National Republican., 1883-12-04

ana nuskuy MS voice REPLIED
| "Pye busted my suspender."
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Miss FANNY EVERETT, aged SO, has been
postmstress OF West Foxborough, Mass, for
| twenty five years.
AN immense deposit of marl containing II
per cent Of carbonate OF lime, is said to have
| been discovered within 17S miles Of New Orl cans
The little island of Atafer, in the South
seas. is said to bo the only purely Christian
country in the world Every adult on the island
is member of the church on confession of faith.
| MAYOR Low, of Brooklyn, has added $25OO
to his former glit Of $1,000 to his birthplace sa-
| lem, Mass the interest of which amount is TO bc
| expended in aiding worthy boys Of that city
| through college.
| THE New York correspondent of the Chicago
| Tribune found Mgr. Capel the other day in d
superb SO day room, overlooking Fifth avenue,
at the Brunswick in New York, writing a new
lecture on ''The Poverty of Jesus"
A $4,000 MURi1Lo, and $4,000 painting
and piece of sculpture at $4,000, the last two
| by Raiaello sanzeo d'Urbino, are for sale in
Florence, Italy. They would make nice Christ
| mas presents for some poor family.
Mr.. GARDNER, sculptor, of st. Louis, has
finished bis plaster cast for the statue OF Frank
Blair. TO be erected in that city. The base and
pedestal are in place already. The bronze figure
Will be unveiled some time next spring.
A. L. SEAY, Of Port Gibson, has invented
self propelling buggy that can run twenty miles
an hour and ascend hill rising seventeen feet to
| the 100. 1t can be operated easily as sewing
| machine, aud will cost no more than horse and
| buggy.
JOHN PHILLIPS, who died recently on his
ranch in Wyoming territory was known as
Portuguese Phillips" He was famous Indian
| rat IN mi tba ~
| the massacre of Capt Fettorman and his soldiep
at the old Fort Phil Kearney, in 1896
AMONG tho names drawn in Westchester
county, New York, to serve on the petit jury in
White Plains on the tenth instant is that OF jay
Gould. Justice Pratt presdes ut this term and 1t
is understood that he will require Mr.. Gouds at
tendance unless he can show good cause why he
| should be excused.
LORD CoCKBURN was seated ono day on
the hillside of Bonally with Scotch shepherd
AM observing the sheep rcposing in the coolest
situation, he Observed to him. John, IL were u
| sheep would lie OH the other side of the hill"
The shepherd answered. "Ay, my lord, but ii ye
had been sheep ye wad have had mair sense"
THE Yokohama papers give gloomy ac-
counts of the outlook for the agricultural classes
in Japan. The land tax must be paid soon, and
the small farmers find that, while the tax is not
lessened the price of rice has fallen one-half.
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market which adds TO his misery; and, taken
altogether, the lot of the Japanese is not happy
one.
In point of population Nebraska now ranks
as the thirteth state of the union. Her gain in
population from 1870 to 1880 was 7.S3 per cent.
Colorado ranks thlrty.lfth and her gain during
the same period was 3s7.5 per cent, larger than
any other state. Kansas ranks twentieth, aud her
increase from 1870 to 1880 was 1885 per cent.
laoh oil thar IL,
ofpopulation.
| EUGENE FIELD, the western poet, para-
graph writer, and humorist, is medium. sized
man, with smooth face, blue eyes, and yellow
hair. He is about 80 years old is married, and
has four children. In Kansas City he used to put
a big sign, smallpox" on his editorial sanctum
door to keep out inquistiye visitors. and in hot
weather would sit at his desk-a broken-legged
table-arrayed in rather less clothing than social
canons demand.
EDMOND ARoUT, in his address at the un-
yelling of Doros statue of Alexander Dumas the
elder, described him as "a great madman who, in
his deafeniDg gaycty, possessed more real wit and
wisdom than all of us put together;" ian irregu-
larity who refuted rules; man of pleasure who
could set an example TO all men Of labor; a lover
of amorous, political, and military adventures
who oushines alone more than three monasteries
of Benedictines"
| lHEhE Is u Icuple III NunlOn Culleu lnO
, Temple of the Five Genii." Long, long ago. five
genii came riding on five rams through the air.
They stopped where Canton now stands and
casually remarked: "May famine never strike this
valley" or words TO that effect. Then they few
OFF, leaving the rams behind, which were imme-
diately turned into stone A temple was built on
the spot and the five stone are there in that
, temple to this day.
Miss josie MANSFIELD, who is notorious
N,aI..,
is said to be living in France. A correspondent
while walking recently through the gardens of
st. Cloud, saw her leaning on the of her last
, husband, portly man, who looked like q RUS
sian. Josie" the writer adds, was elegantly
and mostly richly dressed, but in plain black and
I lace She had grown thinner, had lost the flesh
that for while made her look gross and sensual,
Q and was radIantly beautiful. Her husband Is
enormously wealthy, am told, and is devoted to
her."
OUT of 4,702 foreign mercantile establish
mens In the treaty ports of China about $500 are
British. The foreign commerce the treaty ports
reaches yearly value of S235.000,000, of which
Sl7O,00O0OO is British trade. These figures give an
, idea OF the vast stake England has in the MAIN
tenance of uninterrupted communication threat
eued by the quarrel between France and China.
= But they also show what an opening there is for
American trade when the policy Of this country
shall no longer prevent its citizens from entering
into unhampered competition with England in
maritime adventure.
THE completion few weeks ago of the
boring of the Arlbergtunnel gives interest to a few
; statistics of the three great Alpine undertakings
of this kind now in existence. In length the Arl-
berg is 0270 meters the Mont Cents is 1888
ters, and the st. Gotaard Is 1i90O meters For time
necessity to make the excavations the figures are
the reverse of what the figures for length would
indicate them to be. The excavation of the Mont
Censis required fourteen and one.half years; that
Of the St. Gothard required about eight years, but
5 that of the Arlberg when the vaulting, the road
bed and the rails completed and in their
places, will require no more than four years.
On the Etowah river, above Cartersville,
II Ca, is vein OF gold which for extent and rich
: ness is eNceled by few, If any, mines in the
h United States. The vein is double One vein is
rt $50 feet wide, every inch Of which shows gold
IT Some OF this assays SIG per ton. The same com
1t pany own over 500 feet of another ven varying In
e thickness from TO 21 feet. This vein extends
Is three miles through the company's property, and
yields from $40 to $40 per ton. The Etowah river
N cuts these veins and It will yield power sum.
cient to run 1000 stamps. About 800 stamps are
now running, and quantity of machinery is on
the ground ready to put up and start This mine
can be worked at 81 per ton The company own
y lug and working 1t is known US the Franklin and
Mcdonald company.