National Republican., 1883-07-18
NATIONAL vs.. Richmonds to-day.

great artistic talent has been discovered now |
that he is dead. Only four pictures made in
his leisure moments are known. Of these |
the Foire dc st. Germain," owned by Baron |
Goethals, of Brussels Is valued at $4,000 |
How little Garbct got ior this picture no ono
knows.
By microscopic examination Of the cross
section of a single human hair, Prof l.. b.
Tylor states, the race of the individual to
whom it belongs can be determined. Pru-
ners method shows whether it Is circular,
oval, or reniform. Moseley has explained
how tho folicule curvature may be estimated
by the average diameter of the curs. Sorby's
plan gives the coloring matter. DIR. w. Null
Ter, of the Novara expedition, has published
a classification of man, primarily arranged
according to the kind of hair, with a Sec
ondary division according to language.
The monument to the late DIR. j. G. Hol-
land, in the Springfield cemetery, is of fine
blue stone, dense in texture, and six by seven
feet at tho base. Above is plinth with tab
let's several short steps, and then four-cor-
nered shaft with Ionic piasters at the cor
ners bearing scroll. On the shaft is a pro-
file bas-relief head of DIR. Holland by Angus
tus Saint Gaudens. The plate is four.cor-
nered and contains a spray of bittcrsweet
and the legend, "Et Vitam Impendere Vero."
The receipts of the Brooklyn bridge for the
week ending July 8, were $3,449; receipts for
six weeks ending July 8, $30,569.50, or an
average of $727S2 per day receipts from
foot passengers, New York, $9,5225S; from
Brooklyn, $7,6669s. Receipts for vehicles,
New York, S6,64790; Brooklyn, $6,73l.l2.
Average receipts per day from foot passeD-
gers, $409.27; for vehicles, $31S.55.
In reply to some inquiries it may be stated
that the new liquid explosive, "panclastic,"
as it is called by its inventor, NJ +. Turpin,
consists of a mixture of carbon disulphide
and hyponitric acid. Theliquids are kept
separate before being used. Unconined, the
mixture burns with soft light like that of
the moon. When little phosphorus is
added to the disulphide the radiance is very
brilliant. Confined in smells, torpedoes, SC,
and exploded with illuminate of mercury or
gunpowder, its effects are terrible, far exceed
ing those of dynamite or nitro-glycerine 1t
will not be we'll for inexperienced persons to
tamper with these liquids.
| The tonnage on the New York canals for
the first week in July was 1882, against
140,565 tons last year. The shipments of
wheat have increased 217900; of corn, $780,
600 bushels and of rye, 96,600.
The Passaic Rolling Mill company of Pat
erson n. j., has just fitted up rooms at cost
of about 81, 900, ON the mill premises, for the
| accommodation of a literary association of
the 400 employees, the rooms to be kept open,
| lighted and warmed and cared for by a
| ianitor, all at the expense of the company.
| III circumstances seem to warrant it, the COM
pany proposes to establish and carry on a
| technical school for the instruction of would
| be mechanics.
A meteor was observed at Giessnbbl on the
morning of June 3. 1t seemed to consist of
tive fire balls-an emerald green, followed by
| a red one. They both moved, apparently,
says the Nature, at not very great altitude,
| in the direction of southeast to northwest,
and the phenomenon lasted only few Sec
| onds.
Al. - UaI.
| there were in 1881 about 2, 263 inhabitants for
every locomotive, as against 2,607 in 1871,
and there were 10l7 inhabitants for every
passenger car, as compared with 1892 in 1861
The Huntington syndicate will build road
from Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande, to tho
City of Mexico The same syndicate is said
| to have pu released the existing railways in
Guatemala one of the leading states of Cen
tral America, and proposes to construct other
roads and extensions into the adjoining Gem
tral American republics of Honduras and
| Nicaragua.
telegraphic cable to be laid between
| Cadiz and the Canary islands is now in pro-
cess of manufacture by an English firm. The
| Spanish government has ordered the work
which is expected to be finished this autumn.
The length of the cable is about 1000 miles.
1t is very likely that permanent meteor
| illogical station will soon be established on
the top of Ben Nevis, Inverness-shire, Scot
land 1t will have telegraphic connection
with another station at the foot of the noun
| tain. The total cost Is estimated at about
$4,000.
The production of coal in Germany in 1881
is officially returned at 46,6SS,000 tons, as
ompared with 46,973,000 tons in 1880
The University of Milwaukee has been in
corporated and it is intended to make it
seat of learning superior to any in the west.
1t is designed to place the institution upon II
r,,,, lat,n ,nf,, laue fhan mud IN
build up in connection with 1t n system of
academies in different parts of Wisconsin and
the northwest, which shall been under the
same control and act as feeders to the uni
versity. The capital stock is $1,000000, G..
/. Colby is the president of the Wisconsin
Central railroad and w. p. McLaren is a
wealth. commission merchant.
A picture long deposited in the National
gallery because its owner, the Due de Ripalda,
asked an enormous sum for it, was Raphael
known as the Raphael dun Million" 1t is
reported that the owner, who died recently,
Ihas left it to the ex-king of Naples, together
with the Titan found in the Farnesina.
1 1t is thought that the opening of the yell
( owstone park and the driving the last spike
4 in the Northern Pacific railway will occur on
the same day. 1t is said that tho secretary
of war has authorized the military COM
mandcr of the Missouri division to detail an
engineer to proceed to the park and superin-
| tend the construction Oh rOaus ana bridges,
The act appropriated 100000 of which ~, 900
was to be paid TO superintendent and 5000
to each of ten assistants, leaving $4,000 for
roads and bridges.
NJ. Meissonier is 80 we'll aware that the
French government lacks the money or the
taste TO get for its collections the best works
of recent masters that he has refused great
offers for two paintings which he considers
his best. These are his "Graveur a Pau
Fortc,' and his "a Ia Fenetre." They are to
be left by his will to the Louvre.
Asia, says Mr.. II. G. Keene, is the home OF
the religion, language, and literature of Eu-
rope Society there has come down even ia
present times in India, especially in unbroken
continuity. Among all the notifications old
elements remain. Brahman, Buddhist Greek,
Arab Mongol, Portuguese, and French have
all in turn scratched, so to speak, the surface
of tho wonderful peninsula of India but
with the exception of the Brahmans and the
Buddhists little remains of the effects of their
successive inroads
The 100 pictures at the Petit gallery, in
Paris, contain as many az thirteen of tho
choicest landscapes by Rousseau, and the
same number by Corot, six Daubignys, four
Fromentins, six by Deacroix, six by Millet
The valuation of the collection was SO
enormous that the French Fire Insurance
companies at first declined to take the risks
at all, English and Belgian companies, how
ever, took Sl,S00,000, whereupon the French
companies rallied and took risks for 100000
more. The average sum for which these