National Republican., 1883-12-03

$500 now remain.
BosToN women to the number of ZOO have
registered vote ior members of the school board;
last year the number was 200
ONE Of tho notable bridges of the world
crosses an arm Of the China sea at sangang 1t
five miles long and has 800 arches.
ABRAHAM PRATT has just driven In
wagon from Herklmer county, New York, TO
Soorehead, in Dakota 1t is 1880 miles.
THE first railway in Spain was laid in 1sis
IL was but fifteen and half miles long. The sys.
tenn has not grown very rapidly, however and
only now covers 6,0O0 miles
NORTH CAROLINA will levy no state tax
next year. The Western North Carolina Railroad
company will pay into the treasury S60O, 900 which
sum will carry the state government.
IT is reported that William H. Vanderbilt
has given his son, william X. an allowance of
100000 year, and that the young man con-
Rdcrs himself poverty stricken in consequence.
SOME people in Iowa have named their
town Bancroft in honor of Mr.. George Bancroft.
and the historian has sent his namesake chris
tenng present of 81 900 worth of books US nest
egg for town library.
MICHIGAN by % curious provision of her
state constitution forbids not only the employ
mont on salary of a regular chaplain of either
house. but prohibits praying or any form Of relig
| Gus services in either house.
MR.. SHARON, the ex-senator, who is wrest-
ling with conjugal infeliclties In San Francisco,
| said recently: "It husut been long since owed
S9OOO,OOO. have reduced that now to
trihe. only owe about SS,00O,000. He is worth
| over Sl0,0OO,0OO
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD, much to his sur
| prise, found two full-blooded Indians attending
| Dartmouth college. He didn't suppose Indians
ever reached suoh state of intellectual training.
He was introduced to one of them, who, physi-
oally, quite overtopped the distinguished for
cigner.
"Do YOU preach without II otes /" casually
asked u new minister from the east of an old
preacher in all Arkansas conference. Preach
| without notes2" echoed the brother. ~ should
say did. Way, my dear brother, in the Lords
name Ivo scarcely seen greenback In six
months"
Two charitable Boston women tried on u
small scale octavia Hill's London experiment of
| furnishing healthy tenement houses TO the poor.
| They hired house four years ago. had the hall
| ways scrubbed twice week. insisted on their
tenants keeping their rooms clean, put their rents
| low, and yet have been able TO keep their build
| ing in repair and lay up little money for emer-
sencics
AN English paper says of Roger A. Pryor,
| who is one of the counsel of oDonnell: "His one
| wonder about his brethren of the English bar Ia
characteristic. He cannot understand how it is
| that they are all such wrctched eoculionists. An
| American is good oocutionist by nature. An
| English lawyer seems sudiously to avoid what
| evs of good elolution Englishmen in general
have acquired by art"
A LADY, 30 years old, living in Marion
| county, Iowa, has Il numerous and long lived line
| of descendants. She has Il daughter 10 years of
age, granddaughter so years old a great grand
| daughter 20 years old, and Il great great grand
| daughter IL years old. The old lady has six chill
| dren, forty-four grandchildren, one hundred and
fifty-three great grandchildren, and twelve great
great grandchildren, making in all u total pos
terity of2l5.
MARSHAL GRAMMoNT tells story Of three
soldiers, who having committed ofenses punish
able with death, il was ordered that one of them
| be hanged an example to the rest, and the
question aro.e who should do the frightful exam
pie business. So the three were directed to throw
dice TO decide. The first threw Ia, the second IL,
and the last, taking up the box, threw lS! There
upon he exclaimed with an expression Of vexa-
ton: "Ah nowl if had been playing Tor money
would not have been so luckyg'
THE other day rather green looking
| young fellow went Into a dry goods store In Ban
gor, according to the Commercial, and walked up
to one of the lady clerks aud the following con-
versaton occurred ~ want to get four yards of
wide ribbon for a girl" "All right, sir. What
color do you want2" 81 don't know. l. just want
four yards of ribbon, that's ALL" eyes, but WEI
had ought to give her some color that viii suit
her. Is she a blonde or bruuette?" "She amt
neither; she's hired girl"
THE statement is made in Engineering that
in recent trials of the speed OF working ON the
Jay Godld cables laid across the Atlantic fiom
Penzance to Canso in Nova Scotia, 1000 code
words were sent from Penzance and received at
| tbn nan oh
ing all repetitions and corrections The thou
sand words consisted of 1925 letters. which is
about equivalent to 1,45S words Of five letters
each the average number for the English Wan'
gu age or eighteen words per minute
THE first indication of the death of Japa-
uese is by the turning bottom up of all movable
things in the house, and by the turning inside out
of all his clothes. priest arrives on tho scene
and prays, while friends of the deceased attend TO
the details OF grave digging coffin &c. while one
friend in robes of ceremony stands at tho door TO
, | receive visits of coincidence from all comers,
When the corpse Is washed II 10 clad in white
/ shroud, and placed In sitting posture in one o
the peculiar collins of the country on which Is
painted his free pass to heaven.
WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs looks thinner and moro
; nervous than ever. Since Alexander Stephens'i
death he Is the smallest man In high station He
| makes Sl0O,cG0 a year at his law practice, and
0 father of thirteen children, and eleven Of thea
: are living The two smartest are tho twins sher.
man and Prescott who graduated two years agu
at HARVARD and Yale respectively. Sherman Il
studying law with his father and Prescott is work
a ing hard TO become Episoopaian clergyman
0 and yet Sherman is the more demure, and Prescott
o was great athlete In college. Two or three o
1 the young ladies are married.
SIR JOSEPH BANKS, tho celebrated natural
{ ist. once had caRk OF wine which on tasting wa
found too sweet. 1t was therefore locked up in
cellar to ripen. There itremained for three years
probably during tho time he was with Capt. Cool
in his voyage around the world. Az the end o.
that period no directed his butler to ascertain h
state of the wine but the wine cellar could not b'
a opened on account of some powerful obstacle
"a within The door was cut down, when the cellar
; was found to be completely filled with fungu
ii so dense aud firm as to require AK for its
: moval. II was then discovered that the fungu
had consumed every drop of wine and raised tn,
empty cask to the ceiling,
THE rubber industry Of the United State
IL has no rival in foreign countries There Is some
- thing like S75, ,O0OOCJ invested in the business G
:, manufacturing rubber goods 0,0OO GOO of whlo
"a is confined to tho rubber boot and shoe industry
- The total number OF employees is placed at 15 00
- and the total number of factories at 100. Accord
ing 20 recent bulletin the value of the al
on. IN nnn nm on