The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-05
MiSCELLANE

"A Chinese boy at Pekin repeated
the entire New Testament without
missing word or making a mistake.
"A curious child has been discovered
in Philadelphia hospital. 1t is liv-
ing skeleton, its arms and legs not
having particle of flesh upon them,
nothing but the covering of skin. The
child's actions are very much like those
of monkey.-Philadelphia Press.
San Francisco has Girls Unioa,
where young women receive board and
lodging if unable to pay for it, are put
in the way of finding work, and gen
orally watched over. Glasses in house
keeping, sewing, dress-making and the
like are about to be started. There are
four hundred members of the union.
The first ''paid for and published
advertisement in newspaper was as
follows: Lost on the 10th of April
last, off Mr. Shippen's wharf in Boston,
Two Iron Anvils, weighing between
100 and 40 pounds each. Whoever
has taken them up, and will bring or
give true intelligence of them to John
Campbell, portmaster, shall have a
sufficient reward.-N. Y Tribune
Some months ago John Quick, of
Rupert, Pa. took Kowzeh, Il fifteen
year-old Indian boy from the school at
Carlisle under indentures. The lad
didn' take kindly to farm work and
civilization, and was so homesick and
pinned 50 for western life that Mr..
Quick decided to take him back to Car
Isle. Kowzeh didn't want to go back
to the school, but the farmer insisted,
and the two went to the depot. When
the train rolled in the boy plunged
from the platform to the rails and was
crushed to death by the locomotive
Phtlddelphia Press.
"A fable: An estimable old ground
hog, wishing to ascertain the opinions
of the neighbors about himself, had u
bogus congestive chill, and, falling to
the ground, pretended to be dead. He
was buried the following day, but
scratched his way out of the grave and
went in disguise to hear his own
funeral sermon preached. The dis
course was so plimentary that the
grounding was pulled up with vanity,
and, having bought cane and an eye
glass, he became dude. Moral-This
fable teaches the danger OF Aattery.--
Life.
An incident in New York pioneer
life may show what lines were in 1900:
''My mother said to her nearest neigh
Dor, Mrs. Roe, living mile and a
half distant: Il have got fleece now,
for / have carded the colt and picked
the wool out of an old bed quilt and am
making stockings Mrs. Roe replied:
our dog, and with wool from a bed
blanket will soon have pair of stock
ings, too. A short time after that
the whole neighborhood footed it four
miles to see two sheep, SO great was
the sight.-N Y. Mail.
At reunion of '49ers in San Fran
cisco it was told that in the good old
pioneer days John Little built bridge
across the American Fork which cost
$4,000 and received toll Of $3.50 day;
that three men came into Mr.. Little S
store one day from Dutch Cannon
with $50 pounds of gold, which they
got by a few days work near Green
wood, FL Dorado County. Julian
Martin sold common hickory shirts at
$50 apiece. Also how an Australian
doctor treated a man at Coloma for a
felon on his thumb and after curing
him charged $500 fee.-San Fran-
cisco Chronicle.
Near the parish church in the little
town of San Miguel, in Mexico, hang
two bells that are objects of supersti-
ton to the simple inhabitants of the
place. For a long time past these bells
have been gradually rising and on a
certain day every year the priest makes
his measurements and calls attention to
the miracle. Unfortunately prying
correspondent recently took it into his
head to investigate the matter. He
found that the bells were attached to %
beam, the ends of which rested in the
forks of two trees which in growing
carried the bells upward.