The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
GENERAL.

Russian soldiers are taught trade,
and allowed, when off duty, to earn
money by it.
"A fasting girl in England has stop
ped fasting on being threatened with a
lunatic asylum.
Among the floral offerings sent to a
New York bride the other day was a
barrel of gilded straw filed with flow
ers and coiled with roses.
"A dog belonging to James CORN
ley, of Parkesburg, Pas is kept chained
to its box on account of its aversion for
chickens. The dog has sort of friend
ship, however, for one of the feathered
tribe, and whenever this hen wants to
lay an egg she walks up to the dog
house, and after cackling for q few mo-
ments succeeds in attracting the animal
to the outside of the box, where it will
remain in all kinds of weather until the
work of the hen is finished.
Master Arcine Alton, aged twelve
years, is a telegraph messenger in New
Orleans. He recently found on the
street a package containing negotiable
bonds to the amount of $4,000 and
turned them over to a lawyer, receiving
for his honesty fifty cents. A detective
then stepped in and was paid 800 for
having the bonds returned to the real
owner, while the honest telegraph boy
has to be content with his reward of
half dollar.
An Alabama father committed sui
eide because he thought his wife loved
their daughter more than she did him /;
a California girl because her father mar
ried woman who was her junior; a
Rhode Island mason because he care
Iessly built wall out of plumb; a Geor-
gia negro because he could not feel that
he had satisfactory quantity or quality
of piety; a Maine farmer because a balky
horse exasperated him; and a Michigan
bride because her husband of three days
swore at her. .,-.....- .....-
"A Kentucky COW raised on the farm
of Erastus Ellsworth, of East Windsor
Hill, has remarkable record. April,
16, 1877, she gave birth to twins, one
male and one female; March IS, 1873,
she gave birth to triplets, two males and
one female, making five calves in eleven
months and three days; July 9, 1879,
she gave birth to twins, both males
Oct. Z, 1880. she gave birth to triplets,
two males and one female, making ten
calves in the three years five months
and twenty one days. The calves have
all been of good size, healthy and
handsome, and have been raised on the
farm.
Travellers in Egypt are surprised at
the large amount of ophthalmia and
blindness prevalent among the inhab-
itants. Want of cleanliness is the cause.
An Egyptian mother, under the infiu-
ence of a widely-prevalent superstition,
does not wash her child's eyes until
eight days after birth. BY that time the
organ is frequently ruined. The teach
ers in the American and British mission
schools of Cairo say that Egyptian
mothers become invariably angry when
urged to wash the eyes of their newly
born infants, and can rarely be per-
suaded to comply with request of the
kind.
The province of Adana, in Asia
Minor, has been thrown into state of
frantic excitement owing to an unpleas-
ant discovery that all the cultivated land
between the ports of Mersina and Litifghe
was found to be covered with locust
eggs. The eggs lie in compact layers,
and are supposed to have been deposit
ed by an army of locusts which passed
through the district toward the middle
of last year On the state of
affairs having been made known
by telegram to the Governor,
Abeddin Pasha, orders were at
once transmitted to the authorities of
Tarsus telling them to summon all the
able-bodied men and women who could
be mustered and to set them to work to
destroy the eggs.
DIR. Thomas, dentist of Vienna,
was summoned recently to Kirwin, in
Russian Poland, to perform a dental OPP
GRAFTON upon the Countess Waleska. At
the border station of Radjwilow he was
stopped, required to show his passport
and have his baggage searched His
name at once awakened suspicion, from
its resemblance to that of Thomassen,
the infernal-machine man of Bremen
haven; and when the officials found a
mysterious apparatus in his baggage
this suspicion became fixed and positive,
and the unfortunate dentist narrowly es-
capped faring roughly. He tried to ex-
plain the workings of the apparatus, but
without much avail; and when he was
finally allowed to go on his way de-
tectiye accompanied him until he met
the servants and carriage of the Count
ess. The machine, however, had been
previously contested. Such is travel
ing in Russia.