National Republican., 1884-10-11

BAT shootin & is favorite sport at
Montgomery, Ala
ENGLISH women of fashion now wear
ruby in and an emerald IN the other.
and term them danger signals"
The two gas companies of San Francisco
have combined and raised the price of ga
from $3.50 per thousand feet to s2.25.
A LONDON newspaper photographs q.
W. smallcy, now in the theatrical train of Mrs.
Langtry, as fashionable edition of Sampson
Brass"
BARON EDMOND DE RoTHscHILD pays
the people OF Petkn Tioka, in Palestine, reg
ular wages until they can take care of them
selves.
The town Of Kalamazoo, Mich, is said
TO have derived It's name from Kee Kan ANA
700, sgnifying In the Indian tongue, "a boil
ing pot"
MRS. MARY PHELPS DODGE, the editor
ofH Nicholas, receives salary of IS, 900 year
Mrs. Mary l.. Booth. the editor of Harper's
Bdfdr, receives a like amount.
WORKERS in bleacheres where chlorine
Is largely used are sngularly exempt from all
germ diseases, but suffer from special ailments
Induced by inhaling that gas
The proposed consolidation of the gas
companies in New York Is alleged to be for
greater economy in manufacturing. The new
company is to have n capital of about Si5,-
100000.
The village in New York state bearing
the uneuphonious name of Horscheads is to
be rechristened North Elmira. The inhabi-
tants say the name of the town is too sug-
gestiyc of an abattoir.
"1N upper Austria" writes q CORE
spondent, II saw u slight and very pretty
yonng girl carrying the mortar up to the Sec
ond story Of building, while q man waited
there to put II In place when she arrived"
THE dreadful discovery has been made
In Toulouse that woman supposed to have
died of cholera was buried alive. The coffin
was Temporarily buried, and when taken up
again 1t was found that the body had changed
Its position.
The latest thing In stockings does away
with garters or supporters from above. The
hosiery Is kept In its place by lacing from
under the knee TO the upper bulge OF the calf.
Thus. the circulation of the blood in the limbs
Is not impaired
THE assessed value of guns, pistols,
dirks, &C., in the state of Alabama is $4,000
while the farming implements are put down
at $4,000, aud the swine at s35,OJ0 II is esti.
mated that there are eleven deadly weapons
to every hog in the state.
ADoLPH SUTRo is to give the city of
San Francisco public library to cost several
hundred thousand dollars. 1t was Sutro who
designed and executed the great sutro tunnel
through the mountains of Nevada, at a cost of
s3,5O0,O0o. 1t was built to drain the Com
stock" lode, and was finished In 1873.
A HEADsToNE at Portland, Greg, 10
adorned with the following epitaph:
Beneath this stone our baby lies,
1t neither cries nor hollers.
| IL lived but one and twenty days,
And cost us forty dollars"
AN Arab widow who has a chance to
marry again visits Der first husband grave the
| night before the second marriage takes place,
where she kneels and prays him not to be
offended at her for taking another husband.
But, as guarantee against any failure of her
prayers to appease the deceased, she takes
along with her donkey laden with water and
saturates the grave, proceeding which is cal
culated to keep the dead husband cool under
the most aggrayating circumstances.
IN tho city of New York alone they
drink between 100000 aud IL, 200, 900 gallons
.,,s.,. a.,IeS -. '. anu o'.'v' na'I'o "iies
France, being duly accredited with French
label. The proportion of European wines i'm
ported as against American wines produced is
about 5000, 900 gallons of European as against
35 100000, the products of our own vineyards.
Yet, says a great authority on the subject,
although we grow eight times as much wine
as we import, and can reckon the wine CON
sumed at about A., 900, 900 gallons In the rough,
we sell 100000 gallons of quasi European
wines every year to consumers.
INSANE suoio s'ory eurren1
'nn. m's iansay, Mncn ias' IN New hork
seiis 'oi a youns ni,er'cun uraiha'is', VINO nad
oeon i.eo",inonuuu ~ w., % soou porsoh 70 "fte
p'"y ior ho,, hS calieo' ahu was hskeu 10
,as.s ,nhS sea'' M's Lanslry entered 'he room
"mn' VIZ ,,i' " ioLnian1y sue surveyed mn,
W. W. .o hI,'s l-ns"sn sur, auu eneh Na,Aeu ,u
time, 1t was, of course, eminently agreeable
TO be surveyed like horse on sale But he
stood It. Having completed her survey she
asked almost contemptuously, And do you
think that you could write playT' The au-
thor, who had made several successes, replied
In civil tone WELL don't know. | dare
say may be about as competent to write a
play rs you are to act one." Thoy did not
come TO terms.
Mn. GIAnsToxE. of eourse long aso
lo,vcred all legitimate records aohiev,d 4, ,bo
aeld of oxuberant yerbosity. Few are.aware
hoyover oftho fearful and wonderiul rote a,
which no continues IN add IN tho pa,,os n,
Uonsard II A. nearly twelve months sInco an
enthusiastic statlstIolan. who h also a d,yo,ad
T GIaastoneite. spent sig hour. each dav au,In,
o,ar AM, d.ys In m, ilh,arv M ,ha bo,,ss =,
Commons and sIxty.aye days oycrhaniing tha