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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Emperor of Germany will go
to Ems in June.
The furniture in Mrs. Lanetrv,s lit
tie house, where the Prince Of Wales
used to invite himself to breakfast has
been sold for the benefit of creditors,
and the Jersey Lily has disappeared
from the London world.
Emile de Girardin had ALWAYS a
large white horse to his brougham,
which was painted yellow. This was
to enable him to find it always on com
ing out of receptions or dinners. He
was very well preserved to the last. look
ing many years younger than he was.
The Duchess of Marlborough is new
er weary of doing good. Her latest
manifestation of charity consists in pro-
viding the entire outfit for fifteen Irish
families who were to be given free pas
sages to Manitoba and settled there in
neatly furnished homesteads.
Ten years ago Louis of Bavaria was
handsome enough to answer for a model
of a young god tall and graceful, with
brown hair curling on his forehead with
dark blue eyes full of fire and poetry.
He is still thought to be the handsomest
king in Europe.
up to 1871 Paris, and indeed the
feminine world generally, looked to
Longchamps at Easter to learn by the
Empress Eugenie's dress there how bon
nets and gowns were to be made the en-
suing summer. Nowadays Paris is a
republic in feminine attire as in other
things,
The Grand Duke Constantine's eld-
est son, who has been so many years in
disgrace, applied himself hunibly to the
Emperor to be allowed to visit st. Pc
tersburg, and to gaze once more on the
honored features of the late Gar. The
unfortunate Prince met with a cruel re-
buff, and was informed by telegraph that
the misdoings of him and his could never
be forgotten.
=" The young and well known Earl''
who eloped with the wife of the proprie-
tor of large colliery in England is the
Earl Of Shrewsbury and Talbot, the pre-
mier Earl of England The title he
bears dates from 1872 and has been
borne by many illustrDus men. He is
in his twenty-first year, and succeeded
to his title and ESTATES only four years
ago. He is the lord Of Alton Towers
one of the handsom@t show places in
England-and his income is about
10000 year.
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have notined the sudden and inexplica-
BILE increase of winking among young
persons have similarly jumped to the
conclusion that disease of the eyelids has
become fearfully frequent in conse-
quence of the dust which fills the streets.
They may put their minds at rest. The
human eyelid is for the first time in its
history in fair way to have its great
and useful powers developed, and the
happy time may yet come when the
Senate of the United States will debate
with silent winks, and political cam
paign will lose half its horrors by losing
all its noise.-New York Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-11
Freaks Of the Telegraph.

Names are always a great stumbling
block to the clerks, and addresses are
composed of names. Most of us have
tricks of writing names in any but dis
tinct fashion; and although the Post
office persistently reminds us, on the
forms given US to write our kilograms
on, that the writing should be plain, this
advice, like most other advice, is but too
often neglected. Hence many kilograms
get altogether astray, sometimes to the
not slight discontinue of those into
whose hands they fall, and who, unwit-
ting that any error has been made, forth
with act upon them. 1t is related that
a woman residing in some small street
in Manchester once received what ap-
peared to be summons from her hus-
band to come up to him in London.
Very much alarmed, she at once start
ed. On her way she got into converse
ton with another woman who was in the
same carriage, and who she found was
also going up to see her husband, who
was in London i'll. This woman had
been expecting to receive a telegram
from her husband, and, not hearing,
had grown anxious and had finally sci
off without the telegram. Further par
ley revealed the fact that their names
were the same; that their husbands
names were the same; that they both
lived in the same quarter in Manchester
and it finally TRANSFERRED that the tele-
gram which had been delivered to the
first woman was the very one which the
second had been waiting for-the error
in delivery having been caused by some
such mistake as Hamilton Street" fol-
Henrietta Street Va mistake very
likely attributable to want of distinctness
in the writing. Another curious case Of
coincidence of which we have heard
was that of telegram addressed,
John Stillingwise, Brookdean, mr.
