National Republican., 1876-08-26
ALI SORTS.

4 tract of forty acres, purchased ten year
ago by q California fruit grower for 500, now
Yields its owner s., 600 q year net profit. This
years crop of fruit is estimated at one hundred
tons.
According to German analyst, the compo-
sition of an old bronze weapon, supposed to be
about two thousand years old, has been ascer-
tanned to be 90 parts copper and 10 parts tin,
proving that tin was known to the ancients.
The most profound writer on the Indian
problem who has yet appeared is the Western
editor who made this sententious comment:
"The Government has saved million dol
lars-sunstroke killed an Indian in New
York" ....-
The introduction of female clerks into the
goods Offices of the London and Northwestern
railway at Birmingham has proved so sue
cessful that the directors have been induced
to try the experiment in other large centres of
traffic.
Meriden (Conn.) physician, victim of
drink, publishes long letter in the local
paper, in which he says he is on the ''confines
of ruin" and tells liquor dealers that If they
sell him any liquor on any pretext whatever
he will prosecute them.
The Salt Lake Tribune asserts that when
the Mormon bishops of San Pete heard that
General Custer and his soldiers had been mas
sacred by the Sioux they sent..a band of music
to serenade few lodges Of Indians camped
near by.
Mr.. James Lick's counsel, in San Francisco,
demanded bill of particulars of the physician
who sued him for services amounting to S55,-
600, and got one specifying SOL visits, ex-
tending over period of twelve years and
eleven months.
Gamekeepers in England are backed gen
orally by the influence of titled employers, and
consequently are not careful of the lives of
poachers. A fight at Washington between men,
bers of these opposing classes resulted in the
loss of three lives.
Buddhism in Japanis declining. In single
district or ken seventy-one temples have since
1878 been converted into dwelling-houses or
used for other secular purposes. During the
last six years upward of six hundred temples
have thus been diverted from their original
object.
Norristown Herald: Kentucky editors have
commenced to quote scripture in favor of their
respective Presidential candidates, and since
the nominations the booksellers of that State
have sold in the aggregate five Bibles, making
grand total of eleven disposed of since the
close Of the war.
The admission fees for the whole term of the
Vienna Exhibition, which lasted one hundred
and eighty six days, and was open every SUM-
day, aggregated only 81 ,0S2 800. Those of the
Centennial, which is but three months and
four days old, and which has been closed every
Sunday, had amounted last Saturday evening
to S9S1 ,073.25.
The salaries of the different monarchs of
Europe are given as follows by o German sta.
tistician: Alexander II, SO, ,152 900, or s25,oOO
a day; Abdul Aziz; $1,000, 900, or $1S,OO a
day; Francis Joseph, "a, ,OOO, 900, or s1O,05O a
day; Frederick William II, s., 900 00O, or IS 200
day; Victor Emmanuel, 50, ,4GO, 900. or 81, ,27O
q day; Victoria, $4,000 600, or $6,270 day;
Leopold, 5000, 0,0C0, or 81 ,64S day. In addi-
tion to this salary, each of these individuals is
furnished with dozen or more hrst-class
houses to live in without any charge for rent.
The Chicago Tribune pretends to have in
tercepted letter sent by Stanley, in Africa,
to the New York Herald, describing a great
battle between himself and twenty-five thou
sand natives. He is made to say: 81 have pre-
vlously mentioned in my letters that reports
were current among the Waganda that Gam
monbanagara was occupied by race of white
negroes. Having this in mind, watched in
tently during the battle for some of these
strange people. Discerning o tall, feshy,
white-faced man, who seemed leader Of his
fellows, mingling in the thick of the fray, I
captured him. After the battle, remember
ing the captive, l hasteLed to him, wishing to
learn sonnet hing Of the strange phenomenon
white black. Upon coming into his pres
ence looked intently at him, when suddenly
a thought flashed through my brain, my
feelings oyercame me. thought, has fortune
reserved for me this crowning feather in the
cap of discovery2 l advanced, thousand,
emotions swelling in my bosom. The captive
arose. said, This, believe, is Il sm,'
said the seeming apparition. 1t was Boss
Tweed"