The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-16
GENERAL.

"A license has been issued in Boston
for the marriage of two young Japan
csc. The groom is student; his bride
is seventeen years old, and was his play
mate in their native land.
There is an interesting fish in the
Lake of Constance. 1t weighs from
sixty to eighty pounds, catches and
eats any birds that fly too. close to
the water, and when taken from its ele-
ment it makes noise like that of q
young calf.
The Monitor, of Union Township,
Huntington County, Pa, says it is true
that large viper was killed in front of
the residence of d. P. Pheasant that had
two legs protruding from its body the
length of ones little finger, and feet like
that of toad.
Two Toronto suitors of the same
girl wanted to take her out for q drive
on the same afternoon. They fought in
the street for possession, and finally
seized her, each pulling her with all Lis
mig ut toward his own carriage. Her
clothing was badly damaged before the
victor had secured her.
The New England Manufacturers
and Mechanics Institute, of Boston,
proposes to issue bonds to the amount
OF 100000, to erect building to pro-
mote the interests of manufacturers. and
the Hon. E. r. Nudge and Mr.. James
l.. Little have informed the Trustees of
the Institute of Technology, of the same
city, of their willingness to take $1,000
OF these bonds for presentation to that
institute, provided other friends of the
institute will present the other $4,000
to it.
"A very romantic affair took place at
the rails of Niagara recently. A fine
looking man, known as DIR. Harry OAR
ing, OF Atlanta, Ga, recently registered
at RoSii's Hotel, and after remaining a
few days, spending his money freely.
visited the Table Rock House and Mu-
scum, where he was equally free in his
expenditure. Finally his gaze rested
upon one of Mr.. Dayis's handsome as
slstants, Miss Annie Murphy, formerly
OF st. Catharine's. He asked her if she
would like to be married, and have him
for husband. She said she would, and
she did. Next day the pair went across
the river and were married.
DIR. Hammond, of New York, sup-
posed to be the highest authority on
nervous diseases, condemns as injurious
the smatterings of physiology taught
to children, and especially to girls, in
the schools. He thinks that the lively
imaginations of young girls will be so
wrought upon by the revelations of
physiology as to the bodily functions
that nervous diseases are likely to result.
The Doctor does not hesitate to declare
that: " 1t does woman harm to know
where her liver is; for instance, | am
quite sure that the large increase in dis
eases of the nervous system among
women in recent years is to a great ex-
tent due to the pernicious system of
calling their attention in schools to or
gans that they had better know nothing
about. know that such attention de-
ranges their health, mentally and physi-
cally."
"A member of the League of Ameri-
can Wheelmen passed through Albany,
N. Y, the other day, on a bicycle with
a wheel fifty inches in diameter, on
which he had journeyed from Lima, o.,
to Boston, Mass, and was then on his
way back again to the West. From
Marseilles to Nevada, O., he said, he
rode for forty miles in rut made in the
hard clay road by heavy wagons. From
Westfield to Buffalo, n. Y, he rode be-
tween the tracks of the Lake Shore Rail-
road. From there to Syracuse he rode,
in company with another wheelman,
between the New York Central cracks,
frequently going fifteen miles an hour,
and making the whole distance-ninety-
three miles-in twelve hours. 81 ex-
perienced," he added, "the hardest
time in New York City. 1 rode up
Broadway followed by crowd of boot
ing hoodlums, who poked sticks through
the spokes of my wheels, and haressed
me in other ways. As laid out the trip
was ten hundred and sixty-five miles,
but l shall run enough out of the way
to make it twelve hundred, at least"