District Court at
Galveston Tovaa with CON Iino. Oh