National Republican., 1883-10-31

JOHN SIMPSON caught buffalo fish Weigh
| ing seventy two pounds In the canal in Louis.
vile, Ky.
EscALAIs is q new Paris tenor with sur
passngly fine voice and great skill in using IT, but
ho is 30 short and fat that everybody laughs whom
he appears In an heroic role in grand opera
"Now, my little boys and girls" said a
teacher, II want you to be very stlso still that
| you can hear pin drop" In a minute all was
silent, when little boy shrieked out: "Let her
drop"
! In Warsaw ladies' school, which is under
the patronage of the empress, has been searched
by the police, and one Russian teacher and eight
pupils were arrested on the charge of having
helped to propagate Nihilist writings.
| DICK LUKE is the owner of whole coal
mine in Michigan, and yet he is not much of a
capitalist, for 1t is very small property He per-
sonally works the only tunnel, into which he
crawls in the morning, to get out an average Of a
ton of coal before night.
THREE Kentucky brothers wore married
on the same day two years ago, and they came
near to simultaneously getting divorces as tho
courts would permit, the three suits being inst-
tuted at one time, and the DEGREES being granted
within week OF each other.
THE New Albany woman who paid $3.50 to
gypsies to rid her OF witch neighbors deyiltry
is angry because the law officers have compelled
j q return of the money. She declares that tho
country is not free in which person can't spend
her money as she pleases.
A NUMBER of rich mon of different nation
atIes have been interested in the project OF build
| ing huge casino at Naples, adapted alike to the
requirements of summer and winter. The pro-
moters promise every conceivable form of amuse-
ment which money will procure and the law al
low, including for sedate patrons, the use OF O
library of 10000 volumes,
A GEORGIA paper prints this statement:
"H. W. Ward, of Two Run, has remarkable fam
lily. lie married Rachel Gaddis, in December,
1876 and raised eleven grown children. His fam
lily now numbers sixty-children. sons-in-law,
and grand children-and there has never been
death among them. Mr.. Ward was two years in
the war and two years in California"
PROF. HoLEMAN, of Philadelphia, has made
experiments in the effect of sound on the colors
and shapes of soap bubbles Being reflected on n
screen, they were at first q blush gray An in
tonation of the voice through q tube connected
with bubble first brought out number of black
spots on the reflection; and these were succeeded
by a bright green, mingled with pink. The same
tone always caused tho same formation, but had
no control over the color
NEW YORK society is now led by the Astor,
and the VanderDilts. These two rival houses are
the most exclusive In the great city. And yet It
will not be one hundred years until next month
since old John Jacob Asor came over here from
Germany and set up a small butcher shop in the
Bowery He afterward dealt in flutes and furs
Less than fifty years ago the head of the Wander
bilt family was keeping canal boatman's tavern
in New Brunswick, N. J. The house is there yet
looking just as 1t did when a sign dangled from
the door post reading: &c. Vanderbilt, pro-
prietor," i7.,,,
THE dean of Bangor, Eng, speaking the
| 9th a11 10 G,rth tha h.
lishment of courses of instruction In practical
cookery in the elementary schools, said that If ho
had his own way there would be much less tea
drinking among people Of all classes. Oatmeal
, and milk produced strong. hearty good-tempered
men and women, whereas excessive tea drinking
created generation Of nervous discontented
people, who were forever complaining of the ex-
isting order of the universe scolding their neigh
, bors and signing after the impossible In fact,
he suspected that overmuch tea drinking, by de-
stroying the camness of the nerves, was acting as
/ dangerous revolutionary force in England. Tea
drinking renewed three or four times day made
men and women feel weak, and the result was
that the tea kettle went before the gin bottle and
the physical and nervous weakness that had Its
origin in the bad cookery of all ignorant wife
ended in ruin. intemperance, and disease.
YOUNG mandarin att ached to the Chinese
embassy in Paris was one evening introduced
{ says the Figaro, to the beautiful Countess de
{ Ephusi. Thelady, being curious to know whether
1t was worth anyone's while to attempt little
Irritation with this son of the Celestial empire
asked him, among other things, what qualities
, his countrymen valued most In women. Her
a domestic virtues" was the reply. "Oh, indeed"
said the countess. in slightly contemptuous tone.
''Then they don't like your ladies to go into COM
pany and enjoy little gossip~ "No, madam; 6
Z Chinese husband has the right to get divorce
, from his wife If she is great talker." The
v charming French woman here thought she de-
. tected covert allusion to herself and sarcas-
o tcally inquired 81 suppose that would have
s been my fate in China% The Chinaman was
equal to the occasion and at once replied, bowing
low: "You may be sure that from the day Of your
arrival in China the law which infcts this mode
: of punishment on the loquacity of women would
: | be abolished"
a al HAVE never been able t o understand"
: says Labouchere in the London 7ruth "the rea-
y son why bouillons soup shops) as they are termed
in Paris, are not established in London and our
great provincial cities. Duval. who started them,
A made q large fortune He was butcher, and he
= determined to retail good meat, well cooked. He
y took several large rooms with plenty of light,
Q neatly decorated and In which there were u num-
~ ber of white marble tables person going in re-
- ceives a card, which the cost of the different
pLats, of wine, &C., is marked Girls dressed In
caps. aprons, and sleeves Of plain cotton, serve.
They are strong, clean, and do not aspire 10 the
10. Irritation nonsense OF Rlrl serV-
10 ing a customer, makes cross against the article
y served. The customer, on going out, hands his
u card to a woman at a counter who reckons up in
second the price of the breakfast, lunch, or din
ner. Duval's son inherited his fortune, and haV-
p ing spent it in mnisterlng to the wants of Miss
- Cora PEARL cut his throat"
10 THE story that Nine, Nilsson was going "a
l. marry an American journalists was evidently
started by some one unacquainted with that lady'
violent antpathy to newspaper men. This anti
pathy was aroused by the madame's experience In
y San Francisco last winter. Upon her arrival In
r. that city she interviewed by one OF tho loca
a. musical critics, who gave her long article or
music and composers and singers. In the course
of this interview, which was otherwise highly
satisfactory the madame was quoted as saying
~ that Italian compositions OF the present day wer'
~ inferior to those of the past When Nilsson reac
this part of the interview she few into violen
III passion and vehemently declared she had neve
dreamed of making any such reflection upon he
~ friend Verdi. She sent for the gentleman who haC
- Internationally misquoted her and after abusing
n him in round TERMS after the manner Of irat
d females, bade him begone and never come int
ui her presence again. Then she solemnly and EN-
phatically vowed that she would never have an