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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-04
Tossed By a Mad Buffalo.

There was no time to be lost, as I was
not more than twenty yards from him;
so refining in with jerk and turning
the horse at the same instant broadside
on raised my gun, intending to put a
ball, if possible, just between his neck
and shoulder, which, could | have done
so, would either have knocked him down
or at any rate made him swerve; but my
horse, instead of standing steady las he had
always done before, now commenced
walking forward, though he did not APP
pear to take any notice of the buffalo.
There was no time to put my hand down
and give another wrench to the bride
(Which had let fall on the horses neck, J
and for the life of me could not get a
sight with the horse in motion.
A charging buffalo does not take many
seconds to cover forty yards, and in an
other instant his outstretched nose was
within six feet of me, SO, lowering the
gun from my shoulder, pulled it off in
his face, at the same time digging the
spurs into my horses sides, but it was
too late, for even as he sprang forward
the old bull caught him full in the flank,
pitching him with me on his back, into
the air like dog. The recoil of the
heavily-charged elephant gun with
which was unluckily shooting twisted
it clean ont of my hands, so that we all,
horse, gun and man, fell in different d.
rections. My horse regained his feet
and galloped away Immediately.
The buffalo, on tossing the horse, had
stopped dead, and now stood with his
head lowered within few feet of me.
had fallen in a sitting position and fac
ing my unpleasant looking adversary. /
could see no wound on him, so must have
missed, though l can scarcely under
stand how, as he was very close when 1
fired. However, | had not much time
for speculation, as the old brute, after
glazing at me a few seconds with his
sinister-looking, bloodshot eyes, finally
made up his mind, and, with grunt
rushed at me. l threw my body out
fiat around the ground to one side, and
just avoided the upward thrust of his
horn, receiving, however, a severe blow
on the left shoulder with the round part
of it, nearly dislocating my right arm
with the force with which my elbow was
driven against the ground, and receiving
also kick ON the instep from one of his
feet. Luckily for me he did not turn
again, as he most certainly would have
done had he been wounded, but galloped
clean away.
The first thing to be done was to look
after my horse, and about $50 yards
from where he had been tossed 1 found
him. The buffalo had struck him full in
the left thigh; it was an awful wound,
and, as the poor beast was evidently in
the last extremity, hastily loaded my
gun and put him out of his misery.
There | was, left alone and uniniured,
with only my gun for company, and the
nob-backed buffalo cantering away
toward the horizon. -Denrer Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-04
A New Dental Disease.

A child, aged ten, whose teeth six
months ago appeared to be all perfectly
sound, came to me with toothache in
the right lower canine. found that a
large portion of the enamel had disap-
peared from the front surface of the
tooth, as if it had been Clipped violently
off, the dentine was all exposed, but
there was no softening or appearance
of decay. The disease, which has COM
meneed in several of the other incisor
teeth, appears first as a small white spot
in about the thickest part of the front
surface of the enamel, which it seems to
penetrate; and then, suddenly disintre-
grating, this comes away, and exposes
the remaining sensitive enamel and the
dentine This disease is altogether
different thing from the gradual de-
cay, or wear at the neck of the teeth
frequently met with in adults, for in
this case the patient is only ten, and, as
far as have been able to ascertain, the
incisors and CANNES never have been
known to decay in the manner above
described. We are often at our wits
end to cope with the increasing preva-
lence of carries in the teeth of the very
young; and if this be { as fear it is } a
new form of destructive energy, the
sooner it is recognized the better.
British Medical Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-04
Two Boys Encounter Two Bears.

Last Monday two young men named
Clarence and William Eastman, of Kear-
sarge village, North Conway, started out
into the woods on a bear hunt About
noon they come across the track of two
bears near a logging road. The boys
followed the trail eagerly until they
found that the bears had gone into a
cave some distance from the road. They
cautiously peered in, and in the uncer-
tain light saw both animals engaged in
gnawing what appeared to be the car
cass of some wild beast. The young
hunters were greatly excited, of course,
but they did not loose their GOODNESS
After whispered consultation, which
was carried on without disturbing the
bears, so intense were they upon their
meal, the boys selected their marks and
fired. Both bullets took effect, as was
evident from the furious uproar inside
the cave. When the smoke lifted the
wounded bears rushed out of their re-
treat, bringing the young hunters to
close quarters. The age of the animals
was probably about year, and they
weighed upwards of $50 pounds each.
