National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-16

People can see--they Toll, 1 trust.
lResDondsl From want Of charity deceit
Good Lord, deliver u.s."
Did you know Mr.. Gray had gone?
That handsome Mr.. Rogers, too?
Dear me! We snail DO quite forlorn
| lfall the men leave-and 90 fewi
| trust that wo with Cupid's darts
May capture some--let them beware
LResponds.l Behold the sorrows Of our thearts,
And, Lord, with mercy hear our prayer"
IT is recalled in Honeoye, N. Y, whore the
bride of Frederick Douglass lived In childhood,
that she had to be whipped by her father an &C.
tive abolilionist, to make her kiss Douglass when
he visited tho family.
THERE are now forty-eight lady students in
the Harvard annex, and 1t is tho testimony of
some OF the Harvard professors that the average
scholarship OF the classes IN the annex is above
that of the classes in the college.
Mr.. IRVING said to an interviewer IN In
dIanapoliS: In fact the most wonderful thing
about this country is its fJrN ardness in using new
inventions aud in taking up new ideas. In
England we are equally forward in keeping old
things 10 the front"
THREE specimens of tho we'll known terra
Gotta ware OF Tanagra have recently been added
to the British museum, aud they are said 10 be re-
mnfkably beautiful specimens. They are stat
ueltes OF dTaped or partially draped female fig
ures, one being Ariadne sleeping Oh a rock.
THE Woman's silk Culture association pro-
poses to hold silk fair in Philadelphia In May
next This the second attempt of this association
TO unfold the varied beauties OF the silk industry
and demonstrate that American manufactured
SILK goods and American raised silk are not IN
| feror TO foreign jmportations. The last fair was
| continued two weeks.
Mr.. CHARLES Ii. BRAINERp, who is writing
q life of John Howard Payne. says that he finds
| that when Payne wrote Home, Sweet Home" he
was very far from being in needy circumstances
He was living in rooms in the Palais Royal in
Paris and also had small villa In the outskirts Of
the city. Instead of borrowing money from Wash
ington Irving he loaned money to him.
A BosToN correspondent relates that Misu
Susan b. Anthony, in conversing with Gen. But
Ter, who Is counsel for her and Lucy Stone Black
well In the suit contesting the bequest of Mrs.
Eddy, amounting TO about $4,000 for each of
them, said: General. you will try as hard to get
this as If 1t were for yourself, will you not?"
Aud he replied: "a great deal harder, Miss An
thony. For myself, Wouldn't care whether had
it or not but do care for you to have it,"
THE company which now owns q charter
for the construction Of q canal across Cape Cod
the third company and the third charter since the
project was first declared feasible in ls65-has
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according to the Boston Traveller as to furnish the
best guarantee of Its completion A dredge cost
ing about 100000, with capacity of 1000 cubic
yards in ten hours has just been built and will be
set at work ds soon as the weather become settled
The contractor has four years in which to COM
plete the work, but the company is sanguine that
1t will be done within two years.
SOME idea Of the magnitude of the business
of raising sweet scented flowers for their perfume
alA In fINaHn f-sH E..k
and British India consume about $50 600 gallons of
handkerchief perfumes yearly; that the English
revenue from eau de cologne Is $4,000 annually
and that the total revenue from other pefumes is
estimated at $780, 600 annually. There is one great
perfume distillery at Cannes in France which uses
yearly 100000 pounds of acacia flowers 10000
pounds of rare flower leaves, 1000 pounds Jas
mine blossoms. 10000 of tuberose blossoms and au
immense quantity OF other material.
AN important precedent relating to street
fights has been established In London. Two boys
were detected in such an encounter by police
man, and one OF them, who was summaIily
judged to be the more guilty. was taken before a
magistrate. The culprit explained that he was
not the aggressor. The other boy, he said, had
been converted" and struck him because he
would not turn religious too. His mother,
moreover, confirmed her sons good opinion of
himself; but the Judge decided that the ICON.
the two aud fined the unconyerted half crown.
THE Feast of Asses was ceremonial of the
Roman Catholic church during the middle ages,
which was peculiar to Rouen and few other
French cities. The event which 1t commemorated
!, was the flight Of the Virgin and her child into
; Egypt. young woman bearing an infant was
seated upon an ASS. Behind her marched the
bishops and clergy In solemn procession to the
cathedral where services were held IN honor Of
the noble animal that aided In that perilous flight
: in the reign Of King Herod, both sermon and
: songs having special reference to the ass. This
ridiculous performance occurred at about Christ
mas time at Rouen; In other cities II was in June.
But finally 1t became offensive TO the better
, classes in the church to be suppressed by the
council of Basic in the fifteenth century.
IT is told Of Victor Hugo that he once
! figured theater scene painter. 1t was at tho
Coincide Franchise, at the FIRST performance OF
"Lucretia Borgia." Hugo had not noticed the
, scenery before, and now. just as the curtain was
about TO rise on the second act he, looking about
the stage to see that all we'll, discovered that
the secret door in the wall through which Gennaro
escapes had been made anything but secret, being
surrounded with a rich ornamentation " Hold
the curtain he cried this is In iamously absurd
Call the scene painter" But that worthy was not
, to be found and the audience grew impatient at
the long eRtr' dcte. "Then give me paint pot and
penned the drama quickly reprinted the scenery
and the only harm done was that Lucretia and
Genuaro got some fresh paint on their hands and
costumes,
STATISTICS are being collected in France
, for the purpose of forming an estimate as Ia
, whether the total number of inhabitants In the
country will be greater or less than 1t is now al
the close Of the century. Thus far the figures
tend TO show that there is likely to be decrease
: rather than an increase in the population. There
: are not upon nm average more than two children
now in each family in France, and. though there
has always been an increase in the population
since 1905, the rate Of the increase has been con.
i stantly declining from 8s per 10000 yearly to "a
!, per 10000. Returns also state that out Of every
100 inhabitants Of Paris only thIrty.six are boru
. In the department, hfty-seven coming from the
i provinces, and seven from abroad. Moreover
J, while the number Of births remains nearly sta.
tonany In France, the rate Of infant mortality Il
It enormous, being as much as 81 per cent. IN Nor
mandy and 10 per cent for tho whole Of France.