National Republican., 1884-02-27


The thieving years could bring,
The Jewel, glltteflng tn the last,
Still sparkles in ring
SO, link by link our friendships part
So loosen, break, and fall
A narrowing zone; the loving heart
Lives changeloss Though them ALL
-Oiiper Wendell Holmes
THERE is an old man In Clay county, NC,
who has borne through ninety-sx years the bur.
den of the name Of Alexander Gumbleon RufHe.
ton Scunleton Oberda Whittleton Southenhall BEN
iamin Franklin squires.
AT an auction sale in London recently the
original lease Of the farm at Ellisland to Robert
Burns, with the poets transfer of II to another
party. was sold for ESS Csl65). copy OF the XII.
marnock edition of his works fetched E5l Cs255).
A GOOD old man up in Epping, N. H., went
to prayer meeting the other night and unwi.tngly
fell asleep. lie was called upon to offer prayer,
| and, being dutifully punched by his better half
beloved out: "Gol darn IT, Betsy, klndle It your
| sell,
| QUAcKERY is not encouraged much in Colo
rado. Ell Mddlong an Illinois man, located near
| Denver aud began TO practice medicine, although
he had received no education. His first patient
died, and tho alleged doctor was hanged by tho
vigilance committee.
DIR. GoTTHErL, one of tho most distin-
1
at recent meeting in that city as "culture
slightly favored with Christianity" Orthodox
cergymen delight in quoting this as the best def.
milton Of the term ever made,
In New York city according to some
figures recently published. there are more than
800 rag dealets, hhd the pckers, who are mostly
Italians gather S750eOO worth yearly in the streets
and roads, while the money realized for cotton
rags alone in the United States is put s22 100000
per annum.
The new teu-versts to.au- inch map Of
Russia by NJ. Tlllo gives the following as the
| length of the chief rivers of the empire Volga,
210S miles (the verst being taken equal TO 0663
mile; Ural, ,isO miles; Dnieper, 1920 miles; Don,
liz miles; Kama. lii miles potchota 1924 miles,
and the Okla, 915 miles.
THE name California was given by Cortes
to the Pacific slope long before gold was known TO
| be hidden there 1t is taken from an old Spanish
romance, in which IL was the name OF an old island
filled with gold. The thirty sixth anniversary
of the first discovery of gold the south fork of
the American river In California occurred short
| time ago.
GEN. BERDAN is said to have invented a
new fuse for shell projectiles which cannot fail
to effect explosion at the right moment. The prin
ciple involved consists In utilizing the rotary
motion of the projecues to ignite fuse after the
former has made a certain number Of revolutions.
The rhng of the gun determines the space passed
over In each revolution, thus permitting tho ad-
justment.
Gov. RoBIE, of Maine, has been in Office
less than fourteen months and has already been
called upon to appoint the chief Justice and five
associate justices OF the supreme court of the state.
He will have TO appoint two others before he goes
out of Office and thus in his term of two years
will have appointed every justice on the bench.
a most Unusual If not unprecedented occurrence
in Maine.
CHICAGO ut last has its manual training
school open with sixty.f five scholars. The tool
instruction, as at present contemplated. will in
cude carpentry wood turning, pattern making,
iron chipping and fling forgework brazlng and
soldering; and the use of machine shop tools. Tho
course of study is to occupy two years. One hour
per day or moro will be given to drawing and
not less than two hours per day to shop work.
THE modest frame house In which Gen.
! Grant was born Is standing on ono Of the princi.
pal streets Of Point Pleasant, Ohio 1t stands some
, little distance from the river. and previous
, fl loods have ever reachedit A few days ago, how
ever 1t was entirely surrounded by water, and for
time 1t was feared that 1t might be swept away.
But 1t is still standing unharmed, and the family
who live in 1t have resumed their occupation Of
1t.
LEO XIII has now twelve red hats at his
0 disposal. 1t is understood that at the oonsstory
next month four will be given away two to French
Drelhtes. lne Otner TWO Will 30 10 tno ATCnDlSnOp
=, of Naples and the Patriarch of Lisbon. No Amer
lean prelates will be raised to the cardinalate
til after the Baltimore council The stories to the
contrary, 1t is sad were the creations of imagi-
native correspondents and oyersanguine friends
of certain prelates
f A LADY once heard Walter Scott tell Mrs.
@ Burbauld what made him become poot. He
minded her that when many years earlier she had
visited Edinburgh she had with her manuscript
| lpnfNyn nfT nf ~
This she had read to Dugald Stewart. He" said
o Scott repeated all he could remember of 1t TO
: me. and this madam was what made me poet.
% i had several times attempted the more regular
% kinds of poetry without success, but here was
'r something thought could do"
n A ScoTcH traveller says than in the cost
A and manner of travelling the difference between
!, England and America is overwhelmingly in favor
n of the latter country. The new first class Ameri-
a can cars exceed by far In elegance, convenience.
If and comfort the first class In England and In
V fact, no European monarch enjoys such comfort
IA and elegance in travelling as the Americans The
l. American check system it seems, is entirely un
. known in England, and the Scotch traveller
/. turned home to pronounce the British baggage
@ arrangements simply barbarous.
y SIR JOHN MACDONALD is pressing the pro-
posed railroad scheme from Winnipeg to Hudson's
bay by which the route from the Western grain
producing regions to Liverpool will be shortened
, a thousand miles. Active measures have already
~ been taken to determine the actual conditions OF
'o navigation and the offer Of subsidy Of 5000
mile and a land grant has been made as special
H. inducement to capitalists, The objection that the
W ocean route by that line would be obstructed fol
AZ six months OF the year by ice is drawback
III but is not considered insuperable.
The Canadians have begun to pick flaws in
Lord Lansdowne, their new governor general
The frat thing they have found out Is that he ID
a. not dipniaod enough. on a recent occasion he
es was sitting in his carriage in front of the Windsor
ic at Montreal, waiting for the marchioness. When
10 she made her appearance he thrust his head ou
n the window and sRid "Come along, my dear
~ Hurry up! hurry upl We haven't any timo Il