The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A member of the New Hampshire
Legislature denounced bill that waS
under discussion as ''treacherous %
was the stabbing of Cesar by Judas is
the Roman capital" ~
Leonard Hook was taken To tho
alms-house in Cambria County. Pa
short time ago as pauper On cyan
lnation bank certificate of deposit for
$40 and twenty-one dollars in cash wos
found in his clothing. "'
"A young man of San Antonio. Tax
fractured his jaw-bone SO comnletolr,
the other day that his attending pbvsi.
clans drilled holes through the bones
and bound them back into place bv
means of thread wire.
In one of the Switzerland Iowa
slides whole tract of wood slinnoS
down hillside and spread over SOM
meadows without uprooting or even in
juring the trees, thus converting At ono
stroke tract of pasturage into piece
of forest land. r'ONO
In most States the Jews and Soy
enth-day Baptists are by law exempted
from keeping Sunday, provided thew
keep Saturday instead. Pennsylvani
is one of the exceptions, and in severs
counties of that State the Sunday law il
very rigidly enforced against Seventh.
day Baptists. A movement to change
the statute is to be made.
The use of the American word
caucus is becoming eemmon in En-.
gland, and the London newspapers are.
puzzled over its derivation. It's said
to come from caulkers' meetings.
held by Boston shipyard employees in
ante-Revolutionary times. All confer.
ences to arrange for concerted political
action were soon called caulkers,n
and in time the term became caucus"
"A Chicago correspondent, looking
over a mercantile directory for 1872,
finds on the black list the entry: o.
Guiteau, Charles j., lawyer" Turning
to the definition of the letter "Z'' he
finds: 'Z-Income uncertain and often
precarious. Defer indefinite the pay
ment of debts. Lawsuits to collect
same would be useless. No credit or
favors should be shown"
Even the liking of Kings suffers
occasionally from toothache Not long
ago the Shah of Persia underwent, in
the presence of his entire Court, the
dangerous operation of having one of
his teeth extracted. The operation was
o success; certainly financially, for not
less that 5000 ducats were sent to him
in single day by his faithful subjects
as ''congratulatory offerings" The fee
of the European dentist who attended
him was 100 ducats.
One of those romances you read
about, but which are rarely actual oc-
currences, is related in the New York
papers. A young man who had rescued
young woman from drowning last Au-
gust, walked up to the Mayors office
one day last week and was married 10
her. Some of the sentiment of the
story disappeared, however, when it
came out that the couple were engaged
before the little scene of the rescue was
enacted.
Mrs. Judge Mann, of Granville, and
her son-in-law, while visiting Washing
ton some time ago, says the Troy IN
W Times, were courteously show
through the White House grounds by
stranger who took pains to inform them
that he was Chicago lawyer and an
applicant for office. Two days later the
country was Mortified by the shooting
of President Garfield, and in the por-
traits of the assassin Guiteau Mrs. Mann
recognized the officious guide.
AT services held in the Orthodox
Synagogue in Washington on the day Of
mourning for President Garfield death.
a member who delivered discourse
called attention to the fact that ''curi-
ously enough, this day is coincident
with an assassination prominent in jew
ish history, that of Gedayah, Governor
of Judea, who was brutally murdered
by one Ishmael; and even at this remote
day, 2,240 years after the crime, his
memory is held in contempt and detes-
tation."
j. B. Eicheles, a pale young man,
distinguished himself at ballroom in
the rear of beer saloon in New York
by waltzing from eight o'clock in the
morning till eleven o'clock at night
without cessation. When the clock
struck eleven the dancer struck into a
lively jig amid the cheers of the specta-
tors. AS reward for the hard work
the dancer received the money result
ing from an admission of fifteen cents
from each spectator. An accordion
supplied the music.
There are reports in German jour-
nails of many emigrants who have been
starting out for America with only
means enough to get to Liverpool or
some other seaport. There, utterly
destitute, they have been subjected to
much suffering, and have finally been
assisted in returning to their homes
with public funds, merely to prevent
their becoming permanent burdens on
the public charities. These poor peo-
pie set out with vague notion that
they would in some way be enabled TO
complete their journey.
"A curious custom prevailed in Paris
at the beginning of the present century.
When new press was received in a
printing Office it was the custom to
dedicate it to one of the patrons or
patronesses of the establishment. There
was family fete, the governor or his
wife acting as godfather or godmother,
received the homage OF the workmen,
who presented bouquet. The new
press was covered with flowers and
gay ribbons, and on its bed was an APP