National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-05-31

IN style and material, texture aud hue,
And somebody's fancy is ever wide ranging
1nventing, Of course, some atrooty new.
Some styles are quite hateful aud other delightful
In broadbrmmod and narrow.brImmed round1
topped and fat,
But the latest invention is certainly frlghthil
The conical, sugar-loaf, six.story hat.
--somerURe journal.
The dressiest jersey this season will be a
white silk.
SENATOR JoNAs's successor, Mr.. Eustis. il
described a typical southerner, rich indolent,
fond OF fashionable life and full OF caste preIu.
dices.
WHEN eggs arc 80 'csats dozen tho farmer
never enjoys an etg breakfast. lie somehow feel
as If he was eating money, and his throat is
uncomfortable.
IN is said "The new style of bathing suit
for women will be composed OF q red serge skirt
with accordion pleats." The wild waves will
play on the accordion.
IT is claimed that Canada is the poor mans
country Some hundreds Of thousands of Cana
dams VINO are tired Of being poor men have come
to this country to better themselves.
WHEN woman comes into store looks at
piece of goods, and says: Now isn't that beauti-
full and so very cheap the clerk drops her like
an April fool parcel. She is professional shop
per.
NATHAN KENNEDY, the great chicken
fancer of the SOUTH died recently at New Forest,
Ky, aged 90 years Every state of the union
has representatives of his famous breed OF game
cocks.
IT is rumored that w. V. Esmond, the
Chicago detective who worked on both sides in
the Carpenter case at Lincoln. will marry Miss
Fanny Carpenter, daughter of tho man he tried to
have convicted of the murder of Fora Burns.
EMILE lola denounces current English
fiction as sickly sentimentalsm, Catering ex-
clusivey for young girls" but he may console
himself with the reflection that his own books are
by no means calculated for that class OF readers
IT is said that during tho closing years Of
the late Judah p, Benjamin's practice In London
his fee for consultation ut his own house was 800
guineas. and that he habtually refused to go into
any court other than the house of lords and the
priyy council for less than 100 guineas.
AN old lady of Chicago, % years
of age, boasts that she used to sit In WashinEton's
lap. This refutes the historical Islander that the
father of his country so bow legged that when
he was "keepin" company that he had to put shin.
gle across his knees for Martha to ait
M1NKs-"Why, where have you been, old
boy? Haven't seen you about for some time"
Flnks-"No; am no longer connected with tho
brokerage firm of Ward & Ward" Mlnks-"what
has hAppened?" Finks-I got TO thinking very
deeply on the subject and concluded 1 would
never again have anything to do with Wall
street." Minks-'You don't say SOP Finks--
Eyes. / reformed aud have started q faro bank"
Mr.. Roswell SMITH, president of the
Century company, say: "When we started the
Century magazine told Dr. Holland that we
would have to depend upon the south and west
| for our new writers, and that New England could
| no longer monopolize the literary men. America,
in fact, is going to be the great literary producer
! for the next twenty Ave years. Already Eng
| land acknowledges that we have the best novel.
| lists"
CHARLES J. b. WILLIAMS n London physi-
clan, has lately published his personal expert.
ences During the first ten years 1870 OF his
establishment as physician In London his ex-
| penses exceeded HIS receipts at average Of
cocoa year. In 1siO the scale began to turn in
| his favor. In 1913 his professional income
amounted to $500 Between 1858 and 1867, when
| he was in the fullest private practice, it varied
| from $4,000 10 $1,000 year. 1t never exceeded
| the latter amount. He adds my largest re-
celpts, handsome they were. did not equal
those of fashionable physicians of olden times,
nor Of the two or three special fayorites of the
| present day."
ONE of tho smallest men in tho United
States lives Mt Cedar Key, His name is Abecham
| Livingston Sawyer. He is % years old forty and
one-half inches high, weighs thirty mine pounds.
and the captain he come over with from Key
| West says he can cat more than any two men in
the state. The midget was born and reared in
| Key West. He is built in perfect proportion, Is
| very bright, and can make an eloquent speech,
and has clear, high voice, which sounds like u
ohild's He was at one time reporter on the
| Key West Democrat At present he is clerling In
grocery store. He has sister who is Just
quarter of an inch taller than he is, and is Just
| II years old.
THE fallen money kings of New York live
! In houses remarkable for their mGgnihcence and
| luxury. A. s. Hatch resides in granite castle at
| Tarrytown. This edihce was built in imitation OF
a castle described in one OF Walter scotts novels
George l. Seney's palace in Brooklyn outshlnes
many establishments of tho proudest European
mobiles. General Grant still occupies the fourslory
brown stone front on SiXty-sixth street. John Q.
Emo has brown stone mansion on Park avenue.
Russell Sage lives In rather modest house OH
Fifth avenue. Nelson Robinson, d. r. Hatch, A.
W, Dlmook, o. NJ, Bogart, Robert Donnell, and
Leonidas Lawson all have fine establishments and
II will take millions to keep them up in proper
style.
Mr.. WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT's treasure
vault, IN which he recently slowed away some
Sl00,0OOO00 in securities is one of the most
doubtabl works Of defense on the American con-
tnent though you may not be entirely certain Of
that by surveying his mansion from the outside.
It's foundations were blasted out of tho rock; the
front wall is five feet in thickness, and the side
and rear walls are three feet the materials used
being pressed brick with brOwn-stone trimmings.
The beams, Orders and main pillars are iron, In.
cased in fre-prooi material The doors, window
frames, aud minor partitions are iron, marble,
and glass, No wood is to be found in the struc-
ture Tho great vault is thirty.siX by forty-two
feet, OF wrought iron, steel, and Franklnite iron,
is imposing in strength and proportions, and is
situated on the ground aoor. It's four outer doors
weigh $500 pounds each, aud have every effective
and known improvement IN defensive devices A
massive wall ofmasonry surrounds the iron work.
The vault which Is burglar, fire, and water proof,
constitutes Il distinct building in itself,
The good quality of Roman mortar has
been proverbia for centuries, aud 1t is believed
that the processes now followed In its preparation
are identical with those In use by Italian masons
1000 years ago. The custom among Italian ma.
sous IL, in beginning work on IL new building, to
dig Arst pit large enough to contain all the NOR
tar required for the work, Into which Is put limo
enough to fiji 1t within a foot or two of the ton,
Water is then poured in until the pit is filled, aud
the mixture is left to ITSELF care being taken only
to add water as that first put IN Is eyaporaled or
absorbed. As mortar Is wanted, portion of the
lime is taken from the top OF the mass, but tho
lower portion, which win DO used 10 mix with the
pastering mortar remains undsturbed for years
and acquires smooth, pasy quality, much priced