National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-09


| But how much do you get n week p
-Bosion star.
| THE italian government has deter
mined to oflerl on the occasion Of the opening
ofthe Turin exhibition, prize of 10000 francs
ls2,OOO) for the most practical process for the
transmission Of electricity
Boston, according to the Nsw England
Fhrmer, consumes from iO0, 900 to 100, 900 pounds
OF oleomargarine and other limitations OF butter
per week Very little spurious butter is now
sold In the markets Of dew York,
NOR. CAPEL Is not without sense. Ho
says that he will never DO guilty Of printing
book of undigested reflections and false CON
illusions about this country, las too many
actors and historians have done"
IT is said that Of Stephen @. Fosters
odd Folks ut Home fully 100000 copies
have been sold; OF Paynos "swees Home''
over 100000 copies; Of Tom Moores Last
Rose of Summer 100000 copies
THE friends of DIR. White, of Queen
Anne county, Nd, claims that he is tho Oldest
living graduate Of West Point. Dr. White liz
50 years old, and graduated in the first class
that graduated at the United States military
academy.
| SHORTHAND Is an accomplishment now
quite generally demanded In London of clerks
and bookkcepers. For G100 per annum the
,,Sn ''''as NV Vi'oh ehPects 70 hire aclerk
hand writing.
FROM an appendix to Mr.. Henry
Gray's Key to the Wavery Novels" Just pub
lished, comprising an alphabetical list of the
personages In the thirty-two novels and novel;
cites, II appears that they contain no fewer
'"a'' I'VE oi''S' on"i"o'eis'
REV. JOSEPH Cook has boon figuring
about our future population. He estimates
tnat IN the year ZOO our population will BIO
soovVV,oVo' IN tne year 22Oo itwillbe SoO,ooOOOo;
IN inc year zSo " WIZ DO l,6OoOo0,oOO, and in
tue year z9Vo IL VIII DO o'2VV,oOo,Oo0.
| REDWOOD forests in California ara
yearly diminishing as this wood is increa sinely
| used In building on the Pacific coast. Tho
superstructure of most dwellings In San Fran.
cisco is of redwood, and the Frscaps cherish
inc peiiei that II does not burn as readily as
o'nor nsh' material.
| LIE London courts haVo decided that
II Is unlawful for man to keep in his yard
dog that barks and howls hand organs may
not play when they are forbidden, and cocks
winch crow at unreasonable hours in short,
| anything which acts as u disturbance 70 those
living near may be suppressed by law.
The latest arrived society ladies' who
nave returned nom Europe, under the i'm
pu,oo y, sne uno,eia soare, are poas'ing that
my sinusslcu 'oss VI costly lrumpery by de-
.'aus ~ h'io ooihe noia narselies ahofsub-
leu'lis W ruinisation' ihe ohcers weren't
paiueu'a' "pou' oVefnauilnst the trunks they
sS
EMIGRATION from Italy to foreign
countries Is rapidly increasing. In 1888 1t
reached, according to official statistics, 1885, l01
MOSTLY peasants and the lowest laaEaronl.
THO two Americas receive little over a third
DIAL the emigran~, and latterly drift nom
,he nuenos Ayres coast 70 the United statea
nus peeh houceapie.
AN eccentric character OF Milwaukee,
known as the Count" who has Just been ar
rested Tor swindling bank in Sweden, dis
thguished himself particularly by spending
as much as $1,000 week for wine. One way
OF accomplishing such feat was to use bottles
of champagne as tenpins, and smash nearly
case OF Clicquot at one strike"
A CASE of death from eartb. eatino In
reported in the British Medical Journal suoh
result is rare nowadays. Yet the writer says
the habit is common among the Hindu inhab-
'itants OF Trinidad. Children often take to IT,
and In adults the habit frequently becomes so
depraved that 1t cannot be given up. Tho
earth chosen resembles sandstone, and is oaen
mixed with slate.
CHESS Ia tho oldest game now In usa
It was originally nlaved In Ind,s whar"
tradition SAWS il was invented 1000 xears
ago. The Indian game bowever yyo. r,uch
improved. as II travorsed other na.,ons r.
reached China and then cama THROUGH per.ia
10 Europe. BEFORE tbc,si xteenth csnt,,rv ,horo
had been fifteen writer's on chess, OF whom
seven were Asatics.