Kirkby, Lonsdale," from Robert Sitting.
wise, his brother, begging him to come
at once to him at a hotel which he indi
Gated, in Leeds. The address 'sBrook
DEAN was in some way altered, and the
telegram was delivered to another Johr
Stillingwise living somewhere in the
neighborhood of Kirkby, Lonsdale. This
unfortunate man, who had not heard
anything of his brother Robert fol-
some twenty years, at once started of
in stormy, wintry weather, reached
Leeds in the evening, and was told by
the landlord that he could not see his
brother that night, as he was very fal
from well, and had gone to bed. The
next morning he was ushered into
Robert Stillingwise's room expecting t.
see this long-lost brother, when, to hi
extreme establishment and disgust, ht
found himself confronted by an uttel
stranger!-BIdckaoood'S Magazine.
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The Deed of a PhilanthrOpist.

Benjamin Fitch, an old and we'll
known citizen of New York. has just
given 100000 for the erection and
maintenance of charitable institution
in Buffalo.
A reporter who called upon him was
very cordially received. 81 am in my
S1st year," said Mr.. Fitch, "but can
hardly consider myself an old man when
| look at my old friends, Peter Cooper,
who is in the nineties, and Thurlow
Weed, who is four years my senior. |
have a clear head, and still transact
considerable business. am not a rich
man, but l have always sympathized
deeply with the deserving poor, and
have endeavored to aid them from time
to time in many ways. own certain
lands in Buffalo, and was DESTROYS of
appropriating them and the income
from them to the permanent benefit of
the worthy poor of that city, prospect
i've of creed or nationality. | have ac-
cordingly made the Charity Organiza-
ton Society of Buffalo my trustee in so
disposing of the property. The objects
of the enterprise, as expressed in the
language of the deed, are as follows: l..
To maintain in said hall course Of free
lectures each year on scientific and
other instructive topics. 2. A free
reading-room. 3. A provident coffee
and soup room. 4. A dispensary
for supplying medicines and medical
attendance. 5. A training school for
domestic work for girls. 6. A hospital
for the temporary treatment of persons
injured. 7. A place of deposit for small
sums of money (not exceeding for any
one person 500 by working people,to be
drawn out by them as their needs may
require, or to be made good to them in
orders upon stores, with which econom-
ical arrangement may be made by the
said society for the purchase of the nee
essaries of life for such depositors. 1t
is thought that the building itself will
cost about S75, 900, and the cornerstone
will probably be laid on or about July
4, at which ceremony l hope to be pres
emit, if my life is spared. The trustees
we're here last evening, and the deed
was then conveyed to them. My inten-
ton is that the institution may be to
them what the Cooper Institute is to
New York"
Mr.. Fitch is also the founder Of the
Fitch Creche, of Buffalo, which was for
mally opened to the public on January
6, 1881. It is temporary home for the
children of working-women while their
mothers are engaged in service away
from their homes, and not able to take
care of them during their daily toll. The
new building will be erected by the side
of the creche, and both will be under the
management of the Charity Organiza-
ton.
Mr.. Fitch is of Connecticut origin.
The Home for Soldiers and Orphans Of
Soldiers, at Darien, Conn, was endowed
by him.
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A Case of Self. Control.

T" You may say what you please about
old Bill Gridley," said gentleman lust
down from Bodie, to the crowd who
were spinning for hot-scotches in Phil
McGovern's back room the other night.
81 know there's lots Ter fellers talking
against him-'specially now that he's
dead-but alters speak of man as
find him, and old Bill was as fair and
square one as | wish ter see, spite of
his crankiness."
Putty bad tempered, wasn't hep,
said Phil, who was sprinkling red pep
per on the salt herring to encourage
trade.
