The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-06
GENERAL.

THE Superintendent of the census
has been requested to look over the So
100000 names on his, book by Southern
woman, who wants to find the residence
of her lover who left her some wars
since. gqi} ei3Hh ceilE hHn h.a's,' d
ira French cook, who lately returned
to Paris from tour of inspection in the
United States, was, asked his opinion in
regard to the American kitchen and re-
piled: h"'La cuisine Americana est I'm
vraiG assassinat!"d American cookery
is murder in the first degree.H eg84I
1.-THE genuineness of the phiilla philanthropy
Of Mrs. Il Elizabeth Thompson has lust
stood a severe test, Smallpox having
broken out In Stamford, CT, where she
spends largo portion of her time, She
at once volunteered as q nurse, tins
showing that she values her life no more
than her money when the interests of hui
nianity are 1T stake. ~ 800
"A French paper says that besides
the well-known noble houses there are
in France 500, 900 families who between
1860 and 1789ireceived letters patent of
nobility. In a large number OF. cases,
however, their descendants seemed to be
ignorant of this circumstance, and in
some instances have even been prose
cuted for carrying armerial~ bearings TO
which they were in truth fully entishS.
Canada has unwittingly gone into
an arrangement by which the United
States gains population at the expense
of the Canadian treasury. The Gov
eminent made a bargain with steam
ship company running to Montreal to
pay twenty-five per cent. of the fares of
all emigrants who intended to settle in
Canada. This reduction is commonly
taken advantage of, it has been discov-
cred, by persons. really bound for this
country. oo,,,..,-. g.. .,.sltgo4t eli,
AT the beginning of the thirteenth
century the ports of England ranked:
London, Boston, Southampton, lincoln,
Lynn, Hull. Eighty years later, Boston,
London, Hull. Toward the close of the
sixteenth century Lynn was the most
important port; then came Hull, Var
mouth, Exeter, Bristol, while Boston
had gone down tonumber ten in rank,
and Newcastle was looming up, Fifty
years later Bristol was winning the race,
to have her nose put out of joint in an
other half century by Liverpool. -
IA st. Petersburg CORRESPONDENT
writes that in the latest budget of the
Russian empire, the division allotted to
the household expenses of the late Car
includes fifteen hundred roubles for pro-
viding birch brooms (Ruthen besen) for
cleaning the Winter Palace. Estimating
the cost of each at the retail prices in
st. Petersburg, he finds that no less than
eighteen thousand of these brooms have
been used every year for the Winter
Palace! Nearly fifty must then have
been worn to the stump every day in the
late reign. ~ uH' .ia,a}
+, = In olden times English tramps
prayed for deliverance from He'll, Hull
and Halifax. This is explained by the
chronicler Fuller, who relates that there
was a peculiar tGibbet law offering
special facilities for the hanging of idle
and dishonest in Halifax. while they.
unto them as town Of good govern
ment, where Migrants meet with punt
tive charity" punitive charity is
good, and might be applied to advantage
in this erring and straying season in
many other places outside of Hull.
AN English peer and some friends
were returning from the races. In the
adjoining compartment were eight sport
ing men, who, cleaned out by successive
failures, were travelling without tickets,
hoping by turn of good luck to escape
AZ Iacf of tha,,, CO.,
upon brilliant idea. Pulling his cap
down over his eyes and buttoning his
coat he went to the carriage of the noble
lord and his friends, and, assuming an
official air, collected all their tickets.
These he distributed among his friends,
and on reaching London the noble lord
narrowly escaped seeing himself and his
friends taken into custody for attempting
to defraud the railway company 1t was
only by paying their fare second time
that they escaped from the clutches of
the railway servants. ~.
The authorities at Clinton IN. Y.
Prison are rejoicing in the return Of
Richard Henry Thornton, the horse
thief, inasmuch as the owner of that inn
posing name is renowned for his man.
agement of pigs, of which there are
about 200 in the prison yards. Thornton
is sixty-nine yeah's old and was first sem
fenced to State Prison fifty wears ago.
During this half century of crime he has
worn the prison garb forty-one wears,
having served twice, he affirms, as hired
substitute for others who were guilty.
once from Hudson-a and once from Sche-
nectady.r The prison now seems to, him
like a home and he takes no little pride
in seeing it well kept in all respects. lie
took back with him on his latest return
fouv dozen eggs, by means of which he
hopes to improve the. breed of the
Wardde4n's fowls. Ionns, II .oa-
T.. AS soon as the death of the late En-
press Dowager was announced in China
the mandarins and all high Officials ~
the Empire put on garments of pure
white, and these wereI worn fortwentv.
seven consecutive days. The reghla.
lions which prescribe, official 'mourninu
also require that, the red buttons upon
their caps shall be'replaced by Blue but.
tons On the twenty-eighth day thew
puton black clothing, which must he
worn for 100 daysr They are also for.
hidden to marry within that period, nor
can they indulge in any Of the usual 81.
| ciaf pleasures. The lower orders of the