Noting the size of the game, and realiz-
ing that they must defend themselves
from the coming attack, the boys threw
away their guns and prepared to fight.
''Mount him, WIFI shouted Clarence,
and at the next moment each sprang di-
rectly on the backs of the growing
brutes. Then began lively struggle
for the mastery. The boys weighed
about as much as the bears, and the con-
test was not SO unequal as might appear.
Each hunter grasped the long hair near
the ears and dug his heels into the TANKS
of his antagonist. Clarence was on q
steep pitch when the struggle COM
menced, and after a few minutes of hard
work, was thrown from his seat; but in
falling he upset the bear and both rolled
TO the foot OF the incline. where the boy
came outon top The bear, caught in q
hollow place in the ground, was eonsd-
erably eramped, and Clarence was able
TO get his knife out OF his pocket and
open it, With that he dealt heavy
blow in the neck, which let out his life
blood in torrents. Then the victorious
Clarence turned his attention to his COM
rade. William had not succeeded so
well, and was by this time in an embar-
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that to wake up and see a widow drives
him into state of the most acute appre-
tensions of coming misfortunes. The
ideas of Hindoos as to beef are altogether
different from those of Buddhists. The
Hindoos regard the COW as a deity. 1t
has been said they would eat human flesh
rather than taste beef; and they have been
known to perish of starvation on board
ship rather than eat salt beef. Yet for all
this Brahmans travelling in England
have been known to eat beef and like it,
Indeed, one Brahman boosted during a
visit to England that the sacrilegiOus
nourishment cured him of bad asthma
which had affected him for years, and
which had originally been brought on
by series of bathings in sacred rivers,
undertaken with the pious view of wash
ing away the sins of his deceased father.
Buddhists, on the contrary, have no SUI
perstitious belief in the COW as divine
incarnation, but only object to killing
animals for any purpose whatever as
contrary to the law of beneyolence and
loving kindness; and their objection
vanishes in the case of animals that have
died a natural death or been killed by
some one else. Gotana Buddha himself
died-or rather passed away into the
nothingness of Niryana-from having
unfortunately eaten too much sucking
pig, which had been provided for his
supper by faithful disciple; and not
withstanding all that has been said about
the respect of the Buddhist for anything
that has life, it is certain some of them
will eat almost anything after it is dead,
including rats, snakes and slugs, pro-
vided only that they themselves have
had nothing to do with the slaughter
Pail Mall Enzekte
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-04
The Girl Suicides.

The number of suicides in Paris has
been appalling since few weeks. Self
destruction seems to have become almost
an epidemic. Not day passes but the
papers report one or several cases of vol
untary death by drowning, suffocating
or poisoning. The statistics of suicide in
France are, indeed, of an alarming ma
ture. Hundreds of unfortunate wretches
are hurrying out of the world every year
in this country, so prosperous, so highly
civilized, at present so tranquil, but whose
evil is general lowering of the moral
standard. 1t is particularly among that
most unfortunate class-among those
poor producers of luXury-the work
girls, overworked, underfed, miserably
paid, with brains impaired by the spec
tacle of frivolity and fashion, that the
victims of suicide are recruited. Char
coal is the classic means of self-destruc-
ton with the sewing girls, but OCCASION
ally some distracted plyer of the needle
will resort to less ordinary end, as in
the case of that unfortunate creature,
who some years ago, threw herself down
from the summit of the Vendome col
umn. A more shocking death than hers
could hardly be imagined and the ming
ling of the trivial and commonplace cir
cumstances which preceded her death
has always impressed us deeply. She
left her place of employment suddenly
in the afternoon, alleging that she need
ed to buy thread and hurried at once to
the column on the place Vendome. Her
companions, on hearing of her fearful
death-her cry, when once she had
leaped, will never be forgotten by those
who heard Remembered to have no.
