The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-01-20
A Great Curiosity.

Mr. Farini is now exhibiting at the Royal
Aquarium in London a strange hairy little
creature named Krao. Krao is described as
very bright looking, intelligent girl of about
years of age. She was caught, according to
the account given of her by Mr.. Farini, in the
forest near Laos in southeastern Asia, and
brought to England by Mr.. Carl Book, a Nor
wegian. Hearing in various quarters of the
existence of race of hairy tailed men SINH
lar in appearance to a family kept at the court
of Mandalay, he offered reward for the cap
ture of specimen. A man was caught, and
with him the child now exhibited, and wo-
self to be taken. When the little one at
tempted to wander her parents called her back
with a plaintive cry, "Krao,' and the call
has been adopted as her name. The father
died at Laos of cholera, and the King refused
to let the mother go; but Mr.. Book succeeded
in getting the child to Bang kok, and obtained
permission from the King of Siam to take her
to England. The eyes of the child are large,
dark and lustrous; the nose is fattened, the
nostris scarcely showing; the cheeks are fiat
and pouch-like, the lower lip only rather
thicker than is usual in Europeans; but the chief
peculiarly is the strong and abundant hair.
On the head it is black, thick, and straight,
and grows over the forehead down to the
heavy eyebrows, and is continued in whisker-
like locks down the cheeks. The rest of the
face is covered with fine, dark, downy hair
and the shoulders and arms have covering
of hairs from an inch to an inch and half
long. There is, it is said, slight lengthen-
ing of the lower vertebra, suggestive of a eau
dial protuberance, and there are points in the
muscular conformation and otherwise which
will provoke discussion. Krao has already
picked up few words of English. She is
said to be of frank, affectionate disposition,
and shows truly femme delight in her clothes,
jewelry and ribbons. Mr. Farini exhibits her
as ''the missing link
Gen. Odin G. Clay died at the Norvell
House, Lynchburg, Va, on Wednesday night
in the SD year of his age. He served many
years in the Legislature of Virginia, and as a
member of the board of public works. He
was the first president of the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad Company, now part of
the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company;
was related to Henry Clay, and was man of
considerable culture. Gen. Clay father was
noted minister of the established church be-
fore the Revolutionary war.
In the ClearGeld coal mines in Pennsylva-
MIA children from six years old and upwards
are put to work in the mines and grow up
without any opportunity to acquire even the
rudiments of an education to fit them for any
thing better than to dig in the mines. A
great many fall victims to the first malady
that overtakes them in consequence of their
constitutions being undermined by going to
work so young. aar...
A German immigrant girl charges woman
keeping a larger beer saloon in Allen street,
New York, with OBTAINING her and two other
females against their wills for immoral pur-
poses. 1t is said there are thirty-five other
saloons in the same neighborhood into which
young women are enticed, made drunk and
afterwards detained. The girls thus entrapp-
ed in nearly every instance are German i'm
migrants.
A very large meeting of colored men from
various portions of North Carolina was held
at Wilmington on Wednesday, to inaugurate
the first railroad enterprise ever started ex-
clusively by men of that race. Several thou
sand dollars were subscribed. The projected
road is to run from Wilmington into the east
ern counties of North Carolina. There is q
strong probability that the road will be built.
The movement creates much interest,".
A convention, composed of thirty or more
gentlemen from various sections of Missis-
sipp1, met at Jackson on Wednesday to con-
slider the cultivation of jute, with view OF
bringing the matter before the agricultural
public. Commissioners were appointed to
secure jute seed from the agricultural bureau
at Washington, to be distributed by the last
of March.
A great land slip has occurred in the val,
ley of Faverges, Switzerland. The village Of
Marais has been completely destroyed by an
enormous mass of earth, rocks and trees dis
lodged by recent snow storms. The move
ment upon Marais was gradual, and the in
habitants were able to effect hasty escape.
The movement of the mountain still contin-
ues.
A square in the business part of the town
of Macarthur, Ohio, was burned on Tuesday
night; loss $4,000. The chapel, sacristy
and presbytery of the new parish of St.
Gideon, on Lake st. John, Quebec, with the
ornaments, sacred vessels, registers and ac-
counts for fabrique, were burned on Tuesday.
In November last Almatia Heal, of Lin
louisville, Maine, died. Her body was af.
terward exhumed and in the stomach was
found sufficient strychnine to cause death.
Since Miss Heals death her mother has been
insane, and has constantly talked about hold
ing poisoned cup to her daughters lips.
John A. Oller, of Franklin county, Penn,
paid a visit to young lady at Waynesboro'
Sunday. She left the room for a few mo-
ments, and on her return found Oller lying on
the floor in a pool of blood, with a pistol
wound in his head and revolver in his hand.
He will recover.
The joint resolution providing for submis-
sion to the people of Arkansas of a constitu-
tional amendment ferbidding the payment OF
the railroad aid, the levee and the Holford
bonds was adopted in the Senate on Wednes-
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