National Republican., 1884-03-03

hs We uluTCn along tue years,
But our hearts shall ever borrow
Hope and trust from smiles and tears
John A. joyce.
ROANOKE, Va, is to have q 5000 900 cotton
factory Philadelphia capitalists furnishing half
the money.
A WHALE sixty feet long and thirteen feet
high has been killed of Beaufort, S. c. Sixty
barrels of oil is expected.
In the vatican library at Rome there are
seventeen royal love letters written by Henry
VIII to the cruelty wrongcd Anne Boeyn.
lT is reported that the French government
is about to lay further length OF 1880 miles OF
underground telegraph wires, the cost of which
will BIO about 100000
THERE are now 229 submarine telegraph
cables all told, some of them merely connecting
islands with the main shore, or crossing narrow
straits and arms of the sea, others thousands OF
miles in length.
"YoU are now one, said tho minister to the
| happy pair he had Just tied together with knot
! that they never could undo. (Which one ?" asked
the BRIDE "You will have to settle that for your
selves" said the clergyman.
A MoRGANToN, N. G., boy, who recently
| had quarrel with his sweetheart sent her the
following touching valentine: "My dearest and
sweetest Amanda. been. not goose, but
! gander Your heart never harden but grant me
MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, who re-
Gently returned from two-y years sojourn in Eus
rope, has decided to make Johnston, Fulton
county, New York, her future residence. There,
in the old Cady homestead, where she was born
slxty.eght years ago, she will pass the remainder
| of her days.
DIR. c. c. GRAHAM at the age of 100 years,
writes forciDly ON the canse of the floods in the
Ohio valley. Fifty years ago he wrote in the
Erop LgNA tIat IF
trees would ruin the valley before the end OF the
century. DIR. Graham. still vigorous in mind and
body, lives in retirement at Louisville.
The latest development of fashion in France
concerns the announcements of births invariably
sent out by French parents. For boy they are
pale blue, for girl delicate pink in the left hand
corner is the fathers coat of arm monogram,
and underneath the sign of the zodiac which was
paramount when the babe first saw the light
DIR. scHLEIMANN gives, in letter to the
British academy, the results Of his examinations
in the mound upon the plain of Marathon, hitherto
considered the tomb of the Athenians who were
killed in the battle. The famous excavator found
nothing in the tumulus except fragments Of pre-
historic pottery, probably belonging to tho ninth
century b. c., and rude arrow heads of obsidlan
glass. There were no traces of human skeletons
or funeral trappings.
ONE of Mrs Carlyles letters, recently pub
lished, throws some new light on her personal
habits. 81 spend my lfe.' she writes, "chiefy in
writing letters, smoking cigarettes and loving
the devil out OF o. Yorkshire kitten, as creditabe
an account of oneself as my husbands, anyhow,
who spends his life he writes to me- chiefly in
, sleeping and in drinking new milk under new
forms. Very bilious work that, should say; but
| every one to his mind"
AN improbable story is told of tho prac-
} teal application of his phrases and principles
which Henry George is said to have recently ex-
r perienced in London. Coming out from one OF
his lectures on the equal distribution and nation
alization of property, he had his watch stolen by
, a clever pickpocket on ascertaining his loss he
exclaimed Indignantly, Some one has stolen my
} watch" Upon which one OF the crowd quietly
said, mo, not stolen, only nationalized!'
0 IN the town of Clifford, England, lived q
/. poor cloth worker by the name of Abbott, whose
( wife dreamed that If she would eat jack fish
g the first child born to her would be a boy and
eventually become great man. The next morn
ing she went to the river for water and to her
prise and delight scooped up fine jack, which
she cooked and ate for her breakfast. She never
lost faith in her dream ana lived to the prom
. ised son ordained archbishop of Canterbury
, Mr.. BRADLAUGH has been roundly de.
nouncing socialism and similar politco- indus
trial movements. Honest and good men, he said,
1 ought TO know that the knife, pistol, explosive,
and the torch could never be arguments that
. could serve the poor. Burning the mill down
, would make the workmen no richer, however
. much thoy might hate the millowner. There was
no sense in the laborer yelling at the rich mans
= house when he might make his own hovel little
u, more decent.
r SOME time since, when the Prince of Wales
i was IN America, of the guests invited to dine
j. with his royal hghness was the keeper of New
q York hotel This bieng known was protested
= against with such warmth that the invitation was
3 rescinded, and the indignant and angry hotel
u keeper Mr. Stevens then on the staff Of Gov. Nor
r. gan, was compelled to withdraw. The wife Of
Capt. Paget, of the most intimate and familiar
friends of the prince of Wales, is the daughter of
n of that very hotel keeper.
" A CHICAGO correspondent was given one of
r the best rooms in the st. Charles hotel, in New
Il Orleans, which southerners everywhere regard as
O the finest carevansary in the country. He says
d the elevator is slow that you have no fears of
4, being bounced OFF your feet when 1t stops, the
% porter has to pick the door open, the room is so
long you scarcely sec the gas jet in the other
30 end, the floor is either raised in the middle,
l. droops at both ends, the mattress like the cotton
10 market is firm and unyielding, and the bed wide
8, enough and long enough to accommodate a
l. family Of giants. lie slept on the floor.
~ AN elephant-shaped hotel, modelled some.
- what after the structure at South Atlantic City is
i to be built this spring at Coney Island. The on
I trance and exit are to be through the hind feet
ID the orelegs and trough out OF which the elephant
" win be eating will be occupied bazars the sad
T. debags to be l6 feet long and will contain two
20 outside of the body; the main hall in the
body of the elephant is to be so feet long by 80 feet
Of inches wide the room in the head is to be 4s by
IS rs feet. The dimensions Of the two side body
IN looms will be A by 10 feet, There will be two
as thigh rooms 2s by 10 feet two shoulder rooms q
DO by 10 feet two cheek rooms, 80 by 10 feet; one
of throat room, 80 by feet, and one stomach room
1t Sc by 90 feet This latter is to be grand saloon
There will be four foot oom 10 feet inches by /.
cd feet inches; six leg rooms IL feet inches long
r- by IL feet inches high and l2 feet wide, gal
ef lery extending out from and encircling the body
of of the elephant Will be go feet long.
~ JUSTICES who desire 10 rule according to a
o strict construction of the law have no easy time
~ of it in Bavaria. According TO the Alegenlein
q a Zeilng there are no less than seven differen
n codes in force in that country, namely, the Ba
v, variau code, applying to 100000 inhabitants
In the kingdom the French code Din the Palaunate
applying to Gil ,250 the sovereign laws of thu
Bishopric Of Wurzburg to 460 600: the prerogatory
code of tho principally Of fBayreuth to 32l 900; thu
Austrian code RedwlN in Upper Franconia) Il
rd 2,G00 the Solms statutes to as few as 200, apt
es finally the Coburg code applying to only 100 in