National Republican., 1883-09-11

90, hckle Winds aud tell her.
Tho Judge.
THE oil search has developed into a regular
bore In West Virginia
ARTISTS have suspended cork drawing ct
the sea shore and gone home
DURING the season just ended Montgomery,
Ala, received 1886 bales Of cotton.
THE green fruit season has no terrors for
the country editor. He's got patent insides.
FULLY one-half of the visitors to StratfosN-
on-Avon are said 10 be from the United States
The largest peach farms are in Maryland
On one estate there are 125,OU0 trees, on another
10000.
NEW YORK eats S5OOOOOO worth of oysters
a year, Philadelphia sS5Oo,O0O, and Boston ST.
10000.
OVER six hundred emigrants from the
southeastern states arrived at Little Rock, Ark,
last week.
JUST as we go to press we learn that theb
President has caught another fish about so 60 x
long.-Bismayck Tribune
CHARLES DUDLEY WARMER has discovered
that the French, Germans and the English are
better penmen than Americans.
ACCORDING to the Philadelphia Times, the
finest exposition the world has ever seen is now
In is said that Ira D. sankey, having dis
| solved partnership with the evangelist Moody, is
about to unite his singing with the exhorting OF
| Thomas Harrison, the boy preacher
PRESIDENT DARLING, of Hamilton college,
Is contined to his home. and most of the time to
his bed, by serious lung troubles and is altogether
unable to pursue his regular college work.
Tue Cincinnati Enquirer predicts major
| fly Of 10000 for Hoadly. We are going to mark
this down the wall In order to see what sort of
u thermometer our esteemed contemporary is.
The price of trade dollars has been grad
ually advancing since they were swept out of
circulation. The rise is due to the demand for
them that has come from London for the Chinese
| trade
| CLERKING is said to be oyordone in the
west us it undoubtedly is in the east; and many
clerks arc beginning to realize the fuc that it is
better to be a well.t.- do mechanic than genteel
pauper.
II is said that English sparrows are being
| palmed OF for reed birds at restaurants People
who are anxious TO have the English sparrow ex-
terminated should always call for reed birds-
Lotcdl Courier.
THE only difference between digging up 8.
| j. Iilden's bones and Shakspeare's is that Til.
dcns have annually been resurrected for so long
Philadelphia Ns,rs.
c. Z. HUNTINGTON, the railroad magnate,
was poor boy and hardworking young man.
| He did not begin to accumulate his immense for
tune until he was past 4O when he staked nll his
savings on tho scheme of the Pacific railroad.
WILCOX county, Alabama, has o baby boy.
now II months old, who weighs 6S pounds. The
parents have been offered 5000 and expenses for
the privilege of exhibiting the child for the ben-
| eft of the medical fraternity. They have re-
fused.
OMAHA boasts of having the most complete
system OF water works OF any city in the world.
| They have pumping capacity of nearly 20,oo0,-
900 gallons per day, besides two large reservoirs
each of which is capable of holding q two weeks
supply.
| The New York scenic artists have been in
terviewed recently and they all say that they
have never before painted such elaborate work as
they have this season. Most of 1t Is TO be taken
out on the road by the different melodramatic
companies.
A FEATURE at the exposition at Amsterdam
is complete Javanese village, which is repro
duced with much fidelity and detail. There are
the huts of the natives, Inhabitants, and cattle,
and u native orchestra furnishes Javanese music
for Javanese dances.
A WILD western exchange, in commenting
OH the declaration of fashion writer that "checks
are no longer fash ionable," is moved TO remark
that out there "lf good names are attached to
them we are content. yea, eager to disobey the
mandates Of the fckle goddess"
A New JERSEY scientist claims to have dis
covered small bug which when mashed ex-
plodes with force sufficient to tear shoe from
the foot We are not surprised at this. We have
In west Kansas species of bed bug (cimex lectu.
larius) which when m ashed will lower rents in
the next block.-Kansas CITY Journal
Don't like the bed ?" said tho hotel clerk,
astonished at the presumption of the complaining
guest; "why, some of the best people, some of the
hishtonedest folks in the United States have slept
in Ill" "Nes that's just the trouble" responded
the guest; ~ found last night there were alto
gether too many big bugs in 1t for the comfort Of
common people like me"-Ahaanac Joke.
THE French, if they have leisure, can raise
the taste of the inhabitants of Tonquin from that
. of gluttony to that of epicures. The Annamese
are huge eaters. Public dinners are great insti
tuition and the guests allowed to carry off with
them the remnants of the feast. The imperial
chiefis person OF great consequence, he has tC
; prepare twelve or fifteen dinners daily for the
emperor.
SAM HING, the richest Chinaman in
America. is said TO have salted down s4,O0oOOO
Rumor says that all the Chinamen employed In
constructing the Mexican and Texas railways ge
th cir employment through Sam Hing, and tina
: each Chinaman (about 10000 pays him one dol
!, lar o month, besides bonus for the lob of worl
obtained through Sam. Sam Hing must go. H;
is all infamous pgtail and grinding monopoly
--NelU Orleans PicayuRe,
EUROPEAN estimates of the population o
China arc being reduced. Behm and Wagner re
duce their estimates for China and Corea from
4Sl5oO,0OO to 3705O0OOO. Peterson reduces his esti
mate by 75,OOoOOO, making the present total $50.
100000. DR.. Happer, missionary, believes this car
Q safely be reduced another 5O,OOOOOO. Mr.. Hippis
t Icy, acting commissioner of customs, thinks $50,
# 10000 more nearly correct than Sj0.000,0O0 TIT
l Losses by the Teaping and Mahometan rebellions
and by the famine aud pestilence, which swep
five provinces, are variousy estimated at from
Gl,0 10000 TO Sl,0OO,OOO.
FROM learned and digniled exchange the
following is taken "A rib measuring three anC
! one-half feet IN length was found recently OF
u Stepto Butte, Idaho. II is doubtless from tn
body of one Of an extinct species OF gigantic her
biyorous mammala that roamed the hills thou
: sands and, perhaps, tens Of thousands, Of year
: ago" Now this is nothing wonderful. 1t wa
only year ago that plain. every day sort OF
O Pitsburger took unto himself a rib five feet eigh