National Republican., 1883-12-31

| LONDON has 100000 houses aud nearly
100000 inhabitants, about seven people TO each
house.
The quantity sent from anthracite mines
thus far this year has been 3O030S1 tons, against
,6O2 tons to date last year.
THE friends Of Capt Forticr, who was re-
Gently killed In the political riot in New orleans,
will raise fund large enough to provide for his
family. Two gentlemen have subscribed 1000
each.
QUITE number of Whittier's early poems
are now lost, and the poet has no trace of them.
Among those tha. are missing are Isabella OF s.
Austria" written when he was 20; "Pao Alto"
Bolivar" and poem on Henry Clay.
THE wards of n rerident of Jefferson county,
Ca, recently sued him in the court for m'hey
belonging TO them which he invested In confeder-
ate bonds during the rebellion, and the Jury found
for the wards to the value of the bonds at the time
| the investment was made.
JOHN l.. MCMILLAN, who is making q
typesetting machine in 1lion, NJ v, with which
he expects 10 set 5000 hour says that $780,
600 was spent on the Alden type.setting and dis
tributing machine before 1t was given up as i'm
practicable, and that 81 900 900 was wasted on the
Page machine, which patent subsequently sold for
$4,000
OsMAN BAILEY, who was born on Edisto
island, 8. c., owned plantation and slaves there
| uHtl tuo huI lupONcIiSutu ulul, lueu nb uHuleQ
lumber for a time, and at length he became a
streetcar driver. He sticks to his car, notwith-
standing his wife's uncle Thomas Whitridge, of
Baltimore, died the other day leaving her largo
share of s3,00O00O
Or the six largest sugar producing coun-
tries of Europe, Germany this year carries off tho
PALM with 100000 tons, or 80 per cent of the whole
Next come Austria with 100000 tons, France with
425 900, Russia with 100000, Belgium with 5000,
and Holland with 25,00O Germany has not only
the greatest number of roneres, 357 out of 1904,
hut the largest also.
ACCORDING to DR.. Sach, of Buenos Ayres,
there is no danger of an exhaustion of the Quinine
supply. The experimental plantations in Java
and the island of Reunion have been very sue
cessful and, besides these nurseries, the trees
have been cultivated in Bolivia by the million for
ten years. At three places in the last named
country, taken as they come, the number Of trees
growing is given, seyerally, ut 10000 100000, aud
3500,000.
SOMEBODY has been digging up a lot of old
deposons in Kentucky clerks Office. and taking
notes of the bud spelling oil some OF the great
of the past. A deposition in the handwriting Of
Andrew Jackson contains such spelling as "refer.
ence. "deponant," "untill," "ballance," "vaIue,r
and difficult" Old Hickory's use of capitals waa
also quite remarkable. Such words as "Dollar''
, and Money" he capitalized, while he wrote an
appellation of the Great Jehovah thus: almighty
god"
The following named persons connected
with the stage as actors writer's, &C. have died in
the year that now closes: Fotow, Wagner, Mario, @.
r. Thorne, jr., Mrs. Judah, Walter Grisdale. G. Ii.
i Rockwell, Arthur Matthison, Mrs. Abbey (wife of
Henry L. Abbey, Henry s. Leigh, Mary Carr.
. Charles Backus, Tom Thumb, Charles waverley,
Dutton Cook, ]. B. Booth, John Payne Collier,
Marie wilkins II. b. Norman, Mrs. ]. ]. Prior,
: William Scalan. Mrs. G. G. Boniface, Welsh Ed
wards, and Charles P. De Groot
al WAS yesterday asking well-informed
| friend of mine where the slaves of the soudan
were taken." says Labouchere, In London Truth.
" He tells me that few sent the desert to
Tripoll and Tuns but that the far greater number
, ale taken down to the coast put on board o dbow
which is lying ready, and shipped across In the
Q night TO Arabia Thence they are conveyed 10 all
1 parts of the Turkish empire. The Turks there
> FORE usual in eastern Europe wherever there is
abuse, are at the bottom of this bad business"
!. The late Dean Stanley is said to have
. rarely made a gesture while preaching, q fact
. which probably gave rise to the following anus
l. ing anecdotes One day, after morning service, he
asked his wife If she had noticed the intensity
: with which the congregation had gazed upon him
:, during the sermon. "How could they help 1t, my
s dear" said Lady Augusta, "when one Of your
gloves was OH the top of your head the whole
y timer" The dean, having taken off his hat be-
l. fore entering the pulpit the glove lying therein
q had fallen on his head, and as he stood quite
J, still while preaching. there 1t remained.
7 CAPT. JOHN GOODMAN goes into ecstacies
Ia over the future of California. In a letter to the
New York Epening Post he expresses the belief
that the of wheat in that state is coming to
end, and he says: "In the near future we can see
in Its stead land of fruit trees and vines q new
France in our republic, greater than France q re-
n public by herself There Is scarcely any difference
1T in acreage California has $4,000 square miles,
r. and France has less than 100000 In climate and
"A | soil California is superior. II could support
n 300O0,000 Frenchmen, If we had them here. with
IL their economical habits rs well as 1t now sup
p ports 100000 extravagant, sofdsdnt Americana
nv Levy David Cert, Familiarity known as
40 Pere David who for forty years was the head or
er the cloque the Paris opera, had just died He
* was born on the day of Marie Antonettes execu-
al ton Q793 was present at the battle of Lutzen,
s- Bautzen, and Lepsio, was St. Helena medslllst
rs and retired from the opera the accession ofthe
O present manager. His operations are described
90 by the Figaro; "seated in the front row Of the
pt having part of his forces around him, while
the others were placed in the second gallery, bI
directed from his seat by his stick, the Intensity
of and the duration of the applause. short, sharT
n rap on the floor meant that the claQue was to con
mt fine itself to moderate clapping Of hands. Blu
ny when he gave a rapid and prolonged movement
"a of rotation TO his stick his followers knew tina
lot they were to indulge in AN outbust ofenthusasn
Ir. recall the actor on the stage, and give him al
ID "ovaton."
i@ So THE Florentines have been holding high
40 festival in their city. All the boarding whicl
has covered the west front of the cathedral 70
years Is now down, and strangers and resident
M see the facade the last Of the last Of its lust
o GUS architects planned it, This completion of III
Wv duomo is the return which the king Of Italy ha
ose promised for grave losses which the Florentine
ND bore and for the bitter disappointment which tn
ose city pat-iotically endured. Twenty. three year
leu ago Victor Emmanuel entered Florence as kin
of Italy and five years afterward the city was de
creed TO be the capital Of of the new monarchy
,od The Florentines plunged into every kind OF Q,
pense so as to make their old city worthy of tn
gnu new court but the disappointment which Turi
he had TO endure in due time fell upon then
but In May, 1865, the king and court la
sel removed to Florence; in July, 1871, tht
/. city ceased to be the capital OF Ital
AS some compensation for this misfortune th
Florentines were promised that the chief buidin
erk of their city should longer remain incomple
ice aud unadorned. The inlaid marble was to cai
i'm the front of the brick bllt cathedral and
an, make it as beautiful US the wonders OF orvie