The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-30
GENERAL.

Evangelist Moody mas found another
sweet singer of the gospel hymns in E
F. Miller, a Car shop employee at Denver
Col. His voice, pleasant baritone, will
now be heard in Moody's church al
Chicago.
"A Connecticut farmer advises the
raising of peacocks, notfor their musical
voice, but for their many eyed plumage
They are as easily raised as turkeys, and
while the art decorative mania lasts,
''there's millions in 'em."
"A factory for extracting gold from
coin was discovered in Sacramento. BY
means of galvanic batteries and chem
icals the pieces were diminished in
weight without perceptibly altering their
appearance, only about five per cent. OF
the metal being stolen.
Francis Eppes, the last ofthe grand
sons of Thomas Jefferson, died May 80,
in Florida, at the age of eighty-one.
His father married Maria Jefferson, the
Presidents youngest daughter, and he
was also related to the President through
Mrs. Jefferson, whose half-sister was
the ''dear Polly" who figured so con-
spicuously in Jefferson's published cor
respondence.
MIR. Johns Hopkins, the founder of
the university in Baltimore bearing his
name, accumulated nine millions of
dollars. One dayhe said to his garden
err: "Next the hell of being utterly be-
reft of money is the purgatory of pos
sessing a vast amount of it. have a
mission, and under its shadow have
accumulated wealth, but not happi-
ness"
Rev. Mr.. Brown, Wesleyan mis-
sionary of New Britain, seems to be the
right kind of a man to send among the
cannibals, but his Government thinks
otherwise. The savages killed and ate
three or four Wesleyan missionaries,
whereupon the Rev. Brown raised and
headed an expedition and slew sixty or
seventy of the cannibals. The British
Government has placed the fighting
preacher under surveillance, and or
dered an official inquiry into his conduct,
which may be looked upon as human,
but as wholly unchristianlike.
"A lady writes to the Detroit Free
Press that the masculine habit of trying
to conceal approaching badness is I'M
worthy of the sterner sex. AT funeral
her attention was attracted to ''five or
six hairS-certainly not seven-crossing
and recrossing each other, as if wildly
endeavoring to conceal the shiny surface
beneath. And then l begin ito wonder,
il few flies should get into the intricate
lattice work composed of six hairs on
the mans head who is sitting before me,
what the result would be-"
"A daily paper in the Hebrew Ian
guage is published in New York City
the Daily Jeeotsh Gazette, s'the only jew
ish daily in the world" The Hebrew
type from which tits printedis very neat,
and the characters are clear; but the
language itself is not the Hebrew; it is
the German-Jewish dialect or iargon
used by the orthodox Jews of Germany
and Russia. Many of the Jews of Ger
many and Poland in New York are una
BILE to read any other language than that
thus peculiarly formed. Any one know
ing the Hebrew character and the Ger
man tongue can read the Gazette at
once. w -
The Duke of Wellington, whose life
was for years almost daily in peril on the
battlefield, was for years afraid to travel
by railroad, having conceived terror
of locomotive engines from seeing Mr..
Huskisson killed by one. At length, in
1913, he made his first journey, being
in attendance on the Queen, who her.
self did not use them until 1912. The
injury done to the railroad cause by the
death of Huskisson was in great measure
neutralized by the simultaneous news
that MIR. Stephenson's locomotive en-
CINE carried the wounded man fifteen
miles in twenty-five minutes. To the
end OF their lives some people in Eng
land never could be brought to travel by
railroad.
MIR. Keene's horses in England,
which are under the care Of his brother.
who is in very delicate health, and of
Mr.. Maillard, a thorough turfman and
gallant gentleman, are at Stewards
stables at Bedford Lodge, and number.
with those of Mr.. Crawford and Sir
John Ashley, which are trained with
them, seyenty-six thoroughbreds. Sher-
fard's are the finest training stables ex-
tant, and have popularity of what are
styled "hovels," which combine a va
riety of excellences. They are outlying,
only few boxes being together, and
thus lessen the danger of catching any
infection. Being matched, they are
cool in summer and warm in winter.
Horses do exceedingly well in them, and
they are pretty chaunlteres to look upon
with their pitched gates and Enclosures,
and walls covered with creeping plants.
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