The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-07-26
Generalities.

A calf covered with blue black wool is the
wonder at Bridgeport, Mich.
Philadelphia has 629 churches. and is no bet
ter than any other city of its size.
Twenty-Five bushels to the acre Is about the
average of Kansas wheat this year.
The reduction of the wool duty in 1888 in
creased the revenue by $11 900 Gao.
The estate of the late Hiram Sibey of Roch-
ester is estimated to be $1O,OOO,0OO.
BY Il volcanic eruption in Japan 400 persons
have been killed and 1000 injured.
The wool manufacturers of Pennsy lvania I'M
compromisingly oppose free WOOL"
Mrs. Bismarck is tall and very gray and rs
fond of champagne as her husband.
Adyices from Newfoundland state that cod
fishing this year is a complete failure.
Congress has passed a bill to place ightship
of Great Round Shoal. near Nantucket.
1t is said there is at least one place in New
York where full bridal outfits are rented.
The red flag indicates one of four things
sheriff, smallpox, anarchists or Democrats.
This year the graduating class at the Harvard
annex" for women was larger than ever be-
fore.
mailing of woodwork has been invented by
woman.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has learned to speak
French, Italian and modern Greek since her
marriage.
The Grouse Female College, which is in pro-
cess of building at Syracuse, n. y, will cost
$500. 900.
City Missionary ID. W. Waldron. of Boston.
" ho has hppN critically ill from typhOil fever
is improving.
Mrs. Lvermore. the woman sutiragi>t, is en-
gagged to give her Fourth of July Grafton one
year in advance.
Hon. +. Darden. Grand Master of the Ma
tonai Grange, died ut Jackson, Miss. July
18th. aged - years.
\ new thing in England is a walking stick
made hollow. with a place in it for holding
eight or nine cigars.
4 pet dog chewed up a Youngstown. Ohio,
lady'> purse containing $50. The money was
in bills, not in silver.
The cyclorama of Niagara has had an enor-
nous success in London. As the English say,
it has fetched" the town.
Mrs. Lille DevereuX Blake thinks that
"every married woman should have an equal
share of the family income
1t is said that Italians teach bear how to
dance by standing him on piece of sheetiron
SO hot that he must either dance or burn.
Denman Thompson and Frank Mckee have
purchased the operetta "Said Pasha' III San
Francisco and will produce it in New York.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers is great admirer of President
Depew of the New York Central Railroad.
The death of the ex-Empress Carotta of Mex
leo may occur at any moment i'll Belgium. She
is rapidly sinking and has become entirely help
less.
| Speaker Carlisle chews gum, and consumes
| large quantity daily in the effort to overcome
his desire for tobacco while presiding over the
House
General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital
| service, received a telegram stating that there
We're seven eases of yellow fever at Plant City,
! Florida
Ii is stated Oh Wall Street, New York. that
all right and interest in Edi>on's photograph
have been sold to an English syndicate for
S250,000.
| The United States steamer Charleston, the
first man-of-war ever built on the Pacific
| coast was launched ut San Francisco Thurs
| day evening.
| \ statue to Shakespeare is to he erected in
one of the most conspicuous and fashionable
parts of Paris. but it is at the expense of an
| Eng,iShman.
| The Empress mother of China has selected
| 800 young maidens, daughters of Chinese geu-
tlemen and nobemen, for the harem Of the
young Emperor.
| Dens of wild dogs have been found in the
grounds of the Nef1 House, near Yellow Springs,
Ohio. and, what makes matters worse. they
are waller dogs.
| Col. John Washington's descendants--the
connecting link with the first president of the
| United States-are also collateral relations to
Gen. Ben Harrison.
| According to the report of a special Treas
| ury agent at Philadelphia the government has
been losing s2OO,OOO year by undervaluations
in sugar at that port.
| The Alaskan Indians are up in arms and
threaten to eXterminate all the whites in the
Skcena River region. Troops are to be con-
Neyed to that region.
Office will be lighted by electricity after Sep
| TENDER. There will be 500 lights used. The
plant will cost $4,000.
rulture, measuring nine feet from tip to
tip, was lately shot near Julien, San Diego
County, Cal, as it was sailing away with full
grown sheep in its claws.
\ French paper announces with great seri-
BUSINESS that Bismarcks head is growing much
smaller. In these days of '.big heads this
change must he Il novelty.
George Stephenson, postmaster, eXpressman,
telegraph operator and station agent ut Glamis,
A. r., was murdered OH Sunday by Pedro
Jones. Mexican, aged Ii.
In Berlin many women are ready to enter the
matrimonial state. An advertisement in one of
the papers there brought 2.7 answers. eighty
seven of whom were widows.
The Senate has passed the bill providing for
the adjustment of accounts of laborers, work.
men and mechanics employed by the Govern
ment under the eight hour law.
Mrs. Alice Shaw the American Gladly whist
ler.' who has become the thing in London
drawing rooms, gets, it is said, over $50 for
one piece and over 800 for two.
\ German merchant has been secretly tried
and condemned in Vienna to fifteen months
Imprisonment for making insulting remarks
about the dowager Empress Victoria.
a French writer judges women by their
thumbs. Those with large thumbs are said to
be more likely to possess native intelligence,
while the small thumbs indicate feeling.
The fourth report of the civil service COM
mission, covering operations from January IL,
1856 to June 30, 1887, has just been completed.
The total number of applicants entered in the
examinations for classified service in all
branches-department of customs and postal
during the period covered by the report, was
1852. OF this number 1886 were men, 49,
ss7 were women; 9,2lO men, and 500 women
passed. During this period 452 men and IS
women had been appointed in the classified de-
partment service, since January IL, 1888, the
date on which the system Of making appoint
ments upon examination went into effect, 91S
men and 1863 women had been appointed in the
classified departmental service of the work of
the commission,