National Republican., 1883-12-10

The ilrst one had to take to flight;
The victor lin a shocking plighO
stopped TO the corn upon the floor,
And saw-and saw
Yes, saw q little stump OF straw
Philadelphia Cal.
KENTUCKY has had speaxership for nine
congresses out Of the a. Virginia for T. pennsyl-
vania for 6, Massachusetts and Indiana for each.
NJ CHALEMEL-LAcouR, the outgoing
French minister of foreign affairs is described as
man with bad liver, q sharp temper, and q
razor tongue.
KILLING alligators for their skins and
teeth employs large force of men in Florida. who
have engaged to furnish 100000 skins to Fronch
tannery In given time.
ACCORDING to the recent census the num-
bcr of British born subjects in India, excluding
those not born within the United Kingdom, was
1906 males, and IL 1888 females--total, SS5H
The result of the opening of the st. Gothard
railroad Is shown to be that the French trade with
Italy was S20OO0OO less than In 1884, and the Ital-
ian trade with Germany SlSOoO,oOO more.
The area of the amber fields of Prussia is
nearly fifty miles long by in BREADTH and IL is
reckoned that every twelve square feet of surface
Will produce pound, tho value of which ranges
from eightpence up to four pounds sterling.
SHARFU, a wonderfully clever East Indian,
WIN COuleSscu W HchTly Que nunuTeQ Crimes was
lately sentenced TO penal servitude for life. His
practice was to ingratlate himself with travellers,
get them to cat with him, aud then drug, roland,
If necessary, murder.
KING CHARLES, of Roumania, shows no
signs OF his German BIRTH He is slim and of
average height, OF brown complexion, his hair
and beard dark, his eye calm and resolute his
voice sonorous and even, and his speech both
quick and precise. He speaks solely in French.
IT is computed by Mr.. Henry Mallory Of
the Florida steamship company ut New York,
that about $50 people leave that city for jackson.
Vile every day-an excess over the number of
any previous season. 1t is said that 500 people
arrive in Jacksonville daily from all parts OF the
country.
II SEE that an Ohio postmistress has re-
signed her position in order TO get married."
remarked an old benedict to his wife. "Poor
thing l pity her." said the hclpmeet. "Why
so % Because, after the honeymoon is over, she'll
have to sit up nearly every night and wait till tho
male comes ill.,"
AN English BRIDE Miss Jessel, has had q
wonderful wedding cake. On top, done IN sugar.
was representation of the meeting of Rebekah
and Abraham's servant at the well, the grouping
modelled after Vernots celebrated picture The
cake was four feet high and weighed 227 pounds.
The cover or top lifted of. 80 that tho cake could
be cut.
Few people reflect upon tho fact that the
Indians are the richest lnndholders In the United
States. We have $500 of them, exclusive of tho
Alaska Indians, holding l5l,37.76S acres of land.
Some of the tribes own 5000 acres per Indian. The
average is about one square mile to each Indian,
while q white man is not allowed to pre- empt
more than 100 acres Of the public land.
| THE disinclination of Hindoo women to
employ male physicians has called forth an agita-
fort Of p,,rtp
| TO female physicians willing TO practice in India
| In Bombay $4,000 rupees has been subscribed to
| this end and Mr.. Cana has given S60, 900 toward
the erection of a hospital for women and children
in which only female physicians are to be en-
ployed.
I; A. M. BoRNIcHE, who. having amassed O
large fortune, which he devoted to the purchase
of works of art, raised an immense building near
| the Faubourg st. Germain, to be used for their
public exhibition, has just died in Paris. His
death having come suddenly, before he had legally
carried out his intentions, his daughter offers the
collection for sale. The sale, which will begin at
| the close of this month, will occupy seven weeks
| -four days in each week-and offer rare oppor-
| tunities.
WELL" said the little newsboy, when
asked how he liked his dinner at the Young
| Mems Christian Association hall, ''der turk was
all right; der apples didn't have many worms In
Go n; der cake and pie was good enough, bein' as
| 1t was free grub; but there was old duffer they
called DR.. Mcsomebody, and he talked to us
about the good little boys that don't 20 fshin'
In swimmin' on Sunday, nor ohaw, nor smoke,
and grew up TO be bankers. And he CIV us such
q fill of his chin music that we had no appetite
| for der feed.
Two families in New Lexington, Ohio, have
just fallen heir to large fortune by the death of
q relative in Cincinnati. Edward McGoldrich
left there thirty years since with but little capital
and located in Cincinnati, where he continued to
do business until his death. He left two sisters,
Mrs. Mullen and Mrs. McNamee. The estate Is esti-
mated at from sl5OO0O to 100000 The heirs have
already received S25, 900 which was on deposit in
the bank. Most of the property consists of real
estate, including large number of houses In diff
| ferent parts OF the city. The dead brother was d
| notorious miser.
THEY have q chief Justice at Victoria,
British Columbia, who is either very eccentric. or
indulges too much in Thanksgiving turkey aud
the concomitant hxings. Only recently no
Boundly rated jury for bringing in verdict that
did not suit him, and the other day in sentencing
prisoners, he said he condemned them 10 be
slaves for various terms of imprisonment Tho
grand jury threw out bill against man who
had drawn II revolver when attacked by mob,
whereupon the chief justice remarked that man
was justified In drawing and using a revolver
when attacked by mob He said he had great
aversion to mobs. because 1t was mob that
crucihed Christ.
A MAN who was once known as Prince
Charles Edmond de Bourbon has died in Bre la.
Holland, in such poverty that he was buried at
the public expense in the paupers' cemetery. His
father was a German Matchmaker of Jewish de-
scent named Naundorf Fifty years ago this man
gave himself out to be son Of Louis XVI, claimed
that no was born at Versailles on the twenty sew
enth Of March, 1875, and called himself Charles
! Louis, Duke of Normandy. Many persons were
induced to believe IN the truth OF his preensions
He died in ls45 at Dell, Holland, and his claims
were talen up by the son, who has just died at
Breda For u time the latter obtained aid and
support but in the end these fell of, and he died
in abject misery.
The common belief that population in the
West India islands is stationary declining is SO
far from being accurate that, as Sir Anthony Mus
grave governor OF Jamaica, points out In HIS re-
cent report, II is increasing at a very much more
rapid rate than tho population of tho United
Kingdom. The statistics of population in the
Islands show an increase of 10 per cent. on the
last decimal period, while the increase In tho
United Kingdom in the ten years preceding the
last census was under IL per cent This large in
; crease appears to be general throughout tho
islands, and is only very slightly influenced by
cooie immigration, "Thepopulation of the West
i, Indies" adds Sir A. MargrRye, as now greater