National Republican., 1884-02-23

Alas a thoughtless wretch was
Who dared compare flower to you'll
--hfom The Speiish
J. Tom WILSON, of Terrell, Texas, owned
a monkey which died. It's body was placed in a
coffin, funeral notices printed, and preparations
made to bury II in the city cemetery. The people
protested and hnted shotguns, and Tom buried
his ancestor in the back yard
PHYSICIAN in Vienna operated for amsu-
rosis several months ago on man In his 1924
year. and restored his sight, the operation being
the first on record More recently the same phyai-
clan repeated this operation on Il man 96 years of
age, aud with the same success
PREPARATIONS will soon be made for
| building bridge across the Hudson river at
| storm King. 1t will be constructed on the can
| tever principle, and Gen. Field, VINO built the
| Niagara cantilever bridge, will be asked to con.
struct 1t. Ample means have been obtained for
| the enterprise.
| CORRESPONDENT of the London Electrician
gives the following an instant remedy for tooth
ache: Win small piece of znc and a bit of
silver ny silver coin will dol the zinc placed on
one side of the afflicted gum and the silver on the
other, by bringing the edges together, the small
| current of electricity generated Immediately and
,ainIessy stops the toeLhaehe.
AN official report of the gold mines Of
| North Carolina shows that there are 395 mines,
many of which are "plaoers" The yield of gold
Is ten times greater than in any state east OF tho
| Rocky mountains, Scientists contend that gold
| eNisis IN no greater quantities there than in
| North Carolina. In 1883 over 100000 of New
| England capital was put in mining machinery.
GERMANY is about to begin the work of
| uniting the Baltic and the North sea by a canal
navigable ut all hours of tue tide by the largest
| ships. 1t Will extend from point near the mouth
Of the Elbe to the Bay Kel a distance of about
sixty miles. Gcrmanys ships will thus be able to
avoid tue perlous passage of tho Belt, ana aa i'm
mense stimulus will be given to her foreign COM
merce aud shipping,
ARTIFICIAL cork is among the recent Ger
man inventions. The meth I'd of production con-
sists in mixing powdered cork with starch and
water and knceding the mass while boiling hot
| until 1t is thoroughly mixed. This substance Is
then poured into mods for forming the articles
and aferward dried at a very high temperature.
The material is described quite light, and pos
sesses non. conducting properties.
In the recently London postofIice directory
the family of Smiths absorbs fifteen closely printed
columns, and the family of Browns eight columns.
| There exists in London charity for poor Smiths,
| LETT upwards of two centuries ago by an alderman
0f that name. He gave $1,000 10 captives held by
| Turkish pirates, and the similar sum for poor
kinsmen. The poor kinsmen u few years ago
numbered between 400 aud 800. The value of the
charity is now about $4,000 u year.
A FOREIGN prince, o fashionable yicomte,"
and plain u nyarnished gambler, are suspected
of completely in the marked-eard conspiracy of
the Petit Cercle in the Rue Royale of Paris. About
100000 were secured by the knaves The club is
the most exclusive coterie in the city, aud the
communists are making wagers that the scandal
will be hushed up because of the great reputa.
tions to ba compromised. The Partisan papers
have leading editorials on the subject every day.
ON one of Horace Greeley's visits to Pike
county he nearly trod upon rattlesnake. A
friend killed the snake and aflerward had the
SKIN tanned and worked into a pair of shippers,
which were presented 10 the great editor. Mr..
Greeley priced them highly until the failure of
the Fourierite experiment, when, disliking to
see anything that reminded him of Pike county,
he gave the slippers to his brother. who now lives
in western Pennsylvania, and still retains them
in his possession.
THE mahdi is not an Arab by birth and is
of black hue, which is unacceptable to the
Semitic Moslems. He belongs, however, Ate the
Kadriyeh order which is held in very high
vener4tion in Egypt, and which preserves all the
pagan superstitions, including the worship of the
gigantic shoe of their founder. They are distin
guished from other orders by their white banners
and by carrying always fish nets in their religious
professions. With the Malawiyeh and Admedjyeh
they are among the most powerful of the Deryish
orders in syria and Egypt.
ONE morning Jerrold aud Compton pro-
ceeded together to view the pictures In the gal.
lery of illustration. On entering the ante room
they found themselves opposite to a number of
very long looking glasses. Pausing before Que Of
these, Compton remarked to Jerrold, You've
! come here to admire works of art veryweIl, first
feast your eyes on that work ofpature! lpointing
to his own figure reflected in the glass. Look ut
it, there's picture for youl" "Yes," said Jer-
rold, regarding intently. very fine very fine,
! ndeedH' Then turning to his iriend-"Wants
hanging, thought
A BRONZE tablet has been placed upon the
front of the new Penn National bank building in
Philadelphia, Pa, bearing the inscriptions ION
a this site originally stood the dwelling in which
| Thomas Jefferson drafted the declaration Of inde-
pendence which was adopted by the continental
congress in this city July 4, l776, Erected, l775
removed, 1883" The Ledger says that the ques-
tion whether Jefferson drafted the document In
Q the corner house or in the one adjoining on the
Q west still is matter of dispute but as the bank
building covers both lots the accuracy Of the in.
Q scription on the tablet is not disputed
L AT El Paso, Texas tho Mexican dollars are
. worth So cents In American coin. At Paso del
} Norte lust across the river American dollars arc
. worth 20 cents in Mexican coin. One morning a
car driver started from the American side with a
. Mexican dollar. on his arrival at the Mexican
. town he took a drink Of chain lightning which
; was 10 cents, ,,and received an American dollar in
!, u change for his Mexican. On his return to the
American side he took drink OF equally bad
@ liquor and received Mexican dollar for his
u American, and so, repeating the drinks at inter
l. walls during the day at night he closed up bust
= ness with the Mexican dollar he started with in
tho morning.
a AN old bachelor German immigrant G7
d years of age, who is tilling the soil in Dakota
g firing of his solitary lot, but andIng no helpmes
a near, wrote some time ago to his aged mother in
d Germany, asking her to choose and send him a
IN wife. She replied that she knew the right wo
m man, but she was living in Brazil. She wrote to thu
D. woman. however inclosing the sons photograph
TX describing him and his life and proposing to he
II to share 1t. The suggestion found favor In he
n, eyes and through the mother the son was SO in
!, formed Further correspondence followed Civ
ID ing directions and the means Of travel, and few
rs weeks ago the heroine of this singular triangular
ID courIship came. from Brazil TO New York, ant
hence wont west to meet her coming husband