National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-05-14
MISCELLANY.

Tea roses do we'll enough for some com.
pleSions; but = tea rose In red hair doesn't show
of worth cent.
Whatever else msy be said against the
Chimes. no one can tru;hfuily say tha, he ever
saw one who parted his hair in the middle.
Greer has 10i journals aui p,rioiical
publications, which gives one for each H. ~ In
habitsnts The number OF political journals b
s., Of which IS appear at Athens
Martin Milimore, the sculptor, has given
assurances that everything viii be in readiness
for defeating tho Soldiers ard Sailors monu-
ment on the Boston Common, on September II.
A Boston paper remarks: zone cannot
he too careful this weather A swell exchanged
his heavy winter cane for a light bamboo. and
the consequence was q severe eOld that laid him
up for week"
In the year $50 there were IN the Island
Of Cuba sSSooo slaves; IN is'3 80 Co., and in lsIs
5000. The number Of free biaeks in the island
in ISIS vas 2iosl; In lsTI, ;O,OcD; in IsTs co.
and in 1873. siytOj The free blacks 10 four juris-
die,ions where no census eoalj be taken are esti-
mated at 6,ooo.
1t Is not known what Is the total area Of
waste lands In Scotland, but an example taken
from the Highlands viii convey some idea Of H.
10 Sutherlandshire, out Of l.cOi.iss acres repre-
scnted in the owners Of lands returns. only d.
So acres are under cultivation. being only little
over two per cent.
In q cafe at Vienna, not long since, gen.
tleman who Vas playing at billiards broke with
his cue valuable mirror. The proprietor be-
came quite excited and angrily insisted upon
being paid $50 gailders, whertupon the stranger
handed over banknote for 10 o gufliers, re-
ccived his change and then departed. The next
day the proprietor discovered that the note was
forgery.
Recently issued mortality statistics relat-
ing to New York during ls!s show that lso sui
edes occurred in that city, equal tn u per ioo,.
90, or nearly double the rate In London. VIA
regard TO the nationality Of the New York sul
eides, u Is worthy OF comment that "a Of the il
are said to have been Germans, n Irish, y Eng
lish, while no: more than IS are owned as natives
OF the United States.
A young MN applied at . newspaper
once the other day for a situation. Have you
ever had any experience an EDITOR" inquired
the newspaper man. swell, no, not exactly" re-
piled the ambitious aspirant, cautiously. "Ilut
I've been cCvhided . number Of times, have beef
married quite q while, have worn borrowed
clothes for three years. and never had q cent Of
money, 90 l thought I might work In" He was
engaged.
Lady Abercromhy b as just printed picture
OF "Sheila, F" the heroine In Mr.. william Blacks
novel OF that name. She Is represented standing
On q rock, hat in hand. gazing out to sea. The
Queen has expressed so much admiration OF the
picture that she has asked Lady Abereromby to
paint her q replica. Her Majesty does no, apA
prove 30 much OF "Niadcap Violet" as OF Mr..
Blacks other netIons, because the scene Is not
laid In Scotland.
-Petosi, the nationalist poet Of Hungary,
IS yet alive. according to the latest nsss
although he has long been thought dead. II
will be remembered that all the world supposed
that the saiiant young man fell mortaiiy
wounded in battle with the Russians at the night
near feierexy haIs, July 81. lsIo. Report. how
ever, says that he yet lives as Russian prisoner
in Siberia. Count Andrassy, his Old-tine friend,
Is making every endeavcT to discover the truth or
islsehOod ofthe runner.
DIR. Leven, upon experiment, found that
one to ten grains OF caffeine, the active principle
| OF coffee, produced a tetanIc state upon frogs.
He tried nrecn TO twenty centlxrammes On
guinea pigs, and the guinea pigs died iren ps-
| ralysis OF the heart. C,fee irrit,tes the ner-
vous esntrss, the brain and spinal cord, and atso
the nerves themselves. The most common symp-
toms OF the abuse Of tea and coffee are distress
ing, persistent palppaiions, an irritable, excited
/ state Of the nervous system, sense OF dread Of
impending calamity, throbbInys in the head, ina
o:iity TO sleep anu obstinate dyspepsia.
| 1t Is said there is not now iiyisg single
descendant In the male line OF Chsue.r, Shaks-
pcarc. Spencer, Miitoa, Cowley, Butler, Dryden,
| Pope, Coupsr. Go!ismith, Scott, Byron, Moore.
| SIR Philip sidney. Sir Walter Raleigh, Drake,
| Cromwell, Hampton. Monk. Ma Thorough, INete-.
borough, Nelson Stra fior'I. Ormand, CLAIR ndos,
| Addison, SWIM, Johnson, waIpolc, BoiingLroks,
Chatham, PITT, foy, Burke, Grattan. Canning,
Bacon, Locke, Newton, Dayy, Hume, Gibbon,
Maeauley, Hogarth. Sir Joshua Reynolds, David
| Garrtek Edmund kean ri schiller.
| A great many persons believe that bar
! gains made 90 Sunday are Illegal. In point OF
tact there legal objection to the transaction
on a holiday Of any business mutually sgrcsab,s
| TO the parties unless II Is forbidden by statute.
! A note Is not void nOr voidsole mtrely because u
| 's dated en- Sunday. Such a note, Il made and
delivered on 4 secular day. is Just 4, good rs u
dated on The day 1t Is delivered. Even where
the busineEs is actually transacted on . Sunday,
the contract cannot be set aside, unless Il IS in
| State where the transaction Of such secular az
fairs is forbidden by statute. There IL no statute
sgaIns; ordinary business the secular holidays.
Only he presentation for acceptance or paymeat
drafts bills. and promissory notes Is forbidden;
but parties may transact business and MAKE q
note II they can agree thereto
-MohammeTs followers are no, so bad a,
come iIl-iulprmed people suppose. An English
writer says: broadly speaking, the Mohammed
ans may be said to have b. en- the cniig htsned
teachers Of baTbarOus Europe from the ninth &c
the thirteenth eentury. 1t Is from the glorious
days Of the Abbssiie rulers that the real renais-
| sanee OF freek spirit and Greek culture must be
dated. Classical literature would have been ire
deemably lost had II not been for the home II
found In the schools OF the 'unbelievers,' in the
dark ages Arabic philosophy, medicine, naiu.
raj history, geography. history. grammar, rhsto.
rc, and the golden ART OF poetry schooled by the
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