National Republican., 1883-06-21


ARCHBISHOP JAMES FREDERICK WooD Of
the Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia is at the
point Of death.
J. l.. CoBBIN of Cape Town, South Africa,
a reporter Of twenty-five years experience can
report In shorthand accurately In FIVE different
languages-Latin, French Spanish, Italian, and
English.
Mrs. MARK HOPKINS has had a $4,000
barn completed on her place in Great Burlington,
Mass. There are nickel plated brass trimmings,
such as hinges, on box.stal, costing $50 and the
like. Very few human beings in the town livein
so good a building.
AMONG the passengers lately arriving at
Seattle, Washington territory. the steamer
from San Francisco, was Mrs. John Little, direct
from Chelsea, Mass. She came TO join her hus.
band, who went out to California in 1s49 and
who has not seen his wife for thirty four years.
AN aged African in Kansas, Pap Singleton;
the father Of the exodus, has issued a proclama-
tion to his followers, in which he tells them that
all the manhood they were ever allowed to pos
sess was given to them by the republican party,
and cautions them against fellowship with the
democracy.
IT was the habit of Poughkeepsie family
to put their silverware in basket at night and
take 1t up stairs for safe keeping, This had been
done every night for five years, but night last
week tho basket was forgotten and that night
burglars entered the house and carried it Off with
its contents.
KEELY has at last disclosed the secret of
his motor. He says: Molecular disntegrationis
the primary generator Of vibratory phenomena.
Propulsory forces emanating from analytical
action upon compound fluid and vapor founda-
tion evolve ethereal matter distinctive from oxy
bydr atad nd nil
poneuts." This makes it perfectly clear at last.
MRS MAcKEY serves notice that her
daughter is not engaged to Prince BPhilippe do
Bourbon, and says: ~ mean to give my daughter
TO an honest man." not to any one of the titled
fellows "who are generally ruined and think it
a condescension to marry into an untitled family"
Moreover, sin accordance with American custom,
my daughter will receive not penny Of dowry
on her marriage"
YOUNG lawyers have discovered q novel
plan for dispensing with the service of office boys
When they obliged to leave their offices they
call messenger boy who waits until they return.
One Of the items which the young lawyers father
has heretofore been obliged to meet has been the
salary of the office boy. The reduction of this
item will perhaps cause many fathers TO choose
the law for their hopefuls.
Mr.. RAMSEY, of Gilman, now has stomach
fully equipped for masticating such articles of
food as are notproperly prepared for swallowing in
the regulation manner. On the night OF the fifth
instant, while asleep, he swallowed an upper set
of false teeth, being long, narrow plate, about
three fourths Of an inch wide and one and a half
inches long. After discovering 1t he made frantic
efforts to stop the downward progress Of the teeth,
but without avail.
The spelling match has broke out again in
Syracuse, N. Y, with the usual disastrous results.
student in the Syracuse university spelled
dough" "d-o-w;" a clergyman got left ON
" baptizable" Prof. Kinne. principal of the Madi-
son school, spelled twelfth" as If It were
"twelvth," and Prof Griffin, teacher of Latin,
Greek, and German in the high school, got stuck
on "omniverous." "Myrrh" was spelled
".m-i.r-r.h" by young lady, who said she in.
tended to spell it with "u."
"IT the various countries maintain their
present rate Of increase" says Mr. Gosselin secre-
tary of embassy at Berlin, fifty years hence the
United States will have population of 9OOOO,OOO
Russia approximately, l53000,0OO; Germany, s3,-
000, 600; the United Kingdom, So 900 900; Austria
Hungary and Italy. both 100000; France, only
4O,0O0o00. Germany has already In round num-
bers 100000 more inhabitants than France; but in
this reckoning Algeria is not taken into account"
For war purposes, however, 1t is observed that tho
balance is not SO heavy against France, for
every thousand females, in France there are 99l
Germany has, therefore, only $780, 900 more than
France
"I ONCE conferred" says Labouchere in
Truth, "a vast number of decorations on an in
dividual-that Is to say, told him how to get
them. He was an Italian-rlch, noble, and a
fool. He conhded to me that life was burden
because he had no decorations I said to him:
Pay some one to write book upon the an
tlquites of your province, pay some one else to
illustrate it, publish it in folio, and send copy.
beautifully bound, TO every crowned head in
Europe. Two thirds Of them will repay You with
a decoration Two years later l saw him again.
He was covered with pieces of metal attached 10
variegated ribbons. He pressed my hand; tears
of gratitude glistened in his eyes. He had fol-
lowed my advice"
JUSTICE RIMAN, an Erie county magistrate
and an ex-member Of the state Legislature, has
been lying at deaths door since Sunday. Several
clergymen prayed at his bedside, but the AFFLICTED
gentleman sank lower and lower every hour, until
old Dan Rice, the great Snowman. clown. and
temperance lecturer, knelt by the dying mans
bedside and invoked the Almighty to turn aside
the dart of death. The family wept while the
supplication was being pronounced in faltering
voice. minister present pronounced the aged
clowns prayer the most pathetic he ever heard.
Opening his eyes, the dying man said family:
shall liye,' and fell into refreshing slumber.
He improved steadily, and his physician expresses
no solicitude as to the speedy recovery of his
patient.
DIR. FELIX OSWALD says that consumption
is more easily cured than any other chronic dis
ease. The population living at an elevation Of
1000 feet above the sea level have been shown to
be quite free from consumption. What the doctor
calls indigestion Of respiration" is bred by hu-
mid climates and stagnant air. He believes in the
theory of the German DR.. Koch that parasites are
phase of the disease but maintains thatI their
appearance does not amount 10 a death sentence.
" Cease TO feed the lungs with azotic cases." he
says "aud DR.. Kochs anmalcula will starye and
disappear" He claims that all except the last
stages OF consumption can be subdued by outdoor
exercise He condemns the night air supersu-
tons and recommends mountain excursions, I
even to the extent of three months tour under
the disadvantages of insufficient clothing and pro.
tracted fasts, certain 10 effect cure in a ma
jorty of cases. nc points out malnutrition Of the
lungs as one ofthe primary causes ofconsumpdon,
and suggests fatty substances and sweet cream as
the best lung food. A vocal effort, he says, does
moi injure the respiratory organs on the contrary
II strengthens them, and he thinks that oonsump.
tlyes should envy cattle drivers, whose business
! gives them plausible pretext for yelling" Too
many clothes he considers harmful, whereby the
| perspiration Is forced back upon the body, aud
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