National Republican., 1884-05-06

mr. WILLIAM IL, VANDERBILT sails next
Saturday on the Germanic, of the White Star line
for his usual four weeks summer voyage out and
back
IT is predicted by competent authorities
that the output Of this year from the Lake supe.
rior region will considerably exceed that Of 1888,
when 100000 tons we're mined.
A PAPER chimney fifty feet high has lately
been put up ut Breslau. Compressed paper pulp
is stated to be of the least innammable of sub
stances, and to make an excellent material for
fro-proof doors
PRESIDENT ARTHUR once taught school in
an interior town in New York and bearded with
private family Afterward Con. Garfield taught
the same school, boarded with the same family,
and occupied the very same room.
THE power developed by tho explosion of
ton Of dynamite is equal to 40 665 tons raised one
foot or 1850 foot-tons. One ton of nitro-glycer-
Inc similarly exploded will exert a power of
G5i52 tons, and ton Of blasting gelatine SINH
larry exploded, $50 foot.tons.
THE editor of the London Times receives
$4,000 salary; the Sondard pays $4,000; Daly
Nes, $50 0OO senior editors of the Telegraph receive
Sl7,500 each; Manchester Guuriidn, sl5,00O Pail
MdH Gazette, Spectator and saturday ReutetO, each
$4,000 ST. James Gazette, $1,000, and Punch, sl6 900.
ABOUT 100000 acres were sown in Ohio
last fall for the wheat crop, ana late reports est-
mate that the yield will reach fully 3l,0OO0OO
bushels. The same report puts the condition of
wheat at Ss per cent ohios largest wheat crop
was that OF 1880, when 4S,500O0O bushels were pro-
duced.
IT appears from recent lawsuit in the
Paris civil court, brought against Mile. Margue.
rite Ugalde, of the Nouveautos theater, by u
ladies' shoemaker, that the only difference be-
tween a kid and suede shoe is that one is made
of the right and the other Of the wrong side Of the
samo kind of leather.
For putting in defense extraordinary in
a breach of promise suit hotel keeper of Wood
Haven n. y, takes the doughnut, II was de-
ceived," he avers "by the plaintiff who told me
she was 80 years old, when she was ten years
younger than that. am n middlo-aged man and
wanted wife Of corresponding age.'
"BRoKEN by Act of Legislature is the
epitaph Senator Hawley will place over his en-
gagement to deliver the commencement address
at Smith college. The lawmakers of Connecticut
have enacted that on the very day appointed for
that event he shall deliver the dedicatory oration
at the unveiling Of the buckingham monument.
ONE of the Boston papers says that the
weekly sales OF oleomargarine in that city amount
to 100000 10000 pounds: that all the regular
jobbing stores down town keep 1t for sale for just
what 1t is, at prices ranging from 12 to 20 cents a
cents and 1t is largely consumed In manufacture
ing communities.
WHEN the wife of Mussulman does not
deport herself to his taste, he discharges her and
fills the vacancy or leaves the chair as a standing
warning TO the Others The discarded wife, how
ever, is out of job unless she get so far away
that there Is no danger Of being recognized. At
best her chances of heaven are slim, so she often
takes up with Christian or iufdel
THE rate of fire destruction in the United
States is steadily increasing Eight or nine years
ago 1t was about $40 100000 year. or sl0o00OO,OOo
in fifteen years. Now It is 100000 600 year, or
900 in only ten years, Let this rate con-
tinue, and at the end of flfty or sixty years more
the annual fire waste will not be less than sl,0O0,-
100000, which would be more than the net profits
of the entire industries of the country
Mr. LEWIS MCMURRAY, the owner of some
5000 acres Of land near Frederick, Ma, finding
the present system of plowing too slow. has intro
duced the new and novel method of powing by
steam, and on Friday last gave an exhibition TO q
number of interested BaltmOreans The plows
cut seven feet in width. and will plow strip OF
land one mile in length and seven feet wide in
| about forty minutes, cutting furrow about seven
inches deep.
THE late Henry S. Byron managed o thea
ter In Liverpool at the time when 1t was the GUS
| seat, or "booking stall in advance" One day
| he stood watching n number of persons buying
tickets In that manner. and then, going up to the
box office, he wrote conspicuously above the win.
| dow the paraphrase of Richard IFS eXclama.
| tlon: "Of with his bob! So much for booking
emp The obnoxious custom did not long sur
| vive this hit"
THE lead which forms the roof of the great
| cathedral in Bremen was melted in the base-
| ~. a.,a
so permeated with the particles that the air was
tainted by them, and the peculiar effect is tha5
human bodies will not decay within Its magic
precincts. Many bodies lie there In open cofiins
that, the tourist is informed have been there for
nearly 400 years, they are withered, discolored.
| ropulsive mummles now. There are also car
cases of dogs and chickens which have been
| preserved within few years.
THE sultan's recent reception TO tho
prown crnce of Austria was an extraordinarily
magnificent one. Over 100000 were spent on the
festivities new palace was especially built. with
tho finest furniture, meats were served in dishes
of pure gold, and at some OF the festivals the
whole court, thousands of soldiers. and the entire
fleet took part. The criticism passed on this
laborious attempt to eoncillate the future ruler Of
| Austria and render him proof against any desire
to annex Turkish territory is that the crown
pr nee has seen the sea Of Marmora, and that Is
enough to stir any soyereigns greed
IN the annual report of the New York
Chamber of Commerce II is estimated that the
trade of New York during 1883 was 64l5 per cent.
OF the entire trade Of the United States The total
New York trade, imports and exports, of NOR
chandise and of the precious metals amounted in
1888 to SSi 500 3l6 against s9i 686 tho previous
year, decrease of s52 73s,320. The total imports
into the port Of New York, including specie and
bullion last year. amounted to Si72 ,Ss5, against
s499 IA the previous year, u decrease of S27,-
O6s, ,Ss9 and the total exports from the port Of
New York, including specie and bullion, in 1885,
amounted to s3GsS324 432, against S30i sol s62 the
year previous, decrease of s25, i3l.
A ST. LOUIS club man married q lady who
objected to keeping social flask IN the house,
on several occasions she bounced demijohns
from the closets, But he must have something
TO refer to when his boon companions called to
smoke cigar, so he took fine bronze lamp
homo one afternoon, and told his wife they
were all the rage in gentlemen's sitting rooms.
She wanted to load 1t with oil at once but by
the use OF great deal Of stragetic diplomacy she
was dissuaded from doing 30 by her husband,
and as soon rs she was out ofsght he brought
out quart bottle and filled the lamp with It's
contents. Now, whenever his friends come to
see him he unscrews the lamp, helps tho boys
} and everythingi lovely. He says that while the
lamp holds out to burn the model husband may
have his quiet little nip aud blame It on the bat
ter cakes,