National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-12
ODDS AND ENDS.


Arkansas has 1900 white and 800
colored school teachers.
Virginia will this year harvest LOO
900 bushels Of peanuts.
Miss Agnes Benedict will attempt TO
swim tho English channel in August.
1t costs not less than $4,000. 900 annu-
ally to support dogs in tho United States.
The Emperor Of China has ordered tho
destruction Of 100000 worth of opium.
Charles Metz, Troy bartender, has
fallen heir to q German baronetcy and
fortune.
The Osborne fiat house in Now York
city, which is almost completed, is fifteen
stories high.
Over 10000 copies of NJ. Alphonse Dau-
diets new novel, "Sapho," were sold within
tho first two days.
In Whitechapel church, London, re-
Gently, an infant was actually christenod
0sman Digms Smith.
London supports an eightpago penny
monthly, tho sole contents of which con-
sists Of solicited poems.
A now diamond dsnger-A lady in New
York cut her check with her clustor ring
whilo adjusting hor bonnet
1t is estimated that 100000 900 worth
OF grass is annually consumed by the
prairie dogs in northern Texas.
One hundred and fifteen millions of
dollars is said to DO invested, rs real
estate in tho 1859 theaters of tho United
States.
Alex. Henderson, ex-husband of Lydia
Thompson, is going TO bring an English
burlesque company to this country noxt
season.
An Indianapolis man has invented a
live poultry car. IL has numberless
partitions, storm curtains, cleansing APP
paratus, water and food troughs.
An Illinois sheriff cried for two hours
after hanging n murderer. The MUIR
derer, however, never shed toar nor
lost his appetite after dispatching his
victim.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rolla Floyd are the only
remaining members of the famous colony
of 1853 persons who left America in 1866 to
bring about the restoration Of Jaffa and
Palestine.
The Oldest inhabitant Of Texas-Millie
Carnfer, colored, who recently died at the
age of 1i0-was distinguished by the fact
Washington's nurse.
At his jubilee Mr.. Sturgeon said very
naively that he did not depend upon ad-
vertisement or any lay methods for his
charitable income--about f10,000a year
but simply on prayer.
There Is an actress in Germany named
amanda Bettina Kreuzwauger Rosallo
Bakerman Zwinkehuff. Her name on q
forty-sheet streamer is said to cause
riot wherever 1t IS posted up.
Senator Logan has two brothers living
at his old homo, Murphysborough, ILL.,,
one of them being postmaster there and
tho other a stock farmer, reported to have
some of tho finest horses in the state.
| Queen Victoria's book, more Leaves"
| has run its race. Ono London bookseller
quotes it in his surplus list at shillings.
This demonstrates that even queen is
compelled to take her chances in litera-
| ture.
| A man who had to leave his Office, and
was expecting caller to pay him some
money, left this notice on his door: az
have gone out for half an hour. VIII be
back soon. Have been gone twenty min
utes already"
1t has been commended by those who
knew him best that Allan Pinkerton
possessed the faculty which has been
termed mind reading" to o remarkable
degree. and that this was the basis for
much Of his success.
Bayard Taylor father and mother, still
living, up in the nineties in years, inhabit
the beautiful country house which Bay
ard built years ago at Kennott Square.
1 i'e, oiIu which,, since bio death, has fruit
lessly been offered for sale.
New England Congregationalists are
organizing Congregationalist clubs, where
the members meet for an afternoon, dis
cuss practical, timely topics in an in
formal way, eat lunch, have lots of good
fellowship and dispense, eager to como
back to the next meeting.
Napoleon was bow-legged, Cesar had
short legs, Hannibal had big heels and
was knock-kneed, but every stumpy,
duck-legged, bow-legged, knock-kneed
tlat-footed, long man you see isn't
combination Of military genius by a
long shot.-Burlington Hawkeye.
Herbert Spencer has sunk the philoso-
pher in the man long enough to conf
dentially declare that, though sentiment
is something more to him than shape, he
never will marry a woman who is convex
in the back, concave in the bosom, and
sontimentally dropping in tho shoulders"
An Indian legend declares that the
time was when Tulare Lake, CAL, did not
exist. AS tho lake is now rapidly drying
up and exposing adobe walls, stone in
struments and other relics of men who
certainly did not live under water il
may turn out that the Indian legend Is q
true one.
Some photographs recently placed on
sale in Berlin show that the favorite
residence of Prince Bismarck at Fried
ricksruhe is far from being the castle
which popular fancy has supposed it to
be. 1t is, in fact, so unpretentious a
little house as hardly to deserve tho name
of villa.
A young man died recently in Phila.
delphia whose heart presented the most
extraordinary case Of hypertrophy ever
recorded. The organ weighed forty eight
ounces three pounds) and in general
appearance could scarcely be distin-
guished from tho heart Of an OK. Tie
young man was only Is years old.
Charles Coehlan was paid 500 q weelS
last season: Mckee Rankin, $500; James
O'Neill, $500; Mr., Searle, $3.50, and SO on
The theatrical gossip of the New York
Times learns that Coghlan is not likely to
get again anything like his salary Of last
year. and that the salaries of most actors
will be lowor during the coming season.
Frank Frayno is touring the English
provinces with his rifle and black boar
In some towns tho authorities have for.
hidden his dangerous exhibitions of mark
manship. Frayno has evidently forgot
ten the resolution no expressed just after
the killing of Anne Won Behren, to dis
, pensc with this feature Of his perform
anceS.
A collection of Oriental idols, number
ing about 1900, and a library of 1905