National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-11

| why, haven't you heard of Il? Ho has been
hanging on the brink of the grave for a fort
night Then don't wonder that he's sick"
THE warden OF the Winnipeg penitentiary
has herd Of twenty-five pure blooded domesti-
Gated buffaloes. which were raised from calves
captured by Indian hunters. They mingle readily
and GLOSS with domestic cattle.
| AT dance in Owen county, KY, Miss
Melissa Collier wore, among other ornaments, a
| large hickory club, with which at an oppottune
| moment she vigorously belabored John Rudolph
| who had been talking about her.
| THE sheriff of Walla Walla, w. T., re-
Gently received two letters at the same time in.
| curing for long.lost brothers. One OF the 'lost
| brothers" had been hung a week before for tho
murder of the other "long.los! brother"
| ARKANSAS gum lumber is rapidly coming
| into notice and Is now used extensively in the
manufacture Of furniture. When made up nicely,
finished in oil and polished. 1t equals and many
| think suIpages-in appearance walnut or wild
| cherry.
DUTCH engineer named Won Braam has
received a concession from the Portuguese gov.
| eminent to lay Submarine cable Fl ON Lisbon to
thu Azores, and thence to New York and Cuba.
He thinks his cable can BIO mado profitable at half
| a franc a word
To SHOW thesplendor of the offerings made
by the pilgrims at the grave OF Victor Emmanuel
writer instances q wreath of gold set with Jewels
| which was brought by the Palermo pilgrims. II
is said TO have cost 100000 francs, though this
sum seems incredible.
NEW ORLEANS has regular building boom.
A large number of costly blocks and buildings are
under consideration, and II Is thought that archi.
tects and builders will have as much as they can
| do during the next twelve months outside of the
mammoth enterprise, the buildings for the worlds
| expedition and cotton centennial.
| WHAT the Soudan is worth may be gath.
cred from some published statistics according to
| which there arc 5000 Christians and 10000
| Egyptians in the provinces; 1000 commercial
houses owned by Europeans and 5000 by Egypt.
ians and the import and export trade is valued at
| Gl3,Co0.0c0 annually.
QUEEN VICTORIA, it is said by German
| papers, will Teave England in the beginning Of
March in her yacht Osborne for Flushing. After
remaining in her villa near Baden Baden until
April she will go TO Darmstadt TO be present at the
marriage of her granddaughter, Princess Victoria,
| to Prince Louis Won Battenberg. The queen will
return to England at tho end OF April after visit
| to the Riviera
FROM the opening of the last session Of
parliament in 1888, TO the opening Of the present
one there have been twenty Ave elections. Ten
of these have been in Ireland, In which the Par
nellites have gained four seats--Mallow, Sligo
| ".
or the fifteen English and Scotch, the conserva-
tiyas have gained two--southampton and York;
and the liberals one-Ipswich.
ABOUT twenty-five firms in this country
make business of publishing school books. They
do business Of perhaps 100000 a year. Only
| three of the school-book publishing houses arc
south or west of Philadelphia and Baltimore Two
thirds Of the business is done by Ave firms. It
costs each Of the larger firms something like
n rOro and
der the introduction account"
THE amount of the sales at the late inter-
| national art exhibition at Munich was 677, Ol0
marks (Sl69250). Germany sold 459,s05 marks
worth; France, 1890 marks; Russia, 5000 marks;
England, 1000 marks, and America 400 marks
The Munich museum bought for 10, 900 marks, the
Dresden museum for 200 marks, the Berlin mu-
scum for 1000 marks, the Tombola for $4,000
marks, and individuals for $40. 900 marks.
MRS. SARAH ]. EVANS, bride Of year,
went with her husband into the union army in
1861. She cared for the wounded, made many
camps comfortable, and at Airing ton, In 1852
originated what is now known as Decoration
day" She was in the army for four years. Her
death occurred in Des Moines a few days ago. and
at her funeral Croker post G. A. r., of which she
was an honorary member, escorted her body to tho
grave.
THE st. Louis public schools show total
enrolment Of pupils Of 59,Oi7. The Baltimore
schools show 37,546. and those Of Chicago 72,5OO.
st. Louis exceeds Baltimore by II 500 and Chicago
exceeds st. Louis by 12,500 The expenditures of
the St. Louis schools in 1888 amounted to 6S72, OOO
those of Baltimore to s649.0O0. and those of Chi.
cago to 81, 1927 900. There were 1,065 teachers In
the st. Louis schools. and their salaries amounted
in the aggregate to 100000. The salaries paid to
J teachers in Chicago amounted to s77l,oOo
The example of Mrs. Mary Miller appears
to have stimulated one. at least, of the 'sup-
pressed race" The Sacramento (Cal) Record
, linton states that young woman in that city re-
Gently applied for the position OF street car con-
ductor. The superintendent is said to be seriously
, considering the advisability of giving her the
position, and of extending the experiment still
further 1t is to be feared, however, that female
| car conductors would not ring the bell with suf-
fcient promptness when persons Of their own sex
wanted to get on or off,
THE manufacture of rope from asbestos ID
likely to become an industry of considerable i'm
portance in England, the strength OF the article
being estimated at about one fourth that Of ordi
nary hemp rope of the same diameter. Rope Of
this material of one and half inches In dame
tor is stated to have breaking strength of one
ton and twenty feet of 1t calculated to repre-
sent weight Of thirteen and one-fourth pounds
Some Of the purposes, as enumerated, to which
this kind Of rope is specially adapted are thea
dwellings and public buildings its advantage be.
ing that 1t will not break and drop its burden II
: the fame bears upon 1t. 1t is made like ordi-
nary rope, and is spun from Italian asbestos
thread.
The North German Gdsette reports that the
4 valuable library of the khedive which until re-
Gently was one OF the largest and best arranged
the east is being quietly disposed ofby the pashas
For many years the distinguished German scholar
| Spita Bey had the library under his complete
CONTROL and during his llbrarianship he sue
oeedeu not only in reducing the chaos Of books
and manuscripts to ADVISABLE order but also
acquiring large number Of splendid copies OF tn
s Koran and of ancient commentaries upon
n When Arabis revolution broke out, however, THE
rebel leaders charged Herr Spita with having des
o ecrated sacred volumes, and discharged him from
S his post He thereupon quilted Egypt in disgust,
5 and since his departure the library has ia lien
actually If not nominally, into the hands Of set
ofignorant men.
!, LORD FALMOUTH, OF the maybe Jacket,
who is about to retire from the turf made racing
and breeding study and science. Being Of
strong worldly sense, he always selected the abest
instruments, John Scott the Wizard OF the North.
being his first trainer, and subsequently Matthew
n Dawson, his adus AchdGs, while Archer since the
a death Of Tom French, has been his jockey. COn-
sequently, he has luxuriated in all the financial
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