National Republican., 1883-11-16
CURRENT GOSSIP.

! THE salary Of the mayor of New York 10
$4,000 year.
THE car is arming his troops with Ameri-
can repeating rifles
MR. RoBrNsoN gained in Chicopee, Mass,
his home, 278 votes. Gen. Butler lost at Lowell,
his home, i5s
| WIDOW in Vicksburg, Miss, has received
s12500 from different orders OF which her husband
| was member
THE Mormons have raised general con-
| tribution ofs2 head to contest the constitution
ality OF the Edmunds act,
| THE Aroostook (Me.) farmers can only get
81 per barrel for their potatoes, and are holding
them for higher prices
Mr.. STURGEON, Tho famous London Baptist
| preacher, is said TO look like a village blacksmith
with his "sunday-go-to meeting clothes on.
| A TRAVELLER who made a tour Of Kansas
says that the only thing conspicuous about that
state is the youthfulness of the railway con
ductors.
| A LADY at bingham, Mass, sent the re-
| publican committee $40 to hire carriages to take
| aged and infrm republicans to the polls ON
| Tuesday.
| GEN. WAsHINGToN and Con. Sherman, by
a curious historical coincidence issued their fare.
well orders to tho army on the same day a century
| apart-Nov. /, 1888 lSs3.
Mrs. CoLroN, the widow of Gen. Cotton,
has sued Stanford Crockcr, and others, of Cali
fOrnia, TO recover S5,O00,000 The case was opened
at Santa Rosa on Tuesday.
HARRIET Ross is still navigating Lake
Erie She belonged to the victorious fleet of
Commodore Perry in 1912 and the only original
portion LEFT of her is her keel.
THE Rockford Register telling of the sui
eide of rash young man, says: "At the age of %,
young, handsome, aud talented, he was over,aken
by the bitter pill of advcrsity."
WE are pleased to note that, notwithstand-
ing the lurid shrleks of that venal Philadelphia
editor, Casabianca Hatton continues TO stand on
the burning deck.-ChteGgo Ne,os
BEN BUTLER's thanksgiving proclamation
reads like tho prayer of the devout farmer who
recognizes in the fatal prevalence of hog cholera
the hand of an allwise Providence.
The meanest father on record has been
discovered at Atlantic City, N. J. He had his
daughters iIont teeth pulled out to discourage the
attentions Of an obnoxious young man.
MARTIN LUTHERs memory is not to be
lightly esteemed A Louisville saloon keeper
kicked his bar tender out doors for having torn
the head from cut of Luther in one of the local
papers.
COL JAMES Houston, maker and loser Of
fortunes In California, explains the secret Of for
tune making in this line--"To meet public want
| ana meet IL we'll" Emerson never sulu more Ill
so few words.
THE democrats actually thought they were
going to give the republicans close race in Min
nesoa, but they carried just nine counties out Of
seventy-ive. In some townships out that way The
democratic state ticket did not get vote.
- CORONATION is now compulsory in Portugal,
though, as concession to popular prejudice, the
dead may be temporarily committed to the earth.
but ut the end of five years all bodies SO buried
will be exhumed and reduced to ashes.
AN English syndicate, headed by Sir John
Kaye, haye lately bought 10000 acres of bottom
land in the productive valley of the Sacramento,
California, where alfalfa fields are made to pro-
duce fine crops of hay twice year. 1t will cost
S50O,0O0 to reclaim it.
"THE Babe of the Alamo" was a little girl
, who crouched, with her mother in the corner ofa
house in San Antonio at the time of the massacre.
The daughter died few years ago, and the other
, day the mother, Mrs. Hanning, died at a great
age She was the last witness of the dreadful
4 tragedy.
: 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
railway now being built will open up grain belt
" of over 14,000O00 acres.
0 SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE sustains nature
4 entirely on milk and old port wine, of which he
0 drinks two three glasses every day, varied with
Q soup and little bread and butter sometimes. In
a middle life he smoked. but has given up tobacco
for many years. He rises at IL o'clock, having had
his letters read to him in bed and then drives out
! for some hours and reires at o. He goes about in
4 the old fashioned sedan chair.
THE Romans under tho republic were pro-
/ | hibitionsts after fashion. Men of honorable
{ family were forbidden by law to drink wine be-
fore the age of 30 TO drink to while for
< women of any condition, free or slave, to touch
@ wine, except on solemn occasion, as sacrifice,
/ was ofTense visited by severe penalties. But
j, the law, as affecting women, was in time SO far
n modified that they were permitted to drink wine
] made from boiled must or raisins.
Q EDWARD BoRKE, who is now dying of
tubercuar meningitis in Bellevue hospital, New
York. has been an assistant at the morgue, in that
= CITY, for more than thirteen years. He is said to
: have handled more dead bodies than any other
: man in the world. The number of corpses which
: | are taken into the morgue annually approximate
, 5000, and Borke handled every one entering or
4 leaving it while he was on duty--in short since
his connection with the hospital he has moved ut
s least $4,000 dead bodies.
t OWING to the sudden collapse of the Egyp-
5 tan war at Tel. ell Keber, the English government
II had use for the mules 1t bought In the United
o States, and a considerable number of them were
g sold in London at prices ranging from $40 to
ssO The testimony of the purchasers is strongly
in favor of the mules, and 1t would not be strange
a If a demand sprung up in England for the hardy
= hybrids The English people need not, however,
!. expect to get any more good mules at the prices
u OF the government sale in London.
q In England, as in America, competent light
weight jockeys very rare, the difficulty being
% to find u boy of light weight who eau handle q
n horse. The result is that when one Is found the
10 profession of jockey is quite bonanza to the pos
SCISSOR Of tho requisite qualifications. IL is said that
l. Martin, the champion light weight Of England.
Il viii close the present with the sum of 600
10 (s250O0 his earnings, Martin is between 10 and
l6 years of age, goes school regularly, and is.
therefore, not strictly professional jockey yet
i CURIOUS story comes from Brentford,
Ia England. servant of Dr. Terry was sent out ia
h carry a message. She was shortsghted, and fail
ing to return 1t was feared she had fallen into the
of canal. 1t was dragged, but without success. Sew
10 eral days later old barge woman suggested that
ID a loaf of bread in which some quicksilver had
10 been placed should be ioated on the water. This
ID was done and the loaf became stationary at GER
Of tain point The dragging was resumed at this
10 point and the body found The superstition il
le said to be centuries old, but no ono had seen II
II tried there for many year.