National Republican., 1883-09-17

CLARA NORRIS "has grown quite robust
The American hen lays 5000 900 eggs
a year
THE free evening schools of Paris instruct
1900 pupils.
THERE are 1OoS daily newspapers in the
United States
PRETRoLEuM in store reaches nearly 3i,-
100000 barrels
Big mines of poor coal have been found
IN South Africa
ONE hundred thousand children earn their
own living In New York city.
A TALKER says that Holman's boom for
the presidency has bottledup for the season.
J. II. HAvERLY's friends think he will
make $4,000 out of his numerous attractions this
season.
A CANADIAN Judge has decided that a man
has the right to whip his wife If he is real sure
she deserves it.
| A KENTUCKY girl refused an offer of mar
riago on the ground that her father couldn't sup
port any larger family.
| IT is said that since his return from the
National park Rufus Hate his pocketbook looks
| If an elephant had steppeb on it.
! TIE Comte de Chambord was hoggsh at
meals. lie had raveno,ls appetite and bolted
all the courses in twenty nunutes
| ACCORDING to recent computation, there
are 1910 newspapers and magazines published in
this country OF these 1,2e7 are daily newspapers
and O0j5 weckles
THE Edmunds anti IIormon law seems to
lack tho kicking qualities which were looked for.
The saints fattenng under its benign inau-
ence--IRter Ocean.
A FAMILY of Swedes, in Chicago tried to
use u railroad torpedo foE fuel 1t is needless to
say that they had exerci to enough to warm them
up-in the Swede by and by.-iroy Times,
IN his confidential moments Col. Mike
Sheridan now admits thit, the only game killed
by the presidential party in Yellowstone park
were couple of sapsucRasrs and horned frog
! Chicago Nous
THE Kansas City people complain that they
cannot understand Mdlle. Rhea's English. 1t
was the mademoiselles rsistake not to have made
her Kansas City debut in the language commonly
spoken in Missouri.
| A NORTH CAROLINA, woman, while digging
ginseng to obtain moncytfor the purchase of to-
bacco for her husband has just discovered mica
mine in the mountains (which is supposed to be
worth $4,000 Her husband is too lazy to work it,
and 1t will be sold.
THE British are raTEdly extending a net
work of railways over India. About S30,0000OO
will be spent this year iIthe construction of new
roads. They are useful mot only for promoting
the welfare of the peopb,s shut would be very handy
in case of lnsurrection-
A FLOCK of ravens numbering five hun
drcd hovcrcd high in rfhe air over Ginheim Ohio
They formed three detachments, and, as If at a
given signal, flew at each other with savage cries.
Dead birds began to frll and soon over fifty were
picked up. Their wounds were all on the head
Mr.. MtRhatt0n.
A DENVER wife grew very sick and tho
doctors said she must die. Her young and pretty
nurse told the patient Sthat she had been elected
TO succeed her in her husbands affections. To
sick woman was so angry that she got well. She
and her husband stn live together, but never
speak as they pass by.
AT n reception t'sndered to Gen. Sherman
in san Francisco the other day e said in his bluff
way that when he ia st knew the city 1t was the
most forbidding, God fofsaken place between
Cape Horn and the North Pole, and that he would
not have given twenty-five cents for the whole
place or for the inhabitants either.
A BLOOMING young widow Wayne county,
n. y, was to have been married few days
ago The feast spread aud the guests were
on hand but the bridegroom failed to come TO
time. Three days afterward the young man ex-
planned that his father, who objected to the match
had hidden his we'd aing clothes, even to his un-
dcrclothing.
JENNY LIND still wears her hair as she
used TO do her eyes are as blue ever and sha
has the old trick of resting her clasped hands on
her knees; no likeness has ever given any idea Of
the seraphic sweetness and elevation of her coun
tenance. She is 6. .nat iavorlte with the English
royal family and theiPrincess Helena passes much
time with Ier.
"EF all dc members OBJ do congregashun
will jess keep quiet for one mint. I'll mighty soon
be able to pint Outlde black sheep what am max
in slch racket" remarked Rev. Whangdoodle
Baxter last Sunday, at the Austin Blue Light
tabernacle and n silence like unto that mon-
toned in Revelations came over worshipers for
the space OF half lninute.-2eGls SiRings.
STREET sweeping in Paris costs according
TO the latest oicial1 returns 81 0l6S00 The force
employed consists of 1856 foremen. 500 sweepers,
aud o0l0 assistant sweepors. The sweepers re.
ceive $50 n month, and the assistants six cents an
hour, The total COST of maintaining, cleaning.
and repairing the Toadways is 81 $50, 400 a year,
and of the pGyements and crossings, S2j3,0OO.
I A WRITER in the Life, of London states
that Charles BauGelairc, one of the most original
and eccentric of French poets, hated. above all,
being mistaken for an ordinary mortal He took
incredible pains tCFavod this painful catastrophe.
To tell him, or cvcn hint to him, that no in any
way resembled the bourgeois was the orueest in
suit that YOU could offer him. There were not
wanting those who, when provoked by his ag-
grcsslvo vanity, took advantage of his weakness
to make him suffer.
THE champion mean man halls from Che
muug county New York. lie is well TO do
farmer by the name of TIM. one OF his laborers
enlisted during the war, receiving bounty Of
$780, which he entrusted to Tilt for investment.
During his term of enlistment Tins wife died.
whereupon he took the wife and children Of
Evans the absent soldier, home with him, secur-
ing divorce fuT ,the woman, whom he then mar
ried When EyS ms returned Ttfit refused to give
I'M wife, childnsn, or money and when Evans
brought suit for the latter undertook to claim
offset for the boaTd of the children which he had
refused to give mp to their father.
Mosr of the diamonds in stocks since 1870
have come frou1 South Africa. Brazil and Ceylon
supply limited quantities Of very fine stones The
south African dilmonds are not confined, as is the
general impression, TO medium and low grades.
Tho Kimberly mines, which occupy one ana u
} quarter SQUARE miles, with those of neighborng
6eds, are worked by number OF companies con-
troned by French, English, aud Dutch syndicates,
representing a capital stock OF sS2,0000OO. The
buyers arc on the spot and the prices greatly
diAer Fine qualities of stones, those which aIO
not OF color andsn all other respects all but per-
: feet, are gettiugN scareeF especially blue-white
diamonds.