Swell, he was-and he wasn't. I've
seen that man keep his grip on himself
and go along cool and easy like when
any other man in the camp would have
stood on his hind legs and rared. l call
to mind suthing that had happened
once away back in the flush days that
showed what a big heart old Gridley
had in his shirt. You see, we were at a
mining-camp called Lone Skull upon the
Feather River, and Bills claim had
panned so rich that he began to put on
good deal of style. He had the larg-
est shanty in the place-four rooms
and what must Gridley do but send clear
round the Horn for a carpet for the par
lor. 1t took him nearly year to get it
out, and then it was the only carpet in
that part of the State. White ground
with yellow and red flowers. Folks
used to come for miles to see it."
Is this yarn in one act?" growled a
friend of the miner, who was wistfully
watching the barkeeper take the lid off
some hot chowder in the other room.
"lt's in one scene," continued the
party from Bodie. sLemme see; where
was Il Well, to make a long story
short, | was playing pedro in Bills best
room one night with some prospectors
just up from Frisco, and was losing con.
siderable dust, when l dropped on one
of 'em taking Jack out of his sleeve.
AS luck would have it, l wasn't heeled
that night, so l just picked up tobacco
knife that lay on the table and cut the
fellows throat clean across"
"Good scheme, too," grunted faro
steerer in approval.
Well-as l was saying, old Gridley,
who was in the next room, heard the
scuffle and came in. There was that
cut chap lying on the floor, with his
blood streaming all over the carpet-ths
whole thing just ruined. Everybody
was scared to see Bills face-he looked
just awful. | expected to get bullet
through my head quicker'n wink.
"'This is pretty tough on me- sayi
Gridley, looking at the carpet.
"I know, Bill says 1, 'and axe.
yer parding, old man. never one,
thought of the carpet. l Wouldn't 'ef
done it if 1 had
"'No; l don't believe you would,
Tom, says he, kinder sorrowful like-T
don't believe you would And he &C.
tually helped me heave the corpse outer
the winder, and kinder wiped up the
muss little. l tell you, gentlemen, old
Bill Gridley was white man, he
was; and, if ever go back on him after
that, I'm a coyote!"
And they all agreed that man must
have a pretty big heart to act like that,
after all.-SGn Francisco Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-11
GENERAL.

-Henceforward the State of Con.
necticut will exact from all itinerant
physicians a license of 800 day.
The doctors say that the increase Of
typhus fever in New York portends
possible epidemic of Asiatic cholera.
Mrs. Ellie Grover, of Beach Ridge,
in York, Me-, reached her one hun
dredth birthday few days since, re-
ceiving and entertaining friends.
AN offer of free passage to this
country and home when they reach it,
is the most powerful argument that the
Mormon missionaries use in making
converts.
Miss Bette Green, of Forsyth Coun-
ty, Ga, has two silk dresses which she
made herself, having raised the worms,
spun the silk, colored and woven it with
her own hands.
Nearly 5000 innocent persons
men, women and children-were left on
the Paris pavements when the French
troops were wheeled during Louis Ma
poleon's coup d'etat and poured their
volleys into the defenseless crowd. The
French Chambers have just voted an in
demnity for the surviving sufferers OF
$1,500,000.
Mrs. Garfield has decided to restore
their distinctive colors to the White
House parlors, and to replace the woven
carpets by others bought by the yard.
1t is beautiful testimony to American
manners that the reason for doing this
is the carelessness of visitors who do moi
care to brush the mud from their boots
before entering the house of the Chief
Magistrate.
"A little boy in Ballachalish, Scot
land, who was never taught anything OF
arithmetic, possesses an extraordinary
intuitive mastery over figures. sect
ting hold the other day, " writes visitor,
s'of large slate, we figured a question
in simple addition, of nine columns and
with sixteen figures to the column. We
ordered him in Gaelic to add up the
sum. This he did in few seconds.
He seemed to add column after column
in the usual way, but with extraordinary
rapidity, muttering the addition to him.
self in soft, bee-like hum, until the
sum total was reached. 1t was the same
in the most difficult questions of COM
pound addition, though where he got
the knowledge of the money table, indis-
pensable in the working out of such
sums, neither father nor anybody else
could tell.''
The Project of st. Petersburg, M.
