National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-15

And to the apparition thus he sail,
what writest thou In that peculiar book 20
Tho demon sized him up with one short look,
Ana said, The names of those whom Satan loves
the best"
and is mine one p quoth Pasha. NAY, not sou
Replied the evil one Then murmured low
The guardian Of the peace; ~ pray thee then,
Write me as one who loves his felIow.men
Too iondly to annoy them with arrest,
But lets their evil dolngs be suppressed
The vision wrote and vanished. The next nieht
He came again with an electric light
And showed the names whom Satan loved tha
best,
And lol Dye Pasha's name led all the rest.
Keep II Dark
New YORK CITY lost nearly $5,oOo,0oo in
February by fires. .i
THE loss of property by the recent Ohio
floods is now estimated at some SlO,OOOoOO.
AN eagle captured year ago by n gentls-
man near Tazewoll Court House, Va, now runs AZ
large with its owners chickens and feeds with
them. .. ....0
VICTOR HUGO is now devotng several hours
every day to the final revision OF his works for
the complete form in which lie wishes to leave
them to postority.
Ar the auction sale of the library of the
late Henry G. Murphy, the history Of Delaware
TO the Pennsylvania state library for S2i
SANTA ANNA once said of our old rough,
and.ready Gen. Taylor at Buena Vista: 81 whipped
that ID Yankee general FIVE times that day,
bvt he did not know enough to be aware of 1t,
There's no use in fighting such a man as that"
HIRAM JACOBS, the Oldest citizen of Sturgs,
Mich, had the novel experience of being buried
few days in :" a coffin made Of wood from wall
nut tree OF his own planting. The tree was
planted upon his return from the Black Hawk
war, in 1882"
Miss FoRTEsCUE is playing to ovorhowing
houses, but no improvement Is observable In the
artificial character OF that ladys impersonations
Managers Clayton and Cecil pay her ESQ week.
Her weekly stipend at the Savoy theater before
the Garmoyle incident was only E3.
AN ingenious thief at Temple, Texas re-
Gently stole three shoes, oil belonging to the LEFT
foot. which merchant displayed in his store
window. The right-hand mates 10 the stolen
shoes were then put in the same window, and u
short time after they were also stolen
The inference that Mr.. Frederick Gebhard
and Mrs. Langtry are now total strangers is cons
pletely erroneous Mr.. Gebhard's attentions ia
Mrs. Langry are not at present characterized by
that publicity which marked them year ago, yet
they are on the most friendly terms
The oldest Freemason in England, James
Newton, died in Yorkshire suddenly few weeks
ago in his s9th year. He had been tyler of the
lodge in the town where he lived for fifty seven
years. one of his associates years ago was tho
renowned centenarian, Matthew Greathead.
A CHICAGO belle at Jacksonville, Fla,
found herself in need Of pnir of new shoes, and
posted into the nearest shop and called for pair
Of CATERS. The polite clerk. rubbing his hands
over prospective sale, said he had Just received
fresh supply of real beauties, and marching the
young lady the length of the store uncovered q
box with about 200 gators OF all sizes scramb.
ling in every direction.
SPEAKING Of the ages of London editors
the Pail Mall Gorete says: Take the great dailies,
Mr.. Mudford, Of the Standard; Mr.. Hill, Of the
Daily Nepsi Mr.. Edwin Arnold, of the Telegraph,
are we believe in the tifties are Mr. Hutton, Of
the Spectator, and Mr.. Frederick Greenwood, Of
the 81. James Gazette, and Mr.. Burnand, OF Punch.
On the other hand Mr.. Pollock. of the Saturday
ReUietc, is on the right sido OF 49,"
AN old rag picker, who died lately in Paris,
made will i'll which he directed that his funeral
should take place at o'clock in the morning and
that his furniture consisting, to all appearances,
Of one old mattress, should become the property
of those who followed his body TO the graveyard.
When the procession started there was only one
man In 1t, and he got the mattress, which, when
ripped open, was found to contain $4,000 ia cash,
WHEN the cholera panic reached its highest
point in England last summer. humber of enter
prising philanthropsts recommended that every
body should secure personal immunity from the
plague by looming belt ofplated "copper" Twenty
thousand copper belts were manufactured in Joy
full anticipation of the coming Of the cholera. But
the cholera didn't come, and the copper protectors
have been rechristened as "hysienic belts against
stoutness."
THE French crown jewels to be sold on an
| M dnf ha fam IA
was valued at the commencement of the century
at l2O00.0O0f. This celebrated stone will be dis.
posed of privately, owing 10 its exceptional
character. The others will be put up by auction
| in one of the rooms of the ministry of finance.
under the eyes of government delegate, Gordon
separating the public from the table on which the
jewels will be deposited.
THERE has been an enormous increase Of
late years in the consumption of drugs used in
nervous affections In the central hospital phar-
macy of Paris tho amount of bromide of potassium
sold in 1866 was but three kos in 1870 1t had in
creased 70 $50 kilos; in 1875 TO $50 kios anu for
the past ten years had increased all over Paris In
like proportions. Quinine, morphine, and bro
mide are said to be the three great popular druga
| OF civilization"
| A NEW YORK doctor told mesmerist to his
face that there was nothing in mesmerism He
touched the doctor on the nose and told him it
|
to have The cold spell removed. He laughed and
went away but 1t was noticed that he kept feeling
his nose OH the sly. Then he asked a man if there
was anything wrong with his nose, and it wasn't
an hour until he went to the mesmerist and asked
him to remove the spell, as his nose felt as If it
were freezing.
RkWHEN the Book of Mormon" was pub
lished in 1850 there was published with it a cer-
tifcate of three men, afterward known as the
"three witnesses" who declared that they saw all
angel of God come down with the golden book
which Joseph Smith Interpreted. Subsequently
all three OF these men renowned MoTmonism
and declared their testimony false. David +.
Whitmer, one of the three, Is now living, In his
eightieth year, In Missouri lie was a brother i'm
law of Oliver Cowdry, who wrote a copy of the
book for Smith.
THE bronze statue of Gov. Buckingham,
of Connecticut, is now on exhibition In Phiadel-
phia and will be sent to Hartford in a few days,
TO be placed In the capitol. Tho work was done
by order Of the Connecticut legislature, fromrde-
signs by olin L.Walner, and the cost has been be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000. Gov buckingham is
represented as sitting in what might DO called
chair of state seeming as II listening to some i'm
portant discussion and about to rise and speak.
In his right hand he holds roll OF manuscript
and his dress s modern.
CANCER very seldom appears in persons
under 80. 1t usually comes between 10 and go.