National Republican., 1883-11-21


lection in tho world belongs to a son of the
Duchess of Galliera. Though as yet incomplete
the stamps contained in 1t have cost 100000.
MISS EVA MAoKEY, the daughter of Boz
nanza Mackey, has the choice of marrying an
Enlish nobleman or entering convent. As she
is very sensible girl 1t is thought she will choose
the convent.
EIGHTEEN years ago M. Grevy had tho
largest chamber practice possessed by any lawyer
In France. From the time of the coup d etat he
had been steadily earning, 1t is said, from $4,000
to 100000 year.
EX-Gov. CoBURN, of Maine, recently sold
ssUO00O worth of western land in u single lot, and
it is said that 1t was the largest sale of country
property ever made in the United states by
single individual.
On the bill of fare in New York italian
restaurants coffee is cent per cup steaks, chops,
ana stews. cents pastry cents beer 2 cents;
whisky and brandy, 8 cents. These places arc
thronged daily by persons Of all nationalities.
Miss CORA A. BENNIsoN, a most worthy
lady and an able lawyer, of Quincy, ILL.,, in COM
pany with Miss White, eastern artist, are doing
the tour of tue world without male escort The
plucky ladies were last heard from at Yokohama.
HEMLocK bark is used to doctor bad beer
and make 1t of tho color and taste of good ar
ticle. 1t is neither poisonous nor nourishing but
Is pungent and bitter, makes the beer dark red,
and helps out amazingly small allowances OF hops
and malt.
JUDGE w. r. RANKIN, one of the ablest of
Ohio lawyers, and an esteemed citizen of Colum
bus, has four sons, Fitch, Will, Rit and Carl"
He marked out great careers in law and literature
| for the boys-they are now on the road min
strels, every one of them
NEAR Kingwood, Preston county, West
| Virginia, recently, men working on a road un-
earthed human skull which measured forty
inches in circumference around the forehead. No
| other bones could be found in its vincinity The
skeleton to which the skull belongs is supposed
| to have been fourteen feet high,
IRA HAMBLIN, hailing from Texas, visited
his uncle, John NJ. Hamblin, in Logan county,
| borrowed horse to carry him on a visit to an
other uncle In the neighborhood, rode the horse
to Russellville, sold 1t for $780, and disappeared.
| Now the deluded kinsman and the purchaser of
the horse have gone to law for the possession of
| the animal.
A WIFE not liking the publicity of obtain
| ing divorce soaked the kindlng wood in water
the night before, and then placed a can of kero-
sene near the stove. In the morning the husband
attempted to build the fire. and his widow, it is
reported. was married within six months after the
sad tragedy occurred, This is the story they tell,
but it is probable untrue, as no one ever heard of
married man getting up to build the fire.
ENGINEERS at Mayence have found the re-
mains OF the bridge that Charlemagne built over
| the Rhine near the close of the eighth century,
| and have already removed more than fifty of the
| piles from fifteen to eighteen feet long, on which
1t rested. The timber is so well preserved that it
is still nt for building purposes while the iron that
was rveted to the piles has only thin coat of rust
| 10 show the lapse of more than thousand years.
MARSHAL SERRANo says, in the most posi-
tiua hat fhnr Inc
Spanish party entertains the slightest idea of an
alliance with Germany. and that though the
government Is very cold toward the German
| crown prince It WILL as duty go through tho
form of official reception This utterance is
thoroughly Spanish, and shows that characteristic
inertness that has for so long rendered Spain q
nullity.
RICHARD COUSINS, 100 years old, voted for
Hoadly for governor of Ohio at the recent cleo
ton. Cousins cast his first vote for Thomas JEFF
ierson in 1904, and from that year to this fall has
not failed TO attend any general election and has
voted for an nnbroken period Of seventy nine
years an unscratched democratic ticket. His first
vote for governor was in 1S05 for DR.. Edward
Tifin, of Chillicothe and Octs 0 he walked one
and one-half miles to cast his vote for Judge
Hoadly.
THEY say in Boston that du-iug the recent
campaign some Of Buffers friends asked the Hon.
| bcopOiu IhoIoe w luuu.
| "Oh, yes. Will give you something said Har-
wards congressional representatives and the
| hearts of the Butler men were glad. 81 viii make
| the amount" he continued, precisely the same
| that Gen. Butler has ever given to help elect me
to any Office" and the Butler men stole away,
filed with chop fallen sadness that pen cannot
| describe.
AN Albany school girl, aged 16, recently
| excited the envy of her classmates by displaying
| she was to wed the giyer four years hence. OF
course, such romance was too delightful to con-
ceal and the profound secret with which the girls
were entrusted soon reached the ears of their
teacher, who Informed the engaged one that
select private school was place for her and that
| she must go. Thereupon, to the CONSERVATION of
| everybody, the girl said that she would give up
her ring and her lover and stick to her books
The beautiful "crackle glassware" at
present SO popular, and which offers SO wide
scope for elaboration of design and ornamental
tion, has frequently been a source of wonderment
as to the manner of its production. A French in
ventor covers the surfnce of sheet of glass with
paste made of some coarse grained fiux or easily
fused glass. This he muffles and subjects to
higher temperature. When the coating is fused,
the sheet is withdrawn and rapidly cooled. The
superficial glass thereupon separates itself and
leaves the irregular surface. BY protecting some
with the tlux, designs may be left in smooth glass.
The GaulOis says that the leading Londo
mashers are the Dukes of Marlborough, Portland,
and Hamilton, Lords Dupplin, Fife, and Castle
reagh, Lords William Neville and Lennox, Sirs
Gordon Cumming and Charles Forbes, and Le
Beau Duncombe" whoever he is. At the Gayety
theater the masher shows In perfection. He never
laughs or puts OIL an air Of weariness. One smile
and he is lost. He rises at midday and breakfasts
on sardine and glass of curacao; drives to Hyde
park in buggy, with high stepping horse until
Q; then lunches then Tattersalls; at again In
the park on horseback; takes lemon squash (;
dresses and dimes at s. eating little, but taking
good deal Of "the bay" (masher name for cham
dagne); then the Gayety; then the ball, where no
never dances, but sits In corner with his mashee
sups at 8 must never be seen on foot
Col. THOMAS FRENCH, o resident of Atki.
son, Me-. claims to have been one of the gallant
?. 900 in the charge at Balaklaya. Though the
colonel is now proud of having served in her Bri
tannic majesty's army he was not anxious to join
1t during the war, and gives the following inter-
esting account of how he enlisted: "While l lived
in Burleigh fell in with two recruiting officers
who were hunting for just such fellow as l..
You've heard of the taking of the queens shilling.
When fellow accepts this coin from recruiting
officer it's token of his enlistment, and ho can
not back out. The fellow that finally hooked me