National Republican., 1883-12-20
81. Louis Po1i- Dispaich.


the Black Hills.
IN Bermuda Strawberries ripen from No.
vember TO July.
@THE stealing Of shantics from claims has
become so prevalent in Gunnison county, Colorado.
that every time stranger tries to leave the county
he is closely searched TO see IL he has shany
about his person.
FERDERMEYER and Guerrero, who are
trundllng wheelbarrows across the continent from
San Francisco to New York, for purse of 81, 900,
have arrived at Ogden. They started from san
Francisco on the seventh of October
LAGER beer, which thirty years ago was
practically unknown In this country, is now made
by $500 Immense establishments, with over $780,
100000 of capital invested Tho value of this pro-
duction each year is over 500 100000.
THE total number of sailing vessels of all
the world is 1874, gauging 3O6ls,377 tons. OF
these more than u third carry tho English flag,
and less than twentieth that of France, which
ranks seventh, being below America Italy, Ger
many, aud Russia
MASSACHUSETTS women who work fifteen
hours q day in dining rooms have discovered that
the law fixing ten hours us days work for
women does not apply to hotels and restaurants
because the courts hold that they are not mcrcan.
tile establishments.
RECENT return of the financial board of
Cambridge university puts the incomes of col
leges Mt Sl,ld6OO0. Trinity has the largest, over
1921 900; Magdalen, the smallest 323,5OO The COL
leges contribute $4,000 10 the common university
fund-about % per cent.
SONORA, old as that state is, has not moro
than 12500O inhabitants. and 10000 of these are
pure Indians There are about 900 natives of the
United States in the state, mostly speculators
Fabulous sums are said to have been taken out of
her Mines and now and then vase filed with
gold nuggets left by the spaninrds
THE trade in petroleum is on the increase
In the country. The total value of the exports
from the United States for the ten months end
ing with the thirty-ii of October was $50 Ol4-
332, as against S3S, ,362040 for the corresponding
period OF the preceding year, q gain of 81, ,562,-
292.
LORD 0EsLow, the Englishman nobleman
who claimed whole Car to himself III the recent
Northern Pacific railroad excursion, has been
visiting the Mammoth Cave. 1t is said he would
not allow any one else in the cave while he was
inspecting IT, and that he even tried TO draw the
hole in after him.
THE Baroness Felicie do Rbiera, who has
just died at Florence ut the age of g. was the
daughter of the famous Comte Emery de La Val,
one of Napoleon's generals and closest friends.
Comte Emery accompanied the emperor to st.
Helena, where he died. The Barou dc Ribiers
was also general of note and acted as aid-de-
camp to King Victor Emanuel
THE Rov. Il. w. Summers recently found
in the upper valley of tho Salinas, California at
| an elevation of o7S feet above the sea, perfect
biyalve 1917 inches in length, inches broad and
% inches around the thiCkast part. The interior
is as smooth as though the oyster had but Just
been taken out. These big shells are found in beds
In tho valley They were formerly burned for
lime, but now they are noted as curiosities.
A VERY peculiar contest has Just taken
place in Paris between legs and wheels. young
cavalry officer, the Baron de Magnout, offered to
| race on foot to Versailles NJ. de Villars on his
velocipede. The stake was $1,000, and the veloci-
pedist was freely backed at five to one in hum
| dreds. They started from the triumphal arch,
| and the pedestrian beat his adversary by four
and a half minutes. Large sums of money wore
| lost on the issue.
SAMPSON Fox. n great English inventor
whose improvements in steamship-boiler flues has
made him wealthy, intends it is said, to open an
| iron shipyard on the Delaware, bringing over
| 1000 men, He says the ocean steamship OF tho
! future will carry nothing but passengers and
engines, aud make trip in four days. They will
remain in port but Il few hours, and thus can
make double or treble the number of trips of
| steamships carrying freight.
The Louisville exposition directors want
|
| stands on and repeat the show next year. There
| was S250,00O subscribed year ago to put up the
| buildings with, and to drop the thing now would
| be to wipe this amount completely out. The pub
| lie is now Informed that the MANAGEMENT was In
| great straits during August when receipts were
| light and heavy bills came in, and that sos 900
had to be raised secretly to avert total collapse
THE mountains of Gellvara, in the most.
northern part of Sweden, consist pure magnetic
| iron in immense layers of several hundred feet
thickness upon the surface of the ground. One of
the speaks alone is supposed to contain 2S00O0 900
of TONS They are situated near large forests
furnishing fuel, and are less than hundred miles
from the Atlantic. 1t is intended to build rail =
road around the mountains to Il port Ofoten-on
the coas aud IL is estimated that the iron oar can
be delivered on the cars at the low price of shil-
lings per ton.
MRS. JOHN WITHERsPooN SMITH, who was
a daughter of Col. William Duer, of the revolu-
tonary army, is living In New Orleans, having
reached the great age of lOl years. Her marriage
in 1906 is spoken of in one of Aaron Burrs letters
to his daughter, TheodoSa. Her husband was
long Judge of the United States district court at
New orleans. Her family was one of the most
distinguished in the state of New York. She is
granddaughter of William Alexander, earl OF stor-
ling, the noted revolutionary general, on whose
staff James Monroe served as ald-le'camp.
IT having been asserted that Harry Hutch.
ems can run 800 yards in 20H and quarter Of
mile in 46 seconds, Pandragon, in the London RI.
cree of Nov. 49, offers the following inducements
for Hutchens to try: ~ will bet Hutohens 70 upon
every quarter of Il second between 20A aud :3l y.
That is, | will bet him f5 he does not do :3lA -
he does not do 49, f5 he does not do :3Ol4, Is he
does not do :30lg Go he does not do $50 4 e5 he
does not do $50, and f5 he does not do :20A. Now,
Hutchens is bound TO win some OF these bets, and
he may win them all, Anyhow, If he is only q
good us some of his friends assert, am actually
giving him the money. With regard 10 the quar-
ter mile record l will do exactly the same-wIlI
bet him E5 upon every quarter Of second be-
tween the :isA of Buttery and the 46, which 1t Is
said Huehens can do so easily"
For some years the wife of the Hon. E. b.
washburne, aterward American minister at Paris,
was regarded as the possessor Of the most diminu-
tive as well as the best shaped foot in Wash ing
ton. Then came Mrs. Grant, who carried OFF the
palm VIGOROUSLY and wore number ones comfort
ably Mrs, Belknaps foot has often been referred
to as a model of beauty, and as being remarkably
small for q woman of her form and Mrs, Archi.
tect Mulett who Is quite petite in form, only re-
ouires number twelve, misses size; and Nine.
Berghmann. Law ton, who is Of medium height
wears number twelve and half misses size
, She has her footgear made at Brussels. and hel
shoemaker wrote her Just before the Philadelphia
centennial, asking her permission to make some