National Republican., 1883-07-11

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ore.-BurItngton Free Press
lille quem dudum dixeram" is Plautus for
"he whom called dude" and there is nothing
new under the SUM- Yale Record,
Horse doctors have just had a social lift
In the world in England. Army veterinary sur
geons are hencciorth to be permitted to be pro
sentod ut court on the same terms as other sur
gcoDs and officers
PRINCE BISMARCK is about to try new
cure under the treatment Of DR.. schwenninger, of
Munich. Being practical man, however, he
had II first tired on his son, Count Wilhelm. 1t
worked very well on Wilhelm.
In, England during tho samo period
G2OO00O) were spent for education aud E3O0OO,OOO
for war. That explains why an Englshman can
fight so much better than he can talk. II he
dropped as many bullets as he does his he ouldnt
hit anybody in thousand shots.
81 WAS in tight place last night" said
Young Tyson to Old Government as they met at
the board of trade. " Railway accident" asked
| o. g. mo, beer saloon" replied Young Hyson.
Aud just then the governor of North Carolina
joinen the pary.-Burilngon Hat0Geye.
SMALLPOX in South America, cholera in
| Africa, war In China and thereabouts all kinds
| oftroube present and prospective in Ireland and
| the rest of Europc-what, pray, is n law loving
Boston Herald, where can he take more comfort,
| do you know
AT one of the railroad stations in the north
Of Ireland the following notice was posted Here
after when trains moving in an opposite direction
are approaching each other on separate lines, con
ductors and engineers will bring their trains to
dead halt, and be very careful not to proceed until
each train has passed the other"
ALICE DUNNING LINGARD, as Camille, was
| much admired by Wilkie Collins. "Thc death
| act, he writes, was allowed to be far too long.
| Iiut, as TO her acting in the third act when the
father entreats her to give up his son, &c, have
seen nothing, since Desces in 'Ftou- Frou so true
20 passionate, so various, and so finely disciplined
In the matter ofart."
A BosToN peddler has been fined $5 for
calling gentleman of fashion dude. This is
one Of those to which the old law applies,
"The greater the truth the greater the libel" The
| Now York Commercial Advertiser says that if the
peddler had addressed the dude MS my Lord" or
"Your Grace" the dude would have hugged hin
| with paroXysmal delight
RICHARD WAGNER dictated his memoirs to
his wife during the last three years of his life.
The story goes that the work filled four volumes,
and was printed Mt Basle in an edition of three
| copies, the original manuscript the proofs, and
the reyises being all scrupulously destroyed OF
these three copies, Wagner kept one for himself.
gave the second to his SOD, any the third to Franz
| Liszt
AN old sheep escaped from drove that was
passing through the city the other day, and
strayed into n dry goods store. He walked straight
up to a big printed card, "All Wool" examined
carefully the fabrics against which 1t hung, and
turning away with countenance expressive of
profound sorrow and intense disgust, walked
down to the Mississippi river and drowned him
sef.-BurIngton HdtVkeye..
THE excessive humidity in this region is
caused by the cyclonic commissions in the sum- as
indicated by the war dance of the sun spots, now
going on. The unusual dryness in other quarters
is caused by the same disturbances, we presume.
And the season of simply perfect June weather
they have enjoyed in England this year-that
must be owing to the spots too? And the out
break of the cholera in the east-how can that
visitation be accounted for better than by the
solar convulsions?
They were English, and were going the
rounds on an open horse Car in the cool of tho
evening. He: "Annabel, If these horses should
run away with the car, what great man would
they impersonate ?' She couldn't think. lie:
"Of course it would be another 'orse car wild"
Four pairs of willing hands seized her as she fell
and laid her, cold and rigid, upon the soda water
counter OF the corner drug store; the governor
was telegraphed for the militia to save the fellow
from the infuriated populace.- LotoeH Mai.
Two NEwsDoYs in Exchange place were
having confab yesterday, and one of them re-
marked: They've got good thing on Russell
Sage" "How?" "Why, they say he unloaded
$50 900 Of sick stock on his own father. See -
The other scratched his head thought for q mo-
ment and then replied: d" Now see the pint, of
course! Well, that is joke--hal ha! ha" "You
are sure you see the nut?" "Why, of course He
never had father, and so how could he unload on
him-h0! ha! ha! / must go around and get off
that on the boys at the Ferry v'-Wd1 Street Netos
A CURIOUS experiment has recently been
tried with wreaths and votive offerings taken
from the tomb of an Egyptian king. where they
had been drying for $500 years. Under judicious
l manipulation in hot water the dry cells sweed
into their original plumpness, and the leaves at
tached to cardboard and treated like recent speci-
{ mems, were sent to Sir Joseph Hooker at Kew and
exhibited at a late soiree of the Royal society.
Not only were the forms of the leaves so far re-
stored that they could be botanically identified,
but the intricate venation of the flower petals
could be plainly traced, the coloring of lilies,
larkspurs, and o her flowers were displayed and
even the distinctive orders of some specimens
were preserved. In general these old leaves and
grasses were the same of similar species to- ay
JAY GoULD's tomb is to cost $55, 900 and
will have room for sixteen persons 1t is to be
erected in Woodlawn cemetery by French IL Co.,
dealers in granite, who have been at work getting
the stone out of their quarres for the last three
months. In design this "mortuary chapel" as
the builders are proud to coll it, is a miniature
: Greek temple of polished granite. 1t is to be
twenty feet wide, thirty feet long, and flanked
with columns eight on each side and four on the
ends. No stone used in the construction is to be
, less thau six feet square in size and the roof
stones are to be six feet wide by fifteen feet long
weighing several tons apiece The doors of tho
a chapel are to be Of bronze modelled by Augustus
ST. Gaudens, whose bill for this service is said to
: be $500. Inside the original plan was to close
0 each of the sixteen compartments with slab Of
= polished marble to be cemented in place. The
latest inteution however is to finish the inside Of
the chapel in bronze as being more durable than
marble. Facing the door Of the chapel is to be a
/ window Of stained glass, probably by Lafarge,
representing the resurrection
o The counting machine universally em-
I ployed by the Chinese differs from the abacus,
0 once used In American primary schools in that
the frame is divided by wooden crosspiece. On
each wire there are five buttons above and Ave be-
4 low the crosspiece, Below tho crosspieee the
; wires represent units, tens, hundreds thousands.
) tens of thousands, &o Above the orosspioCe the
strings of bottom represent 5s 10s l0os 000s, &c.
# There are five buttons each half OF each wire.
Q The manner in when the swan pun, as they call
Q it, Is used is very simple. To count and |, they
), put up four beads on the first wire below the
d crosspece, and then the remaining one bead on