National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-19

surnamcd "The Greatw
-Aaron Flcd9er.
THERE was quite an excitement in tho
New Jersey legislature last Thursday caused by
the absence of more than half the members.
The mystery was cleared up by one Of the absen-
tees incautlously remnrkiug that 1t was the big
gest game of poker he ever saw.
THE only son and heir of ex-Gov Leland
Stanford of California n youth of l6, died few
days since at Florence, Italy, where his parents
are sojourning for their health. The boy died Of
typhoid fever, after an illness of three Weeks. lie
was heir to q fortune of at least S2O,OOO,9OO.
KING HUMBERT it is said, con templates
setting apart some rooms in the quirlnal palace
for the formation of u museum of the same kind
as the Garibaldi museum on the capitol, in which
will be preserved together the gifts, banners,
standards, wreaths, and other offerings made in
honor of his father.
DAVID II. STRoTHER, who was once on
Bankss staff and is by courtesy a colonel, has
| been United States consul at the City of Mexico
long enough TO have been forgotten as the delight
full " Porte Crayon of twenty years ago. But he
is coming home in May, and will again take up
| his pen and pencil.
! A PRETTY tough customer, that Nine. Paul
! Minck, the Paris anarchist, must be. She named
here hrstborn son Lucifer Satan vercinRetorix,
/
is to be called spartacus Blanqui Revolution. II
this thing Is kept up, the parish record there will
have to be suppressed rs incendiary literature.
| ZIRcoNIA, an extract from mineral found.
| in considerable quantities In the south, is quite
! likely TO succeed petroleum coke for the manu-
| facture of electric light CGrbons Recent expert
| ments have been highly successful, md the dis
coverer claims to be able TO produce a carbon
point two inches in length that will last for year.
THREE of the machines patented by
French inventor for the use of the concentrated
solar rays as a general motive power have been
set up in Algeria for the French government He
is now stated TO be carrying on his experiments
on the Porquerolles, near Hyores, in France,
where he is thrashing Indian corn by the action
OF the suns rays.
lola, the novelist, has left Paris to live at
Medan on the river Seiue. He still has home
In Paris, but lives as much as possible in the
country, returning but at rare intervals to Paris
He is q hard worker, writing almost the whole
day through. lie publishes two novels each year.
and furnishes daily article to Marseilles paper,
besides doing some other newspaper work.
A TEXAS man was recently convicted Of
two ofienses in Galveston, for one Of which he
was condemned to fifty years imprisonment and
for the other to be hanged The latter sentence
the court has ordered TO be carried out on tho
twenty.fifth OF April but the prisoner objects,
contending that the first sentence has priority.
and he must out the fifty years before ho can
be hung.
THE fashion of blonding the hair is dying
out, owing TO so many Of It's votares dying OIL.
In one insane asylum in Paris there less than
twenty-three patients who arc victims Of the per-
ncious habit. Almost every asylum In this coun-
try has more or less of them The most efficient
preparation for robbing hair of its color is the
peroxide of carbon. 1t Is only question Of
short time, however until the hair breaks of, falls
out or the patient grows silly.
THE last yearly report o the Edgar Thorn
son Steel works, at Bradd ok, Pa, shows that the
of running the mills and furnaces for the past
year amounted to 81 100000. OF this sum the cost
of running the furnaces alone amounted to $780,
OO0 This shows that an average of sl50,0O0 per
month is distributed among the employees. This
is, perhaps, the largest showing of any mill in the
' country, and, beyond doubt, will compare favor
ably with some of the large English establish
Inents
THE Castellani collections of antiquities
aud pictures will be sold in Rome, at the Palazzo
Caste llani. on the seventeenth OF April and
we.ty-one following days. The catalogue con-
tains l,420 lots, consisting of medals, Etruscan
and Egyptian antiquities, worries. Roman antique
jewelry glasses, majolica, bronzes, tapestries,
furniture, paintings. and drawings Among tho
old pictures there is panel by Antonio del Polla-
: jolo- Virgin and Child"-anothor by Pintur-
rlchio. and two by saudro Botticeli. The British
r government intends to bid for certain lots.
2 ORDERS and titles are manufactured and
sold to foreigners in Italy to such an extent that
. the ODlca Gazette Of Rome has considered IL nee
essary TO announce that the purchase of the estate
= of q noble does not include the transfer of the
= title from the old possessor to the new one, as
agents often falsely state, and that the crown
alone has the right of investing with titles and
orders In Asia Minor there is fourishing fac
= tory for the production of Persian orders and
medals of merit in art and science.
n THE Little Rock (Ark) Gazette prints the
n following us veriable letter of Andrew Jackson.
: 1t certainly has n characteristic flavor 81 was
q glad to hear from you aud TO know that the good
t Lold, in His divine mercy, had thus far spared
you. May he ever bless us and damuIour enemies.
We must all lean on the for support, for man
t is weak. hid you ever see such id scoundrel
Y as John Q. Adams? am pleased to hear that you
i have protested religion and Joined the church.
This more efTectually elevates you above the did
wings"
PIERRE Coffee, the oldest man in the state
g Of Indiana, died ut the residence OF Mr.. Ben kis
- sick, an influential farmer, living three miles
y from VinCennes, lust week. Mr.. Cottee was ll5
IS wears old and had been u resident Of Nincennes
townshipsince his birth, He carried brick for the
first house built over 100 years ago, and was well
acquainted with Tecumseh and Gen. Harrison.
o one of his great eccentrciues was taste for cay
r enne pepper, which he used for snuif. and also
II swallowed 1t by the spoonful TO quench his
thirst Up to the time OF his illness he was able
to do an ordinary mans work.
AN Elk county farmer had suffered SC
n much from the depredations of hen hawks that
}. he had hen made oflead, which he placed in a
10 conspicuous part Of the barnyard. The discom
10 future of the spunky little blue wing when Il
0 bounced on the leaden dominique was source
}. of the most intense satisfaction to tho sturdy
ID of Elk He forbid the boys shooting any more
a chicken hawks, ana had them change the To-
m cation Of the hen frequently. Every Sunday hi
ct would give 1t different coat Of paint so as t.
l. make II look like another chicken. Last Wed
to nesday while the family were at dinner bis
/ eagle swoOped down on the dummy qnd carried
II IT oil, AT the height Of about one hundred foe
err It discovered the trick and let Il drop The mex
I'd instant II went crashing through the foof Of th'
lg kitchen, whore tho family were at dinner, anC
landed in pot on the stove.