National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-18

rue waves lash loud on this rocky shore,
And the ship that bears my love TO me
Is swallowed up by the heariless sea.
So pale on tho sands clasp his form.
All mover again shall wind or storm
Disturb the sleep of my love so true
Hesails, ho sails, DER celestial blue.
John A. Joyce
FRANCE of all Europeans counties has the
largest percentage Of electors to the population.
90 50 to every 100 inhabitants; Switzerland with
2205, stands second Germany third, with 20OO;
Denmark fourth with 15.16 England fifth, with
| $50.
THE number of thoroughbred horses born
yearly in England continually increases In 1876
inc aristocrntio fonls amounted to 1920 next year
l62S adorned various English breeding paddocks,
and exercised their owners hopes and fears. Last
year the number had risen TO 1916 and the year
before thnt uSS2l there were 1895.
LORD FAIRFAX is physician and lives in
/ me United States. lie is tho only nobloman who
Is doctor, the professions OF medicine and sur
| gerry being, for some reason. rather looked down
upon socially in England. Lord carnarvon's
| brother, the Hon. Allan Herbert. is, however, n
physician. But ho like the other, Is said to find
1t more congenal to reside abroad, and lives in
Paris, where he practices his profession.
THE latest novelty in New York city IL
| paper soap, which Is mainly for the use of travel
ers. Tho sheets OF paper, which arc put up in the
form OF o small book Of about three inches square,
are coated with SOAP and is said to be
Just as good the regulation article, in add
ton TO being much handler. There are fry soap
sheets in each book costing in the aggregate
about as much rs an ordinary cake Of soap.
THE Now York dude goes to buy an Eng
| lish horse TO be In tho fashion. The cocRney
stableman explains the meaning OF what the
dude calls chose how'd letters ON his side''-tho
letters s. sableman log: "On his shoulder sir,
/ That's why we Odds lin so 'igh sir. The U. stands
tor unter and Hess for Lord slapcton, wat bred
i'm, SIR They holly puts them on winners. It
costs flyer at the ose Guards to get the letters
done, sir"
IT took several days for Wall street to get
over the excitement created by the Delaware,
! Lackawanna and Western squeeze. II is beloved
that Mr.. S. V. White the great mogul Of tho pool,
bdgsed fully s2,000O00 by tine squeeze Russell
Sage is the heaviest loUser and this fact seems to
give old brokers the keenest delight. Mr.. Sage Is
very indignant and the name of Mf. White has
about tho same effect upon him as the fauntingof
acrimson handkerchief has on a bull.
THE roll of the British lords, temporal and
spiritual, has Just been issued as is usual at tho
beginning of n now session of parliament. It
contains the names of 522, or rather 5l7, peers,
! five of the members of the government being
mentioned both in the places TO which their of
fees entitle them and according the dates Of the
creation OF their titles. The youngest peers, in
point of creation, are Bramwell, Fitzgerald, AL
cester, WoIseloy, Selborne (earldom), and Tenny-
son.
Mrs. r. b. HAYES has one of the finest
poultry yards in Ohio. Rutherford" she sud
the other day, with severe look in her left eye,
rutherford, have you gathered in the eggs this
afternoon" Eyes, maam." Have you tied a
piece of red flannel to that brnde hen that Is
ffNy I,.Tn al,
maam." "fiave you fed the turkeys as l d.
rected" Yes maam." "Then you may 90
again and look for that gray hen that has stolen
her nest; and don't you come back saying you
can't find her either" ' "
LEssEPs has running account with sleep,
taking twenty-iour hours at a time and at another
none for five or six nights. In travelling he gets
into the first compartment at hand and sits any
where II he finds an agreeable companion he
talks; If not he folds his arms and goes to Sleep
never waking until he reaches his destin alton,
When he went down the other day to Chesnay
near Bordeaux, he requested the guard to wake
him lest he should go'beyond. on voyage from
Marselles to Alexandria he slept 107 hours out
OF the $50 of the voyage, aud then not for somo
days.
THE agreement by which the Princess
Frederic Charles who recently left her husband
because of the latters infideity, returned to her
husbands palace, is as follows First-The new
palace, which the prince inherited lately from his
father, and which is being partly rebuilt, must
have two staircases, one for the prncess's ex-
elusive use. second-The princess will take her
meals separately except on official occasions, when
she appears by tho side of her husband. Third
Her horses, carriages and servants cannot be con.
trolled by the prince or his marshal. The princess
isquite broken down in health.
THE Japanese women advertise the number
NFs l,asw 49,
Girls from to Is wear their hair inter-
laced with red Grape, describing half circle
around the head, the forehead being left free with
curl at each side. From 10 to 80 the hair Is
dressed very high on the forehead and put up at
the back in the shape of a fan or butterfly, with
interlacings of silver cord and decoration OF
colored balls. Beyond 80 woman twists her hair
round shell pin placed horizontally at the back
of the head Widows also designate themselves,
and whether they desire to marry again.
The Swan and Land Cattle company is per.
haps the largest cattle owner In America. Started
in 1879 the company has grown and passed
through numerous changes until now the capital
employed is 100000. A. II. Swan, the general
manager, is on his way to Edinburgh, Scotland,
. with Henry Swan, to attend the annual meeting
of the board Of directors, when the advisablty
will be considered of increasing the capital to
, 100000. The number of cattle now owned by
the company is 10000, length of range $50 miles,
I with average width of fifty making about 80 900
acres of cattle lands; 5000 to 10000 beeves arc
shipped annually.
RAILROAD communication will soon knock
y over any fancy ideas we may entertain in regard
9 to Mexico. Speaking OF Mexican women, a tray
eer says that the daughters OF the wealthy pass
their lives in vaCuity; those of the poor are half
fed and half dressed, and nearly all look hunger
| bitten aud badly developed. They are completely
without shape, The health of the higher class
} Of women is wretchediy poor. A plump healthy
woman isa rarity. The picture so often seen OH
: the cigar boxes of n beautiful senorIta swinging
; in voluptuous lauguor In hammock. is a pic
torial fraud. The average Mexican senorita is SO
feeble that she would break her neck getting into
u hammock.
, YURUR OsMAN, a Syrian brigand, pre-
, tended cCntrtion for his msdeeds and was par.
/ doned by the governor Of Smyrna, who commits.
stoned him as an officer of the sultan to war
+, against his old comrades. Tho brigRnd, however,
! failed to carry out his promises and returned to
his evil ways introducing system Of blackmaif:
{ ing by means of his Turkish commission But ho
, was caught ut last. Invited to conference at
/ Smyrna, Osman arrived with a band of fourteen
0 followers, who with their chief, were mussacred
after an apparently friendly reception at the gov.
/, ernor's house They did not die unresisting
Surprised in the governors house and court yard
,fnip tha