National Republican., 1883-11-08

Icaught dreadful cold"
THE Earl of Cork, accompanied by his son.
Viscount Dungannon, youth of 10, is doing
Chicago.
WILLIAM Y BUTTEs, the cowboy poet, ia
30 years old,wholly without education, and spends
all his time on tho plains.
The unveiling Of the Luther monuments
at Eislebcn has been fixed for the eleventh of No
vember. The crown prince, Prince William, the
ministers and many high officials will be present
| at the celebration.
PROPHETIC alarmists seem determined To
destroy the world, and since the prediction of
Mother Shipton failed of fuhlment recourse Ia
had to an old French stanzu, which puts tho posi-
tive dissolution of mundane affairs down for April
| %, 1886.
THE city of Halle possesses one of the most
interesting relics Of Luther--a cast of his face
taken after death, in the night between the twen-
tieth and twentyfrst OF February 1916, when his
| corpse, while on the way from Eiseben to Wit
tenberg, lay In the city church, now St. Mary's,
| in Halle.
AFTER a temperance sermon had been
preached in an English country town two weeks
| ago, collection was taken up for the benefit OF
one OF the temperance societies. Three gentle.
men passed tile plates. One was wine merchant
one an excise officer, and one brewers travelling
salesman.
The Selma (Ala.) Times gives an account of
an invention by Senator John +. Morgan of Ala
bama, for using crude petroleum as u fuel in
metalluTgy. The senator inherited strong me-
chanical turn of mind from his father, and is
SAID to be AS thorough master OF mechanics as
he is Of law.
MIR. TABOR, who was in the United States
senate during thirty days, carries a revolver
when he escorts his family to the OPERA That
was shown in Denver the other night when the
revolver slipped from his pocket exploded.
caused Mrs. Tabor to shrek, and made the small
boys run to see what was the matter
The girls have an interesting time of it in
India. Very often girls are married ut the age of
years. and should the boy to whom they are
| married die the next day the infant Is declared a
perpetual widow, aud may not marry again though
she live to be 80 years of age. They do not
think very much of women over there anyway.
FROM the testimony of Cincinnati oculst
| IL appears that the wearing of thin glass shells
over defective eyes in order to give 1t the look OF
a SOUND eye is one of the commonest deceptons
! OF make up, both of men and women. Young
men courting should stick pin in their girls
| eyes In on unWary moment to prevent imposition
IT is the usual practice to serve potatoes in
a porcelain dish with close fitting cover. In ten
minutes the best potatoes however carefully
cooked, are thus utterly destroyed. A culinary
| authority recommends that they should be placed
in wooden dish or served in porcelain dish,
with towels above and below TO absorb the mois.
ture.
MR.. JOHN HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, a rela-
tive OF the president of the British board of trade
died suddenly recently. He lectured at the Mid
land institute on exoiic art" and seemed full of
life and health and spirits After the lecture he
walked to the house of a friend, but short dis
lance from the lpstitAte and there, without warn
ing, fell 10 the ground and died
THOUSANDS Of young American swells are
said by fashionable tailor TO wear nothing of
American make Their measures are sent to Lon
don tailors, hatters, and furnishers who provide
the articles very promptly. 1t is true that gar
ments thus obtained are liable 10 prove poor fs,
but there are English tailors here also. whose sole
employment is to complete imported suits in IL
manner to make them fit.
Mr.. HENRY IRVING, in his "Stage Door,
gives an amusing picture of his failure as reader
in the autumn of 1858, when only two years ON the
stage. The Lady of Lyons" was the reading nm
nounced LinliLhgow the place, his manager, Mr.
Saker, the audience In the autumn of 1875 Just
twenty years after he gave lecture near the same
place for the sufferers by the Glasgow banks fail
ure and realized a large amount.
THE New Zealand legislature has do cded
that the Kea must go, Kea being the name of q
race of parrots whose fondness for mutton has
made them exceedingly disliked. They are said
to have acquired this expensive taste gradually
having formerly been content to peck at car
cases hung up in the markets. But in recent
times they have developed sufficient audacity to
attack the living sheep, and thus invited officia
destruction.
THE Princess Dolgorouki the widow of
the late Gar Of Russia, who has been wandering
about Europe for the last two years like an un-
uuipt gnirit has In
Avenue du Bots de Boulogne. She does not in
tend to live permanently in Paris, but 1t will be
her headquarters, and she will reside there for
few months in each year.s The princess possesses
an immense fortune, which had been invested out
of Russia in the lifetime of Alexander H.
ON rocky cliff in the town of Warren.
Conn, sixty miles north of Bridgeport whose sum.
nit is 1000 feet above the level of Long Island
sound a tower 1876 feet high is TO be erected In
which is to be placed a powerful telescope. From
the summit the cliff on a clear day a fine view
can be had of the surrounding country for a dis
tance of 100 miles When the tower is erected IL
is beievd that the Brooklyn BRIDGE the Palisadesl
of the Hudson, and many other distant points can
be seen.
COLONEL BAKER, who fell at Balls Bluff,
was buried in n San Francisco cemetery Some
months ago a number of Pennsylvania veterans
visiting the Pacific coast visited the tomb and
|
their return east they collected small fund and
sent 1t to San Francisco to be used toward put
, ting the grave in order. The San Francisco
Chronicle says that the money has disappeared,
and that nothing has been done to the crumbling
; monument
SLAUGHTER BAssETT, of Lexington, KY,
paid IS for the front sill of the old court house at
that place when the building was torn down. 1t
is of stone, and is priced by Bassett because Henry
Clay and Aaron Burr stood upon 1t when the lat
ter asked Clay to defend him. and he pledged his
honor that he was innocent of an attempt at a
western conspiracy. Receiving the pledge, Clay
appeared In Burrs defense, but afterward de-
clined 10 speak to him when he found out tina
Burr had lied.
THE statement that Prince Albert Victor
has been entered at Trinity college, Cambridge as
a fellow commoner is incorrect, remarks the Lon
don World. He Is entered as pensioner by the
express wish of the Prince of Wales. He will
not as q rule, attend lectures, but wih keep
chapels and hall, dining at high tables, and
pying with Mr.. Dalton his governorl the mas
ters pew. The young prince will stay at Cam
bridge for one university year. and later he will
probably pass few months at Oxford.
AN actor, who lately made hit as the
( clown in the opera of "The Princess Of Trebi.