National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-22

the aggregate 1855, 900 annually.
lr is proposed to make q direct road for
cyclists from London to Brighton.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is the owner of tho
largest tombstone mandatory in Vermont
MARY ANDERSON, who has made 100000
by her European tour, travels about England in d
special palace car.
The first thing that tho Puritaus did here
was to fall upon their knees; tho next was to fall
upon the aborigines.
LOUISIANA has school accommodations for
but 10000 children, though there are at least
10000 little ones I'm the state.
THE Germans steadily increase their navy.
Twoniy-fo four torpedo boals are now under con.
sIructlon, besides many larger vessels.
THE panic is n little embarrassing to those
| New York reporters who get 1000 u year They
don't know where to deposit their weekly savings
RUFUS HATCH does not think that any man,
however, humble In life, should DO called upon to
explain his stock TRANSACTIONS He says 1t Is
against public deoency.
A DOG was dug out of the debris of a snow
| slide in Colorado few days ago. lie had been
| confined In narrow space next TO the logs of o
| buried cabin for thirty-two days and when found
was In good health, but thin.
II is said that the people of this country
consume patent medicine to the amount of $780,
100000 every year. That Is 81 to every man, wo-
man, and child In tho land. A temperance
crusade against patent medicines is now in or.
der.
The Morayians have Just boon celebrating
their i27th anniversary. This leaves tho Eden
burgh tercentenary flr in the rear. The Nor
avians claim to DO the oldest Protestant scot in
Chrstendom. They ARE able to 90 back 10 the year
li57,
THE national convention of undertakcrs
Will DO held at Pttsburg on the 2Sth. One OF the
questions to be considered is show TO increase tn
death rate" Increased national and muncipa
legislation tending to prevent epidemics and rag
OF pestilence is also looked upon suspiciouIy.
A YOUNG man who was addicted to the
opium habit in California city stole coat from
room in his boarding house, 80 that he would be
| sent to jail Tor few weeks, where he could not
obtain the drug. But to his dismsy he found that
his crime was burglary instead of petit larceny,
aud he was sentenced 10 the state prison for q
term of years. Efforts are now being made to Sc
cure his pardon
ATEACHER in q suburban school was giving
her class an object lesson u few days ago, and
drew cat on tho blackboard for its inspection.
She then asked what there on the cat, and tho
unanimous reply was, "Hair" "what else p sho
ouerled. There was long pause but finally the
hand of q brghteyed little 5-yearold shot up,
and almost simultaneously came her triumphant
answer, "Fleasp
LORD LYTToN tells of an amusing story Of
an answer of Fuseli to a materialist, who said to
him in discussion: "You assert, then, that have
an immortal soul ?" "Sir," replied Fuseli, II
have asserted nothing of the kind. What | as
sorted is that have an immortal SOUL" In tha
same way Bulwer's conviction was, as his tells
US, "inseparabe from the sense Of his own yigor-
GUS personality"
THERE is an invention spoken of which it
Is thought may abolish tho bit It is called the
Garage, or ant-horse torture. 1t is composed of a
steel band placed over the front bone of tho
horses nose, and to this appliance the reins are
attached The inventor claims for this substitute
for the bit that 1t gives complete control to the
driver over tho horse without inhicing the least
discomfort or torture on the animal itself. 1t has
been tried with satisfactory results.
A CINCINNATI doctor Of large practice
says the profession is poor, very poor, and physi
clans who talk of incomes of $4,000 10 s25 900 a
year only talk for effect. ~ earn from $4,000 to
$4,000, and think myself we'll off If collect
one-third Oft keep carriage, to be sure. and
q colored man with very bright buttons. but it ID
often that have not dollar In my pocket 10 pay
for a cab If my own equipage should happen to
break down couple of miles away from home"
PETER RuPP, the editor of tho Eau Claire
wis., Democrat, has fallen heir to g. 900 O0) be-
queathed him by an uncle in New York. We are
somewhat curious to see what he will do with his
suddenly acquired bonanza. lie belonged to the
broadest gauge school Of rural editors all his Wis
itors were genial" his office was "sanctum,"
and he lifted up his voice regularly once week
In behalf of cord wood and potatoes In exchange
for subscription, advertising, and Job work,-cni.
cdgo Nelos
A BERLIN newspaper has got hold of n gens
uine sensation. 1t says that an enormous hotel Is
soon to BIO built at St. Augustine Fla. 1t will 90
three miles long six miles deep, and seventy-fye
stories high, Guests will be taken TO their rooms
by 500 balloons the tables in the dining room will
be four miles III length and the waters: who
servo tho meals will be on horseback. There
will be a cuspdor in tho ofige 100 feet In circum-
ference, The German doesn't often try to DO
funny, but when he does he means business.
"YoU look like poot," laughed the funny
editor as the handsomely dressed youngSter ems
tered. The boy smiled and began fumbing in his
pocket. "Maybe you write songs, too" suggested
the newspaper man. eyes, some time" was tho
answer. Have you got ono for meT Yes,
think have" us it sung by long or short
meter?" by this time the young man had lshed
out u document, which he threw down, yelling
exctedly, "Neithor. my friend, 1t Is sung by the
gas meter" II was gas bill tor $40.
THE chance of tho Chicago hotel keepers
making profit out Of tho national conventions
seems to be brighter than that of any single candi
. ties for lodging guests being temporarily
= increased by partitioning tho large rooms and
D pRrlor into tiny bedrooms and by turning tho
servants quarters and working departments into
places for lodging, As TO the provision Of food
for the expected crowds, there seems TO DO some
doubt about the adequacy OF the preparation.
The annual loss by fire in tho United States
= is about SlOO,OOO,O0O II is about twice as much
per inhGbitaut us the Are loss of Great Britain,
four times us much as that Of France, and Six
times th9t of Germany At tho average rate OF
production II would require the constant labor Of
about 100000 men to replace tho loss The loss Is
I nearly much as tho amount collected on inter-
= nal revenue, and Ono-thrd more than the annual
: interest OF the public debt. The amount of pre-
miums collected by insurance companies IL con-
siderably less than the loss 80 that some insurance
companies must fail every year. It is estimated
that SD per annum is collected for every man,
woman ana child In the United States to pay for
careless construction and negligence in guarding
j against the dangers OF ire
y THE late judah p. Beniamin's domestic
Q life was continuous struggle TO overcome preju-
dice engendered in social circles against his wife
because she offended the society of New Orleans
shortly after their marriage Mr. benjamin was
much devoted to her and IL wounded him keenly.
lie spent years and vast amount Of trouble and
= money to win back for her her place in society,
0 but he never succeeded. Once he gave grand