National Republican., 1884-11-05

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GERMANY sends France enormops
quantities of game; in 1888, 10000 of the 258.-
900 hares consumed in Paris, besides II 900
deer, 200 boars, and feathered game innumer.
ablo.
THE bell in tho clock tower of the new
Board oil Trade building In Chicago weighs $500
pounds without the fixtures, which weigh 800
pounds more. 1t was placed In position last
Wednesday.
ONE OF the most remarkable tele.
graphic feats on record was the recent deliy.
cry of message from Melbourne, Australia,
10 London IN twenty-three minutes. 1t went
by land and sea over 13,3OS miles of wire.
THERE are nearly 20 900 horses in
European Russia, but so many have been ex.
ported recently that the government proposes
TO levy nm export tax of fifty gold roubles on
every horsc valued Mt less than 800 roubles.
An Italian admiral has invented n
shrapnell shell for the 1O0.ton guns, al thirty
yards from the oanuon's mouth IL bursts.
throwing forward seyenty.flye smaller prolec.
tiles, which in turn bursts, strewing in fan
shape a thick shower OF balls and fragments
with terrible destructive effect.
Two merchants sro discussing bar.
gam. "That's too dear" says one, You might
knock oil something; you know we've always
been on friendly terms" ~ know It; but
then, no ono ever gets chance Of making
money out of his enemies, so what is he to do
but make 1t out of his iriendsy''
THERE are more than 100000 women
and girls who make living on the streets of
Paris as licensed vonders. Thirty.tiye thou
sand OF them are under 1s, II, 900 under Is, and
1000 OF them are little girls under l3 years of
age. They are allowed to grow up as pagans,
with no religious or moral instruction.
HAVE you seen the latest thing out ?"
eagerly cried Mrs Flapover, rushing into Mrs.
Fitzgoobers sitting room with bundle in her
arm. YES" sadly answered Mrs. Fit2goober,
II saw 1t last night" "what is it?" asked the
visitor, in surprise. my husband; he didn't
get in till nearly ylight."-ARanta Constau.
hoR.
AT a meeting of the New York Acad-
emy of Medicine DR.. A. L. Ranney recon-
mends the internal use of hot water in the
treatment OF nervous diseases. The theory of
Its action is that the nerves of the stomach are
directly influenced by the introduction of heat
into the empty organ, and that the accessory
digestive organs are stimulated by it.
The minister had been invited TO dir
ner. While grace was being said Tommy ey,
the unwonted good things spread before hi.
with pleasurable anticipation. MA" be
said, when the minister had concluded, ''do
you know why pa doesn't give thanks every
day at the table?" His mother shot a warning
glance at him. "Cause it's only when the
minister's here that we have anythin' worth
givin' thanks for.'
The forthcoming Paris beauty show is
to be beauty show as is q beauty show. A
committed, composed of the most distinguished
painters and sculptors is to be organized. This
committee will send out requests to all tho
large cities of Europe and the east for photo
graphs of the highest types of beauty, and the
subJects Of such Of the photographs as are con
sidered up to the standard will be called ia
Paris.
PRESBYTERIAN doctor of divinity
once said to me at a general assembly: you
newspaper men must have queer views of
things. You are always looking on and never
taking part. Your knowledge and habits of
thought must be very crcumferential and
superficial. suppose, now, your idea of tho
DAY OF Judgment is that you will have table
OIL at one side and report tho proceedings for
the morning paper.-S Paul Pioneer Press
KING KALAKAUA is said to be close
student, spending the greater part Of his time
in his library reading and writing. On all
matters of Hawaiian history he is an author
ity. Ha traces his descent from some one
OF the great chiefs Of Hawaii, whose story ia
the most poetic and remarkable in the whole
range of Hawaiian lore. The queen is also of
retiring nature, and is much beloved for her
extensive charities and kindly disposition.
A TUNNEL, measuring about 5000 feet
long, and constructed at least nine centuries
before the Christian era, has just been discoy-
cred by the governor of the island of Samos
Herodotus mentions this tunnel, which served
for providing the old seaport with drinking
water. 1t is completely preserved, and con-
tains water tubes of about ten inches in diam
eter, each one provided with lateral aperture
for cleansing purposes. The tunnel is not
quite straight.
FRENCH papers tell of certain ingenious
Frenchmen who arc experimenting with an
apparatus for utilizing solar heat and using 1t
In lieu ot coal. 10 effect this the SUMS rays
are concentrated by reflector which so
moves as to keep the rays focused on a verti-
cal boiler, which Is thus heated producing
steam enough to run press. In a recent ex-
pertinent the sun-made steam drove large
of specimen newspaper. Parties interested
In thus obtaining the cheapest attainable heat
profess themselves as we'll satisfied with the
first test and are in high hopes OF SOC n being
able TO generate steam without coal or any
other mundane fuel.
For discordancy the concert of the
Chinese band which came over to London to
the exhibition puts Wagner quite In the shade.
First hpara wild shriaks then Ia tIrut,-
mings and throbbings as of u thousand negro
minstrels, changing to an army Of bagpipes,
the squealing of maltreated babies, the whist
ling of locomotives the fog horns of a steamer.
the clashlng of cymbals, the beating OF drums.
There is Il vast assortment Of Chinese musical
instruments, from the twostringed fiddle to-
the great horn. There are three sorts of
guitars-the hepa-balloon shaped, three feet In
length, and much used for festal rites of a re.
ligious character; then comes the sanheen or
threestrlnged guitar, and the flill-moon guitar,
que kich. Then come drums, cymbals, &c,
and the organ, the embryo of our own, with
several tubes Of varying length inserted in
bowl.
The mudir of Dongola, Englands only
friend in the Soudan, Is slight delicate man,
with pale, pensiye face lighted up by two
large black. luminous eyes which seem to be
always looking in space, and from between
which projects protcrnaturally large nose,
hooked like vultures beak. The effect OF
his extreme piety on the Mussulman popula-
tion is very marked, aud has enabled him to
maintain himself in power almost within arm
stroke of the Mahdl. He is only visible for
short time each day before public prayers,
which all officers, civil and military are bound
to attend. On these occasions he squats on a
carpet, and, holding his beads in one hand
places large Koran, resembling family
Bible, before him, while companion squats
in front, at the opposite side of the room, hold.
ing similar volume from which he reads.
/ Thia narannaua Ia a N,hfau