National Republican., 1877-04-26
MISCELLANY.

-Kandikof is the name ofoue of the Ruesi,Il
Generals. He must belong to the Imperial suite
The fashion Of using silk pocket. hand
kereh'ss Is developing among the juveniles a.
penchant fsr picking pockets.
-"Don't you think, "..she inquired amiabl,
shat most men are possessed Of . fdeviif'' I'D
said he thought thsy were, particularly ancA
they wsro married.
There are plenty ofgreat intsllects In tbid
country, but they seldom rise above the dull horI
son Of msdiocrity, owing to the depressing lnI
nusnce Of the police.
The old extant newspaper 10 tho PekIn.
0szsffs, or CAinsss Court Circular, which IA
nrst mentioned In the annals OF Emperor KaipI
nan, who rsignsd from ia to TAI A. d.
One Of the faddest sights In the world "A
TO see prooGre wrestling with foreign dis
patch containing such names as Roustchovk, 4
kastsuuni, Adramyti, Bahr.el-Merdj, Jalomitsa
Dobrodjs, etc.
"A piece Of coral Eve inches high, six inche
In diameter at the top and two At the base, has
been removed from Submarine cable at Pord
Darwin, Australia. Tho cable has bean laid but
four years
la all, hneen vessels haye earsd from New
Haven for Constantinople with ammunition. The
total amount OF drawback, (so per cont. OF the
Import duties paid on ths natsriais, paid Mas
t'ss'eo2A The total value ofths aRssn csrsoes
was sio, ,2sI.o7e.
Line BY line he goes down the page every
lsttsr undergoing his scrutiny. At last he ioon,,
up, the anxious expression Is completely uone
and, with . conndent tone, he addresses tho dia
mond pin behind the counter, "StranGer, you can
give me room; see that Catharlne Oiaxtou 10
not stopping at your hotel"
-StatiAtics show that thsreiare 1875 tempsr
ance reform clubs In New Hampshire with
total membership OF eS,00o, Of which 1900 arc
men ever Il years Of age, and over 10000 were
Lsbituai tpplors. New Hampshire has, In pro.
portion to her population, more names upon tho
pledge than any ether State in the Union.
"A burlesqus journal has been started In
Paris, called the ohsr World, and printed with
silver. .oolored inh on jet black paper ornamsntcd
with pictures Of skulls, bones and skeletons. II
processes 10 be issued from the Internal region
and to oe edited By his Satanic Majesty, and ne
grimness and irrsvsreace Of It's wit arc fairly
Characteristic OF modern Psrisian society.
-One Of the vssssr Collsgessirls discovered
new comet 4 few days ago; and she was so mad
when she found that its trau was several billions
Of miles isnger than her own that che declared
that hereafter comets might 20 shooting through
unknown space FOR tea thousand years before she
would discover one Of them. The fact that tho
comets trail was not trimmed with real point Lace
dent seem to sct as balm OF her Jealousy.
They have only lust introduced the bell.
punch on the San Francisco street-car lines, and
this Is what one Of the Frisco conductors says
about II: "If conductor knocks down for ten
cents that's stealing, but II stockholdsr gets
away with 600 that's neat business trassac.
tion. IT'S all mighty nice, but toll you n You
wanted 10 keep stookholder from stealing yeu
you would have to harness fos-bcii to him.,
The grand new avenue de Popers, In
Paris, 10 now ID course OF being laid out and
opened, and the engineer In charge, instead Il
allowing tho multitude to gsHe upon his work In
progress OF completion, has put mp high board
screens, cutting on the public view entirely.
His object is to prepare . pleasant surprise for
his brother Parisans, and to let them feast their
eyes only upon the completed avense, with tho
.idswslks newly laid and the mscadsmissd road
freshly rolled.
The town Of Salisbury, N. O., is N much
trouble. Al the close Of the revolutionary war
David Stewart was given as acres Of land for
service rendered In tho army. He put tho deed
In his pocket ald emigratsd TO Pennsylvania. -.
Time passed. the town Of Salisbury was built on
the land, Stewart died, tho deed remained
locked up, and the town continued to improve,
until now the land 10 valued at o. O0o, ,ooo And
now, toe, the heirs Of old stewart have turned
up, and claim immediate possession ofths prof.
srty.
One day last week Schenectady man
eashsd . dram for sIoo at bank, and received
t3Oo In small bills, which he put In hfs pocket,
thinking BY Its size that the package contained
the full snount. He was leaving when tho
cashier handed MIN out the balance, eioo, In new,
crisp nvedoilar notes. The man took them, aud,
suppssing they were advertising notes, dL trib.
1tastfh fhan ia f~la a. n
at tho esgernsss Of all to secure them, and was
stunned when attempting jokingly to pass one
In store he was informed that the bills wero
good. He spent all that night and tho greater
part Of next day In rushing around collecting tho
bills he had given away. 1871.
1t 10 now positively Affirmed that ths
buildings being erected for the Paris Exhibition
Of 1878 viii be completed In time for the formal
opening. All the works In connection with tho
foundations In tho Champ de Mars arc now com.
pleted, and the stonsuork Of the pavilons Is pre-
pared for the metallic domes. On this part Of the
site alone there arc two thousand men engaged
night and day. On the Trocadero the progress
made is still more remarkable. Tho outlines Of
the palace arc clearly traoeable, and tho visitor
can already form some notion Of the nAs spocta.
Gle when finished. From the top OF the Ersnd
rotunds magnificent Wow will be had Of Paris
and the windings ofthe Seine. ,
"A curious railway signal has recently
been invented In Illinois to prevent ono train
from running into . preceding one. As tho in :
ventsr believes that considerable ofA demonstra.
tion h necessary to attract tho attention Of tho
average engineer, and as It Is dincuit to nnd
living men who will stand on high psdestais and
make frantic gestures st stated intervals, he has
invented machine man who dourishes . fiaR
rings ball and displays ohangeable light Id
his hat with unfailing regularity. The machine
10 worked BY electricity, which IL set In opera.
tion by the passage Of the train, and tho frantic
coutortious Of the sfngy are said to bs almost
ridieulous enough to make the iron horse laugh
According to the Aims~aeh de Getha, the
number Of towns In the world which contain
loo, 900 Inhabitants or more amounts 10 lpe. or
these, IS are In the British empirsls in Germany,
Bin France, In Russia, an lbA in the United
states. The cities oostaining million inhab.
itants or more are reckonsd at nine In numbe \,
London, OF evurse, leading the way Paris com
Ing second, and New York piss Brooklyn third
Berlin Is fourth, and Vienna nth on the list,
each Of these capitals having rather more than
. million Of Inhabitants. -Four Chinese oities-
Canton, Siangtsn (Hounanl sianfoa (Ohensi),
and Tchautcheoufou (FoukiAnl l-eompiete tho
list Of the millionaire cities f the expression may
be permitted. Pekin, by tho way, which our
fathers credited with population Of lo)o, ,oOo,
nnow understood to have about zoo, ,ooo inhab.
itants.
The spapiards continue 10 be much ex-
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