The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

Money for the Garfield monument
is being raised in Paris.
-Tench, a French food fish, have
been introduced in the Central Park
ponds in New York.
The authorities of the Vatican have
rejected an application to put atelephone
in chat palace. eo g1o1o2
"A Massachusetts State prison con-
Wet has just been granted pension of
81, 100 for war services, and has made
the money over to his family. 'IT
The small amount of interest taken
in amendments to State Constitutions
has just been Illustrated in Massachu-
sets, where, with 100000 voters, only
$4,000 ballots were cast on such an issue.
Sonora Augustine Ramirez, the
mother of twelve sons, who with their
father all died in arms against the
French, has just been awarded a pension
of $3.50 a month by the Mexican Con-
gress.
At the old center of the town of
Newfane, Vt, where, forty years ago,
there were several thriving stores, nu-
| merous houses, a hotel, the court house,
jail church and schoolhouses, there is
now not the yestige of d building. M
The French army in Tunis is sadly
in want OF water during its marches in
the interior. Water has to be carried on
camels, as the Romans carried it during
their campaigns against Jugurtha. To
get water from the soil wells have to be
bored fifty feet deep. ~ no vt isf,-i.
Some time since an invalid member
of a Scotch church had thecservice CON
yeyed to him. by means of a telephone
line from the pulpit to his bedside. In
the West Free Church, Dundee, which
has just been renovated, telephone line
has been established from the pulpit to
the bedside of "a .bedridden, member of
the congregation. 60, ..,..-.-
"A correspondent of Geneva paper.
writing from eVevey, says that i large
meteoric stone, which seemed to come
| from u point in the Hautler directly
over the mountains on the SaYoyard side
of the Laste, fell with q tremendous re-
port in the market place of Vevey. The
stone was sufficiently large to have
crushed any house upon which it might
have fallen.u p i04 iuGf4A 1aailssgB
The collection mania still has many
|
but that seems to have palled on the APP
petite. Now it is labels and mercantile
tags, ornamental and advertising cards.
But the latest is a rage for hairpins,
which fall (or are filched) from the heads
of their beautiful owners These are
arranged in a scrap-book, accompanied
with the name of the whilom wearer
"A curious feature of the Chinese
coins, the nail-mark, appears to have
originated in an accident very character
istic of China. In the time of Queen
Wentek model in wax Of a proposed
coin was brought for her Majesty 5 in
spection. In taking hold of it she left
the impression of one NALL and the I'M
preston has in consequence been
marked characteristic of Chinese coins
for hundreds of years. 80 ...''.
A Philadelphia court has decided
that bequest to fit young man for the
ministry is a gift for religious purpose,
and to be valid must be made at least
thirty days before the testator's death
The law requiring this lapse of time in
gifts of the kind was intended to pre-
vent persons from doing an injustice to
those having natural claims upon them
by disposing of their property when at
the point of death in a manner tended to
propitiate Deity. ,-....
The Indians of Mendocno County,
Cal, poison large quantities of fish.
They use weed that grows like clover,
! in punches, and is abundant in that
county. They bruise the weed, and
then fasten quantity of 1t in the current
at the head of a hole of deep water. The
fish become crazy from its effects and
die. 1t kills everything in the hole where
it is placed, from the largest fish down
to the smallest minnow. The Indians
in this way gather fish by the basketful.
"A sanguinary drama has just been
enacted at Loreto, in Corsica A bandit
was being led to prison by two gen
darmes, when his relatives suddenly APP
peared on the scene and summoned the
officials to release him. They refused to
| do so, and brisk fire was the result.
| Both the gendarmes were killed, and
their prisoner, homthey retained to the
last, was so, severely wounded that he is
not expected to survive. The gendarmerie
4 of the district has been sent in pursuit of
the assailants, Several of whom have also
Suslaincu scIlouS INJURY. .+ .r d
There died recently inLeipsic, Ger
1 many, an enormously rich widow, whose
only relative was very distant. After
making large number of minor be-
quests, among them one of $50, 900 marks
to the city for the erection of u monu-
mental structure, she bequeached the
residuary fortune to the Kingdom Of Sax
ony, some 100000 marks in all. A
mark is about twenty-four cents. She
directed that the interest on the money
shall be used in assisting such poor per-
sons as are not already benefited by
public charities. .... .ea ......
The eldest son of the. Russian EN-
peror is in his fourteenth year, of an
active and lively disposition; and, for his
years, far advanced in his studies. Rus
sian is always the language employed by
the Imperial family when, they are to-
gether, but when the boys are with their
teachers they speak French and English
on alternate days. Six hours a day are
devoted to study by the young princes,
but their education is not limited to Sc
dentary studies alone. They are also
practiced in riding and shooting, and
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