National Republican., 1884-04-18

That light immortal, soul be brave,
Must beam again beyond the grave
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sAS FRANCISCO CAL, Sept. 20, 1883.
THE highly appropriate name of a Brook
lyn beer saloon keeper is Mugge.
GEN. GORDON is said to bo the only Chris
tian who is prayed for in the mosques at Mecca.
Ir is reported that lady who could con-
verse IN twenty languages recently died in
| New York We regret never having met her. 1t
would probably have done US both good to hayo
talked together for while.
BALzAc, the French novelist, was the n-
| vontor of the word "chlc," now 50 commonly
used Like Carlyle. no had au extensive and
wonderful vocabulary, ana would often coin
words TO express his meaning
REV. MOSES ANDERSON, of jackson county,
| Missouri, sent his hired man TO bring his Intended
bride TO his homo for the marriage ceremony. She
| fell IN love with the hired man on the way, and
they went 10 hotel, sent for minister, and were
married.
A NEW poetess from the west remarks: "If
love you give, no moro I'll ask" When this
poetoss has gained little more experience sho
will learn that there arc times when a single cold
| potato possesses more intrinsic worth than whole
moonlight evening full oflove.
FEMALE communist-"An' II ye had all the
money in the world divided, Pat, what wud 70 do
wild your share?' Male oommunst--"spend 1t
| like brick, Nora avck." Female communist-
can what wud ye do then. Pat2" Male commuil-
ist-"share oil the money over again, av coorse"
IN an article by Charles +. living on Gifts
to Colleges and Universities recently published,
| II is stated that the amount contributed to COL
| lege and university education In the United States
during the past ten years Is s35, 5,622O0 and since
1917 the total amount given has not been less than
S5O,OOO,OOO.
WITH all tho inducements offered for hirta-
| ton by the propretors Of the seaside resorts no
one seems 10 have tn ought of series of comfora-
bly, padded front gates with hinges that won't
creak aud other attributes dear to the heart Of the
susceptible. dollar an hour would be cheap
rental for this sort of thing.
WILLIAM NowLAND d. known as the king of
the Orkney gypsles, died recently at tho age Of
l02 years, leaving widow whose age is over 90.
| Nowlund's age is said TO be matter of record
the island Of Westray. At the time OF his funeral
his widow coolly smoked her pipe when prayers
were being said over the grave.
THE interesting incidents" accompanying
the recent heavy winds are beginning to come in.
A North Carolina man, whose house was demol-
ished, afterward found his watch hanging on a
small limb of a tree that had been blown down In
| the yard, the chain wrapped several times around
the limb. 1t was ticking away as If nothing had
happened ...'
CHEAT as was Charles Reade's literary sue
cess he had one griet. 1t was that he had been
denied membership in certain clnb. II was
| proposed by Collins and seconded by Dickens. but
they wouldn't have me,' ho often said. When,
| asked why he so lamented the fact, the hale old
man replied because there wasn't a gaslight in
the house. 1 do like to read by a good sperm
| CANDLE"
IT is stated that since the death of Mr.. J.
| H. Parker, the well known oxford publisher, it
has trauspred that Mr.. Keble originally offered
| the late Mr. Joseph Parker the copyright of "The
Christian Year" for 500, but that he refused It.
During the forty years which followed the publi-
cation of this work nearly 100000 copies werei
sold, and Mr. Keble's share of the profits amounted
to $4,000, being one-fourth of the retail price,
Mr.. NUDE, of the celebrated library be-
gan In 1SiO In small way. His success resulted
from his ability in selecting books As Carlyle
said to him, he was the one who selected the
sheep from the goats. The library has purchased
for its subscribers 100000 volumes. For one
guinea year three books may be taken out at O
time. Every week 100 boxes of books are sent out
to the country. At the counter there are 1000 ex-
| changes daily.
THE receipts by England's customs officers
on account of revenue from the lst of April 1883,
when there was balance of &c 972,780, to the 10Th
of March, 1884, were fS3,49i 56O against fs4,27l.-
900 in the corresponding period Of the preceding
financial year, which began with balance OF
f5976,js5. The net expenditure was E7s,507, $40,
against ISL s2i 1856 to the date in the previous
year. The treasury balances on the 18th OF March
amounted to eli, ,33o,675, and at the same date In
1883 to 60 2367T.
The late Wendell Phillips, just before the
war, while addressing a New Haven audience
composed largely Of Yale men. not few of whom
were from the south, found occasion, as illustra-
tive of goodness and integrity to use the name Of
Washington. Immediately recalling his words,
he said! 81 will not use the name of Washington,
for the Father of his Country held slaves" A
number of tho audience hissed, whereupon Mr..
Phillips, with q wel-known dignity and grace
advanced to the edge of the platform and said II
repea, the Father of his Country held slaves
tmore hsses,l and thereby robbed history faint
hssesl and insuled God" After that outburst
there wasperfect silence, and the speaker was not
sabject to further annoyance.
THE great question of opening yabhDs
Libraries. picture galleries. and museums on ScnA
days has been pressed in the house of lords by
Lord Thurlow, the Duke of Westminster, and Lord
Carlingford. Their opponents, however, led by
Lord shaftesbury, the Duke of Somerset, and the
Archbishop Of Canterbury, were too strong for
thom although the strongest arguments were on
the losing side The Sabbatarlans claim that the
opening of the museums, 50 far from tending to
the elevation of the working classes, wonld lead
; to their demoralization-whichs sounds like sort
ofpuzzle. The archbishop, however brings out a
settler: "There is feeling in England about the
observance of Sunday which docs not exist in any
other country, and which 1t is most desirable to
keep up"
In their accounts of the robbery at Wind
sor castle the papers describe Lohlein as "secre-
tary" to the queen. lie was confidential valet to
Prince Albert for twenty. three years. and on the
death of his master he was appointed personal
servant to the queen and latterly he held that
post Jointly with John Brown; but after "the
Highlander" grew in favor Lohloln obtained
leave to discontinue his attendance on her
, majesty at Balmoral and Osborne, and stayed
entirely at Windsor, where capital house within
the castle precincts was assigned to him for res.
idenCe. His duties merely nominal, and he
has always occupied an exalted position in the
household and was one Of the very few of the
queens servants who were quite beyond the
range of Browns influence.
( CIPRIAN LA GALA, the ferocious and des.
perate brgand who has been chained TO a massive
stone wall oil tho island Of Elba for number of
years, is dead. He had been proven guilty of fifty
murders and numerous robberies. lie was once
dashing and prominent officer of militia, but the