National Republican., 1883-10-03

| oflast year, anyway?
G. G.. FRANUKLYN, of the Cunard line, has
paid 81 100000 for Il ranch in Greer county, Tex.
BAND of gypsies made 5000 out of the
young ladies of Muscatine, Iowa, by fortune tell
| ing.
AT last advces there were 1,9OD,3S2 widows
in Germany-a supply greatly III excess of tho de-
| mand.
A JAPANESE prince has arrived at Quebec
| to join her mOlesy's ship Northampton as q mid
shipman.
Two GIRLS out of class of five in the Har-
ward Annex" have become engaged to their
| teachers.
The fact that dog took SICK lost his ap.
petite, and died in two days is noted as something
surprising.
ELLA HILL, Ia years old, of Seymour, Ind,
killed herself because her mother made her wear
an old dress
| NEARLY all the Bibles placed in tho cars of
the Boston and Maine railway for the use of trav-
elers have been stolen.
THE latest refrain of the salvation army
is said to be: "If you can't get i'll at the Golden
Gate, get over the garden wall"
The wife of an Ottawa, Ont, man did not
get handkerchief for him quite 30 promptly us
he wished, and he clubbed her to DEATH
The English parcels post officials said they
had to draw the line somewhere and they refused
to transmit live Holsters through the mails
RAFINDAHETz, the new queen of Madagas-
car, assumes tho throne under the name of Rano-
valona III. She is widow OF % and Christian
RATTLER says the cures effected by laying
on of hands is an old story with him. His mother
often INDUCED in tho past time in times past
Boston Courier.
A GOOD bourgeois with his wife on his arm,
cries out to n cartman: why do you beat your
horse so cruellyT Because haven't any wife,"
Paris RedsantrV
PHILADELPHIA girls are learning to play
base ball. Better wait till they have mastered the
art of biscuit making before they attempt tho
higher accomplishments.-HartIO Post.
A sUsPENDER company in this city has
made an assignment This may have been caused
by the men who braced up too often with the same
old pair-rock and rye.-Nep York Commercial
PERE HYAcINTHE and Nine. Loyson sailed
from Liverpool for New York Sept. 81. While in
New York they will be the guests of Cyrus w.
Field, and in Chicago ofMr. E. b. washburne.
AMELIA YOUNG, an Oshkosh girl, married
n man TAo said he was building house. sup
posing him rich. And now she learns that he as
sisted the architect by carrying bricks in hod
THE Louisville Courer-JournaL says: Gear
ter Harrison has returned to Chicago, but his after
dinner speeches are rolling through the north
west, crippling cattle and destroying vegetation"
GEORGIA has surpassed North Carolina in
her production of naval stores. savannahs deal
ings in rosin and turpentine during the past year
amounted to SS,07S,76i against Wilmingtons
S2,5I6,273.
QUEENSLAND is importing some Chinese
coolies to work the sugar plantations. A planter
recently went to Hong Kong with IA commission to
engage thousand coolies. capitation tax Of
$50 has to be paid on their arrival.
AUBER, on coming away from the first per.
, tormance of Berliozs "Trojens" was pressed to
give his opinion, but he refused. Finally pushed
to the wall he said, "Oh, how bad it would be-
If 1t were ic."-Ffom The French.
, PRINCE BISMARCK, who, as usual, was
, weighed in Kissingen on the occasion of his re-
cent VISIT turned the scale at 202 pounds, against
232 pounds in 1882 237 in 1880 2i7 in 1870 243 in
1878, $50 in 1877, 2l9 in 1876, and 207 in 1874.
THE Los Angeles (Cal.) Times speaks of
some fine Zinfrandel grapes which were grown
on cuttings set out last March. The cuttings took
root, blossomed and fruited, all in the space of
| six months. The remarkable occurrence is said
to be well attested.
MAUD s. got her name from being pet of
Maud Stone, II bright little daughter of Capt
Q Stone, who first discovered the virtues of the
E horse. Jay-Eye.See. that now aspres to the
championship, Got his name from the initials o f
! his owner j. |. Case Of Racine, Wis.
, THE modest huckleberry has proved a per-
feet godsend to many of the poor villages in the
wooded districts of the Hartz mountains this year.
From the flve stations Uslar, Bodenfede, Har.
degsen, Einbeck, and Salzderhelden, upwards Of
$40 tons of huckeberries were shipped during the
| past month, besides ten tons of raspbeTies.
1 WOODLAND, CAL, man took out two ac-
cident insurance policies and then climbed lad
der to the roof to ifthe hot weather was spring
lug the nails from the shingl les He will get Sl5
week each policy for the next ninety
o days, and the accident insurance companies
It have barred ladders from the list of risks in Wood
land.
A LONDON cab driver was re Gently flnod
twenty shillings for careless driving, whereas ba
O. really should have been given medal for cleNe
It steering. He ran down Il poor cripple hobbliInt
IS along with two canes but instead of hurting him
the two shafts fitted under the crlpples bent arIns
and he was borne gracefully down the streetltil
the cab was stopped.
" MR.. BARTLEY CAMPBELL has writteR thai
% the initial production of his play of my Partner
in Berlin was u decided success. The audience
was most enthusiastic calling out the author and
= demanding the raising Of the curtain at the close
of each act. Mr.. Campbell was the recipient OF
v many couTtesies, among them being dinner at
the American legation, the members and ladies
D. having been present at the performance
I, A NEWSPAPER published in 1863 contains
~ the following, which 1t vouches for As official
= rulings in revenue referred to tfe depart
ment: Parties using paper collars mustuse them
from the original packagei that is, from the box
oil in which they have been purchased; ard Scent
s, revenue stamp must be attachodto eaoh)ne when
10 put on. When the collar becomes solid, and is
10 turned with the clean side out, IL mus receive
p another Scent stamp and must also be onspcu.
ousy stamped with the word turned Boxes
w when empted cannot be used second lme, but
v must be destroyed in the room where 3mptied
at and the assessor furnished with certifce OF the
d, fact. If thrown out OF the window or carried out
o. In the coal souttle washtub such boxf will be
of subject to export duty. Bootblacks iquested
to use their blaoklng just as they find itShen the
he box Is opened, adding nothing to 1t hatever.
rk The act of splitting in the box and smeting the
A. contents with brush constitutes the boblack a
ne mixer or reotifer, or manufacturer Of hoking,
of and he must pay tho ordinary manuisturer's
az license. Each boot baoked for which thsum of
cd cents is paid by the woaTer must recei. at the
expense OF the bootblaek AZ cent stAnly