National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

Won't somebody step TO the front forthwith, and
make their bow and show
How the frauds and crimes of a single day spring
up2 We want to know
The devil was fairly voted out and of course, the
DEVILS gone,
But simple people would like to know who car.
ries his business on.
Alfred J. Houoh.
A GERMAN physician defines the main diff
ference in the effects of whisky and beer to be:
"Vskey makes you kill somebody else; nit peer
you only kills yourself"
TOXIC, japan, has its twelfth Presbyterian
church. The government daily paper advertises
tho Bible for sale. In ten years Toxic may be a
Christian city" was tho prediction of its young
men at the late conference of churches in Japan.
EDWARD Brown, one of tho 112th Penn
sylvania artillery, received rebel bullet in his
nose during the siege of Petersburg, In August
1854. He went to a Philadelphia hospital last
Monday and had the ball. which was mimic of
500 grains, extracted.
In tho olden times Wendell Phillips was
in great demand as a lecturer. Among his stereo-
typed replies to committees was: ~ will come
and lecture on literary subject for 500 night
and my expenses; on slavery for nothing and
pay my own expenses"
Gov. ROBINSON at o recent dinner recog-
nized q college chum whom he had not seen for
thirty years. This gentleman had boon an earnest
worker for the governor during the recent cam.
paign, but had never associated him in his mind
with his former college friend
The Duke of Abercorn has thirteen titles.
each of which represents separate peerage; the
Marquis of Butte has fifteen; the Dukes of Argyle
and Baccleugh have each sixteen; the Duke of
Hamilton seventeen; and the Duke Of Athol, with
twenty three, stands top Of tho tree.
ONE of the most successful farmers of
Walton county, Georgia. is Erasmus @. Wright so
years of age who has been blind from his In.
fancy. He can, 1t is said, make as good a wagon
or buggy, or as neat coffin, or do as good work
in the cooperage line as any other man in that
neighborhood.
BUT two of the twenty vice presidents of
the United States continued in that office for two
full terms-that Is, for the period of eight years
The two were John Adams and Daniel D. Thomp-
kins. Only two others, George Clinton and John
@. Calhoun, were honored with second election
to the vice presidency
TROUBLE is in preparation for England in
India. The new ruler of Hyderabad, a practically
independent but always friendly state, Ia not yet
eighteen. and is an impassive voluptuary; the
new premier ID not twenty. and naughty and in
discreet, while the always turbulent mobiles have
already begun to fight among themselves.
The foreign trade of Canada last year
amounted to 900, of which s1s2 25i 900 con.
sisted Of imports The trade with the United
States exceeded that of all other countries, We
sent into the Dominion $685. 0S2 900 worth of goods,
while the mother country" sent but s52O52OoO
worth, The Canadian tendency from year to year
is toward increased Intercourse with this country
THE gross value of the city of London in
April next will be "a 1887 0O0 and the ratable value
,,I,s Ia .,.I..
British metropolis will be $50 i50OO and the rata.
bic f25,S72OOO, Thus, despite the rapid growth of
the metropolis, the one square mile of the city
keeps up its proportion of about one-seventh of
| the ratable value of the whole 100 square miles
Nor only in Paris, but in Germany, and in
fact throughout Europe, the cry of the unem-
| ployed is rising high. Holland Is much troubled
| with 1t at present. In both Amsterdam and Rot
terdam there is large amount of labor eager but
| unable to get work, and driven into restitution
| In Amsterdam the government has devised some
| temporary work, and in Rotterdam 1000 of the
"disinherited" have issued protest against the
subvention ofthe opera by the municipality dur
ing this distress.
| INDIANS eat the horns of the deer when in
| the velvet. One day. on the Sioux reservation in
| Dakota a deer was killed near camp aud brought
| in entire. Atsight of 1t Pahlaniote, Minnecon-
jou of some 30 years. dropped his usual statuesque
attitude, knocked off the horns, and, seating him
self by the fire, began at the points to eat them
velvet and all, without cooking as If they were
most delicious morsels. The others of the party
j looked on as If they envied him. They said they
:" always ate them So"
The year 1900 will not be q leap year,
although 1t is divisible by four without re-.
mainder. In order to make calendar and solar
| time agree as nearly as they can DO got for many
| yearg N come the GrnpOrian ndard ronu al
leap years out Of every four centuries, and these
omissions are upon such leap years as will not
| divide by 400 without q remainder although they
can be divided evenly by four The year 1000
| was leap year, but 100 and 1900 were not and
| 1900 will not be.
DURING recent afternoon large eagle
was seen lowering around the vicinity OF Pavonia
ferry, Jersey City. About 10 o'clock at night II
was again seen on q cake of ice on the ferry slip
A stick thrown at It failed to drive 1t away. A
| ladder was then let down from the wharf and a
man descended, while two others drew the cake
of ice near the foot of the ladder When the man
got on the ice he had q struggle with the eagle
before he succeeded in capturing 1t. 1t was soak
ing wet, and 1t was thought 1t was dazzlsd by the
electric lights Itmeasured six feet from tip to tip
A THRILLING story is told of the narrow
escape Of Peter Scanlon and Tim Horn from
being swept over the American fall at Niagara
They were at work in mill race trying to raise
an ice blockade, when they were thrown by the
springing of some planks into the water. In a
moment they were carried In the swirl current
above the Goat Island bridge toward the falls.
Near where the men were working and below the
bridge was cake Of ice toward which they were
carried. In their desperation they attempted to
catch hold of the ice cake, and when found hal
an hour later they were hanging ON to IL for dea
life. Ropes were procured and they weye hauled
ashore.
SCIENCE has established definition Of
temperance in drinking which is of abiding inter
est to all who are now giving their attention Il
the anti liquor agitation. There is an exact limit
in drinking alcoholic liquors the passing of which
nlacas the drInker In great nerl. Ona nnnna nnf