Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-14

Mn. DU CHAILLU will return from his Nor
wcgian trip next month.
Iowa has 573 children In her Soldiers Or
phans Home.
LITTLE Lolita is enjoying miserable health
In Paris.
NEVER ask woollen manufacturer to give
up his cards
A LAKE SUPERIOR MAN has written his will
on a very thin sheet Of copper.
UPPER East Tennessee will ship large guam
titles Of dried fruit TO market this fall.
Arkansas woman exhibited siKty-fOur kinds
OF jelly at the State fair.
The snake IS feet long aud as large around
as atclegraph pole, Is now marching through
Georgia"
CALIFORNIA Ia receiving a large share OF
attention this fall from prominent New
Workers.
AMONG our youthful fashlonables the habit
Of cigarette smoking Is decidedly on the in
crease.
THIRTY TWO THOUSAND quarts of berries
were recently canned Rt one establishment In
Maine In day.
AT reunion of the Beer family at Ash
land, Ohio, Ave Of them aggregated 5T2 years.
There was no small Beer among them.
CHEsTNUTs arc about ready TO pick. Our
country cousins, therefore, arc preparing for
the fray.
CATHERINE c0lorcd leaves Ia pastlme
among ladies spending autumn In the
country.
An aged Indiana man lately married his
sons step. daughter. He won't take any
"sass" from his father-in-law.
MADAME PAULINE LUCIA and Miss Clara
Louise Kellogg are to receive the same pay
at the Italian opera.
A GOOD many brides have their bridal
bouquets conserved, and keep them under
glass case, Us mOmcntocs of the happy event.
MANI a man who had thought he had
made bargain buying silk finds that be has
got wOrstcd.
VERY dlmInutive negro, In a tight suit
broken out all oyer In buttons, Is the fashion
able thing In hall portcrs.
WHAT Is the difference between carpeu-
ter and a flower merchant Mono what
ever-they are both FLORISTS.
WHY Is a drcsslng-gown the most lasting
garment In gentlenan's waTdTObel Be-
cause hO never wears II out.
IT IS affirmed that Emperor Fraucls Joseph
proposes 10 raise the foreign minister, Count
Andrassy, to the rank Of prince.
THE yachting season Is virtually over. and
many Of the finest yachts have been laid up
for the winter.
The winter season at Rome will 10 very
| late this year. The reports concerning the
health Of the city arc not encouraging
EIGHTT thousand tons OF Bessemer stee
rails have been made In this country this year
and 100, 7T2 tons were imported last year.
JoHS @. PoTTs, OF Galena, Is the oldest
Odd Fellow now living In the United States,
| having been initiated In 1925. n
MoRE cotton, by 2,Ol9 baled, has been re-
ceiyed In Memphis this season than at the
same time last season.
HARDCUP says the report Of debut always
| reminds him OF his record at the bank,
because 1t is generally an "oyerdrawn ac-
count"
COUNTRY EDITORS are kept busy descant.
/ ing upon tall corn, mammoth sq1ashes, big
apples and other bucOllc phenomena Of the
season.
| JACQUES LAFLEUR was lately registered AT
voter In New Orleans. lie gave his occu.
/ patton US q chlmney-sweep and his age at t2S
years.
MANIA for fancy work has suddenly
seized on young-ladydOm, and all the pleasant
young fellows are overwhelmed with the pro
ducts of their toll.
EXTERIOR FRANCIs JOSEPH has decorated
General Won Schwelnltz, the German ambas
sador at Vienna, after tho latter's return from
Berlin, with the grand cross of the OrdeE. Of
St. Stephen.
The ROmln correspondent Of q south Ger,
| man paper aillTm5 that Cardinal Rapalti hal
been proposed by the Jesuit General, Fathel
Becky, as the most desirable successor L
papal dignity.
STRANGE, but there arc fashions In candy
even! For years French candy has been the
fashionable sort, and now the native manu-
facture, peppermint sticks and (can we DO
lleye itO tgry, are most sought after by ou
sweet-consuming bellies.
1T IS SAID the odors OF Cologne arc no
such as we might expect from the name, and
by alike unhtness, the exceedingly dirty citI
OF Antioch does a considerable business Ii
soap manufacturing.
THE singers Grlsl and Mario annual,
cleared, as profits for twenty-five years o
more, 100000 at least, and now Mario Il
said TO be poor. Much Of the money squan
dered in eXtrRyagant living.
The elder brother of the Pope, whose re
cent death ut Sluigaglla has been mentioned
was born In 1888, and consequently was min
years older than Plus Ninth, whose blrtl
dates from May lT2.
| TENNESSEE contains 20. 900 900 acres o
land, of which only 5000, 900 arc improved
but from this small portion the product b!
negro labor before the war, principally corn
wheat, cotton and stock, made the State ranl
| thIFh la upalth