The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

and desperadoes passed through Denver
in five days recently on their way FROM
Arizona and New Mexico, from which
they had been driven to some new des-
tination.-C Chicago Herald.
"A British barkentine, lately arrived
at st. Johns, reports having passed a
large number of floating cattle. Must
have been the bulls of the stock market:
they are said to have been ''all at sea-"
ately.-Boston Commercial BuIlctin.
-Longfellow's ear was SO keen and
his memory of sounds so true that on
his visit to France in 1869 he observed
how not only the French language, but
the manner of pronouncing it, had I'M
dergone marked change since his for
mer visit in l829.-BoStOn Post.
The Oxford Il. T) Enterprise la
ments the scarcity of manageable wom-
en- in Idaho territory, and has decided to
vote column to aid the bachelors in
getting wives. 1t solicits advertisements
from women everywhere who wish to
marry, and promises to use its efforts to
lind them suitable husbands.
-Hortense Kittrell was appointed a
clerk in the Nevada Legislature. Henry
h. WEIGH, the chief clerk, at first object
ed to the presence of woman in tho
office. But his objection has been over
come during the present season. Miss
Kittrell is now Mrs. Welch.-St Louis
Globe.
OF party of forty which left CAMS
teo, N. T., four years ago, to work on a
railroad in Brazil, the last one to return
is Charles Forbes, son of doctor living
in Alfred. He describes every discour-
agement as being encountered, and his
| experience is like that of most northern
workmen who have gone to Brazil. He
believes there is only one man of the
party left alive in Brazil
The fashion of wearing jeweled gar
tiers, the New York Sun says, is spread
ing rapidly. All jewelers. keep them
and say the custom is 100 per cent.
greater this year than last. The cheap
est pair at one jewelers. cost forty-six
dollars, and the dearest 81, 200, which
were made to order. Curiously enough
the cheap ones do not sell we'll.
An Ohio sutton, unable to make the
young woman say yes, threatened to
shoot himself in her presence. There
ing considered the matter carefully, she
wrote to him that she would not keep
the promise made under coercion, and
that, while she strongly advised him
against suicide, she should feel no re-
sponsibility about him. He blew his
brains out-N, Y. Sun.
-Bostonians who are Dragging that the
city possesses the deepest artesian we'll
in the world (2.200 feet) labor under a
great delusion. The well ON the grounds
of the St. Louis Insane Asylum reached
a depth of $3.50 feet, the only trouble
about it being that the water which
flowed from it was salt. Such dsap-
pOintment did the latter fact prove that
st. Louisians took to beer for consolation.
and now they are not sorry that the well
was afailure. Brooklyn Eagle. 'n
Tim Poffenbarger was not suspected
ofany tendency to insanity. He was in
successful business at Gallipolis, Ohio.
| and social favorite. Yet he committed
suicide because he discovered, as he be-
Ieved, that he was losing his mental
faculties. He wrote: "My mind has
become SO confused that am not capa-
BILE of transacting my business. and my
life seems to be q burden to me, and my
memory so affected that scarcely know
what l have been doing for several
months. "-DetroH Free Press
That mystic organization, the Rosi-
crucians, under whose auspices last De-
cember's charity ball was given, have
just contributed another noteworthy
charity to the people Of st. Louis The
gift this time takes the form of drinking
fountains, ten of which are soon to be
placed in different localities in the more
thickly settled parts of the city The
fountains are simply inscribed: "Gift to
the thirsty, from the Rosicrucians. ~
81. Louis Globe Democrat. l.tsg ...-
Last week. as a meat merchant from
Wilmington was coming up the channel,
a baby seal about two feet long followed
the boat and set up a piteous cry for
help. The little fellow got lost from its
mother, and was lonesome and hungry.
The boat was stopped, and the little fell
low climbed in and nestled down under
the legs of the gentleman, who brought
him to Wilmington and fed him with
milk, of which he is very fond. He is
perfectly tame, and is the pet of the
town.-Los Angelos (Cal.) Commercial.
More than forty skeletons of Indians
have been disturbed by workmen dig
ging up hill in Oneida Village. Eigh-
teen of the skeletons were in sitting
posture, in a row, resting on bricks, the
feet of one to the back of the next
Daniel Schoondad, present chief of the
Oneidas, says these are warriors killed
in battle or the chase. He says he knew
there was burying-place there and that
there are others at Wampsville and
Oneida Castle. Under an old apple tree
four women and two children were found
wrapped in blankets. Utica (N "
Herald.