Daily Republican., 1883-09-20
SENSATIONAL ITEMS.

A religious agitation OF a very sin
gular character is manifesting itself in
Q some countries of the grand duchy of
e Finland. The new heretics call them.
selves the Pure by Excellence" and
) profess the superiority and supremancy
Of woman, who must control the fami-
ly. In every house where the new doc
trines are practiced woman, elected
by her companions, Is invested with a
, sort of directing power, which gives
her the right to iDtict Eenance and
even rigorous chastisement. The new
creed requires that all its disciples
shall confess their sins to certain wo.
men at least once week.
Frank Day waited at Needleton, Col,
until the noon train passed down, and
being informed that no other train was
on the road, he took the track in prefer.
ence to Che trail had ridden some mile
or more, when happening to look up,
to his astonishment he saw the con-
structiOn train going around the curve
and but few rods distant. A wall of
rock to the left and the river to the right
and twenty feet below. A moment
decided, and lifting his mare by the
bride, he sent the spurs into her side,
and jumped her down into the foaming
water. Fortunately no injuries We're
sustained.
The arrest of three English ladies of
position on suspicion of stealing ring
at the hotel at Kissengen has tiuttered
the German watering places. On being
released, they were accompanied by
two Bavarian poll cemen to the hotel,
where they found their traducer an
Irish lady, seated at the table ii hOte.
She denied having accused them, but
several of the guests protested the op
posite. She had openly charged them
with entering her bedroom at night
and abstracting the ring. Thus con.
fronled, she made an abject apology,
and handed to the police a good SUN
tor charitable purposes.
A very singular incident occurred al
the funeral of the Duke of Marlborough.
| at the exact moment the process
sion appeared on the entrance steps
OF Blenheim Palace, a white dove tiut- |
tered down from one of the towers of
the east wing of the palace on to the
lawn in front OF the coffin, aud when
the procession had just reached the
81, ps on their return after the cerem-
ony, another dove flew from the lawn
and alighted on the stone parepet i'm
nediately over the entrance doorway
both these birds, we were informed,
have accompanied thelate duke abroad
in his yacht.
On very grand occasions his majesty
of DahOmey dispatches a gOrgeOusly |
got up ain bassadOr, with royal UNI
brella over his head, to take his compli- |
ments to his good friend the ocean. II
is an Office of much dignity and honor,
but not greatly sought after, because
etiquette prescribes that the am bassa-
dor, after being taken out to sea in
canoe, shall be thrown overheard TO the |
sharks.
Barnum says that he lost Sl3O, 200 in
his vain attempt to bring two Siamese
white elephants to this country. His
agent bought the beasts through the
Connivance of priest, and after the
king had Indignantly refused to sane
ton such a sacrilegious sale, but they
died on being taken aboard ship, and
the old Snowman believes that they were
poisoned.
A Washington miss sta ked into the
navy department the other day, flour
ishing IA revolver and bowie knife =
81 am looking for clerk in this build
ing" said she, theatrically, "and if
find the william | will kill him outright"
She didn't find him
A letter was returned to Mrs. j. p
pnnl ,f Mann fn1 hn nthar iny tp
the post Office department, which had
failed to reach its destination, and which
was written sixteen years ago by her
husband to a San Francisco friend.
A new style of counterfeit coin is be
ing circulated quite freely about Boston.
French "dix centmes pieces washed
with silver, when they make TO all ap-
pearance> very good half dollars. They
are worth two cents each.
A PELICAN killed near Batesville,
Miss, few days since, mea ,ured eight
feet eight inches from tip to tip of
wings, and five feet six inches in
length, and yet it weighed only sixteen
pounds.
A new complimentary phrase now
heard in Paris is: "You are quite
elec,rc!' Presumably it is meant to
assert that the complimented one is
most sparkling and brilliant.
A suddenly crazed young man
fancied himself highway robber at
San Rafael, Cal and fired into his
own family carriage badly wounding
his sister.
AT Oshkosh, Wis, the other day a
man hoed up in his garden his wife's
wedding ring, which she lost twenty
one years ago.
4 preachers convention was recently
held at Creston, Ia, at which each at
tendant was presented with brood of
five chickens.
A sot crawled into a mill at Law
renee, Mass., and went to sleep on
very wide belt. When the machinery
started he was killed.
Mills Smith, of Greene county, Va,
dropped dead JUS as he was raising !:
bis hand to swear that his tax list was .
correct
A lady stopping at hotel in Aus
tralia was bitten by rtt, and has sued
the proprietor Of the house for $40, 200
damages.
All You, the prettlest Chinese girl
ever brought to America, has married
an Englshman in San Francisco.
A hair dresser has this startling
in his shop: Ladies' y
short comings made up and arrang-
ed" =
A Buchanan (Mich.) school mis-
tress Furnishes refractory children by u
making them stand in an empty bar
rel. y
If dress makes the man, what does
the tailor make? From fifty to one y
hundred per cent. profit, perhaps.
Republics are not always ungrateful.
The United Stated has paid its soldiers =
$70O, ,0O0, 900 in pensions.