National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-05

lie camo with smiling face, and came to stay.
He dried with kisses oil my tear. stained face;
All, what sweet grace;
lie made my droary room splendid place;
He left no trace
OF doubt or gloom; he said with clear kind eyes
"oh Love may live beneath the cloudless skies;
But wet with pain oftcars-he never dies!"
Philadelphia Press.
A COLONY of Germans, 500 in number, are
to settle in Southern California. Theyare strictly
temperance" and will not allow even the planting
Of vineyards on their lands.
MAPLEsoN's scale of prices in Chicago is the
highest yet recorded. Gerster could be heard for
So, but for Patti the price was doubled and for
Pate and Gerstor on one night tho demand
was S.
A LITTLE boy was asked if he studied hard.
swell, ",be replied, 81 don't hurt myself at It,"
"But If you don't study hard you will never be
president" said his questioner. Nav returned
the boy II don't expecter be; pm a DENNY
GRAFT"
THE latest eccentric decision of the queen
relative to John Brown is that ordering the per.
petual closing of the suite OF rooms occupied by
him at Windsor castle. brass plate Is to be
placed in his sitting room COMMUNICATING his
virtues.
A WOMAN appeared in tho town of West
Bend, Wis, one day last week, clad In skirt and
night gown with a fur cape thrown over her
shoulders and the whole surmounted with cloth
doman. She claimed to own, not only the town,
but the entire country.
In tho last census Dakota is credited with
an increase in population from 1870 to 1880 of
$500 per cent, Arizona 1857, Colorado 1914 Idaho
117.4 Kansas 1888, Nebraska 2G7.s Washington
2l35 No state or territory reached 100 per cent,
anda large majority of them fell below co.
GRINNELL, Iowa, is a model town. There
are no saloons within its limits and no one has
been sent to JAIL 10 the poor house, or TO the peni
Tertiary for over twenty years. 1--WE can stand
cyclone occasionally" ono of the Inhabitants
recently said. "if on will keep whisky away"
SOME idea of the beor-drinking propensity
of the people in this country may bo gathered
from the following statistics: In New York city
S,230,0O0 barrels were brewed IN 1883; in Phadel-
phia 023 600; in Milwaukee, $780, 800; In St. Louis
9isOOO in Brooklyn, s36,0OOi in Chicago G76,0OO.
In pair of boots sent to q bootblack in q
Louisville hotel to polish he found three $40 green
| backs. There hos been n vast improvement in
Kentucky whisky in the past few years. Ten
years ago Louisville bootblacks refused to polish
pair of boots, except when the owner wore them,
| for fear OF snakes.
GEORGE w. CABLE, the southern novelist
| and historian, is sick in Hartford, at Mark
| Twain's house. lie has intermittent fever, and is
at present confined to his bed. Nothing serious is
| apprehended, but no is very weak, and there ia
no prospect of his being able to leave the house
| for at least two weeks.
ONE of the largest wheels in the world, the
second of the kind made, is said to be now under
| going completion In Scranton foundry. 1t is
| ono of d pair intended for service in n copper
mine near Lake Michigan. The wheels. weigh
together 12i tons, and are expected to cost deliv-
| cred, not less than $4,000.
THE San Francisco Bulletin states that,
while there has beon falling off in the aggregate
| immigration in California, the diminution is in
| the Chinese supply and the influx of white i'm
| migrants has increased. As compared with the
| year preceding the enactment of the restriction
act net loss Of 29329 all the arrivals Is shown.
But, taking into account only the white immigra.
| ton during the same period Of seventeen months,
a net gain of 3,240 appears.
| IN Dresden lately tho servants Of one Of
'the hotels refused one morning TO go to work uu-
til they had been paid their previous months
4 wages, whereupon the proprietor set upon them
n with pistol, and under coercion they resumed
their labors. The proprietor was subsequently
arrested and sent to jail. His wife now conducts
the establishment with an entire new SGT of hire
lings The event. so rare in quiet, peaceful Dress
| den. created great sensation.
Two MEN were quarreling. Said the first:
l
fair fight" Said the second "why not ?" "Be.
cause" returned the first 'if am stronger it
would not BIO fair for me to fight weaker man.
If you are stronger 1t would not be fair for you to
fight weaker man. In any event the fight could
not possibly prove which is in the right" "Then,"
said the second, "let us go and get cup OF coffee"
So another murder was ayerted.
THE analyses of snake poisons made last
n summer by Drs Weir Mitchell. and Reichert have
IA AH,llu nad Inv 9TH
Of the venoms examined are essentially alike. In
every case they are made up Of three proteid
! bodies The first reduces the blood pressure in
\ duces swelling (ndoma) and finally brings about
putreactive effects. The second Is virulent sub
stance one-twentieth Of grain OF which will kill
pigeon in two hours; 1t gives rise In q few min
uteS after injection to enormous inlltrauon OF
blood into the neighboring tissue The poisonous
properties OF the third substance doubtful. The
object of the analyses Is to eliminate tho venomous
principle, so that experiments may be made as to
what drug eau be used TO the best advantage in
neutralizlngit.
AT the last meeting of the Academy Of
Sciences in Paris NJ. Paul Bert gave the results Of
some researches which he has recently made re-
specting the administration OF chloroiorm, par
ticularly to persons of weak heart in surgical
operations. NJ. Bert is of the opinion that the
quantity of an anmsthetlc is less important to OBJ
serve than the tension of the vapor inhaled and
the proportion of air with which IL Is mixed. He
has constructed an apparatus with which he ad-
ministers proportion OF eight gramnes Of chloro-
form to a hundred liters OF air. Experiments
which he has mado with this have shown that
not only is a saving OF chloroform effected, but
ltbe danger is considerably lessened The pulse of
the patient inhaling the mixture Is calm, and tho
temperature of the body is not sensibly lowered
while in only four cases out OF twenty-five was
the slightest appearance Of nausea produced.
ABOUT three weeks ago Bob Adams, no.
torious larconist was released from the Ohio PEN
itentary Hearing that his wife had been con-
yloted in Chicago of like ofiense no determined
to see her, but did not get there until after she
had been sent to the penitentiary at Joliet. The
Chicago detectives wanted him, and were certain
he would visit his wife. They had his photo
graph, and strict watch was kept One after
noon an deliberately dressed man alighted at the
Jail took off his gloves displaying diamond
ring, and raising his hat, asked to sec Mollle
Bren. AIollie he said, was his sister in law.
That man was Robert Adams He was shrewd
enough not to ask for Nellie Adams. lie talked
with Mollie O'Brien ostensibly for some time His
wife stood by and, in fact to her the converse.
ton was directed Mollle only acting rs a dummy
As Adams walked out Of the jail the two vigilant
detectives, who had been watching MI day, took
an extra survey of him, looked ut each other, aud
| shooklheir heads silently,