National Republican., 1883-11-12
CURRENT GOSSIP.

HERBERT sPENcERs works arc appearing
in Japanese.
THERE are 10000 gypses in Hungary, and
no fortunes worth telling.
SENcE Guild folks doan' nebber tan, why
90 mos OBJ dc ladies carry parasols.
MEN who have no use for the Gospel are
often willing to help send 1t to the heather.
The New York clubs arc famous all over
the world. More especially those in the hands of
the police.
You can't keep sin out do house by boltin'
de do wild good resolutions. De debbil IL bust OIL
dem bolts.
ABOUT 10000 francs have at last been sub
scribed for the statue of Hector Berlioz which is
to be erected in Paris.
THE youngest grandfather on record lives
in Trinidad, Tex. His name is Reese Butler, and
he is thirty years old.
THE underground railway system, which
will soon encirce London is being built at a cost
ofsl5,OOO,O0O per mile.
THE silence which reigns in corn field
well provided with scare crows-t is not n case of
ON effect without caws2
FACTS am do chief marrow of eddcation.
| 'Tain't wot man doan' learn dat makes him
ign'rant, but wot he forgts.
AN excited organ of tho cremationists de-
clares that tho Undertakors' union has been run
ming the thing into the ground long enough
HAMLET would never have said, "Somo-
thing Is rotten in the state of Denmark If he had
ordered his eggs poachod instead Of soft boiled
TROUT caught in Lake Memphremagog,
ut depth of $50 feet, and weighing eleven and
half pounds, is on exhibition at Burlington, w.
WILD geese arc focking by thousands upon
the grain fields in Butte county, California, and
IA tOln 9F
sequence.
IT is better to be Frank James than to be
governor of Missouri under James The governor
is frequently restricted by law and public opIn.
ion. Mr.. James is not.-New Orleans Picdyune
THERE are some particular people in Mchi-
gan. A young lady, ordering shakspearc's
| works of Detroit bookseller adds: II want ths
Shakespeare works written by Shakespeare him.
self"
THE New York hangman is charged with
drugging his prisoners SO that the galows has
no terrors for them A man should know when
he is hung or il won't do him much good.-M
quad.
THE governor and people of Coahuila,
Mexico, have offered to place Sl50,OO0 in the hands
ofthe Baptsts If they will establish five churches
at given points in that country and furnish $4,000
Tor running expenses.
lhE NloCOusIH CldJc hlCulCHl bOClcIyt uuT
ing its recent annual session, passed resolution
virtually declaring consumption to be an inec-
tious disease, and urging the necessity of the pro-
per isolation and disnfection cf those suIeiing
from IT..
Four Providence. concerns sent cotton
factory goods of the value Of 900 to Shanghai
China, during September. These include 10000
spindles-10,000 American and 10000 English-and
the two kinds are to be run against each other 10
test the comparative values.
QUININE is said to be decreasing in demand
ut the west, q prominent Chicago firm reporting
| that weekly sales fifth OF those n few years
ago, circumstance due to tho disappearance of
malarin, as farms are.drained and land cultivated
Malaria is certainly increasing in New England. -
Boston Traveller.
M. HEDDEBAULT has discovered method
| of preparing soluble wool from tissues iu which
! wool and cotton are combined When subjected
| to IL Jasrent of superheated steam under pres
sure of five atmospheres the wool melts and falls
TO the bottom of the pan, leaving the Gotten, inen
and other vegetable.
MISS BERTHA CROWLEY should take the field
as professional dreamer. She dreamed three
nights in succession that uncle had died in
Texas, so She wrote the old gentleman TO find ont
the facts. The letter fell into tho hands of his
lawyers, who notified her last week that she had
fallen heir to $4,000 by her uncle's death.
A CONNECTICUT man has third arm grow
ing out of his back. o. of course, If he has no
wife to attend to his back when 1t aches or itches
the best way is to have another arm. They are
killing OFF the women rapidly in Connecticut
that men will be compelled TO grow extra arms
or back up against the side of the house TO
scratch
VERY few people ever heard Of and fewer
ever saw umpod backed hen. Yet hen that
had been stolen in Massachusetts was identified
by the hump on her back. There must have been
u great responsibility resting on that hens
shoulders to have bumped its back. 1t probably
happened when the hen was overworked during
an egg famine.
MARY CHURCHILL has returned to st.
Louis with her father, who discovered her en-
ployed in an Insane asylum at Indianapolis. Mary
has been ''mysteriously" absent since the first of
August 1t is u sad reflection st. Louis that
Mary should prefer to live in an insane asylum
than in that city 1t makes Chicago smile to think
of it.-PecRS Sun.
A. DRIVING belt made for an eastern cotton
mill is monster power transmtter. 1t is 900 feet
in length double, making 458 feet of leather three
feet wide or 1874 square feet. When 1t is remem-
bered that only about twelve square feet of the
ordinary hide can be used In making betting. it
may be calculated what a drove of cattle would
} be required to produce this one belt
THE great Napoleon married widow Scar
ron's widow became court favorite. Rousseau
, went crazy after widow. and Gibbon, the his
torau, made himself ridiculous over one. Disraeli
married widow, and three of the most dstin-
guished widows in Europe to- day are the Empress
Eugene, of the French; Queen Isabella, of the
Spanish, and Queen Victoria, of he English.
A MISSOURI man has recovered $4,000 from
the Western Union Telegraph company for in.
jury. He was riding mule and the animal got
, tangled in telegraph wires which were down.
throwing the man to the ground and injuring i'm
, severely. The Missouri man has bought another
mule, and is riding around telegraph lines reck.
lessly, hoping to find another place where the
wires are down.
, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Buffalo Bill I"
, Cody, Sir William McCormac who is Queen Vic
torias doctor; tom" sun, an old trapper; Capt.
: Bogardus. the crack wing shot; "Boney" Earnest
Il the wealthy ranchman, of Rawllns W. T., and DR..
: :. Carver the marksman, are about to meet In
Il Chicago to so hunt the wild whangdoode and
|, the grizzly bear in the Rockies. Tom ochiltrse
had intended to accompany the party in the
q capacity of sacred historian but his congressional
!" " duties will keep him in Washington.
Q THE men working on new bridge near
: Verdi, New, had rock that weighed about two
tons the derrick the other day, and raising