National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-01

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Chicago NetOs
JOHN G. THOMPSON, who has boon i'll for
some time at his home in Ohio shows no signs of
recovery, and there are fears that his sickness
may prove more serious than was at first sup
| posed
STEPS arc being taken to commemorate the
50Oth birthday OF John Wycline. lie is supposed
to have been born In Richmond. Yorkshire and
funds aro being raised to restore tho Wycliae
church ut that place.
The Chazie apples of Canada sometimes
bring as much as $40 II barrel in London. In 1856
| this famous variety was found growing wild OF
tho farm Of man named Chazie, near Niagara
Falls. The fruit has the muskmeon flavor.
THE rooms at Windsor castle which the
late John Brown occupied. and which are to bo
closed by order Of the queen, will be closed per-
manently. In the sitting room will he placed a
large brass plate recording Browns virtues and
deporng his loss.
| A KANSAS Cry butcher stood close to a
| door with long, sharp knife in his hand. The
door was just then violently opened and the
blade was driven into his body. The wound thus
inflicted would not have proved fatal; but the
| pain was great, and the man crafty stabbed him
| self to death.
Mr.. VILLARD's financial troubles have
had. according to the London Globe a bad effect
upon promising young Berlin artist who had
been invited by him to paint u colossal picture
COMMUNICATING the opening Of the Northern Pa
ciiic railroad. The young man had Just begun
work on 1t when news reached him OF his patron
failure.
MR.. BARRETT the tragedian, and George
| ii. Boxer, the author of FRANCESCA da Rimini"
| have had disagreement about the royalty to be
paid for the right to perform the tragedy They
| are not on speaking terms in consequence of the
actor refusing to receive Mr. Bokerwh he called
on him in the dressing room OH the conclusion of
| the play one night in New York.
THE knot or nautical mile is variously
reckoned at from 6,07G to 6,l25 feet According TO
the standard of the British admiralty the knot is
the length of one minute of Longitude ut the equa.
tor, or 6OS6 feet l527 statute inches, or 1855
meters. The mean length of latitude, sometimes
reckoned as knot, Is 800 feet 1l5l statute mile
or 1852 meters. marine league is three of these
| sea miles.
| SIXTEEN years ago law was passed pro-
| viding Tor the gradual manumission of slaves in
Cuba, of whom there were at that time about
| $500 So well has this law been administered
| tho planters in many cases showing willingness
to act even in anticipation of its provisions that
2SoOOO slaves have been already set Free and there
are good grounds for hoping that during the year
| the curse of slavery will finally be removed from
that island.
| II OF ueep concern is Delng awak-
ened in Wall street by the proposition to remove
| the New York stock exchange from its present
| slte The members of the exchange are unaui-
| nous In their desire for more commodous quar-
tiers. 1t is the wish of large proportion of the
members to move further up town, and there are
many Jealous advocates of q scheme TO buy
block ofland and erect magnificent building in
the vicinity OF Union Square.
ACCORDING to the Military World sack
O1n N. 10
moisture as leather by stepping 1t in decoction
of one pound Of oak bark with fourteen pounds
Of boiling water The quantity is sufficient tor
eight yards of stuff. The cloth has to soak
twenty-four hours, when 1t is taken out, passed
through running water, and hung up to dry. The
lax and hemp hbers, in absorbing the tannin, are
q I the same time better fitted to resist wear.
IN France are about 100000 Protestants of
Observation-Disclosures Many Of the churches to
which these Protestants belong are very poor
Some OF them have no ministers nor any fund,
with which ministers could be paid At least
one-tenth OF the churches are without hope of
ever being able to support pastors. Some have
been without pastors for moro than a dozen years.
Within year eighteen ministers have Withdrawn
because Of the impossibility of obtaining u sup
port.
A JAPANESE correspondent having assumed
that the mikado was unpopular, he receiving no
cheers while passing through the streets in state
on his birthday a Japanese gentleman writes to
explain that cheering would be regarded there as
disorder. He further explains that the act of u
young lady who wrapped up piece of cake and
put 1t in her sleeve at the foreign minister's recep-
ton is quite good FORM" and is accepted as an
indication of high satisfaction which she wishes
TO enable those at home to share.
SOME interesting relics of Napoleon were
recently sold at auction at Hastings. They con.
sisted Of three views Of ST. Helena, an occasional
table made from willow tree which grew over
the grave of the emperor and mahogany chair
bearing the following inscription in brass "Ths
chair, which was the last Napoleon Bonaparte sat
ill., was at his bedside when he died, and was
brought over to England by GOV. Charles Dallas"
The articles, which belonged to the late Mr.. w.
s. Alexander were sold for GIG 3s the chair real.
, i2lng ell,
f EX-SECRETARY EvARTs tells a delightful
story ut his own expense about small donkey
which he sent up to his country seat for the use
of his children. One OF his little daughters going
out with her nurse to admire the animal in ita
D paddock, was screly distressed when tho donkey
! lifted up its voice and prayed dOlefully Poor
! thing. Poor thing" exclaimed the sympathetic
child, but, suddenly Frightening up, she turned
, to her nurse and said "Oh am so glad, Papa
will DO here on Saturday and then 1t WON'T feel
so lonesome"
The English trade in frozen meat from the
only 400 carcasses were imported, while in 1883
1850 were landed in England, being 62 1888 from
2 Australia aud 1912 from New Zealand. Twenty
one cargoes arrived in perfectly satisfactory
, condition, seven were not quite so good, while
, three were unquestionably bad For New Zea-
? land meat the lowest prices obtained were 10
cents a pound for sheep and l6 cents for lambs.
{ In the case of Australian mutton the highest
prices paid for sheep was 10 cents and for lambs
is cents Australian frozen beef does not seem TO
be in much demand, as the importation of
quarters has fallen OFF from 1873 in 1881 to 1853 in
1888
In tho latest issue Of tho "Almanach de-
: Gotha" the population of Europe is estimated To
be composed as follows: Norway has the smallest
number of inhabitants TO the square kilometer:
with an area Of about three fths of that of Ger
many she has only q twenty-aith OF the popula-
ton of the Fatherand. The fair sex is relatively
most largely represented in Portugal, which has
1851 females to every 1000 male inhabitants Ger
. many comes next with 1929 women to every 900
. men, In ono of the smaller German states, Wall
deck the proportion IN this respect even exceeds
i that of Portugal namely, l,O9S women to every
900 men, while In the neighborlng principally
of schaumberg- Lippe the men have the upper
hand, there being about 995 women to every 1000
o men. The greatest surplusage of men is found in
II Greece, where to every 1000 men there are only
900 women.