National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-05

GEN. BUTLER having been offered $4,000
by some western publishers to write book, to be
entitled THE Ups and Downs Of Political Life"
declined on the ground of being unacquainted
with the downs.
A DOWN east jury had to DO provided with
n dozen copies o" David Copperheld" recently.
in order to estimate In a libel suit the amount Of
damages the plaintiff had sustained in being
compared to Urlah Heep.
The gambling tables of Monte Carlo cost
the people fifty lives aud 10 100000 francs last year.
The record is startling one, and Is attracting
the attention of those, in authority. Monte Carlo
is correspondingy uneasy.
A RECENT issue of tho Christian Cynosotrc, of
Chicago gives up three pages to a sketch Of Hon.
James g. Birnoy. of Michigan, one Of the earliest
nti.slavery agitators. The paper was prepared
by his son, Gen. William Birney of Washington.
BJoRNsrIERN, the Norwegian poet, has left
Paris to take his trial with the liberal editors
ofhis country whoare being prosecuted by the king
The king and he are onemies since the day when
the poet challenged the king to mortal co mbat and
was contemporary refused.
"THE funnier kind of our newspapers"
says tho London Saturday Review, shave drawn on
the American press for their humor for so long
now that they may reasonably begin to initiate it
in other things. The Amercanization of our in.
stitutlon is fated to proceed space"
PRESIDENT NJ. G. FERNALD, of tho Maine
State college. finds from observations OF the
weather, extending over eighteen years. that
Saturday is the day on which m ost storms occur,
aud that, contrary to the general idea, Friday is
the day on which fewest storms occur.
TWENTY thousand people-men and
women, boys aud girls-are engaged in the manu-,
facture of cigars in the city Of New York 1t Is
estimated that the hands in single large factory
wt,,-N zls.-.
out of their allotment, aud rolling and filling the
cigars for themselves, labor being the main ele.
ment of cost
M. CoeUELIN, the great French actor, said
of Henry Irving just before his departure for
America II have the highest esteem and respect
| for Mr.. Irving, and will always be happy to meet
him In private life. Butt cannot consent to be
present at any entertainment at which my presence
may be construed an endorsement of his style of
acting. and as tacit confession Of my admiration
| for him Professionally"
| FROM experiments made upon the pulss
| and temperature, as affected by smoking it has
been found that the rate of both is increased. Let
| the average temperature of non smokers be rep
resented by 1000, then that of moderate smokers
would be ZOOS. and while the heart of the former
class was making 1000 beats, In the latter there
| would be l,lsO in the same space OF time. This
quckening of the action OF the heart 10 considered
dangerous symptom.
| UTAH has now 10000 small farms averaging
twenty-five acres and the whole must be irrigated.
There is only one large farm in the territory, and
i II is owned by a company The Great Salt Lake,
according to Elder Cannon, contains enough salt
to supply America for centuries All that is
necessary In preparing 1t for the market is to drive
to the edge Of the lake with wagon aud man
with pair of rubber boots can load 1t with
shovel. The salt lies on the bottom of the lake In
small coarse crystals. After loading 1t is taken to
a grinding machine and being run through it Ia
fit for the table.
IN many places on tn Pacific coast they
are now getting up what are called basket and
weight socials The programme for such party
roads about as follows: Each lady Will bring q
basket containing supper Tor two. The baskets
will be placed in the hands of u committee, who
will number them. Numbers will be placed on
slips of paper to correspond with the baskets.
The gentlemen will draw those slips Then each
will get his basket, which contains the name OF
the lady. He then fluids his lady, and conducts
her to the scale to re weighed, and pays cent
per pound for her and her basket
THE night of May 10, in New York city,
will DO n red letter event for the Frohman bro.
theirs. They will have three important attrao.
tons to open on that evening, namely, the Wal.
lack company in LADY Clare" at the Grand
opera house,; the Madison Square company in
Hazel Kirke." at the Peoples, and their own
companies in their new drama, "The Pulse of New
York" at the Star theater. The story of "Ths
Pulse of New York, the great drama that is to be
produced at Wallaok's Star theater May IL, 10 q
sentimental ono based on actual facts, some OF
which are recorded ut police headquarters. The
prototypes of the characters all living celsbr
ties.
BIOLOGISTS are now claiming that the
Rocky mountains have been raised to their present
height by the action of heat under them, while In
parts where the earth is cooling most rapidly II IL
sinking. OF the coast of Florida the coast survey
operations have brought up from the bottom o.
the deep sea the remains of animals that lived
ages upon ages ago in the bottoms ofrivers oil
upon land. The evidence that they were no
washed out to sea was abundant In the English
channel, hundreds of feet deep, were found rich
stores of mammoth ivory. The animals had died
where the remains were found long before
there was any water there
ON one occasion when tho elder Agassi,
was gathering specimens in Florida, he was stunG
In the palm of the hand by some unknown srecl.
men of insect that had been liberated from 4
large mass, lie had finished his superficial ex
animation and was about TO throw 1t into the al
cohol when 1t turned upon him. He fell instantly
TO the floor. When he recovered he said I'll
wouldn't take thousand dollars for that eIpe
rience" He was likewise highly elated whes
stung by n coral insect. The sting is as cayenne
pepper to the tongue. There is sharp burning
sensation for minute, and that is all. Agassii
had a piece of coral In his mouth when a live In
sect suddenly thrust its sting into him.
A LADY who has been looking into tn,