ticed her sewing her skirts together at
the bottom, and to have wondered what
could be the purpose of this. Life was
not extinct in the battered broken body
when it was taken to the nearest drug
gist's, and meanwhile eager groups
were gathered around the pavement,
where horrid bloody stain marked the
exact spot of the fall. And what of the
suicide of two childish creatures, two
girls of eleven and twelve, worked and
driven beyond endurance, who crept
away together one gloomy night, and,
clasping each other hands, walked step
by step until the water closed over their
heads, into the Seine, where their slight
and miserably- dressed bodies were found
floating together the next day. The sui
eide of child! Can human misery reach
a greater horror than this?--PdriS Reg
a.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-04
HindOO Cow Worship.

Della Vale, the Roman traveller, who
visited Western India in the reign OF
Jane l., says that the Hindoos in Cam
bay, in Guzerat, prevailed on the Mogul
Governor with large sum of money to
prohibit the slaughter of cows or calves
under heavy penalties; and any man at
Cambay, Musselman or otherwise, who
disobeyed this order was in danger of los
ing his life. The Emperor Aurungzebe
was more intolerant, and was detested
by the Rajpoot princes because he
slaughtered COWS in Rajpootana, not for
the sake of the beef, but in a spirit OF
persecution and revenge. As late as the
end of the last century Tippoo Sultan ex-
cited horror throughout Southern India
because he compelled large numbers OF
Hindoos to eat beef, in order to pollute
them beyond all hope of being restored to
their caste, and thus forced them, as it
were,t to become Mohammedans. Strange
to say, nearly all the civil posts in his
Government were filled by Brahman's
while his Prime Minister was a Brah-
man of the purest caste. They all
pocketed the affront to their religion in
consideration that they were pocketing
large sums of money out of the Golfers
of the State; while Tippoo Sultan could
not dispense with their services, since
they were the only educated men in hi:
dominion.
1t may naturally be asked what there
Is in the COW to command such supersti-
tious reverence. AS matter of fact the
worship of the COW is associated with one
OF the oldest religions of the world. From
the remotest antiquity the COW has beer
regarded as the incarnation of the female
element in nature-the universal mother
as well as the giver of milk and butter
which are the choicest delicacies In the
eyes of pious and primitive people
The Egyptians worshipped the GOODIES;
Isis in the form of woman with the
horns of COW. The Hindoos worship
the cow as an incarnation of Lakshmi
the wife of Vishnu, the holy, beautiful
and pure ideal of woman, who rose from
out Of the sea like another Aphrodite. Il
wake up in the morning and see a COW
is the best omen of good luck that car
befall a hindoo, just in the same way
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RAISING position. When he closed with
the bear the latter made for fallen tree
which lay several inches from the
ground. Bruin tried to crawl under the
tree, but there was not room enough to
pull his rider through. The bear could
not advance and William could not pull
him out. There they hung, the bear
struggling to get through and the boy
craned over the log, his arms cramped
and his strength fast failing him. Then
Clarence rushed up to his assistance.
This startled bruin, who backed out of
his uncomfortable position, and par
TALLY freed himself from his tormentor's
hold. Then the brute ''got in a side
winder," for, drawing back his paw, he
whacked William on the head, tearing
the flesh and leaving the mark of his
claws across the boys face. William
was thrown down and the bear was free.
Before either of the hunters could load
his gun bruin took ''leg bail'' and es-
capped into the woods. The boys dressed
the other one and carried it home
Portland me. Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-02-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Orthodox Russians prevented
the performance of Wagner S operas I'M
der Alexander II. .....
Five thousand pagans are reported
as converted during the last executive
year through the missions in Siberia OF
the Russian Holy Synod. ''"
"A Christian church has been built
with stones from the ruins of heather
temple by the native converts connected
with the Madura Mission of the Ameri-
can Board.
The proposed University of Texas
will probably be long in building. as the
regents discover that they have at their
disposal only $4,000 of the $150,000
necessary.
