The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-13
GENERAL,


position at Zurich in 1888. The Swiss
Confederation will grant a subsidy of
400,0 900 fracs. 1
The Governor of Massachusetts is
generally obliged to listen to all the col
lege commencement speeches in New
England. The party opposed to him
can afford to express sympathy.
-To-eo-be, chief of the Shoshone In
dams of Nevada, drives spanking pair
of trotters attached to handsome car
riage. He has made some successful
ventures in mining, and is an extensive
breeder of cattle. 0s 1.
Mr.. Parnell, ofWest Point, Ca, the
champion peach farmer, is the elder
brother of the Irish agitator, who was
disinherited on account of infirm health.
He further suffered injury by an acct
dent some years ago on q Southern rail
road. a.af...
An exhibition of pipes and snuff
boxes at the Crystal Palace, London,
contains numbers of pipes collected 10y
the Emperor Maximilian, which were
found in the buried cities of Mexico.
There were smokers thousands of wears
before Raleigh.
"A Cincinnati seamstress grew tired
of the needle, and hung out a sign as a
doctor. Her first patient was man
who had congestion of the brain, but
she thought it was rheumatism, and
nearly covered him with alum plasters.
The treatment killed him.
William Bennett, of Denton, An,
wanted to marry servant girl. "lf you
make such an alliance we will dlslnherIt
you," his father wrote. "The girl re-
fuses me, and | am about to commit
suicide" was the message returned by
the son before killing himself.
The net income of the Grand Duke
Michael of Russia is reported to be two
hundred thousand dollars a year, while
he pays his farm laberers eight cents a
day for fifteen hours work. Nihilism
is one of the crops which such farming
naturally produces.
I'm the vicinity of Augsburg, Bava,
ria, snails are raised, fed and sold as
food. They are said to be highly nu-
tritious, and are recommended in Eu-
rope as food for consumptives. 1t is said
that in the vicinity of Augsburg there
are 1900 acres of land devoted to the
raising of snails alone.
Justice Stanley Matthews has fire.
ouently been mistaken for Grant, for
Garfield and for Hayes. Gen. Grant
having the fact called to his attention
recently, said: "Now you speak of it,
| can see myself that there is likeness
in him to each of US, though neither OF
us looks much like the other. He is sort
of link between u.s."
"A wealthy Californian named Bren.
nan has received Government grant OF
eighty-four leagues of excellent land in
Sonora, from the Mexican Government
on condition that within five years he
will have colony of 500 families on it.
Until theterms are complied with the
title to one-half the grant will be with
held. The colonists will be allowed tc
import all goods for their own use free
of duty. sa
The Presidents relatives say that
with the exception of an attack of fever
and ague years ago, when a boy, anC
occasional touches of dyspepsia in latel
years, Gen. Garfield has never In his
life been i'll. His habit has always beer
to live on plain, substantial food, and he
has never INDUCED in late suppers o.
rich food, to which the average states
man is addicted when in Washington.
The Partisan boargeoisie put theil
infants out to nurse without, in many
cases, any precautions as to getting theil
own child back again. A lady says %
have often seen at the Paris railroad
stations thirty or forty nurses leaving
their babies bundled up on the seats O
the waiting room. At the signal for de
parture they rushed in, took up bundle
at random, and were off to the country
Indifferent as to the child they took
one baby being in their eyes as good a
another" .
Some West Virginia boys, deepl,
impressed by a perusal of sFox's Book O
Martyrs" were DESTROYS of reproducing
the scene of burning at the stake
Wood was piled around a post in the
manner shown in one of the pictures
but hitch came in the programm,
| when the martyr was required. A scare
crow was tried, but he took martyrdon
too coolly, and it was deemed desirabl,
to burn something that would kick. 4
dog was next used, but he wriggled on
of the rope when the first flame touched
him, bit one of the prosecutors, and es
capped. Finally, a calf was tortured t,
death, with much success. n.