The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-09
GENERAL.

as tne Wranglers, mas lately been eStab-
lished in London. 81
"A negro has been elected a member
of the National Association of Mexican
War Veterans, recently in convention
ton in Louisville. He is very black, and
was given his freedom by Henry Clay
for gallant conduct at Buena Vista.
Ultra fashionable ladies now dis
play heterogeneous collection of orna-
ments-bandeaux, necklaces, brooches,
rings, chatelaines, gold bands and innu-
merable bangles, in the shape of bugs,
bees, birds and beasts, all glinting and
glittering with every kind of jewel known
to the lapidary. : fa toni.
"A landlady in Louisville, KY, was
so importunate in her demands that her
sick tenant sold his body to physician
for dissection for SIC, to be paid the
woman provided he died before the end
of the month. The Courier-JournoI
says that he is now patiently awaiting
death or recovery; but should he linger
on and not recover before the time ex-
pires, there will no doubt be a lively
scene when the monthly gatherer Of
rent-money calls. I ..i nr... 's.
Austin Moriarty went home to his
wife at Putnam, Conn.,, and said that if
he was not mistaken he had on the pre-
vious day been married to Phoebe
Brown, at Providence. He had q dim
recollection OF going with some friends
to clergyman's house while drunk,
and becoming the bridegroom in mar
Iiage ceremony. His memory proved
sound, for an officer soon arrived with a
warrant to arrest him. but his wife by
strategy enabled him to escape to Can
ada. ...t. .,....-.. .-. ......
Mrs. j. J. Aston, of New York, is
doing noble work. She recently sent
a party of 100 homeless children,
through the Children's Aid Society, to
homes in the West and South, at a cost
OF nearly $1,000. Of these, seventy-six
were placed in homes in Kansas, Iowa
and Missouri, and twenty-four of the
larger boys found employment with
Virginia farmers. The total number of
children sent by Mrs. Astor through the
Society is 6f3, at cost Of over 81, 500.
The frontier battalion now in Texas
consists of five small companies, num-
bering in all 120 officers and men, and
during the last two years they have per-
formed the following services: 1,OO1
scouts, seven fights with Indians, thirty
one Indian trails followed, five fights
with outlaws, 685 fugitives from Justice
arrested, sixty-seven courts attended by
request of civil authorities, sixty-seven
jail and other guards furnished, $50 es-
corts supplied, 152 other assistances to
authorities, 1917 horses and cattle re-
covered, one Mexican child recovered,
and twelve outlaws killed.
The champion bee-keeper lives, very
appropriately, in Beeton, Cal, and bears
the not unfamiliar name of Jones. In
the year 1879, from 800 colonies of bees
he obtained $4,000 pounds of honey, and
in 1880, from 400 colonies he obtained
10000 pounds, worth 50 900, and the lat
Ter was a bad year for honey. During
the latter year he obtained 600 new col
onies from the 400, and commences 1881
with 1000 colonies of hees, valued at
$1,000, independent of the cost of the
hives. Mr.. Jones says he will clear at
least $4,000 this year, unless some I'M
foreseen accident occurs.
"A curious matrimonial agency flour
ishes in Paris, which not only arranges
marriages, but undertakes to make all
the necessary visits for the contracting
parties. Among its staff are a number
of ''highly correct gentlemen who are
got up with beard, whiskers, or mus
tache, to represent as closely as possible
the intending bridegroom, and these pay
visits, leave cards, and transact all the
needful social business of the wedding.
Vienna physicians have beenexam
ing with much interest three-year-old
pair of twins, who are not less of a nat
ural curiosity than the Siamese twins
were. From the breast bone down they
have but one body; above that they are
two wholly separate and complete or
ganisms. They have only two legs and
feet, but four arms. The sense of feel
ing in the upper part is entirely distinct
and individual. At the moment of med
ical inspection, one of the heads looked
peevish and occasionally cried on &C
count of painful tooth, while the other
looked fresh and lively, and shouted
Mammal" The inner arms come in
conflict, and cause fights between the
twins. Though the pair have one body
below the breast, they do not get hun
cry at the same time. The left foot
seems to be connected only with the left
head, and the right foot with the right
head. One of the feet was pinched, and
only the head on that side cried.
German Psychologists have been ex,
perimenting to ascertain the best mode
Of restoring frozen animal life, and they
announce that the hitherto accepted the
DRY that persons who have been exposed
too long to extreme cold should not be
brought into contact with warmth except
by slow degrees is wholly erroneous.
Dogs were frozen by artificial applica.
tons until breathing and pulsation had
almost wholly ceased, and then attempts
were made to restore twenty of them in
a cold room, twenty in q warm room,
and twenty in bath of warm water
OF the first, fourteen died; of the second,
eight; of the last, none. The warm
bath brought about restoration in re.
markedly short time.