National Republican., 1883-11-07

-Wfn. H. PdRder6iuton.
GOD FORBID" is the name of an Arizona
town.
A BEN BUTLER club has been organized in
San Francisco.
JAMES WHtTcoMB RILEY is already booked
for big lecture season down east
A MILLION Hndoo tracts were recently
printed at the expense of native prince
THE largest oyster shell in the world is in
the Church of ST. surplice, In PARIS. II weighs
over 800 pounds and is used as a baptlsmal font.
CONNECTICUT farmers, the Hartford Times
charges, are hnmorousy given to buying oleo-
margarine, moulding II over at home, and supply
Ing 1t In Hartford the genuine product of their
own daries.
A PACKAGE containing 300 false teeth,
which had been forwarded by mail from China
via san Francisco, was recently detected at tho
postollicc in New York and sent to the seizure
room ut the custom house.
DIR. ZuKERToRT, the champion chess player,
gave an illustration of his powers in the Manhnt-
tan Chess club last Friday night. He played
twenty-fou games simultaneously, of which no
won nineteen, lost three, and drew two.
JUDGING from the steadily increasing num-
Der of immigrants landed ON the Pacific coast from
Japan, California paper predicts that the govern
ment will in few years be called upon to deal
with the Japanese as it has with the Chinese.
JAY GOULD, Cyrus w. Field, Russell Sage,
and Sidney Dillon entered Now York court room
together the other day and Justice snatched tho
bandage from her eyes, jumped out of q back
window, and lit out for the country.-Bsn,drcs
Tribune.
NILSSON says PATHS voice holds out re-
markably well for woman of her age. Patti
only hopes she may be able to sing as well us
Nilsson when she is as old. Gerser remembers
the pleasure both those singers gave her when she
was little girl.
Gov. HAMILTON, of Illinois, in o recent
address on education, agreed with Charles Francis
Adams as to the practical uselessness of the study
of Greek and Latn.-Erchan0e Now that John
Hamilton has taken up the cudgel against them
the dead languages may as well get ready to go.
Miss BERTHA CRAwLEY, of Deposit, N. Y,
dreamed three nights in succession Of her uncles
death in Texas. Impressed with her dreams, she
addressed letter to him. The letter fell into the
hands OF his lawyers, who notified her last week
that she had fallen heir to $4,000 by her uncles
death.
The observatory of Paris is about to pub
lish q catalogue of the stars observed In Paris
during tho forty-hve years from 1887 TO 1881 ina
elusive. The catalogue records about 100000 OBJ
servations, OF which 10000 were made during the
ahSt hNc yeulS VI pSfiOu COFSTGu, gives tuO
places of 10000 stars.
OVER the door Of small building in which
reside Il colored family in Greenvile, Tenn, is
pine board on which is the legend. now almost
erased by rain aud storm, "a. Johnson, Tailor" A
| little beyond the western border of the town is
marble monument that marks the last home OF
| Andrew johnson. President of the United States"
THE New Orleans Times Democrat narrates
the following marvellous story: There is a man
in Warren county, Georgia, who was in seventeen
battles during the confederate war, was wounded
several times, has been struck by lightning three
times, lay nsenslble from one shock three days
and is now not more than 40 years Of age, aud II
as healthy as any man, ana weighs over 2O
pounds"
A LoATHsoME band of gypsies, swarthy
men, slatternly women, ragged and saucy chill
dren and siokly babies, are prowling about Wayne
county, New York. and now camping near
Newark. They have bears and monkeys, horses,
and mules, the former on exhibition, and tho
latter for carrying their luggage. They 'steal
away" like the Arabs, aud worse, 1t is said, that
when baby dies they feed him to the bears. If
man tries to drive them off, they turn upon him
with revolver, and he has to "go."
IT has dawned upon Mr.. Walter Vaughn, of
Flatsbush, L. L. that joke may be carried too far.
Recently, at church sociable he and Miss Annie
Hgbie were the parties to q mock marriage. In
spirit of fun they carried on the pretense for
era days, he addressing hor AZ my dear wife," or
she calling him "My darling husband" But now
it appears Annie claims him in verify, and pro-
poses TO test the legality of the claim in the courts.
These be very tricky times my masters, and you
cannot be too careful how you fool with women.
A CATTLE OWNER of Montana was in Win
nipeg Manitoba, a short time ago. He engaged a
room at a hotel, and went out for. the evening
During his absence an English nobleman came to
the hotel. and, no room being vacant, the clerk
gave him that of the Montana man, who, being
only n common person" could not be supposed
to object to such proceeding. But that was just
what he did do. When he heard OF it. and before
, five minutes had passed the poor Englishman was
running wildly out OF the room, crying "NIurderp
There was no murder, however but the English
man had to take a cot in the hall, the Montana
i man got his room, aud the clerk very careful
: afterward not to try experiments with common
: persons" from Montana.
CoURTsHIP among the Shoshones is not so
elaborate an affair as among more civilized peoples
1t appears however, to be quite as effective. "In
: the first place." said gentleman on the Shoshone
1 reservation, explaining the matter to corre-
| spondent Of the Evening Post sit should be borne
> in mind that the young squaws are more feet
= of foot than the bucks. Now. when a buck fan.
q cies squaw he provides himself with larlat, as
g. he would IL he intended to lasso animal. When
a she sees her admirer approaching she behaves
y after her fashion, in the manner of other
u young ladies' She runs, and the buck runs
after her. If she does not wish to be caught she
qulckens her pace and is soon beyond the reach
OF the rope. II, on the contrary she does not OBJ
u ject the moose slips easily over her head, and the
q prize is won."
a A BREvET Joe Mulhatton has got into the
y Laredo Times office, and in letter from Villal
: DANA, Mexico, he tells about blazing meteor
i orowbar In FORM that fell from the heavens
y through the roof Of Mexioans house and
IS through the leaf of sewing machine at which q
young lady was working at the time and then
into the stone floor TO the distance of foot and
half. The Times correspondent says at has now
% been forty eight hours since this strange meteor
II as Il may properly be termed, struck the earth
It and Il is TO all intents and purposes, as hot Al
~ when Il first reached here, and emits the samt
,e strange, red glow AS before said, any metal OK
oept Iron receives no damage by being touched L
It, but wood, paper, or In fact anything save meta
that has yet been experimental with seem to mel
. and disappear as II In vapor Immediately upoI
" being brought into contact With IL. IL has beer
thrown into tho yard, where 1t still lies, and a
~ night Is of sufficient brancy TO read by at dis
- tance of 100 feet. This is one of the greatest Gu
~ rosites that has ever visited the earth aud shoul
be bought by some naturalist"