National Republican., 1884-04-19


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Look Into mine with thy brown warm eyes,
And speak with the voice Of a seer who knowss
Tell me, oh, tell me, divlnely wise
WHITTIER an whittier shall come my spring
clothes?
W Henderson, in Puck.
NATAL South Africa with white populs-
ton Of but 80 900, already has debt of s2379l0o
and wants to increase II to s11S02OO.
THE Kentucky house Of representatives
has passed q bill prohibiting bicyolists from using
the public roads OF most of tho counties in tha
state
The census returns for 1883 give the popus
iation OF Berlin as l,226,392, of whom 2O,5s7 are
soldiers. In 1850 the population was only 4l9,72O,
of whom 17,t47 were soldiers.
DURING the recent fighting in Egypt Baker
Pasha's cheek bone was splintered by four.
ounce iron bullet which was so firmly fixed in the
bone that II had to be sawed out-a long and pain-
full operation which was endured without any
anesthotic.
A WAY has been found at last to raise the
necessary funds for constructing the Bartholdi
pedestal. The vender of patent "liver inyigor-
ator' offers to give $4,000 II n placard with tho
namc of his nostrom may be affixed to the statue
for year.
THERE nre hundreds of applicants In New
York for admission into the various clubs Of that
city. There are nearly 400 waiting at the Union
club, large number at the Union League club,
and several hundred at some of the smaller clubs.
These candidates will have to wait from two to
three years. An effort will probably be made to
organize now high.class club to accommodate
the outsiders
A KENTUCKY exchange wrote an editorial
directed to the democracy of that state, stirring
them up vigorously. 1t was headed "An Appeali
| to the Masses" Tho compositor, with small
knowledge of grammar, but an intimate acquaint-
ance with the dominant party In the state trans
posed the spaces so that the heading read An
| Appeal to Them Asses" And then he hunted
another situation.
CARLOS AeUERo, the Cuban revolutionary'>
| leader, is man below tho medium height, an dz
weighs only about lis pounds. He has blacls
| curling hair and n small mustache which turns
UP ut the ends His smiles arc grim, and there 10 !
a look of ferceness about his face but ordinarily
ho is the most harmless person imaginable in ap-
| pearance. Aguero belongs to a wealthy family In
Puerto Principe. He Is not yet 80, and has been
| in arms against Spanish authority in Cuba almoab
continuously since he was II. No one who knows
him doubts his bravery.
THE first export of cotton known to have
boon raised on American soil, Of which there isj
any record, took place in 1884, just 100 years ago.
| and consisted Of eight bags to Liverpool. This
was considered such large quantity that II was
doubted whether 1t could all have been produced
in the United States, and It was therefore held by
the British customs officials until they had time
to satisfy themselves on the subject. The wonder
full growth OF the industry in the last century may
be judged from the fact that last year we exported
4766,597 bales out OF total crop Of 6,0i9756 bales.
A BENEVOLENT citizen writes to the ANA
teur house painter, the hairs of whose brush came
out and were fastened in with glue: ''My heart 10
moved with sympathy for you and your bald
headed paint-btush, though / am inclined to-
think that some of tho hair you found in your
plaster dropped from your own dome of thought
When an amateur is hard at work aud his mind
bent the particular details, his hair is as apt to
fall out as is that from the brush. How would itt
do to pour little hot glue on your scalp? 1fitia
good for paint brush can't see why it will not
hold good as a restorative for the toilet"
ONE of tho bloody customs among the
Hindoos OF certain class is to require every
woman previous to piercing the ears of her eldest
daughter preparatory to hor being betrothed inS
marriage, to undergo the amputaton of the first
Joints OF the third and fourth fingers of her right,
hand. The amputation is performed by the black-s
smith of the village, who, having placed the.
finger IN block, performs the operation with a
chisel. II fthe girl to be betrothed be motherlesa
aud the mother Of the boy have not before been.
subjected to the operation 1t is incumbent on her
to suffer the operation
AN anecdote, told by the writer who has.
Just sketched Berlin society," whether literally true
or only a neat invention, has met with great suc-
cess. 1t hits at what used to bo called in Ger
many French fashion. An English missionary,
so the story goes, was invited to large dinner
party by German professor and deputy. Out OF
regard to his CLOTH the host after the ladies had
withdrawn from the table, apologzed to the mis-
sionary for their perhaps too decollete style OF
, dress. "Oh, pray don't mention it," replied the
: missionary: 81 have lived for ten years among
{ the savages of Africa. and am quite accustomed
. to such sights"
WILLIAM MARTIN, of San Jose, CAL, took
his three dogs two pointers and a greyhound. out
for a little run the other day. While galloping
along hillside they raised jackrabbt which
started down the grade as fast as 1t could go, but
the longer legs of the dogs made the race very
unequal. The rabbit seeing that II was about to
: be converted into dogmeat, lodged quickly to one
side while Its pursuers were carried ahead by the
momentum they had gained and tumbled into an
old well, the mouth of when was concealed by
, weeds and brush. Before ropes could be pro-
0 cured they were all drowned.
: NOT long since lady in Denver received
I a newspaper from her husband, who is in the
African diamond fields. in which were wrapped
a number of small gems. She, thinking them to
be worthless bits of gravel which had worked
their way into the paper during its long trip,
= threw them away. Presently letter was sent
IellluB Oh lnelT VhluO, SHo was III BTeut
l. at her loss when It was suggested that possibly
o tho chickens thirty in number might have picked
t them up. They were all purchased and killed,
S aud twelve of the diamonds found in their crops.
Another lady, who had lost an emerald setting OF
her ring the day before, also found her lost treas
ure in the same new diamond field.
. METEOROLOGICAL reports from the British
~ Islands show that the comparatively frostless
character of tho last winter was maintained TO itS
IS close The mean temperature oft whole winter
l. in portions of England as given by the Meteoroo9
l. cGi Magazine for March, was the highest observed
/, for several years. February was generally free
from the excessive rainalls which are so injurious
to crops, and consequently in some localities veg
,etation was unusually forward. Taking all the
% data together they indicate that the entire winter
n was exceptionally mild and fine over by far the
. larger portion of the United Kingdom, and the
~ winter there is an index of the season in western
= Europe Reports from England as late the third
!; week In March show that the spring opened
favorably for farmers.
THE sacred flag, blessed by the Mahdi
which was captured at Tokar and Is about to be
t. presented to Queen Victoria is made OF two pieces
n, of coarse silk sewn together. each about sever
% feet long and three feet broad, one buff and the
~ ~ other red on the two sides are Arabic inscrip
~ tions, one Of which reads "With the blessing o
'' the Enlightened Prophet without compare, thC
Noble Master of the Wisdom of the ARe Seyit