National Republican., 1883-12-11
CURRENT GOSSIP.
ALL sonrs OF etRLs.

MANY girts NJ mineral springs
Are gushing, crushing, marrying things.
--Richmond Baton,
Beautiful girls Of early springs
Are solid, brushing, working things
-Wdterioo Observer.
All girlish girls--the darling things
Are angels though they lack the wiugs,
-Gorernew Herald,
Yet they know no Joy, the precious thngs,
Like that new spring bonnet brings
Henderson Gold Leqi
Girls, girls, musical things;
| Give us the song the Jolly girl sinps.
He ia grabbed, cold. blooded churi
Who has no love for the musical girl
Chicago Sun.
| Giddy girls, plo.biting, cream-doting things
Charmers In pcttlcoats, bangs, bustles, ana rings
| THE Hon. Wayne Maoveagh is said TO have
100000 worth Of thoroughbred cattle on his farm
| of Brookield.
JOHN SWANSON. who was during the war
the printer Of confederate money, poisoned him.
self at Cleveland the other day.
MOTION to reduce the lord mayor of
Dublins salary from $4,000 to $4,000 has been
| negauved' He has large official residence. The
lord may or OF London has ES 600.
| an o'u neBro woman IN georgia has sued
the keeper Of the penitentiary for $4,000 on the
ground that he kept her in the penitentiarv t,ven.
ty.two days after her term Of imprisonment had
expired.
ISAAC ADAMS, of tho town Of Sandwich. N.
H. LEFT property worth more than 81 100000 when
he died. Now. not so long after his death a son
seeks 10 break the will, on the ground that his
father was unduly Influenced in its making.
| CORRESPONDENT reports in the AUgemeine
leaun0 an astounding discovery. He states that
In the virgin forests of Sonora, a province of
western Mexico near Magdalena, pyramid haa
peen found. measuring 1850 ieet at its base and
rising to the height of 75o feeti
| WHILE the ship Dashing Wave was being
repaired at Tacoma. w. T., short time since, a
| six pound cannon ball was found firmly imbedded
| In the wood. II was shot into the vessel as she
was leaving Galveston harbor with u cargo of cot
| ton during the war Of tho rebellion.
The Mormon church now embraces a presi.
dent, IL apostles, bS patriarchs, 1856 sentinels.
S,bS high priests, II, 900 choirs 1900 bishops and
400 deacons In Arizona there Is a membership
oil 2262; in Idaho. twice many. and missionaries
are at work altover Europe and the United States
In the state of California the culture and
rearing of silkworms Is fast assuming important
proportions. and bids fair soon TO become one of
the leading industries. At Los Angeles especially
gage largely in the business during the coming
| year.
WITHIN three years the exports of grain
| from New Zealand have doubled; and, though
the area under cultivation is not yet large enough
TO cut any considerable figure In the worlds food
supply, 1t Is worth while to notice the fact that
railroad now being built will open up grain belt
OF over 100000 acres
THE late Joseph Swift of Philadelphia, left
fortune Of about 81 0eOO 900, and among his lega
cies were one of 5000 to his daughter Mary
widow of the late Charles X. Thorne, it, the actor
and an annuity of $1,000 TO Horace G. Browne
from whom Mrs. Thorne was divorced. The bulk
of the remainder Of the estate goes toMrs Thornes
children by both of her marriages, and TO her
sister, Mrs. Emily Balch, and her children.
TWELVE years ago Birmingham, Ala, did
not exist, even as village. The present site of
the city was an old worn out plantation, with a
surrounding mountain wilderness. Not dollar
OF capital was invested in tho development of Its
vast storehouse of hidden treasures. Now all Is
changed Over 900 capital is invested in
the coal and iron district of which Birmingham
is the center. Its populaion-about 10000 is iu-
creasing, and the city is growing rapidly.
PARIS paper states with the utmost
serenity that noble redskin who had been con :
verted to Christianity was sent to England to be
, educated at Eton. Having been soundly birched
he lay in wait for the master who had inflicted
that distaseful punishment and scalped him, an
incident which "created great sensation about
forty years ago." The story reaches It's climax I'm
, the announcement that this young Indian. who
! had for long time been lost sight of, has been
identified as Sitting Bull.
NEARLY forty years ago, on o raid made by
the Comanches into Texas, they seized and carried
in captivity young maiden named Cynthia Par.
ker, a niece of Hon. Isaac Parker. This young
/ girl, only IL years Of age when she attained to
womanhood, married Comanche chief, and from
this union Quinah was born. During the war
Gen. Sol Ross recaptured Cynthia Parker and sho
returned to Texas much against her WILL and with
her little Indian daughter died. Her son remained
with the tribe and is now their chief He visits
Tarrant county relatives looking after landed in
terests ofhis mother, the state having made land
grant to her.
IT will be remembered that much scandal
was caused in the summer by advertising for pub.
lie sale the furniture Of the duke and duchess OF
Teck. Among the family relics which were in
cluded in the lots were two richly gilt and carved
sedan chains which were made for Queen Char
!, lotte and which became the property of the
duchess of Teck by request of her aunt and god
mother, the duchess of Gloucester. The reserve
set upon these chairs by the vendors was $500 but
: they were valued by two experts at $780, at which
= price they have become the property of the
| queen, ana tney nave now iouHu u resting place
: in Windsor castle.
i A. P. MOORE, who owns Santa Rosa island
q near the California coast, has $4,000 sheep from
q which he clipped IN June last, 4l5,740 pounds o.
wool. He sold this for S212, ,34080, and realized
clear profit of $4,000. Four men are employed
regularly the year round TO keep the ranch In
y order and to look after the sheep, and during
a shearing time fifty more shearers are employed
: These men get forty or fifty days work, and thu
average number of sheep sheared day is abou
D ninety, for which cents clip is paid $3.50 day
being made by each man. Mr. Moore, whC
:. bought the property from his brothers widow TO
5000 0OO has leased 1t to his brother Lawrence fol
$4,000 year, and will travel for his health.
A FEW facts about the professional tours O
theatrical people interesting. In this country
70 there are 227 theatrical companies on profes
n sional tours, embracing, say, 4,0S6 members Tn,
10 following figures will show the expenses Of thes
u travelling companies Transportation, 81 22l 900
q hotel bills, 81 100000; hauling baggage. &C., $3.50,
900; salaries and ncidentals S,400 900; total out
lay. $40, 1881 900. These companies play on shares
receiving about 65 per cent of the nightly gros
10 receipts Some of the leading attractions make
" much as $4,000 year clear profit In order 4
10 lessen the hardships Of these professional tourist
~ 1t is proposed to build special cars for the com
"a panies In which they can live and travel. II 4
believed that such car could be run for s176
week. Under this system probably 81 100000 II
hotel bills could be saved.