The late New Hampshire Legislature
enacted that no child under sixteen years
shall be hired for any work unless it at
tends school twelve weeks in the year
and is able to write legibly and make
easy work of the Third Reader"
In the four theological seminaries in
and around Chicago, the Methodist, Bap-
fist, Presbyterian and Congregational,
there are at present about 800 young
men-a larger number than are gath
cred for the same purpose within the
same space elsewhere in the United
States.
1t is said now of Harvard Universe
ty, by one who processes to know, that
while there have been years in the his
tory of that institution when very few of
the students proposed to enter the min
istry, now there must be between thirty
or forty who are looking forward to that
calling as their choice,
In both France and England the
study of Greek and Latin inscriptions
has been taken up as part of classical
education. The French are in advance,
for they are taking measures for work
ing into the regular school course visits
of inspection to the inscriptions pre-
served in the museums of Paris and other
cities.
Rev. DR.. Baird, leading member
of the Southern Presbyterian Church,
objects to the admission of colored
clergyman to the Memphis Presbytery
and says: Gone of the conditions of or
dination is that man shall be able to
edify the church. Now, risk nothing
in asserting that no negro man in the
present condition of the Church and the
world can attain unto this essential quail
ification for the position of minister
among u.s."
&c A Christian Army" organized
mainly after the pattern of the English
Salvation Army" has been started in
Chicago. Bishop Fallows, of the Re-
formed Episcopal Church, is at the head
of it as General, with corps of other
officers, bearing military titles. The
members wear uniforms, with certain
decorative symbols. Their headquarters
are to be at No. 13 South Halsted Street.
A drum corps to attend the street pro-
cessions of the army" is in process of
drill. The intention of the movement is
to do something to reach the specially
irreligious masses, the ''hard cases. of
society.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A Chicago girl who is engaged to
young doctor calls him ga sweet pill"
-Tramps who take their rations from
the kitchen door are among the no.
table people of the day.-N. o. Pea
yatnae.
"A man never Swears vengeance on
his neighbours dog only when his own
canine cannot lick him. Whitehall
Times.
When would the cobbler seem most
ty likely to feel the weight of declining
years? When at the last he is waxing
ld.-Boston Traveller.
"A scientific journal says: ''The mo-
mas crepuzculis is only twenty-four-
thousandth part of an inchin diameter.
We never measured the monas what
you call it, but we supposed its diameter
was much greater.-No7riStoOn Herald.
An Ohio paper says a young lady
who graduated in a calico dress few
years ago is now married to railroad
superintendent who has an income of
half million a year. Graduating girls
should remember this, and not draw on
the dry goods supply too strongly
o. Picayurae.
Young Lady: Why are men so slow
to offer ladies seats in horse cars? We
will tell you. 1t doesn't make man
any richer or better off in the world to
have " thank YOU said to him, but it
makes him feel happier, and the neglect
your sweet sex has shown of that little
point has obtained for many of you a
chance to stand up in horse car
Boston Post. r.
-Calino, having read the stories of
crime with which the journals are
crammed, was in constant fear of MUIR
der; for he lived in lonely spot and his
servants all slept very soundly. One day
he said to a friend: "Ah, I've got it. l
can sleep soundly now. At night the
knob of my chamber door communicates
with an electric battery " Well"
if the knob is touched the battery fires
off a can of dynamite, and the house is
blown up. Good trap for robbers, you
see."-Le Figaro.
-"Ah! so you are the young man from
Bethany who wishes to learn the business,
are you?' said a New Haven merchant,
recently. Eyes, sir" was the respectful
reply. Lets see. Are you quick at
fgures?' "Tolerably." IF a man
should buy $50 yards of calico at thirteen
cents yard, how much would it come
TOP" "a man that would pay thirteen
cents yard for calico when he could get
itin market for eight cents-fifteen off for
immediate cash--would come to want
mighty sudden" The young man was
engaged. -NeO Haoen Register. ..s
The New York Sun says that ''har-
pooning whales by cannon and seining
menhaden by enormous nets worked from
steam vessels, are now supplemented
with catching fish by earthquakes.
Thousands of them We're thrown upon
the beach of the North Island of Arran
by single shake, a few days since, to
the delight of the Irish fishermen, who
considered it perfect windfall." This
is indeed splendid way to fish. You
go and sit on the shore and wait for an
earthquake. You're not bothered to hold
pole or fuss with bait, and you're quite
as likely to get some fish.
