National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-04-29

Rings wido her show'r-gates overhead.
Coaxing the blossom buds to burst
She whirls them with wild breezes OF
Ana when from earths warm bod the first
spring mower peeps out she pelts with snow.
June Is n loving, gentle dame
She gives MS length OF days you sect
And nights for which we have no name
So Shorthand sweet they seem to be-
Her murmurous voices OH IA fall
With ioyance all along the way:
She Is the ono whom would call
10 start mo gu my lifelong day.
r x. W., Harrisburg,
THE amount Of Peruvian indebtedness
guaranteed by tho nitrate and guano deposits az.
gregatcs f60O0o,OOO.
BILLY BIRCH, tho minstrel, says that the
presidency lies between three men; Tilden who
| objects to being nominated; Butler who obieots
10 being LEFT, aud Holman, who objects to every.
| thing.
| A RECENT cricket match between the
elovons of South Australia and Victoria took ave
days to play, and 1907 had been scored before
the match was decided In favor of Victoria by four
| wickets.
1t has been decided by tho British courts
| that when person insured has not been seen or
heard OF for seven years, according TO evidence by
relations or others, the presumption Ia DEATH and
the company must pay up.
| A WEALTHY Georgia man living in a coun-
| try town bought out the only saloon in the place
| ana runs II himself His motive was economy,
for his son spent all his earnings there. Now the
old man keeps all the money in the family.
| Six thousand mummies are believed TO lie
In some ono hundred cataoombs In an immense
metropolis, whose discovery by Prof Maspero, at
| Ekmeen, between Assloot and Thebes Is reported
Much papyri jewels, and funeral treasures are
expected.
THE album of the Bank of England, in
which specimens OF counterfelts are preser yed,
has three notes which passed through tho CHICAGO
| fire. Though they are burned to crisp, black
ash the paper is scarcely broken, and the engrav-
| ing is as clear as new.
As result of his extensive experience in
building compressed air locomotives for European
trains, Col. Beaumont states that one cubic foot of
air under pressure of 1000 pounds to the square
inch will convey load of three tons distance
OF one mile on any Of the colliery tracks.
THE new Spanish tenor, Gayarre, who has
taken Paris by storm, is the son of blacksmith,
and the story goes that he first rehearsed the Anvil
Chorus at his fathers forge Campanni was a
blacksmith, Capoul shoemaker, Brignoll an
| organ-grlnder and Savi manufacturer of tallow
candles on Staten Island. Mario is about the
only instance OF an operate tenor not Of lowly
| origin.
| THE annual crop Of human hair bought and
sold amounts to fully 100 tons. Four ounces is an
average clipping from human head so lat 100
tons represent the product Of nom 100000 to l0OO
OOo heads. In Europe the heads Of female crlml-
nails are shorn, and they supply q large market:
but the greater part is bought by travelling ped :
oilers. Between the ages of 10 and 10 woman
can grow about seven crops of hair.
The Scilian police have discovered q re-
markable murder club near Palermo consisting
of fifty nine members, who were pledged to MUIR
dor for common advantage and profit The mem.
bers undertook to execute private vengeance for
hire. branch club was established In sicarezzi,
consisting OF fortyHve members Within a few
months the latter club alone has killed thirty per-
sons. The members Of both clubs have been i'm
prisoned at Palermo, and will be tried in May.
In the city of New York alone it is esti-
mated that there are at present no fewer than 400
millionaires, thirty Of whom own from S. 100000
to 100000 apiece while there are about ten who
possess from S5oo0o,Ooo to Sl5OOOo,OOO each, Mr..
william II. Vanderbilt standing at the head Of the
whole list with the magnificent accumulation of
s2O00O0,0OQ. Rich beyond the dreams of ayar-
| ice is no longer mere rhetorical flourish.
BUaoLoGIsTs, says the Sacramento Bee, can
have considerable enjoyment in Sacramento in
making collections of the huge bugs or beetlss
that are attracted by the electric lights every
| evening. In some localities they fall upon the
sidewalk in such numbers that ladies find 1t dis
| agreeable to pass by, and men occasionally dis
cover them to be slippery as piece of orange
peel. As they are about two inches long. when
one fes into persons face, or endeavers to 20 on
an exploring expedition down the back of his
neck, the sensation is not the most pleasant
| imaginable
GEN. r. f. LEE had four daughters, Mary,
ANNIE Mildred, and Agnes Annie died during
the war, and was buried at White Sulphur Springs,
in North Carolina, and Agnes died after the war,
and sleeps beside her father and mother at Lex
ington, Va. Mary and Mildred are living, aud
mako their home with their brother Custis, who
succeeded his father as president of the Washing.
ton university at Lexington Mary has travelled
all over the world since the war, and both are
most intelligent ladies' Neither Of the daught ers
ever married. ..
A PAIR Of Hoboken thieves caught booty
fellow going home carly one morning. They
doubled him UP and jammed him into an empty
barrel 30 tightly that he couldn't get out In his
efforts to extrcate himselfhe kept the barrel roll
ing around more or less. Several persons were
considerably frightened by it, but finally It got
into the street, which was quite steep, and away
1t went until IL brought up under the feet of q
horse attached to a milk wagon. After capturing
the horse and gathering up the widely. scattered
the man released. He was minus money watch
and diamond pin.
THE city of Lyons has just fallen heir to
the large fortune OF Nine. de Cuzieu, a lady So
years Of age who had long been known as the
most eccentric inhabitant of that city. For 80
years she made 1t her business to embtter the
lives of the various projects and mayors by inge-
NOUS annoyances, theconsequences of which she
escaped by her marvellous knowledge of law.
once, in order to spite neighbor whom she dis
liked, she had high tower erected from which
she watched his every movement, ringing an
immense bell at any hour of the night. Another
J.. occasion she invited number OF her quaint
ances to meet NJ. Ducros, the project of Lyons, at
her house. When they arrived they wers led
with great ceremony to pig on q dunghll. All
her eocentrcities, however will be forgiven IN
, view Of her requests, amounting to IS 900
francs which, however, will benefit those Of her
own sex only.
ST.. CATHARINE, whose body is said to be as
, home in Tuscany, and took up with young
nobleman. One day her lover did not return from
nm inspection of the lines Of his estate and his
little dog after three days of mortal uneaslness,
was seen returning home with hanging ears wall
ing pltimlly. As the little animal pulled her
a desperately by the Dress as If to beck on her "a
5 come and follow, she instinctively followed the
, dog, who brought her to the place whore her
paramour lay in an ncipient state of putrefactton
4 She retired to convent utterly heart broken.
| Her pontental life after her conversion, lasted
, twanty.thr rae veara and she died in 1897 Tha