National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-28

The late Mr., Holloway, the pill maker, was
man of most precise and methodical business
habits. lie always used 10 pay every one OF his
employees every night, and insisted upon transact.
Ing AL his business on a cash basis.
Tue canned fruit product of California has
largely decreased with the last decade. The pro.
duct 1875 aggregated in value about s5oOOO0 In
1878 1t had reached 81 $50 900; in 1880 81
and in 1882 the product is set down as worth 49,.
100000.
RosENTHAL's famous picture Of Elaine"
is offered for sale in San Francisco for s7JOO also
Mr. +. II. Dc Haas picture, "Farragut Before the
Forts at New Orleans is offered for $1,000. They
belong at present to Mrs. Robert c. Johnsonlof
San Francisco
In the house Of Commons forty members
are necessary to make quorum; in tho house of
lords only three are required, and frequently in
zone night measures affecting lives and property
are passed through two readings by three old gem
uemen in a gilded ROOM"
Mr. j. Il. RANDALL tells the story OF black
soldier who ran away at Murireesboro battle, and
was asked If no thought any one would have
missed him had he been killed. mo-" he replied,
"they don't miss white men, much less niggers
but would have missed myself, and that's the
pint with me-"
THE Academy of Sciences has Just been
fin ished at Athens. The new building which
comprises lecture rooms, besides large library,
has been built Of marble, in the style OF tho
buildings of the Acropolis aud within sight OF
them. Baron Won Sina, OF Vienna, a wealthy
Creek has made this munifcent present.
POLICEMAN leaned over the area railing
and addressing Bridget who was at that moment
engaged in shifting an ash barrel, observed,
Bridget, my darlint, the loght av yer Dyes makes
tho dawn same loike darkness" Trims the very
wurruds that yer supayrior the sargint, shpoke to
me. suppoaz it's Il part Of the discipline av the
iource"
AN entertaining article on American art as
seen with French eyes bus just appeared in a
Partisan art Journal From thi, authority we learn
that the United States excelS the world in the pro-
duction of artistic postage stamps. This the writer
regards as somewhat singular, us the people of
America, he understands, do very little in other
branches of art"
The recent cold spell extended over
Georgia and left its traces everywhere. Tallulah
river was frozen over and when II broke UP the
Ice came tumbling over the falls imparting
strange feature of beauty to that romantic cas-
cade. The proprietor OF the Tallulah hotel
actually gathered and stored away 100000 pounds
Of Ice for next summers use.
THERE were thirty-thrce failures in 1888,
with liabilities of half million or more each st,
Louis contributed one of this roll of distinction,
y. conrad ~ with liabilities OF 900. BOs-
ton heads the list, New York follows good Sec
ond, and Chicago is third. The aggregate liza
bities reported for the whole thirty three fail
ures is S37 100000. or an average of 81 900 for
each failure.
NINE DE WITT, the daughter of Guizot,
has just published the first volume of her edition
In modern language Of extracts from the old
French chronicers. The work begins with Greg
DRY, Of Tours, and will end with Philippe dc
Commines. This first volume embraces the
origins of French history, and carries the reader
to the end of the First Crusade. 1t is full of mat
ter descriptive of manners and character.
IN England considerable attention is being
paid to eel culture. Eels thrive in any waters
where carp do we'll. They multiply aud grow
rapidly, and their flesh rank with beef and NUT
ton in the quality of nutritiousness. Eels were
held in high esteem by the Greeks and Romans
! and the latter introduced their culture in tho
| countries they conquered. The eel is a favorito
food in all Latin countries. The Scotch aud Irish
associate eels with snakes and other reptiles and
| will not eat them.
STRANGE case of longevity is reported
| from Mount Lebanon, n. Y. II appears that the
Oldest member of Il settlement of Shakers in that
neghborhood Ia Dolly Sexton. She was born in
| stephentown, N. V, in the year l777, and when
only years old was left by her parents, who were
| In very poor circumstances, with the Shakers, who
| had made Mount Lebanon their resting place
Among these queer people Dolly Sexton has now
lived lO2 years. She is still in possession of, her
faculties and can move about readily, although
now nearly 107 years old.
THE death Of Abraham Becker is reported.
| He lived on Watteased bayou, In Prairie county ,
Arkansas, and earned livelihood by trapping
and fishing. II is claimed he was a native of syria
cuse, n. y, where he has many wealthy relatives.
| His abode was d tumbledown hut his only COM
| panions two big dogs, He led u hermit.like ex.
istence, stunning mankind. Singular stories con-
corning him were related. twas said he had been
forced into voluntary exile to escape punishment
| for awful crimes, and that he had large sums Of
money hidden about his lonely cabin.
The new Spanish ministry is under the
presidency of Canovas del Castillo a conservative
statesman. He was educated for u civil engineer
| but drihed into literature and journalism. His
ventures in both lines were failures until he be-
came the editor of La Patria In politics he has
| been something Of q trimmer, generally choosing
the winning side. He has always shown consid-
cradle administrative ability and his record ia free
from tho stain Of corruption. King Alfonso, in,
charging the new premier with the formation Of a
cabinet, has restored public confidence and ter
minated all embarrassing crisis.
The Paris Temps, which expresses tho
| average Frenchman's opinion about English
uHAlts, pfeulcls that Ireland VIII not only eNtOrJ
| home rule but larger concessions from England,
and commenting on Englands Egyptian compli-
cations says: at would be only too easy to show
| that our neighbors endorsements are the result
Of their refusal at tho outset of the proposal of
Anglo French interference. They would net
| have Intervention at the time when 1t might have
ayerted the disorders which have now to be re-
paired. The permanent occupation of the delta
is the goal to which, through the logic Of facts
government is drifting which processes horror Of
annexations, and whose press is daily denounc-
ing 10 the civilized world what it styles the
French spirit OF conquest"
II appears that Malay had taken great
| dislike to his mother.in-aw, and tired of her
stopping at his house, one day hit upon plan to
abolish his mother-in- law The wife was sent or
on some long errand and told not TO return for
some days; the poor old woman was then drugged
with opium and sent into a sound sleep, and then
the dreadful Malay commenced operations, first,
by selecting gigantic tree close to the family
mansion and as his mother-in-lRw slept in fam
ced security he piled his ak to the tree until af
ter half days hard labor he completed his dia.
bolicul task, crash went the tree and crash went
the house containing the mother. in-law, who
never lived to tell the tale, The willy Malay
thought no witness near ut hand and was about
10 return 10 hisyoung wife when he was suddenly
converted into large ugly bird and from that
day TO this may be constantly heard In the dense