The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

Ane hosI peautlIul woman at Saro
toga this season is said to have hesn
circus rider. h'f 5l1ravs u,
An Englishman says of the Ho,..
OF Lords that it is naturally strone
upholder OF, injustice to women,
The usual cost to the candid.to
an election to the German Reichstao Is
about a million of marks.
"A Mexican says that the Govo.n
ment of the United States is less rail-
BILE than that of Mexico and has non".
disturbing elements.
"A traveller was lately killed q,
English railroad by his own nortma al
teau, which he had placed on the raat
above and opposite, and which in tba
collision struck him with fatal force VIZ
jay Gould has started his son
George, in business with a capital o.
S5O0,OO0. George is TWENTY-FIVE wears
OF age and has been clerk for his fatbaT
for five years. He is now a broker
"A ragged tramp, who was t-r
'sg to sell jewelry in the streets of ok
sago, was arrested because the article,
offered were of real value, and if ws0
surmised that they had been stolen
Inc prisoner proved to be a girl in dis.
gulse, and the jewelry was her own.
"A man rolled out of bed the other
night and was killed. G. A. Rooers
fell $50 feet in collapsed balloon. With
uncomfortable velocity" struck upon
his nose on the beach at Lynn, Mass
and is still alive to describe his SensaI
tions during his descent.
Mr.. James r. Keene has purchased
Tor $4,000 an estate in England on
which he intends having stables erected
solely for the purpose of training his
horses himself, going over to see them
run aud experimenting all affairs con-
nected with them.
Mr.. Fawcett, the Postmaster-G Gen.
eral of Great Britain, was made totally
blind when young man by the bursting
of gun. But in spite of that he is one
of the bestinformed men of the day,
profound mathematician, and widely
read in literature and history.
Professor Henry Draper, the as
tronomer, is about to start on hunting
to the Rocky Mountains.
Professor Draper is said to be first
rate shot, and the floors of his house at
on-the Hudson, New York, are
decorated with the skins of bears and
other Western marauders that have
succumbed to his rifle.
United States Senator John S. Will
Jams recently sold his crop of tobacco,
raised on seventy-fve acres in the
"blue grass section of Kentucky, for
S21, 419.96. There were ninety-five
hogsheads, and the yield from each
acre was nearly $500. He was assisted
by flcck of 700 turkeys, who kept the
plants clear of worms.
One of the first theatrical failures of
the season was that of new comic OPP
era company, the members of which
made a street parade every afternoon,
circus fashion, in the costumes to be
worn at night They drew immense
crowds outdoors, but not in the thea
tres, and, after visiting several New
England cities, their manager deserted
them.
There is a peculiar religious sect in
Russia which is characterized by rare
purity of doctrine and practice, endea.
oring to live in the closest possible cor
formity with the letter of the Scriptures.
No member is permitted to possess any
property beyond the frugal needs Of
existence. Purity and chastity are
among the first requirements. 1t sufi-
GENTLY describes the brutal characterof
the surrounding population to say that
the followers of this sect have been
subjected to much suffering and perse-
cution.
At Zurich, in Switzerland, in the
olden days, when man and wife quar-
relied and applied for a divorce, the
magistrate never listened until they had
made trial of State remedy. They
were locked up together for three days
and nights in one room, provided with
one chair, one table, one bed, one plate
and tumbler. Their food was passed to
them by attendants, who neither saw
nor spoke to them, and the records as
sert that when let out neither of them
wanted to be divorced.
Old newspapers are highly priced
in some New England towns. Mr.. James
S. Barnett, of Hartford, Conn, had
copy of the Connecticut COarant dated
October 1854. 1t had been preserved
in his mothers and grandmother FAM
lily for III years, and the older it grew
the more valuable it became. One day
last week Mr.. Barnett, desiring to show
it to some friends, put it in his coat
pocket when he left home in the morn
ing and took it to his place of business
He hung his coat up in the back room
and went about his work, awaiting the
arrival of the friends who wished to IN
spect the venerable sheet. When they
came he went to the back room where
his coat had been left to find that boh
it and the 117-years-old paper had been
stolen.