National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-26

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THE county commissioners of Fort Wayne,
Ind have returned to the old system of time aud
on Sunday the court house clock was set back
twenty eight minutes. All tue city and school
clocks in Fort Wayne were also set back tho fol-
lowing day.
PROF. PETERS, of Hamilton college. who ID
In Europe investigating the star catalogue of
Ptolemy, with view to an accurate edition, has
found several manuscripts In Greek, Latin and
Arabic, of the "Almagest hitherto not utilized by
modern scholors He isnow in Rome engaged in
a prolonged research in the vatican library.
30. MILLS, the capitalist is forty
min or" but not n miner. Instead OF trying his
luck with the pick, when no went to California,
he put his small capital into stock OF groceries,
and in ten years had accumulated quite fortune.
He supplemented his first venture by embarking
in innumerable enterprises, the principal one be-
ing the bank Of California, Of which he was pres
ident
THE English revenue for the past year
amounted to 800 035522 This is net increase
over the previous year of GO 690664. With the ex-
cepton OF miscellaneous receipts, which show a
decrease Of G230S43, there is All increase in every
branch of revenue, including e. 900 from the
property and income tax, $3.50, 900 from the Gus
toms, f3OO,7ss from stamps, f29OOOO from the post
Office 100000 from telographS, aud $4,000 from
house duty
ACCORDING to recently published Stats
tics, there is village situated near Paris where
| from 5000 to 5000 people employed In making
| agate buttons alone, surprising number when IL
is considered that in the year 1851 there only
6,93S buttonmakers all told, in England, of whom
1850 worked in one town. Pearl buttons come
| principally from Vienna, and shirt buttons from
Birmingham. while those made from glass
| produced in Bohemia. The annual output in this
country is valued at about SS,O00,00O
mo, HENRY" she said, with q counte-
nance full OF love and determination beautifully
blended, II cannot consent to be your wife thia
month, or even next month. Perhaps may in
| the gentle spring time" "But why not soouer,
dearest?" asked Henry, with face full Of
anxiety. swell. since you press me for my res.
son. dear Henry, / will tell you. The newspapers
say there will be thirty-eght SHOWS this winter.
and want to enjoy some of the good sleighing.
| l have noticed there isn't much sleighing for q
girl after marriage Henry" The wedding will
not take place till April.
THE estate of John Nicholson of Philadel-
phia who died in 1900, is just emerging from the
network of litigation in which 1t has been in
volvcd for eighty-th years. and its representa-
tive appeared in the orphans court on Monday To
ask for the distribution OF $1,000 coming from q
| settlement of one of the suits. At the same time
claim against this sum was presented in behalf Of
another estate which is the possessor of six notes
made by Mr.. Nicholson in 1876 and 1895, payable
to the order Of Robert Morris But the Judge held
that the notes were outlawed and disallowed the
claim. and the $500 was set aside for distribu-
| ton.
THE last report of the New Zealand Agri.
cultural society reveals that its managers have
found II necessary to resort to the Wholesale use
of poison In order to prevent their crops from
being entirely destroyed by rabbits. During the
three years which ended in October last. more
than 100000 pounds of poisoned oats were scat
tered over the companys estates with the result
that nearly 100000 skins were picked up aud
brought to market. As 1t Is certain that millions
OF poisoned rabbits die In their holes, leaving no
trace behind them, wo may infer what incalcula.
Bile numbers OF rabbits exist in Australia and
what an amount OF damage they inAict upon the
farmers.
EVERY one has Hitherto imagined that the
Esquimaux diminutlve men, with enormous
appetites, and most travellers have brought back
reports that they we're not particularly truthful
or hospitable. But all these notions have been
completely upset by DR.. John Rae's lecture at the
London institution. He distinctly denied thatthe
bodies of the Esquimaux were any smaller or
their appeites any larger than those OF other peo
pie. Then, too with very rare exceptions, they
are the Husbands OF one wife," and, what is more
remarkable, the men never beat the women and
the women never beat the children. And. lastly,
; DR.. Rae declares them TO be "most truthful re-
lators,' as well as accurate observers"
So FAR as expenses goes, it saves a visitor
to Engand's royal family little or nothing TO be
guest at "the palace" The tips which are given
) are enormous. When the Emperor Nicholas
passed Ascot week ut Windsor castle In 1874 he
. lett $4,000 for the servants, and gave twelve gold
and diamond SNUFF boxes to tho lords aud gentle-
men OF the household. In 1855 the Emperor
Napoleon gave IL 500 TO the Windsor servants,
A and last year the king of the Netherlands e&-
pended nearly 81 900 in the same way. In fact,
4 the lord steward keeps regular tariff Of what 10
!, expected, the amount varying according to the
rank of the guest and this Is formally presented
to the principal parsonage in attendance on him.
, "STEPNIAK," the author of Underground
Russia" writes to the London Daily Nelgs that five
years ago Soudeikin, an obscure pobeian infantry
Z captain, was unknown. He rose with the assass-
ination of the car. Having shortly before en-
tered the police from the army, he attracted the
attention OF Public Prosecutor Strelmikon, mon.
archiCal fanatic. who recommended him, though
but rs years Of age to the car for important work,
5 and he soon won golden opinions from his ma
d jesty. He was a born detective, and had a mar
Y velous art Of insinuating himself into the
fldence of prisoners. He openly avowed that ter
"a rorism was. in his opinion, the only remedy ap.
a plicable. To accomplish his aim he was abso-
II lutey Indifferent TO what eXpedienls he resorted,
. but he was not cruel. He often said that, sooner
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I. his best to make 1t later He had no fixed habi-
tation, and but very few knew where 10 find him.
stepnaik describes him as the most powerful sub
ject of tho empire. and thinks that 1t would be diff
hcult to exaggerate the CONSERVATION occasloned
= by his murder among the court party.
0 A YOUNG blood invited number of his
8 chums to supper with him at q popular club room
5 recently but when he approached the old gentle
man In regard to the finances he fatty refused to
a hand over the necessary amount The youth said
i he would be disgraced but 1t was all no use He
i was OH hand, however TO meet his friends, and
greeted them warmly. After the salutatons were
passed he said with his usual nonchalance: "Now,
what will you have-champagne, claret or some
y thing mixed p Not unnaturally his guests
responded that they would leave the selection to
o him. "Well" said the entertainer, ~ never feel
a quite sure OF champagne, The product ofgenuine
4 wine has been small Of late years. and the market
v Is flooded with spurious and injurious limitations.
l. And claret-the employment oflogwood aud the
10 admixture of Inferior Spanish wines reported by
our consuls has made me unwilling to use that.
And mixed drinks r-now you know that one never
knows what he Ia getting in mixed drink. After
rs ALL beer IL ABOUT the only thug you sure OF
n nowadays waiter, bottle OF Cincinnati and two
10 glasses. Or perhaps you will take sellzer2 No
all right then, let 1t DO beer.'