National Republican., 1877-04-20
MTSCELE1NY.

fywheel in a sawmill, and as his widow paid tho
band. but he did not know much about nywhoeis."
Previously to the invention Of hats, both
men and women generally wore close-knit wooilen
swiss. iloi. first worn in England in Henry vfi'se
time and hrst manufactured In London, 1910.
-Inthe year ending September 90 1874, thtre
were 2Js. y persons taken into custody in England
irg one OF drunken enness. or these 1851 were
ms n and to.ts3 women. Ot those who were taken
before maalstrate l4o,2'4 men and 4o,4oi women
-Betxeen 1869 and 1875 the consumption
Of sugar per head OF the population In the United
Per hat
9 nsumption is now nearly one and qusrter'
per yssf hs, and ths q the
-Mad'lle Albani had an enthusiastic reccp-
tion at her beneft at the Sale ventadour, In
Paris, She appeared in Pgriianf, and, II Z:
sent.d with a disdem and bracelet. tie former Of
Which. Which was v, Understood to be the Offering ofa
The Journal of the Chep,iedl Society says !.
that aiter keeping strips o. neyout lead In bot
no trace Of lead could be- detected in the water,
win an ip.Oluol: lead compound: Hence ls.i
fear OF injury to their inhabitants
Seventy five trains On hour pass Chaplain
Junction, about four miles from London, during
whole twenty Jour hour, gia pass. Thirtesn lines
there converge. and the Southwestern railroad
tscI
distinct sets Of traffc are controlled.
"A very curious and remarkable experiment
mas lust been tried in India. Mr. Adams, Of
of2oo small mirrors so arranged that they TO-
cussed the suns rays upon small copper boiler.
Mr.. Adams contends that he could by the same
means generate heat enough to drive tho largest
spinning mill In Bombay.
There is an almost complete equality In
the worlds sexes In France this balance b
most nearly attained, where for every 1000 men
there are 100! women. In Sweden, TO Loo men
same number Of maies there are but oas Greek
women. In h Paraguay there are only lIooo me.
due to the ravases Of the Brazilian war.
I'm connection with recent boat accident
at Rytop, on the Tyne, in Enyland, By Witch
mans dog, q rstrisssr, seissd q woman and AZ.
tempted TO swim ashore with her, but the current
was too strong. and the drowning woman, with
mile down the river, when tho animal by an ex-
traordinary exertion. brought her ashore at
dead. ' ~ ''''N 'A-' INV "-'
"A new method OF synchronlking clocks is
as follows: narrow slit In the dial OF clock ad-
Ss % g
tached to a apair Of slotted levers connect with an
nected from the works Of the clock. Any number
Ssps os ono time asns @ %
| 10 accord with each other In marking Greenwich
| time.
| A New England watch mandatory Is
about making new style Of watches. The now
| one, and these are set around the centre and
driven BY mainspring beneath them. BY means
works are made to perform complete rotation
around the centre OF the watoh-aslde from their
own proper motiOns-eomPletlng the performances
difference Of weight Of parts Of ths machinery Is
thus wholly compensated, no matter what may be
any and all positions the centre Of gravity for tho
machinery, Tor any two hours as whole, will be
| uniform
Recently the French naval authorities
| tested q torpedo vessel at Cherbourg. This was
navigated by an ofiicer and three men. 1t trav-
sled at the rate Of nearly nineteen miles per hour
psr hour and had long ssrs The sssse
was continued for an hour. When the torpedo
the nris the srplo,SiOn @ g. 50 violent that
sci were destroyed. The hulk had an enormous
hole torn ia its side, and sank quickly. The torpedo
| vessel bounded OF. twirled around two or three
times, and then steamed back to It's place in the
squadron, itself and Its occupants being quite
harmed.
Ono Of the late inventions for naval at
tack 10 the rocket float. This Is Q small vessel,
Of the water at Q speed Of 275 miles per hour,
this vessel there is ausntity Of gun eotton, ar r.
Jn 60 sfPSas
towards ship at distance, there Is clear Ger:
tainty that II would arrive before the ship could
ton could easily be made sufieient to sink, on OK
| plosion, any ship that can be built.
SO completely had Lady Scott, the grea,
noveIist's dsughtsrinlaw, who died few weeks
age. Baronetage and Knightags" Successful q,
tss ts ssH SSs
5ssTtIs6s leundlns 81 family. Roth his :en,
fats. Scott is today represented st KbSotsfOr il,
HOPE Scott. This lady Is the chill child % Of Mr. Lock
hsrt's daughter There n scarcely a literary GO
representative to-day In the male line.
The Japanese say we are reversed. Thel
they say ii goes backward" The lines In ouI
sSHas sSas ss s s''":h
stable We nnd the horses flank whero We lool
for his head japanese screws @ screw ere the othe
when squeezed; Jhe Turanian simcraeks emi
bis enemy Kills him. japanese kills hl%ssfnf !
spite his ioe. Which race ls leit-handedf whic
| mas the neKntivet Which the positive, OF truth
What is TRUTH What is down, what is upf
! San francisco has population Of 800 90
4 souls In the general depression Of last yea
4 (lS.0) coo houses were built ut cost Of eigl
I and a-half millions Of dollars. There are pui
d lie libraries with $4,000 volumes, 90 publ
schools, equal TO any elsewhere in the States, an
5000 pupils. No Atlantic city, according
population, 10 better provided with hotels, thes
tres and churches. There arc % public square
and one park Of over 1000 acres, extending
!, long by half milo wide, beautifully embellisho
and costing $4,000 On the magnificent bay
!, San Francisco are two miles OF continuou
wharves and slips, crowded with ships an
steamers.
Wild hogs abound In the tule lands OF sa
Joaquin, CAL They were doubtless originall
q propagatsd from domestic stock that have Q
capped into the Jungle, and have become as vii
> the hunting Of which affords so much sport TO u
]. German nobility. They live and thrive on u
succulent roots to be found In the tules, but al
exceedingly shy, and IL 10 only by accident thi
] one catches q glimpse OF them, as thoy instinc
lively avoid the haunts Of men. They are trapps
J, | and caught occasionally in an ingenious mann,
. by the tule farmers, who build small but vel
Il strong corrals or pens on their stamping groun
). for this purpose.
Next to Great Britain, France has Il
i largest traffic through the Suez canal but
an Immense interval. Thus the whole Fren,
tonnage last year was only 235,T5O tons, again
ao,t43 In 1878, and f22,94t In 1874. Holland, vii
10 1860 tons, holds tho third place; while Ital
|. with all its advantages In tho Mediterranean,
- but fourth, with s2O2t tons, ia-Hupr rar
haa aInar In Hlata