National Republican., 1883-11-22

lhht tnorh IN the Dush Is worth two IN the
hand. :.
JOHN SULLIVAN and other fstic sports are
taking up subscription for monument to
Samson.
THERE are $4,000 stockholders in the
Panama canal, and every new loan is absorbed at
once. In fact the demand exceeds the supply
THIS was the very concise verdict of O
coroner's jury in Idaho: eve find that the de-
ceased came to his death by calling Tom Wat
lings liar"
TURGENEFF's brain weighed, IL is said,
2,0l2 grammes and was the heaviest human brain
ever weighed. The average weight is 1890
grammes. Cuvier's brain weighed 800 grammes.
JUDGE HOOVER, who once upon time was
chief Justice of Arizona, is chief waiter in n
restaurant in southern California Judge Sat
terthwaite also of Arizona. is now doing tinkera
| jobs for living.
MISS REBEccA BOONE, whose father, Thos.
Boone. was cousin to the famous Daniel Boone,
Is dead at the age Of SS years. She has been living
In Norristown for forty years. President Lincoln
was her first cousin
IL Namaqua Land, South Africa, no rain
has fallen since Aug. 10, 1884, and plants, and
animals and men are dying of drought and star
vation. Wheat and seeds have been sent by tho
Cape Colony and relief committee has been
| formed.
ARABI PAcHA has gained many friends in
| his place of exile, and his power and influence
among Mahometans have increased, instead of
diminishing, since his arrival In Ceylon. Thou
sands of his Indian coreglonists have visited him
| at Colombo, which is now sort of halfway house
| to Mecca.
POPE LEO XIII is now "a years of age He
is TALL thin, and bony, and is said toresemble Vol
taire. He wears his age well and walks very erect
He rises early, devoting his first hours to prayer
saying mass ut o'clock, and at eating breakfast
while he looks over his letters. He is man of
business methods, who enjoys the reputation of
never say ing or doing foolish thing.
ENGLISH conservatism was much offended
by the admission of women to the postal service,
but It is forced to confess that the experiment has
turned out success. The Spectator says that they
| have proved themselves able to do the work at
least as well men, and that there has been q
distinct gain of civilty and obligingness wherever
female clerks have been substituted for male.
A MARRIED couple are regular attendants
at tho Diamond Valley school In the town of
Montgomery, Orange county. They were married
three months ago. The husband is is years old
and the wife II. They live with the wife's pa
rents. When school opened for the winter term
they made their appearance among the rest of the
scholars as they had been accustomed to do before
marriage, and they have been regular attendants
ever since. al .--
SIMON CARSON, farmer in Sedalia, No.,
missed small sums of money several times during
the past three months, but could not understand
how anyone could break into his house without
leaving some marks of having been there. One
night last week, however, he dreamt that one of
his servant girls was the culprit, and that the
money would be found concealed in the mattress
of her bed. The next day he had 1t torn open and
searched. when he found that his dream was true.
The girl is now in jail
A SMALL party of men, according to the
Puget Sound Argus, recently assembled Mount
Adams, in Washington territory, reaching an ele-
yaton OF 1860 feet where they descended 100 feet
into the crater. There was ceaseess drip of
water from the roof of the ice -encased entrance,
caused by warm air current rising from tho
slumberiug fires far below, which issued with u
loud kissing noise A stone was dropped and
there was almost deafening reverberauon.
A FATAL fight occurred at wedding in
Hyde county North Carolina, Thursday night
last, on the occasion of the marriage of Mr.. Charles
Credle, young and handsome cotton planter,
and belle of that section. AT supper a number
of the guests drank too much champagne, and a
quarrel ensued concerning dance which was to
take place. A general fight ensued, and revolyers
were brought freely into play. The grooms best
! man was killed, and another of the groomsmen
was mortally wounded.
BY the recent census 1t appears that the
total population of Egypt is 6,79S29O very equally
divided as far as sex. the men numbering $685. 92S.
The population of the most important towns is
thus given: Cairo, 368,1Gs; Alexandria and
} suburbs, 20S775; Port said 16,500; Suez l0,9l3;
Tantah, 33 725; Dametta, 34046; Rosetta, 1851;
Mansourah 26,7si; Zagazig, 19,046. Although the
strict accuracy is not guaranteed by the authori-
ties it is believed that the census is nearer
approach to correctness than has previously ever
been the case
The American Broutosaurus was danger
Gus customer when ut his best. The restorationa
, made by putting his bones together show that he
was O huge snake mounted on legs. He was fifty
, feet long aud when in good condition weighed
a more than twenty tons. The bones of the monster
are found in places where he had mired. His lit
tie head and weak spinal cord show that he had
little intelligence. Scientists soy that these 81
gantc monsters were so clumsy and 10 defective
, in intelligence that they would have been power
less tefore man even armed with club or an ak,
!. A PAIR of gloves once worn by Queen
l Elizabeth have been preserved In British mu-
:. scum. They are of very fine white leather worked
with gold thread, but of size at which our fash
ionable beauties would stand aghHst Good Queen
Bess, however, had hand that was fit to WELD q
scepter. The thumb Of her glove was five inches
| long, and the palm measured three and one-hali
r inches across Another royal glove has been pre-
served in Henry WIS "hawkes glove" in which,
. If the original bears any likeness to the illusra
Q ton, a goodly number of "hawkes" could find q
comfortable resting place. =
IT is one thing TO get judgment for dam
ages against corporation and another thing to
get the money. A Mayor Harold in New York
v recovered $4,000 from the Elevated Railroad com
: pany and thought he was doing pretty well by his
counsel in agreeing to give him half-sloO00 as a
fee and $1,000 for expenses. But the lawyer re-
/ fuses to accept any such beggarly award declaring
that $4,000 would hardly compensate him. and
: lawyer and client arc now having suit of theil
= own Meanwhile the money is in the hands OF q
: trust company and the plaintiff may count him
. self lucky IT, after the lawyers have swallowed the
/. oyster, he eventually gets the shell.
Z WELLS, FARGO & Co. are rejoicing over the
capture of u highwaymRn named "Back Bart
"a who has robbed more than score OF stages be
+ tween Shasta and Calaveras, CAL. always single
:, handed and always being successful. His lates
u exploit was robbing a coach near Copperopois. IL
n which he secured $1,000. He left behind, how
y ever handkerchief with Chinese laundry
mark on It by which ho was traced to and cap
10 tured His striking peculiariues were passion
st for writing doggerel verses and pinning them
g. rihed express boxes and his great secretveness
.. never admitting anyone to his confidence, Hi