National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-20
ODDS AND ENDS.

far as possible from the camera.
A PROFESSIONAL boggar" recently
arrested In New York, is found to have lived
'luxuriously in an elegantly furnished house"
AN English bicycle rider has travelled
from Lands End to John O Greats, $50 miles,
with considerable baggage, in eight days and
half
THE New York Post says that knots of
violcts or punches of small roses decorate the
ears of horses driven by ladies at the fashion
able resorts
"A New York gambler is very proud of
having caught Billy Florence on Guyon line
steamer for 5000 by rigging himself up as q
clergyman.
The Salvation Army claims that its
colors are flying in nineteen countries, and
that 1t prints eighteen journals in six different
languages.
OF the 100000 Paris mechanics and day
laborers only $1,000 belong to trades unions,
though the example of organization in Eng
land is close by
A LOUISVILLE bank cashier who was
supposed to have embezzed 5000, called for
an examination of his books and proved that
the bank was S675 ahead of him.
SINCE the first vein of oil was struck at
Titusville, Pa, twenty-five years ago, there has
been invested in oil.producing property, 1t Is
estimated, not less than sioO,OOo,OOO.
DIR. PRATT. of London, states in n
lecture that In 900 married men between the
ages Of p and 80 there are six deaths in the
same numbero bachelors there arc ten deaths;
tho widowers number twenty-five.
AFTER careful inquiry, the Moravisns
of Bethlehem, Pa, have decided that the Is
KINDS of Alaska present greater obstacles to
conversion than any other people on earth, and
therefore have sent missionaries to them.
The city Of Paris has acquired lease
Of twenty-seven thousand acres of the low
lying forest of st. GERMAN and the adjoining
meadows, upon which 1t proposes to expert
ment upon utilizing the sewage OF the CAPT.
tai.
A PETROLEUM spring is said to have
been discovered under the sea, about seven
miles Off the coast of Yechigo. The water is
sixty fathoms deep at the spot but the oil
floats to the surface and keep the sea constantly
smooth.
AN eccentric gentleman in London
framed bank post bill for ESQ., 900 and ex-
hlbited it for five years in one of his sitting
rooms The ffth year he died, when the
picture was at once taken down and cashed
by his heirs.
A "HALLELUJAH lassie" of Haverhill,
Mass, has renounccd the Salvation army be.
cause she had to rise at 8 o'clock in the morn
ing, was often kept up till after midnight, and
during her period of enlistment lost twenty
eight pounds Of flesh.
A. J. BLETHEN, o briehess young bar
ristcr In Maine went west about five years ago
and by hard work got an interest in the Kan
sas City Journal The other day he sold his
Interest for $4,000, and now, in partnership
with William L. Haskell, has bought the Min.
ncapolis Tribune.
THE old question of speedier means OF
official killing than the blade or the moose 1.
again being discussed In England The Ian.
Get not only thinks that decapitation does not
cause instant DEATH and that hanging is tor
turingly slow, but that neither prussic acid moi
electricity would be quick enough in fatal
effect.
HIGHER literary circles in London are
much amused by the controversy between
Herbert Spencer and Frederick Harrison. The
latter denies the originality of Spencer's sys
TEN of philosophy, and describes 1t as drawn
from Comte. 1t is singular to observe that 4
philosopher of Spencers standing declares
himself ignorant of Comte.
Ell MAHDI's flag, captured at the battle O
Tamanleb, has reached England. The ground
work is red, the lettering is worked in will
blue, and two crcscents and two stars are OF
the side nearest the staff The inscription, il
Arabic characters which read from left Il
right, consists of praises to God and Mahome
as his messenger and apostle.
A MAN is living in Switzerland VIII
takes all of his food from the end of O stick
His daughter had been in Marsellles as a nurse
and returned with all her clothing. She sool
died. together with her sister and sister in law
and the old father has not since passed beyon,
his little patch of land. Persons who wish +
see him at his boundary throw stone at hi
door. .-...
IT is curious fact that the larges
handler of oysters In the world Is located O
} Chicago. He employs s5,OO0,0OO of capital an
| buys 5000 bushels daily in New York and q
, many more in Baltimore. The English maj
, ket takes 10000 bushels q week, showing tha
the taste of the English has changed sine
; Thackeray compared an American oyster to
baby.
THERE is an old we'll at Andersonvillt
Ca Some time ago the water gave out, and
was bored deeper. When the bucket was T,
, placed 1t was found that the water ON the TO
was the same as usual but if the bucket We
dropped to the bottom II would bringup stron
, sulphur water, which very much tasted lik
and resembed the water of Magnolia sprinl
No reason has ever been found for the difie
ence in the water.
The census Of 1880 gives some interes
= ing statistics regarding the glass manufacture
. 1t says "The capital employed in gla
manufacture during the preceding year WI
about 100000; that 1900 men, girls, al
: boys were employed at wages aggregatiI
J. 50, 0O0, 00O and that the profits of the manufa
n turers were si,0O0,000 Thus the averal
wages earned by the laborers were $3.50 yea
y. and the profits of their employers were 20 p
cent"
BLOOD heat Is set down on o Fahrenhe
n thermometer at 9S degrees, but more caref
= investigation has shown that tho temperate
a of healthy person is between 102 and IL
a Onehalf degree either way indicates an a
n normal condition, while one degree bolo
q would make n doctor shake his head ominousl
} | NINi II iSNNl UP W 4
= or l07 it depends entirely on the amount
j. fuel on hand how long the fire will contin,
i to burn.
THE largest dredging machine in Il
. world has been finished and will be used
:, the Sacramento and San Joaquin swamp Ian
.. In California. 1t has been named Thor, al
;. modelled after the best dredges now in use
q the lsthmus canal, cutting out channel al
a building levee at the same time The Tn
n is lOl feet long and 81 feet wide, and has
= iron buckets, with a capacity of one and hi
n cubic yards each, which can be filed a.
W emptied fourteen times per minute
o r. X. CARPENTER has on the comm,
l. in Lexington, Mass, boulder weight
l. twenty tons, on which is being engraved
10 nintlock gun and powder horn and the WoI