The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-16
GENERAL.

Edison lives chiefly on apples and
milk. -tA
1t is expected that more Americans
will go to Europe this summer than ever
before. Elk
British taxpayers will be called on
to pay $25,000,O00 of the expenses of
the Afghan war.
By a surveyors blunder a substan-
tial brick hotel was built in Philadel-
phia suburb on a lot forty feet from the
one bought for the purpose.
"A rabid horse seized COW by the
neck with his teeth, at Evansville, Ind,
and dragged her block before a police
mans bullet released her.
"A California says that resident of
Placer County, that State, has the root
of tree which is in the shape of an
eagle. The head, neck, and wings are
nearly perfect, and little knots distinctly
mark the place for the eyes.
Recognizing as fact that life pris-
oners are -notoriously the hardest to
manage, for the reason that, however
well-conducted and industrious they may
be, they have no clemency to expect, an
penal code of California by having life
sentences committed upon the life insur-
ance tables, and permitting the dis
charge q of prisoner after the term he
was likely to live when sentenced has
expired.
Railway and telegraphic commu-
nication between Aberdeen and Peter
head being stopped by a recent storm,
a message was on Sunday sent from Pc
terhead by North SET cable to Eyer
sund, where it was translated into Nor
wegian and sent to Arendal and Chris
tiania. to Gothenburg, Sweden. There
it was retranslated and dispatched to
Newcastle, where it was again turned
into English and sent to Edinburg, and
thence to Aberdeen, its destination,
which it reached six hours after leaving
Peterhead. 8,.sf..
The hottest climate in the world
probably occurs in the desert interior of
Australia. Captain Sturt hung ther-
mometer on tree, sheltered both from
the sun and wind. 1t was graduated to
127 degrees Fahrenheit, yet so great
was the heat of the air that the mercury
rose till it burst the tube; and the tenn
perature must have thus been at least
12S degrees, apparently the highest ever
recorded in any part of the world. New
ertheless, in the Southern mountains
and the table lands three feet of snow
sometimes fall in day. orb t..t
The production of good and cheap
dinner by the New Century Cooking
Club, of Philadelphia, described some
time ago, has been followed by a nine
cent dinner for twenty-five persons.
There were really thirty-two guests,
which reduced the cost to seven cents
head and there was plenty for all. The
bill of fare included pea soup, Irish
stew, rolls, butter, potatoes, pork and
beans, veal croquettes, cold-slaw, mac
caroni, rice pudding, apple dumplings,
and coffee. Nothing was charged, how
ever, to the account of fuel or labor.
Speaking of her past, Mrs. Thomp-
son, the philanthropist, says: 81 was
poor girl myself, born and raised in
Vermont. 1 had a sensible mother,
thank God! who taught me, in fact
rang into my ears day and night almost,
that Handsome is that handsome does
and | have tried never to forget it. 1t
was my good fortune to meet Mr..
Thompson, and we were married. 1t is
now some twelve years since his death,
and have always felt that could in
no way SO well show my reverence for
his character and name as by using the
means he so generously intrusted to me
to alleviate the sufferings of humanity"
james Syme, the eminent Scotch
surgeon and Edinburg professor, was
entirely. devoted to the profession. A
well-known public character at one time
consulted him about some affection of
the lungs. Years afterward he returned
on the same errand. On being an
nouDced, he was nettled to observe that
Mr.. Syme had neither any recollection
of his face nor, which was still more
calling, acquainted with his name. He
thereupon mentioned the fact of his
former visit. Still Syme failed to re-
member him. But when the professor
put his ear to the patients chest, and
heard the peculiar sound the old aiment
had made chronic, he exclaimed, "Ah,
remember you now. l know you by
your lung" 80
Secretary WINDOWS name, accord
my W INC CleNeldnu HeTUtU, was orig
inally spelt Wyndham, and many fami-
lies living in the Sixteenth Ohio District,
where he was born, still retain the old
, spelling. 1t is said that when Window
was a school teacher he discovered that
his name was not attractive in its old,
awkward shape and "declared that no
man with such an outlandishly-spelled
name could ever amount to anything. 2"
He worked hard on the farm during his
boyhood years, learned what the meager
opportunities of his life threw in his way,
and after common-school education
sought an income by teaching. When
nearly twenty-five years of age he began
the study of the law.
The Mystery Of TheOphilus YOungs,