National Republican., 1884-03-06

CHARLES WHITE, of Thorndike, Me-, has
three yokos of oxen whose united weight is 2,2lo
pounds. 0Ge yoke measures s feet inches, and
weighs 1865 pounds
IT is fact, perhaps rarely known, that
three Bansors-Bansor, Me-; Bangor, Nor;hamp-
ton county, Pa and Bangor, in wales.-are the
leading slate marts of the world
FISHERS ISLAND, Long Island sound will
soon be stocked with quail, English hares, and
partridges by party of New York and Conuectl-
cut gentlemen who have secured control of the
| lands.
SAN ANTONIO (Tex.) German insured
his life for 81 900 in favor Of his wife, upon learn
Ing which the woman became furious declari
that her husband had sold himself to the devil
deserted him aud cannot be found.
HENRY VILLARD's familiar face is once
more seen on Wall street-a little careworn, per-
haps, but showing no other sign of the ordeal
through which he has passed. His family aro also
still living in their new homo in New York city.
DURING the present century 150,0O0,O00
copies Of the Bible have been printed in 226 diff
| ferent languages The United States contributes
annually S75,000.0O0 for sustaining the churches
and ministry, aud So, 100000 for purely benovo-
| lent purposes.
| DUMAS still retains in France his rights in
Camille" from which already he has realized
living But Marie Duplessis, who furnished the
portrait for Marguerite Gautier, died long ago,
and once year Dumas places o wreath on her
| tomb.
M. LALANDE, deputy Of the Gronde, is ono
of tho French statesmen who favor the mporta-
| tion of American pork "Allow me to congratu-
late you on being friend of the transatlantic
hog" said q caller 10 him. "oh, no." he replied:
~ nun his worst enemy. would like to: kill and
eat him"
SIR ARTHUR PEEL, the now speaker of the
English house of commons, carefully rehearsed
his first speech, the Eossps say before master OF
eocution. Nevertheless he was ashen pale when
he arose to deliver 1t, and on formally taking the
chair is said to have been as painfully nervous as
II going to the gallows.
The receiver in bankruptcy of William
Day, the London horse trainer. has made a state
ment to the effect that "plunger" Walton owed
Day G47b for keeping horse; that Day tried to
get the money. but failed and that Walton was 90
heavily involved that Day was willing 10 sell the
debt for ElOo. but received no offers
The annual rainfall in this country, ac-
cording to the Weather Signal, is lowest In New
Mexico (l3 inches) aud California Us lnches, and
highest in oregon G9l and Alabama t56). The On
nual rainfall in the British islands among the
mountains is Al inches; on the plains. 25 inches,
45 inches OF rain falls the west side Of England,
27 on the east side.
THE queen has presented a portrait of herr
self to the officers and seamen of the Hector,
which has lately boon employed as guardship Off
East Cowes during the residence of the court at
Osborne, 1t is an engraving from the portrait by
Angeli at Windsor CASTLE and is inclosed in a
handsome frame. 1t has been placed on the aft
deck OF the vessel.
ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER photographs John
Ruskin a very different looking man from what
the aesthetic world has fondly fancied him. He
makes him but feet inches TALL with an iron
gray beard extending up TO his eyes, low and
retreatrg forehead and long hair, which, like
Tennysons for years, has had no acquaintance
with comb or brush.
THE empress Of Austria is advised to visit
Wiesbaden and she will arrive there ON Wednes-
day, March 12 and is to stay for three weeks.
Sixty rooms have been taken at the Vier Jahres-
zeiten, the largest hotel the Theater Platz, op-
posite the Kursaal, for the accommodation OF the
empress and her suite. The empress will pass the
month OF April at Heidelberg.
The late James Stokes's estate is valued at
s6, 100000. The reason that Mrs. Henry Dale his
daughter 10 trying TO break the will is that she 10
named iu the document as one who shall receive
life interest only In the estate. The case Is be-
ing argued before Surrogate Rollins In New York,
and Mr. Eyarts is the senior counsel for the testa-
tors sons, who seek to uphold the will.
PLAYING poker for horse-thief's head
was recent amusement lnnulgcu IN Dy several
men iu an Idaho town. The thief had be e1n shot
by his captors, and when they found the size of
the reward no small that it was not worth their
while to go In body after 1t, they cut of the Grim
inars head put II up In o Jackpot and played
poker for 1t, the winner taking the head and, pre-
scntng II, got the entire reward himself
, THE latest development of Photographic art
Is called luxotype. II is an English Invention,
and is said to be process by which printing
| haA vo1 1fn and E,r
use on any printing press, can be produced by
. photography and machinery from any object
n which can be photographed, this being done
without the aid OF draughisman or engraver.
: The rapidly with which tho work Is done renders
the process peculiarly applicable TO the illustra-
l ton Of daily newspapers.
APRoPos of the club gambling scandal in
Paris correspondent writes: "Louis XIV himself
= was not free from the vice OF cheating. one day
/ he was playing with the Marquis de RohAn, his
. first valet de chAmbre 4 have got four kings, said
y Louis. The marquis suspected n trick, as lie held
/, king himself and the heather Chinse was not
v yet invented. Il have got five EnRVes-' capped
u the marquis How can that beF ION the same
: principle OF your maje.y, who includes himself
Four knaves In hand aud myself make Eve! A
# knaye Is called valet In French
{ Mrs. HORACE GREELEY had an Antipathy
# for Md gloyeH-she would never put them on. A
e correspondent remembers bout she had with
: Margaret Fuller on this subject. We all met on
" the street, aud instead OF saying good morning
= or some such human sslutation, Mrs. Greeley
s touched Margarets hand with little shudder and
If said: skin Of a beasti Skin ofA beastl" why,
, what DO you wear9" inquired the astoniahed
, maiden from Maine. "sllk," said Mrs. ereeley,
y reaching out her hand. Margaret Just touched II
0 and shuddered. crying, "Eutrails OF worm
10 EntTailS Of n wlrm!'
70 DURING the eight months that the Brook
q lyn bridge has been opened 10 the public II has
ir earned sos 2s and this basis the trustees est
= mate the earnings for the whole year, making al
loyance for the fact that cars have been run only
III four months at s52l $40 The cost OF maintaining
$ the bridge Is estimated A. s1so,OOO annually and
rs the annual Interest the bonds IL about u 600
c. co., making tho yearly deneit over $4,000. Il u
O. fur, apparently irretrieyAbly far, from being
"A paying investment; but hopes Of greatly increased
I travel are entertained, whsu Brooklyn shall haY,
: completed her rapid transit system.
a LORD HAMPDES THAT IL, Speaker Brand
that wasl Is "a lucky man, Ito has for ssyeTa
years enjoyed salary of $1,000 and has lived IN
a splendid residence maintained al the public eN
ponse, for presiding over tho house OF commons
of This duty was by no means onsrOus except thS
rs few occasions when tho Irish members wer,
M troublesome But now, la reward for a somowhA