National Republican., 1883-10-23
THE key noto-"wife let me ino-E1ectric

what long-felt wants
Mr. WINDOW, the ex-secretary, is expected
to reach home from Europe next week
Mr.. HARTE, u son of Bret Harte, is playing
with Boucicaut in San Francisco theat,r.
THE trades unions of England have a
membership of 6O0,O0j; those of the United states
2l7,OOO.
A GRAVE error-putting tombstone over
the last resting place of the wrong person. YelloO
Jacket.
THE poem read by Tennyson to his royal
audience on board the Pembroke Castle was "Tho
Grandmother"
CHARLEsTowN has shoemaker named
Gum. He should be able to make some good
chews-Somerutie JOuraai
ENGINES are mighty powerful things, but
when 1t comes to pinch the best Of them have 10
take water.-B -Bredktda Tube
A KENTUCKY girl refused an offer of mar
riage on the ground that her father couldn't sup
port any larger famiy-Rome Sentinel.
BISMARCK imports his fragrant Havanas
from Connecticut. lie is wholly unconscious that
they raise cabbages in the nutmeg state.-Cam-
bridge (Mdss) Tribune.
ABOUT tho meanest thing q girl can do,
transpirod in town the other day. She used
postal card in refusing an offer of marriage She
didn't care three cents for him. JVdrsatO (Iad.)
Wasp.
EDWARD ScHEIFFLIN, the prospector has
returned TO San Francisco from Alaska, having
failed to find gold diggings on the Yukon Shelf
lin is the man who founded Tombstone, in
Arizona.
IT rather dsgusted Vermont man who
went TO ncighbors barn 10 steal COW to find
when he got the animal home that IL was his
own COW, which his neiehbor had stolen earlier
| In the night. He says the neighbor is con
| founded thiel.
AMONG the reasons urged by a Peoria, ILL.,,
woman for divorce are: Drunkenness. swear
ing, obscenty arson filthy habits incompat-
bility, inidelity, brutality, lazlness bigamy and
| non-support. She married him to spite her father
| for boxing her ears.
WHEN Dame Fortune wants a man she
| calls for him." And very often she finds him not
| at home. Nine times out Of ten he is down at the
grocery store sitting soap box and telling
what cyclone his grandfather was to cradle
wheat.-MiddietolUn Transcript
A LAFAYETTE lady-a model wife and
mother-broke her husband of the saloon habit
by walking up to the bar beside him and calling
for the beer. She broke the awful silence as
they walked home, with the remark: "I love
you, my husband, and if you are going to hell.
I'm going right along with you.-Courier.
hbhAh youiiE ittuy NibiJcu VIC
phia geological garden, aud when she returned
home she told her mother that one of the MONKEYS
spoke to her. girl who can't distinguish dude
from monkey should be given few lessons In
| natural history. The monkey is the most inteli-
| gent looking, but doesn't wear such ridiculous
clothes.
AN ingenious English manufacturer has,
| by simple and workable invention of n coiled
| spring. succeeded in dispensing with the need of
mn onhi l,t, ho,, T,,t
| Of a handle winds up sufficient power TO keep
machine going at full speed for over an hour. 1t
| is completely under control as to the rate OF
stitching and stopping, aud can be applied TO any
existing machine at moderate cost.
A RECENT wedding in Michigan caused
| considerable excitement. The names of the par
ties were Hantz, and the bridegroom was 10 years
| old and the bride widow, "fair, fat and forty"
| 1t appears that the young man was keeping COM
pany with his cousin, blooming girl, and that
she was all ready to get married, when they had O.
rfare up" and for spite the boy caught on to the
| widow, who is his aunt by marriage and welded
her. The parting words of the matured bride to
| the disappointed girl were: "Never mind, you are
young and will have lots of ellows."-Anecdoies
Of WdoiUS.
THE newest story from the mines in New
Mexico is from Socorro, where they tell of a
| miner whose Bible fell over a precipice while be
| was doing He descended into tho canon to re-
cover the book. and found it lying open on piece
of rich quartz that had been disodged by the fall
His eye fell on the seventh chapter of St. Matthew
The miner read, "Ask, and 1t shall be given unto.
you; seek, and you shall find" He searched and
peedly found lode over two feet in width that
assays-so the story goes-S225 u ton The story
teller adds that that part of the country has sincs
been oyerrun by prospectors with Bibles in their
hands
LAST year $4,000 persans were arrested in
Paris, and only G,0OO women were included in this
sum total The list of professions aud occupations
| Is very miscellaneous Among the arrested wero
5000 locksmths. and the ponce had to take charge
of 66O cabmen. The night men form heavy item
In this bill, l,1OO of them having been under ar
rest in 1882 The figure 20 speaks we'll for the gem
eral good conduct of the various officials employed
in the postollice. In the higher walks of life 81
stockholders and "a men of letters this term IN
cluding journaliss) are noted as having been in
trouble. In the total number of prisoners charged
with crime or misdemeanor there were 8,29l for.
eigners To this figure Belgium contributed 959
italy 750, Germany $40, Switzerland 1916, England
1876. The contingent from the little state of Lux
emburg reached the high figure of 27G.
THE great bulk of the horse hair used In
the United States is imported from the Argentine
Republic and Uruguay The hair sells in Buenos
Ayres and Montevideo at from % to 80 cents per
pound, and is packed in bales weighing about
1000 pounds, and costing from $3.50 TO $500 each,
The total amount imported in 1889 was 4,OS2, 600
pounds, of which 3,4l7OOO pounds came from
South America, 10000 pounds from Mexico, and
100000 pounds from Russia. In the previous year
the importation was S,6i3972 pounds, and in 1880
nearly 100000 pounds; but in 1870 II was not
quite 100000 pounds Assuming an average
price of2s cents per pound, the amount imported
last year would reach total value Of about ST.
10000 The bulk Of this horse hair is manufao
turcd by four or five concerns, one Of which is in
Boston, one In New York, one in Philadelphia,
and one in Baltimore,
How many years, asks the English journal,
Land, must elapse before the entire surface of
Great Britain saall be covered with houses2 Forty
years ago we built 10000 houses per annum in
Great Britain: now we build more than $4,000.
During the last forty years we have erected two
and a quarter millions of houses, which are "e,t-
, mated to be worth double the amount of the ma
tlonal debt" Itwoud be interesting to inquire
how many of these dwellings will be in existence
or in habitable condition at the end Of another
forty years? The great bulk of the new houses
built in England are in the suburbs OF London,
although as the metropolis Is at present more ex-
tensvely oyerbuilt than II has been for several
! years, the number will no doubt be considerably
reduced during the next year or two. London
houses 1t is notorious, are, taken all round, the