National Republican., 1884-01-18

I'm peaceful even when they toost me,
And still when in broil.
They swallow me alive as did the Roman,
And drown me with cup
OF bitter ale, ut for an English yeoman,
And sometimes throw me UP.
But now I'm OH a strike; the winter ice is
My very greatest friend;
lfyou will note my latest market prices
You'll find they upward iond.
The holy monk within his lonely cloister
May never eat clam,
Nor yet a juicy, fat, deaf and dumb OYSTER
And that's just what am.
Waller Cooper.
FULLY 100000 rabbits will be sent to the
eastern cities this winter from Indianapolis, The
headquarters Tor Indiana Illinois and Missouri
rabbits. ....
AN enormous bed OF the finest white clay
has lately been found in France not far from
Limoges to whose famous porcelain manufactures
the discovery is lone Of great Importance.
QUITE number of toothless indvidualsin
Iowa are out cunning for a travelling dentist who
pulled out their teeth Free and collected half the
price of new sets which he forgot to bring around
A GERMAN doctor says: "Melt some sus-
pecied butter, soak worsted or a wick in II, when
rod light II like a candle, blow It OUT IL Il Is
I
candle; lift Is butter, it will smell like butter"
The compiler of English as She is WROTE"
claims To have found in an otherwise sober &C.
count of shIpwreck the following passage: "The
captain swan ashore. So did the chambermaid;
she was insured for a large sum and loaded with
pig iron"
GEN. HASTINGS, who. o few years since,
married niece of Mrs r. B. Hayes, is reddingin
Bermuda, where he pays great attention to grow
| ing water-lilies. This year he has over 100000
| coming on. He has built an elegant house on O
point ofthe island called Fairy Land"
LITTLE son Of Morgan Hensley, of Iowa
Falls, Iowa, had q lively day Of it recently. In
| the morning he fell out ofa chair and broke his
collar bone. At noon he drank an ounce Of pare
| goric, which nearly killed him, and in the even
ing hogs got into the house and tried TO eat him
up.
MATTHEW ARNOLD. anticipating Buffalo
| reporters query as TO whether he intended writ
| ing book on America, said: "oh, no; have no
| idea OF writing book on America. It will take
| me long time to come TO that conclusion, should
| ever do so. My ideas must be fixed into convic-
| tions before could undertake such q work"
CLAUS SPREcKLEs, the Hawaiian sugar
king is 60 years DID, and is by birth Hanoverian.
He is compactly built, of medium height, with
white hair, iron gray wbiskers, and iorid face.
| He landed in South Carolina thirty years ago
without n cent, went to San Francisco, and, after
laying the foundation of his fortune, began his
| sugar Investments in Hawaii,
PRoF. AYRToN is Of the opinion that the
day for electric ricycles has not yet come, because
| Of the difficulty Of getting the supply Of stored
electricity replenished, though he believes that
| the period is not far distant when that curious
contriyance, an electric tricycle. may be taken on
q tour, and the smallest item Of expense will be
that chargeable to electricity.
AN oleander tree near Spanishtown, Fla,
covers space Of ground thirty.six feet in dame-
| ter from the ground to the tip Of the topmose
limb is twenty-five feet; at the surface OF the
ground the trunk 10 divided into twenty or twenty-
five separate stems, the group being at least fve
feet through, and one single stem is by actual
| measurement fourteen inches thick.
FRIENDS OF Gov. Ireland, of Texas, quote
him as saying in q speech at the Stockmens con-
vention in Austin in reference to the fence cut
ters: 'It has been charged that advised the use
Of the shotgun. No, but want you In your daily
walk TO do your whole duty. II you catch man
cutting your fence and shoot him-well / will
make no pledges az to what would do with you"
THOMAS VAN VALIN, of Syracuse. who was
1o years old last Saturday expects see his lI5h
birthday, for his grandfather lived to that age,
and his father undoubtedly would have done SO
had he not been cut off untimely by accident
in his l05th year. great uncle of Thomas dieu
at the age of 112, and three cousins Joseph John,
and Isaac Van Yaln, lived 10 be respectively los,
100, 10. ..
YVES GUYoT, the Paris journalist tells
how King Louis XVIII, when he returned from
exile, asked Fouche II his movements had been
| watched by spies. Fouche admitted that the Due
: dc Blacas had been so employed. "And how
much did you give him ?" asked Louis. 1.-TWO
hundred thousand livres," was the reply Good"
said the monarch, II find he did not cheat me-
We went halves"
The first Jewish settlers in New York city
were twenty seven exiles, banished from Bahia,
in Brazil, on the general expulsion of the Jews
from that kingdom, who came here in 1854 as the
nearest place of refuge, After fifty years they
comprised but 100 persons, and for 40 years had
but one synagogue. To-day there are thirty-one
Synagogues in the city, and the Jewish population
is estimated at s0,000
THE new postoffice at Atlanta, Ga, cost
s275Oo Offices In other cities cost follows, the
cost of the site not being included Cairo, ILL.,,
s2s5.OO0; Des Moines, Iowa. S2So.0O0 Fall River,
Mass, ssSo,0oo Hartford Conn.,, s43sOoo city of
much less population than Detroit; indianapolis,
10000; Knoxville, Tenn, s3ss.OoO; Madi on, Wis,
sSi4,Oo Mobile, S594,00O; Nashville, SiO5, ,ooo
Raleigh, N. c., $4,000; St. Paul. s445,cOo.
HOTEL proprietor in Pittsburg, q few
days ago, secured an attachment against The prop.
erty Of a theatrical troupe for an unpaid board
bill. Among the property Of the troupe was q
performing bear. When the sheriff attempted to
levy on the bear at the lyceum the animal chased
.bm about the building. and for some minutes it
looked as though the bear would succeed in at.
tHching the sheriff. Finally the keeper helped
the official to make the Rocky Mountain Ierror
prisoner both In fact and in law.
RETURNS published in the London Econo-
mist reveal the singular fact that the consumption
of coffee in England has declined during the last
four years from 100000 cwt TO 2s50O0 cwt., which
!, allows considerably less than one pound per
capita annually, as against more than five pounds
Of tea. The annual consumption per capita in
, France is three and half pounds; In Germany,
FIVE pounds in scandinavian countries six
pounds; in the United States eight and quarter
pounds, aud in Belgium, nine pounds Holland
probably surpasses Belgium, but the statistics on
that point are not satisfactory.
A shIPwREcKEp sailor who has just es-
capped from New Guinea gives thrilling account
/ Of the perils and hardshps he encountered among
the sayages. Several sailors captured at the same
were roasted and eaten by the natives, but Leroy
Strickland made his escape after hard nght New
d Guinea Is full OF mineral wealth but the inhsbi-
S tants are the worst OF cannibals. Missionaries,
: ship crews and travellers are killed and eaten
i there every year, and the country can never be