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bipeds. The crab being covered with hard i'm.
Penetrable SHELL 1t is not easy to modest Or make
him afraid; therefore he wages war in his watery
world increasingly when ONCE attacked. Although
tiny, he cannot be said to be devoid of understand
Ing, having ten legs to assist his locomotOn this
however, avails him little, for, when conquered
he never turns his back to his enemy starting
into bold run, but, like many politicians during
election time slips off sideways. There comes
time in the life of this pugnacious fellow when the
years bring him more bone and muscle than he
can dispose of with comfort, and he finds him
self in very tight place; his shoes pinch him
and he begins to realize the practicablity of ap-
plying to Dame Nature for more room or q house
IN proportion to his increasing size. Nature
slowly responds to the CALL but in her own good
tune provides new home, so that the enter
homeless, but is provided for suitably, as was the
old sailor who dropped his rheumatism and
erabbedness when he applied the Great German
Remedy, ST. JACOBS OIL. This last, however,
may sound rather fishy to the s<eptical reader
and to such we would reply in language too plain
TO be misunderstood words illustrating facts
that even the waves of time cannot wash away
or scaly. epithets affect. ST. JACOBS Oh. to-day
has rendered the lives and homes Of myriads 81
which people pause to admire along theway. Still
more happily served than the old sailor was an
invalid, who wrote thus concerning his case.
CROOKED HAERTEL."
Accept thousand thanks for that "golden
remedy" l suffered for many years with rheu-
matte pain in my limbs. My legs We're drawn
together, and people called me Crooked Hser-
TEL" used ST. JACOBS OIL and was cured, and
now feel so well that think l could dance as in
my young days. JOHN HAERTEL, Fremont H.
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"A Boston lady who has gymnasium
for girls cures curvature of the spine by
piling bean bags on the heads of the
patients and having the latter walk
around the room so straight as not to
drop them.
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When man is about to be told a
secret he shuts the door. When it is a
woman she opens the door to be sure no
one is listening outside. French Fun.
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COchineal.

The insect which yields the color called
cochineal seems to thrive in Mexico bet
ter than in the countries of the South
American continent, for the cochineal
exported to the States and to Europe
yields generally higher prices than that
produced in South America. The breed
ing of the cochineal insect in Mexico
seems to be very ancient-more anci ent,
indeed, than the Toltec, emigration, and
the industry was in far more flourish
ing state in ancient times than to-day
Yucatan, Puebla and Michoacan were
famous for the cochineal produce, and
to-day that industry is not even known
in the aforementioned States. tits due
to the endeavors of the Catholic clergy,
who were constantly encouraging this
industry, that the same is yet fourishing
in the State of Oajaca. The heavy du-
ties that other States were compelled to
pay to the Spanish Crown and the heroes
of pronunciamentos have never been in
troduced in Oajaca, and even the revo-
buttons have not devastated this State in
the same degree as other States suffered.
The breeding of the insect is exclusively
in the hands of the small Indian farmer,
who is sure to make comfortable liv-
ing out of his one or two thousand nopal
plants. In April and May little baskets
are fastened to the nopal plants, and in
to these baskets the female animal lays
her eggs and then dies. The dead
mothers yield the first harvest, and two
or three weeks later myriads of insects
leave the basket and begin to feed on the
juice of the plant. In January and Feb
ruary the breeder gathers the principal
harvest, killing all the animals but those
that are wanted for the production of
the new harvest. Formerly the animals
were killed in hot water; to-day the
commonly-adopted way is to kill them
in hot stoves, by which performance the
insect loses two-thirds of its weight. AS
the rays of the burning sun are danger
Gus to the young animals, the Indian
generally plants one or two sunfowers
near nopal plant. A nopal field Gov
cred with millions of snow-white animals
protected by the natural roof of the
heliotrope is curious sight. City OF
Merico Cor. N. Y Evening Post.
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When nation gives birth to man
who is able to produce great thought,
another is born who is able to understand
and admire it.