Baranoff, suddenly gave notice, the 9TH
er day, that the town would be sur
rounded by military Gordon, and per-
sons entering or leaving the town sub
jected to rigorous examination. St.
Petersburg is chiefly dependent for its
daily supplies of milk, butter and eggs on
the services of persons who live in the
environs. One fine morning the town
awoke to find the breakfast table minus
the accustomed accessories. The peas
ant purveyors were being vigorously ex-
amined by the authorities. On the sub
sequert morning the Gordon was undis-
turbed by the demands of the dairyman
for passage; but milk, butter and eggs
were, however, as plentiful as usual in
St. Petersburg. The peasants had dis
played knowledge of the by-ways into
the city which had baffled the authori-
ties. After such fiasco the Gordon
was removed
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-11
Effects of Petting On Animals.

Mr.. A. d. Bartlett, of the Geological
Gardens, London, has remarked that
while adult carnivorous animals-lions,
tigers, leopards, etc.-can seldom be
tanned and then only at the cost of dan
ger, the young become very tame and
fond of those who feed and caress them;
on the other hand, housed vegetable
feeding animals-stags, antelopes, oxen,
sheep and goats-if reared by hand from
birth, become when adult the most dan.
gerous animals to be met with; while,
if caught after they have grown up, they
are timid and fly from man. His ex-
perience with all animals of the latter
class has been the same as with the
lamb, whose case he describes, that was
brought up as zone of the family" As
it grew larger and stronger, it became
self-conscious and Independent, having
"no fear and less gratitude" and grew
so saucy that it had to be consigned to a
large field, where it became terror to
passers-for, sswith hop, skip, and
Jump, he was behind any one in an in
slant; with one good spring, the unfor-
tunate traveller was on his hands and
knees, if not on his face "-and was
finally sentenced to the butcher. Such
of these animals as have been bred in
captivity (not petted and handled) and
reared by the parent, become exceed
ingly wild if an attempt is made to catch
them, pack them up, or move them from
one place to another. The reason for
these curious manifestations appears to
be that the tanned animals, having lost
their fear of man and become familiar
with him, when the time comes for them
to manifest their belligerent propensi-
ties, have no respect of persons, and are
ready to attack their former friend as
they would any other real or imaginary
antagonist; but, when anything new is
attempted with them, it is as novel as it
would be in their natural state, and
awakens all their natural Witness
Popular Science Monthly.
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A New Method of Conversation.

It is pleasant to learn that the human
eyelid has lately been turned to new
and useful purpose. Hitherto the two
recognized uses of the eyelid have been
the protection Of the eye and the pecu-
liar process known as winking. 1t has,
however, been held among all well-bred
people that winking is an offense not
more excusable than punning. 1t is
permissible for man to wink at anoth-
er man either with a view of explaining
his own joke or as a cautionary signal,
but winking for any other purpose, and
especially between the sexes, is sternly
prohibited. And yet the power of quick
ly moving the eyelid is one which nature
has given us for good purpose. That
we have failed to develop this power
and put it to good uses has always been
a reproach to us, and all true lovers of
progress will be glad to learn that this re-
proach is about to be taken away.
For some little time we have heard a
good deal concerning the alleged spread
of diseases of the eye in this city, and
the doctors have unanimously attributed
it to the dusty condition of the streets.
Undoubtedly eyes have been inhamed
by dust, but the symptoms which the
doctors have attributed to an epidemic
of Inflammation of the eyelids are really
the results of the new use to which the
power of winking has been put. A
profound and well-known philosopher,
having noticed that an Ineligible sig
nal was made in his presence by one
young man to another by means of a
wink, and having somewhere met with
the axiom that in certain circumstances
a wink is as good as nod, conceived
the idea of making complete code of
winking signals by means of which a
silent conversation could be carried on.
For this purpose he adopted the Morse
telegraphic alphabet, which, as every-
body knows, consists of dots and dashes.
He decided that a quick wink should
represent dot and slow wink dash.
