Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-09-14
NOTES OF THE DAT.

ST. LOUIS has steel traps Tor mosquitoes
IRIS SAID that next winter long dress on
the street will be thing unknown.
REPORTER writing up wreck at sea,
said that no less than thirteen unfortunabs
bit the dust.
THE San Francisco police took homo
hnely-dressed woman who was too drunk to
20 OF her own accord.
GAME Is becoming scarce In South Caroline,
and the game laws Of the State are 10 Ge
strictly enforced.
STEWARDS new hotel for working women
In New York city, is completed, and will he
ready for occupancy In week or two.
LIFE, say the ArabB, Ia Of two parts, thst
which is pasta dream; and that which Is TO
Comc-a wish.
IT IS stated that of the 96I railroads In the
States, only l0i pay dividends, the other 200
never pay anything at all TO the stockholders.
IT Is a common thing in Wisconsin for
women to ride astTide. They may be seen
thus mounted In all the large towns
To TELL falsehood Is like the cut Of
sabre; for, though the wound may heal, the
scar Of II will remain.
RuoUE ISLAND Is the only New England
State where farms are increasing 10 value,
and this Is owing to the growth and pros
perity of her manufacturing villages.
LIEUT.. HUNDT Won HAFFTEN, battle
Scared veteran Of the Prusslan army, has
elOped to Utah with two daughters OF Ber-
lin banker.
OSE Of the newest novels speaks Of its
heroine as returning TO her humble home,
when evening approached, clothed In the
habillmCnts OF woe"
INVESTIGATIONS near the Sandwich Islands
have proved that coral aggregates at the rate
of seventeen feet In century instead OF q
few inches In that time, according to ac-
cepted scientific estimates.
SALT LAKE CITY Is excited by report that
"a certain person" In Utah has q larlat, or
rope used for lettering horses, made Of the
hair of women slaughtered at the Mountain
Meadows.
A SCIENTIFIC friend. who has been reading
with gruat patience an exhaustive treatise on
the ''velOCltv Of light" says that be now
knows how II Is that bis gas bill runs up go
rapidly.
A WIZ LEsOME discipline Is enforced al the
Eastern Camp-meeting5, where the reverend
preachers notify the speakers in the begin
ming that II any man attempts to make a
long speech, lie will be sung down on the
! spot"
Tue Parisiaus are learning to dine at home
II Is q hard lesson, but the restaurauts arc
now charging CNtravagant prices for every
thing and the Inhabitants OF Paris arc, IA a
ECutIul luluEt All GCOuDlilCui tlhsss
SO EXTENSIVELY ls the adulteratiOn of tea
! now carried on In China that Mr.. Mcdhurst,
| the British consul at Shanghae, wrote that
| nGty-three thousand pounds Of willow leaves
i were In course of manipulation IT one port
| alone, to be mixed with tea for shipment, at
tho ratio Of from ten to twenty per cent.
\ CALL has been issued for national con-
YentlUn Ut fremen, to bU held iu New York,
this full. 1t is proposed to send Que delegate
| from every fire company 10 the United States
to this convention. The association, II or
ganized, will be of u mutual benefit and coop
eratiye character.
RESIDENTS of this State who arc III favor
Of jumping off and on cars when iu motion
| will soon have a meeting In Hartford To or
| ganize a cooperative drug and undertaking
| establishment. The kerosene klndlers have
adopted this plan, and experience cOnsldora-
bic satisfaction from iL-Ddnbury Nelrs.
4 GEORGIA PHYSICIAN who has had
twenty cases Of twins occur In his practice
since the beginning of the year was recently
/ made the happy parent Of pair OF bOunelng
BOYS, Weighing nine and half and ten and a
half pounds respectively. Vol may he eX-
claim, "Ob, Gemini"
TnE German band, who played ut the Jubl.
Ice arc having row In Berlin upon the d.
vision Of tue money made In, this country.
| Herr Saro, the leader, claims go large pOT-
| ton as his share that the matter aud the
money Ia now In the hands Of the authorities,
with prospect that the latter may approprl-
ate the whole amount for the benefit Of the
| public service.
IT IS estimated that 10000 innocent5 arr
, now on their way from California to the dia.
mOnd dlgglngs In Arizona It won't be long
until these 20, OO0-ragged, hungry, foot sore,
and sayage-wlll be found weaTlly, trudging
the back trail, in a 1t huuior for hanging
the man who first st ahoat the diamond
| stories.
The Red Wing Republican SAYS "a pic.
mic party were lately assembled oil the banks
: of the Zumbro river, In Hyde Park, Wabash
county, when large rattlesnakc was dis
covered near by. One OF the party picked
up his violin, saying that he had heard that
music would charm snake, and began play
ing, when, to the astUulshmCut OF all, an
other came out Of the rocks and cOlled up
listening to the music. This was immo'
dlately followed by another, until nine hat
appeared, none Of whom were 10 the leas
disturbed by the people present, but al
quietly assumed the attitude OF contented
auditors. At the conclusion Of the concer
the rattlesDakes were killed"