National Republican., 1883-09-29
aaron Fledser.

1T is estimated that the profits of the Eng
lish carrying trade exceed S37o,OoO,OOO per year.
KING ALFONSO has lost his youthful face
and has the appearance of having gone to seed
A THOUSAND million dollars is the esti-
mated shrinkage of Wall street values within two
years.
lT is suggested that Barnum should engage
the greenback party to take the place of Tom
Thumb.
THE creosote in toothache drops adminis-
tered to q New York boy cured the pain but killed
the boy.
Mrs. McCURRY, Of Buzzard Roost Whit
field county, Georgia, held out as long as she
dared, and then at los was baptized.
THE latest gossip about Prof Fiske, who
sues Cornell university for his dead wifes for
tune, is that hc is courtng an Italian countess.
AHoADLY democrat carrying bucket Of
water, passed Dublin ward democrat in Ohio
the other day. The water froze.-Deaver 7rt-
bune.
Mrs. LANGTRY declares that Oscar Wilde's
play of "Vera" is not failure Notwithstanding
its inhospitablo reception by the critics and the
public
The falls of the Rhine have been illu-
minated with the electric light by the hotel keep
ers at Schaffhausen and Neuhausen recently to
increase tnc ATTRACTIONS for Visitors
APPLETON oAKsMITH, the slave trader,
who escaped from Boston prison. and was sub.
sequenuy pardoned by Grant, has become q
wealthy railway owner in the south.
SKIPPED By the Light of the Moon" the
Harrisons new play, was produced by the Har-
lsonGourlay company In Troy, N. Y, last Mon
day night and made great success.
"BUT l will not dilate" said the stump
| a. 4
dience Will cause you to die early" yelled -.
nosed man in the back row.0a CITY Derrick
The great Glenn wheat ranch in Califor-
mia, the largest cultivated farm in the country is
to be broken up. About one-thrd Of the farm is
advertised for sale in six parcels, and the rest of
the estate will probably follow suit
THE pastures of Southern Illinois must be
in pretty bad shape. Upon examining the stom-
ach of one of his dead COWS recently, Mr. A. G,
Laughlin, of Decatur, was surprised TO find therein
a handful of broken nails and other bits of iron.
THE peach growing center is gradually
moving south. A few years ago there were great
orchards in New Jersey. Then Delaware was the
chief producer. Now Maryland and Virginia are
coming to the 'front.' The largest peach farms are
| in Maryland.
| ANOTHER American has distinguished him
self in the old world by appearing at theater in
electric light gowed. 1t was made to burn for
five hours by small apparatus carried in the
| waistcoat POCKET.
| PEAR orchard in Thompson county Ca,
sold five years ago for $3.50. 1t was next sold
| for 81 800, the $3.50 having been recovered from
| cuttings in the meantime. month afterward
1880 was offered for it, and now it could not be
| bo ught for S25 900.
| WHAT was in it: "My case is Just here"
said citizen to a lawyer. "The plaintiff will
swear that hit him. will swear that did not
Now, what can you lawyers make out of that If
we go to trial?" "a hundred dollars. easily" was
the reply. Bench and Bar.
GEORGIA has just completed building
containing 500 rooms for her colored insane citi-
zeus at Milledgevjlle. After the colored lunatics
were transferred to their new quarters the work
of remodeling their old asylum began, in which
the white lunatics will be cared for.
Do YOU know that away down in the hearts
of some people, how many do not know, there is
an admiration for Gen. Sheridan which might
spring mine some evening In national conven-
tlon when contending factions had worn them
selves out? Well, 1t is so, whether you believe it
or not.hlter Ocean.
AT a restaurant: After a desperate struggle
with beefsteak that heroically resisted all at
tempts to cut 1t, customer paused in exhaustion,
and putting down his fork summoned the waiter
Is This mule or horse?' Monsieur" eli
it's mule have nothing TO say-the mule is obsti-
nate. But ii it's horse find 1t too tough"
A LETTER from Tewksbury to the Wor-
cester Spy says: "Three old men were sitting un-
der the almshouse fense the other day consider
ing The new rules which make everybody work
who is able They say Capt, Marsh used to skin
us after we were dead said one chattering old
body, but now they areskinning us alive"
II WISH | had drink" remarked Mrs.
Fogg, "but don't like TO go over there to the
fountain, there are so many men there" You've
Just as good right there as they have" said
Fogg; don't you sec the motto, for man and
beast? Como along" "oh II is very well for
you to say come along" replied Mrs. f., "but
you know I'm not Il man."
FIVE or six couples had been invited in to
play cards and listen 10 music, and peaches had
been passed with other refreshments. The party
was just ready to break up when the terror of the
family entered the parlor and called out: There,
pa, what did ma tell you?' The governor u
probably knew what was coming, but before he
could get the youngster out of the way he shot of
the other barrel with: ma said If we bought
cingstone peaches we'd save at least half, and we
have."-DetrOn Free Press,
THE New York Euening Telegram has cable
dispatch which says that Nine. Christine Nilsson
has caused notice to be served upon NJ. Monlus.
SOU Paris stock broker for the recovery of 500
being part of the property Of her deceased hus
band, NJ. Ranzeaud. Nine. Nilsson's claims
|, amount in all to nearly 10000, and are cate
goricay disputed by the relatives Of her late hus
band, who at the same time, contend that tn,
money should not be allowed to lie idle. Four o.
the heirs have petltoned for the appointment OF a
receiver, who shall pay the money in the national
deposit office until the final liquidation Of the
estate. After somo legal arguments 1t has been
decrced that the sum of $500 shall be deposited
at tho government office by M. Monlusson, witv
out prejudice, TO the charges Of other claimau0
upon this estate.
CHINA, says recent traveller, is almcst
! everywhere land of the dead. FosHhorsands o
years the inhabitants have been ass 'duously EN-
ployed in burying each other. IN ihe norsh ther'
,, ,, are few graveysrds, and tho person who dies (!
placed In tho most convenient spot VIII oh Offer
itself and that may chance 20 be in the cen or o
a field of rice or on the roadside. II his relative
be rich they ut once raise huge mound Of eartl
over him If they do not happen 20 have gsea
! amount of dlsposabe nuds they put the COM
down In the field or the roadside, tha,ah II wal
y little straw, and leave IL until the money for
I mound can be gotten tcgetheri or they erect owe
il little structure Of loose bTicAs and Ulel, Th
:. wind and rain do their work, and so tns t0vee
y sees all over the landscape moua ~ Of eas1 .nke
by exposed cofhnss