He engaged the cooperation of young
lady who was an operator in a telegraph
Office, and found that she could read his
winks with perfect ease. In the course
of month the two became so proficient
in winking that they could sit on oppo-
site sides of q room and converse with
winks almost as rapidly as with the
voice. The philosopher at first made
all his winks with the right eye alone,
but his fair assistant improved the sys-
tenn by winking with both eyes-a plan
which, she assured the inventor, would
save his invention from the reproach
which attaches to ordinary single-eye
winking between the sexes.
The new system of conversation has
spread with amazing rapidity in the
Eastern States, and especially in this
city, where its able inventor resides. Al
our theaters, on the street, and al
church young men and young women
are now constantly conversing in the
language of the eyelid. The ignorant
man, when he sees a young lady wink
ing rapidly with both eyes, instantly inn
agines she is the victim of some disease
of the eyelids, although, in point of fact
she is merely informing some young
man that she expects to be at the Metro
politan Museum next Thursday after
noon ut three o'clock. The doctors who
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this is tender point with good society.
A Mexican lady complained to me the
other day, saying, "Why do your peo-
pie always accuse us of eating with our
knivesP One would think we were not
civilized" Half an hour later, at her
own hospitable table, out of the eight
gentlemen, who were fellow-countrymen
OF hers, there were just eight who scorned
the fork.-Cor. st. Louis Globe Demo-
nlnf ~
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Life is but signs, and when they
cease tits over. go
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-09-23
ShoriHS sale.

TIDY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION. ISSUED
~ out OF the District Court, Second Judicial
distrct Of Idaho Territory in and for Boise county
Il. T.. dated August 10th. 1881 and to me directed
and delivered, for Judgment rendered and enter.
|ed IN said court on the fifth day of August, A, d.
IloSl, IN favor OF Robert Barber and against A
Brown and AL Hull, have levied on the follovino
property to-wit: That certain real property sitn
ate, lying and being in Boise county, Idaho Terri
tory, and described as follows: Commencing for
lthe beginning ut the northeast corner made hy the
intersection OF Wall and Montgomery streets. in
Idaho City. running thence south along Montgom.
Iery street to the south line of the j. ShafeT lot
Thence west along the southeast line of the Sbafs,
Pot to the line of the vacant lot owned by ths Ma
|sonic Lodge, thence in nOrtherly direction to
wan street, thence along the south side of Wall
strest to the place Of beginning Also that certain
1iot fronting on Montgomery street in Idaho Citv
,on which the stable OF A. Brown Il Co, Ia hniit
Also the Slaughter House lot owned by A. Brnwn
Co.. situated in Slaughter. House guich. in said
2Bose county. ~ 'Hia
Notice Is hereby given that on the oath dav y,
4sspfember, "A. d. 1881, Mt 10 o'clock A. NJ NJ tbs,
Sday, In mont of the Court House In Idaho CitS
9county OF Boise, will sell the right title and ~
1erest OF said A. Brown and AL Hull had in ana e.
the above described property, August 5th IssI Nv
nave since tnat day acquired, at public auction for
cam IN hand, to the highest and best bidder. 70
fsaIsiy said execution and ali COSTS "
! Dated the 2oIh day of August, 1881
JOHN II. DANSKIN. sbsri9
September ., 1sSl.-tds. 'Asf'n
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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

THE FIRM OF COFFIN y KEN
L NALY, by mutual consent mas pee
his day dissolved, John Kennaly takins
the Idaho City branch of the business ane
Frank r. Coffin 81 Bro. the Boise W,
branch. All liabilities contracted by I'M
firm of Coffin & Kennaly at their Idaho
City store will be paid by John Kennaly
and Frank r. Coffin q Bro. those made D.
the Boise City store Parties having
claims are requested to present then
promptly. Likewise, all accounts DUE o
to become due, made at Idaho City, mus
be paid to John Kennaly, and those made
at Boise City to F. II. Contfi q Bro.
FRANK X. COFFIN,
JOHN KENNALY.
June 81, 1881.