National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-04


Lee C. Hlrbv, IN The Current
The bones of Red Jacket the lannon's In
dian, which are in savings bank vault in Buff
falo, will Don he buried in the Forest Lawn ceme-
terry, near that city.
| A NUMBER Of old English coins, supposed to
have been dropped and lost by British Hessians
on their march back or forth in Jersey, have been
| found on a farm near Keyport
TIMES are hard with some of the news
papers OF Arkansas. The Tcxakana Netus says: If
the gentleman arrested for stealing wood will call
OF this Office he can secure job.
IMPORTED silk now comes from New Jer-
sey, English pudding is manufactured in Della
ware, French sauces are made iu Connecticut, and
| Rhine wines are bottled in California.
BISMARCK" We'll, Billy, how goes it ?"
Emperor william" I'm feeling like jay bird.
Send out an official bulletin that I'm not able to
get out of bed, and let's see what these dunder.
headed Frcnchmen will say about u.s.
THE legislature of Arizona offered Sc for
every Apache scalp brought in aud the Indian
hunters not being very successful in bringing in
the genuine article, Connecticut genius in that
section of the country invented and made q
scalp which very nearly passed muster.
INDIANAPOLIS cergymen have struck q
| terrible blow at the undertakers profession.
| They join in recommending that funerals be held
on week days and in private houses, that the
corpse be secluded from the public, and that
burial be private on the day after the ceremony
THERE are more varieties Of climate in the
United States than any other nation can show. It
Is about the only country in the world where
| man wrapped in fur coat and with cap pulled
down over his ears can telegraph to friend, and
have his message received by an operator sitting
in his shirt sleeves and tanning himself with q
straw hat.
THE tea drinkers Of America form an army
of no small proportions Judging by the statistics
of teas imported. The total importations for the
last four years 1880, 81 746,401 pounds; 1884,
79ss6,710 pounds; 1882, 74,507,si0 pounds; 1888,
630oO,OOO pounds. The imports of last year were
Greens, 100000 pounds; blacks (all kinds,
lS5OOO0O0 pounds; Japans, 80, 900 pounds.
DARBY GREEN, of Redding, Conn, is the
Oldest man in that state. He was born IN 1910,
and is now In his 105th year. His faculties are
well preserved, and his physical powers are in
good trim. He walks ten or twelve miles every
day without fatigue. He was years of age when
the declaration of indepence was published, and
well advanced in life when Washington died.
MISS LLOYD, who is to go into history as
the only genuine "Bunthorne's Bride" Is not only
, pretty and talented, but rich, so that when she
; becomes Mrs. Oscar Wilde, she and that poet OF
passlon anu Vi pam Will not (nappliy LOT them
POM De aepehuent upon MS publishers for thei'
, preau nnu putter Inc story that they were 70
AVe III Duphn' her present nome, B contradicted
anu hei'her VIII the erosVenor gahery DC
closed, nor Mr.. Du Maurier be forced to resign
from Punch by the loss of his best subject.
SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, the leader OF
the Canadian government party, charges that
Minister Vests official reports to the British gov
, ernmentare inaccurate. Recently Mr.. West made
q lengthy report to his government on United
! States immigration, confirming the report of the
United States authorities as to the large immigra.
ton to this country from Canada. This the Cana.
dian government does not concede and Sir Alex.
ander charges that Mr. west MADE up MS report
, from the Alneiicun paPets "i'nou1 regara
aecurucy'
HERMAN HUNT, the artist, believes that
r shakspeares sonnets were addressed not to any
s unknown love or cherished male friend, but Il
O his wife, Anne Hathaway. When confronted by
a the argument that all this exquisite fondnes,
. could not be intended for the lady to whom the
O poet left the sighting legacy of second.best bed
r he replies that, as 1t was then English law ant
# custom that mans heirs should inherit his bes
n bed Shakespeare gave the choicest that he coulC
Y legally give to his widow. So strongly has thu
h fair image of Anne Shakespeare impressed itself
= on Mr.. Hunts mind that he has been painting
very o'nu'iui auu nooie pio'uio VI "oi'
v THE arrival OF Chinese troops on the Is
y land OF Hainan to protect 1t from French occupa
l. ton has caused great excitement among the na
: tives and foreign settlers at Hoihou iport of tn
island. They are daily insulted and threatened,b
IT the mob. Two:resdents have been stoned, butnc
II seriously injured. British gunboat lies in tn
n harbor but could render little assistance in cas-