National Republican., 1883-12-19


since their marriage, carrying with them the ma
chinery for saw mill
INpRAPuRA, the loftiost Of the sumatra
volcanoes, is $500 meters, or 1900 feet, high
AT the summit the temperature Is 50. At an altis
tude OF $500 meters tho region of large trees
terminates.
YOUNG man who went to the late war
began his first letter to his sweetheart after this
fashion: my dear Julia: Whenever am tempted
to do wrong think of you, and l say Get tn co
behind me, Satan"
SETH CLARK, mining millionaire, has
put in claim for nearly 100000 against the es-
tate OF his brother, the late Donald CLARK. Mru
Clark, the widow. who is tho daughter of Con.
colton disputes the claim.
THERE recently died at Brighton, in Eng
land, well-known vendor OF brandy balls. who
had long been known by the name Of Dizzy"
He bore, 1t is said, a marvellous likeness to tho
late Lord Beaconshed. The scene Of his death
was the town workhouse.
ANY one in Belgium who so pleases NAV
open public house, the rotail liquor trade boing
perfectly free Tho annual consumption of spirits
is now 12l litres per inhnbitant and that Of beer
25l litrcs. The money annually expended at the
public houses is 476, ,0O0,0OOf,
THE egg product of the United States Is
second only in value to corn and wheat During
the last fiscal year tho crop was worth $780,.
6l3,i00; tho wheat CROP 4s4675, 779 and the crop
OF eggs, A15,6s2,sS9. The bird which produces
the "hen fruip' is a noble institution
MISS MINNIE PALMER is playing in the
English provincial towns now and meeting with
wonderful success. A Plymouth paper says
"Such smile as she can give with eyes and lips ID
smile 10 shrlvel up care for century and mako
your heart bask in summer brightness"
JACKSON county, Florida, boasts among
other things natural WELL formed by the sink
lug OF earth, near Greenwood few months ago,
and a natural bridge OF lime stone across tho
Chipola river about three miles above Marianna
formed by the river sinking for the distance of
half mile.
JOHN G.. SAKE, tho humorous poet, ID
growing gradually weaker at his home in Brook
lyn He suffers from cerebro- spinal meningitis,
complicated with partial paralysis by being buried
under railroad train in an accident on the Pan
Handle road, years ago. 1t is not probable that
the once brilliant man will survive this winter.
| A FRENCH priest who had usually small
congregation, was one day preaching at church
in his village when, the doors being open, q gan
der and several geese came stalking up the middle
| aisle. The preacher, availing himself OF the cir
| cums,ance, observed that he could no longer find
fault with the people Of this district for non-at-
tendance, because, though they did not come
themselves they sent their representatives.
| lITHE representatives of the amateur dra-
| matic societies of Brooklyn have interested them
| selves In u plan to erect now opern house. AT a
| meeting held by them recently II was announced
that s125oOo OF the s25o000 necessary TO purchase
site and erect a building had been subscribed.
| Boston capitalist is anxious to subscribe $4,000
to the stock If he will be permitted to control the
| house. No site has yet been determined upon for
tho new venture
CAPT. +. w. DAWSON editor of the Charles.
ton Menus and Courier, who has just been knighted
| by the pope In recognition of his opposition to
dueling, is an Englishman by birth. The distinc-
| ton conferred upon him is largely due TO the
efforts OF the late and present Roman Catholi
bishops OF Southwark. England, who, learning of
what he had done to break up the "code Of
honor" besought the pope to grant him some dis
tlnguishing mark Of approval.
In the course of recent excavations in the
city of Rome an earthenware vessel was discovered
containing brooch bearing the name of Pope
| Martin Ill, who died In 9i6, and one gold and s2a
| silver Anglo-Saxon coins These latter boar the
names of Kings Edward the Elder, Athelstane,
and Edmund /, who reigned from 901 to 9i6.
There were also few coins of the archbishops of
Canterbury OF that period. II is supposed that the
money was tribute or Peters pence sent by the
Anglo-Saxons to Rome.
ACCORDING to the statistics given at the
national butter, cheese, and egg convention,
whose annual meeting was held at Cincinnati last
week, the value of these products marketed in the
United States during 1888 more than $40 or every
man. woman and child in the population, not in
cluding the Sl00,00o0 900 worth of milk and cream,
sold In natural state. The eggs received In New
York annually arc worth nearly as much as the
cheese half as much as the butter, and three
times as much as the poultry.
A PROJECT has been started for q ship canal
between the Baltic and the Black seas, to cost
100000 900 marks, or, II made large enough fol
large war vessels, as 1t is expected that Prince
Bismarck will insist, 150000000 marks. mark
is "a cents. Three-fhhs of the ex pense to be
borne by Russia and the remainder equally by the
states OF Hanover and oldenburg and the cities OF
Hamburg and Bremen. The promoters estimate
that the number OF vessels that would pass through
the canal would be three times as great as the
number passing by suez.
ALsAcE- LORRAINE has now a population O.
1866, go, of whom sS,o63 belong to the army. o.
natives there 1,4ls025. of Germans born else.
where 1l4,707, and of foreigners 38,SiS. Classed
according to religions there are in the grand tota
of |, 66,670 total Of 1,21s,46 Roman Catholics
e05 l24 Protestants, 39,278 Jews. 34l3 persons be
longing 10 minor Christian sects, Buddhists, ant
Mahommedan. In 1871 the Roman Catholic
population formed 70 per cent. of the whole it 4
now n per cent Meanwhile the Protestant pop
ulaton has increased from 1850 TO 1913 per cent
! Of the whole,
RETURNING from hunting one day, Georg'
III entered afiably into conversation with his
wine merchant, Mr. Carbonel, and rode with
him side by side considerable way. Lord Wal
Bingham was In attendance, and. watching al
opportunity took Mr.. Carbonel aside and whis
pered something to him. "Whats that-whats
that walsingham has been saying TO your" in
qured the good -humored monarch. ~ find. sir
: / have Teen unintentiOnally guilty of dsrespect
My lord informed me that ought to have taker
off my hat whenever addressed ycur majesty
but your majesty will please to observe tina
4 whenever hunt my hat is fastened TO my head
! and am on the back OF very high spirited
horse, so that II anything goes of we must all g
of togetherr The king laughed heartily at thi
! apology.
0 WOODEN ties for railways are becoming
more expensive every year, and the time is comm
4 when possibly some substitute will have to b
4 devised for them. The chief engineer OF tn
5 Reading railroad is about to try some experimeu
: with steel ties. They would bo the same in sz
and shape as the present wooden ties, except tina
u y they would be hollow; and they would praot
II cally last until they rusted away, while the bes
= oak ties last only about eight years Some of th
o advantages claimed for the steel ties that th
u expense of maintaining the track wonld b
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