The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-23
GENERAL.


President Garfeld's mother and
children are to spend the summer at
their Mentor home.
Attorney General McVeagh is the
only member of the Cabinet who parts
his hair in the middle. t.o III
The men employed at Krupp's
mandatory are working night and day
in supplying orders for large guns from
abroad. Roumania has ordered 100 !;
Greece, 700; Sweden, so; Holland, 120,
and Italy, 400. 0Ft eai .7 7aEml
Barry Sullivan had scarcely uttered
the words, ''Dogs bark at me as halt
by them,' from Richard Ill, at the
Cork Theater, lately, when he was dis
concerted by the yelping of a cur, which,
with its mistress, had to be removed
from the theater. Rs <2H' 'eG stNH15
Some of the professional beggars
met with at every street corner can not
be so badly off, unless one of them made
a mistake yesterday, in asking for char
ity. 1t was in the afternoon. "Have
pity" he said, on poor fellow who has
not eaten morsel since noon"
An Indian woman in q village of
British Columbia was taken with an in
fictitious fever. The medicine men held
q consultation over the case and decided
that she must be buried alive to prevent
an epidemic. Victoria newspapers say
that the decree was carried out liter
ally. .w ait na#
While party of American travellers
were visiting the battlefield of Waterloo
an iron box was found by one of them.
1t contained the will of an English Off
Ger, Sir Charles O'Neally, and by it the
present heirs of his fortune suddenly
find themselves dispossessed in favor of
the children of his eldest son.
-Genevieve Ward, the actress, de-
mands separate sleeping-cars for women.
81 think it is perfectly shocking" she
says, ''the way ladies and men are hud-
died together like animals in these sleep
ing-cars, with nothing but curtain
hanging between them. 1t shocks a
modest woman frightfully to have to en-
dure this ordeal. Where is the much
Wanted decency of the American peo-
pie, that it does not rise against this in
fringement of propriety and self-re-
spectP'u
There is in Paris Post-mortem
Examination Society whose members
pledge themselves to utilize their bodies
after death for the profit of the scien
tifc idea" by leaving them to the An
chronological Laboratory for examina-
ton, dissection, or whatever other pur-
poses may seem fit. The results of the
post-mortem will be drawn up at the
lowest price for the family of the de-
ceased. Every member is expected to
pay five francs annually, in return for
which his autopsy will be performed
free of charge, provided he dies in Paris.
The prime object of the society is to in
crease the value of post morton exam
lnations by offering subjects whose char
acter and personality are known to the
operator. 1t supposed that this knowl-
edge will be especially serviceable in re-
spect to persons who die of brain dis
ease. -.
. The official executioner of Up
per and Lower Austria was visit
ed at his house in Vienna by
q decrepit and sorrowful old
woman, who begged him to give her a
remedy that would cure her son of a
propensity to steal. She was evidently
possessed of the old superstition that the
hangman has peculiar power for giving
relief in such case and the execution
er, playing upon her credulity, gave her
piece of the rope with which the mMr-
derer of q letter-carrier had not long
previously been hanged, and told her to
conceal it under the mattress on which
her son slept. He also promised, if this
did not work a cure, to draw blood
from him with the sword used for be-
heading criminals. That would surely
prove eflicacious. All this came out
when the incorrigible son was subse-
quently convicted of sunday crimes and
his old and stricken mother told the
court of her efforts to make good man
of him, and of all the remedies she had
tried. The executioner has now been
arraigned on charge of charlatanry.