National Republican., 1883-12-24

saw another maiden stand
And was he who, bending low,
Kissed her cheek and pressed her hand;
But now know, beneath the snow,
She lies at rest within the grave
The winds that blow are moaning low,
AS ever the fronds the cypress wave,
And tho the bells of Noel are chming
With cadence sweet and rhythmic rlyming,
They seem as dirges now to me,
MY heart, my lost one, is with thee.
-E p Lynch in Ntw York Graphic.
THE North Pacific whale catch this season
was 1900 barrels of oil, 1922 pounds Of bone,
and 10000 pounds of ivory-all worth sS6000O.
A DAUGHTER of Minister Sargent is making
n specially Of the eye in her medical studies at
Zurich. Miss Sargent is graduate of an Amos
lean medical college.
PETER ALGERNoN BROWN, son of tho
queens john Brown, is reported to be engaged 10
Miss Cleveland, Of Cincinnati. He is young, well
bred, and 'moves in excellent circles"
A BENEVOLENT looking old man obtained
tho signatures of Illinois farmers 30 petitions ask
ing the legislature TO tax church property the
same as other property, and transferred Them to
promissory notes.
DIR. DOMINGO FRERE, of Rio Janeiro, claims
to have discovered the yellow fever fungus He
has named 1t cryptococcus zauthogenicus and
all the usual signs Of the disease before death and
on dissection.
ADA HUTTON, young, hard-working,
good girl, was publicly crowned with the rose
wreath awarded to industry and virtue at the
Crystal palace, London. She is only Is, but sup.
ports her mother and invalid father. There arc
many such uncrowned.
AT the recent opening of new CONNER
cial exchange in New York.the president stated
| that the annual value of the raw sugar imported
and produced in the United States considerably
exceeded our importations of tea aud coffee, with
silk, hides hemp and rubber added. The figures
| for sugar were stated at $3.50 100000.
AFTER having been pronounced hopelessly
insane by the greatest physicians of Europe, poor
Charlotte was retired to quiet castle and left to
| drag her miserable life out As soon as she
stopped taking medicine and began eating like
sane people she showed signs of improvement,
aud now the doctors say she will get well.
AT the recent half yearly meeting of the
British Goat society in London it was announced
that the Duke of Wellington had recently pre-
sented to the society his goat Billy Doux, which
had accordingly been added to the list of the So
ciety's stud goats. The newly coined word goat
ling" was adopted to distinguish goats above IL
| months and under years
A YOUNG man who had suddenly broken
lady for some time positively refused to give any
reason for his conduct At length. afer being
sued Tor breach of promise, he reluctantly con-
fessed to his lawyer that he still deeply loved the
girl, but was afraid TO wed her because he no.
ticod that her mother wore long finger nails
THE highest velocity that has been impaired
to shot is given 1926 feet per second, being
equal to a mile in 3.2seconds. The velocity Of
the earth at the equator, due to rotation on its
axis, is 1000 miles per hour or mile in 3.6 sec-
onds and thus, II cannon ball were fired due
west, and could maintain its initial velocity, it
would beat the sun in its apparent journey around
the earth.
A FRENCH rural priests salary averages
s240, of which half comes from the state and half
from the commune. He pays no rent, and gets
some presents of food usually. The commune
grant is revocable by the commune authorities,
and is liable to be cut off If he comes u logger-
heads with them. Appeal in this case is to the
prefect, who can, If he pleases, decree out of the
funds of the department. an equivalent.
ANDREW JACKSON is a Seneca Indian who
has exemplihed the saying that little learning is
a dangerous thing He could write little. and
only little, and so when one day he borrowed
81, 90 from John Halftown, he gave him his note
for the money with interest. 1t ran like this
"Me, Andrew Jackson, day after tomorrow six
months, will pay to John Halftown maybe three
four days, SO or "a dollars, fetch paper no gel
money, by DAM"
HERE is a fact worth turning down in the
memory. The German missionaries in Ranchi
India, held grand demonstration in honor o.
Martin Luther, in which 80, 900 native Christians
took part. What a striking comment on the fai
reaching influence of single life that the chill
dren of the jungle should thus be found celebrat
ing the birth of one who lived and died on thu
other side Of the globe four centuries ago.
A CHICAGO dude was thrown out of q sec
, ond STORY window recently under tho following
circumstances The members of the compan,
were putting conundrums, when one Of then
asked, "Who are the sweetest girls in the United
StatesT" 1.-THE Missouri girls" answered tn,
dude. "Why ?" shouted the crowd. "Becaus
they are Mo-lasses," explained the dude. There
q upon they seized the scoiier and launched him,
CocoANUTs, as we'll as pineapples ant
d writes that Mai. Evans, of Myers has grove oil
the Caloosahatohie that produces 800 or NOR
cocoanuts per tree and that 325 900 trees grow
ing in Monroe county. vessel has just arriyet
= at Key West with 10000 nuts, to be planted II
', Biscayne by colony recently started there MI
~ Chesley prophesies that the entire coast line O
y Monroe county will ere long be vast cocoanu
n grove.
Q AMERICAN wheat in Bohemia, far up tn
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within this country and 5000 by ocean vessels,
naturally looked upon as a curiosity at Vienna
But that is hardly an excuse for the assertion in
d Vienna dispatch that this "hrst cargo of Amer
u can wheat imported in Austria amounted tC
: 100000 hundred weight" Ships Of 5000 tons d
- not customarly navigate the upper Elbe, Bu
J. with all allowance for Austrian amazed exaggeI
ation the spectacle OF cargo of Chicago whes
within few miles ofthe Danube is still interest
ing
ID LEO XIII is almost constantly embellishin
l. the vatican in some way and superintends a
O. work in person. Recently he had some frescoin
m done, and he clambered up to the top of the tai
Is scafIold to inspect tho work at close quarteu
Finding 1t not up to the standard he ordered wor
stopped and all that had beeudone efiaced. "Sen
me seitz at once" he crled "this rubbish won
at do" The painter called for was Ludovico Seitl
IL who has restored some of Rafaelles works in tn
vatican and undertaken other important commits
~ | ,iona Uo fs vat n vounp man hut has won hig