National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-03


SIMPLY because his cat brought home two
or three fish which sho stole from the neighbor.
ing market, Bggs boasts that he gets his mnckerol
by the kit
OF the immigration of 1883 Germany takes
the credit for above 10000 souls, England and
Wales for $4,000, Ireland for G4,0OO Canada for
10000 and Sweden and Italy for 10000 each.
IowA's new capitol, which is built of Mis-
souri, yellow and gray stone OH granite founda.
ton Is 363 feet In length by 2l0 feet in width and
W ieot III height to the top OF the cornice to tho
top OF the ball over the main dome, 295 feet. The
edihce cost s2,3G2,53l.
JOHN W1cHNER, whose death occurred at
White Pine, Col, few days ago was one of the
best known pioneers of the northwest lie was a
cousin OF the poet, John G. Whittier, and his
brother b. W. Whichcr, wrote, with the assistance
o. his wife, the famous widow Bedot" papers,
Two doctors were disputing by the bedside
OF patient. 81 tell you the liver is diseased
said one. Nonsense; nothing of the kind. 1t is
the Spleen" Very we'll we shall see at the post
mortem who is In the right" Great sensation OH
the part of the patient, whom in the heat Of the
argument they had quito forgotten.
THE copper product of 1888 was ZIG, 100000
pounds against 9l,OOOoO0 pounds In 1SS2, but tho
value was only Si700O,000 against SIC 600 Inst
year. II is estimated that gold aud silver was
mined about as last year. when $50 500 900 gold and
stBSOO,OOO silver were taken from the EARTH The
gold product OF 1888 may DO found to have de-
creased few millions
MR.. BLAKE, inventor of the telephone
transmittur 50 much used lives in palatial home
III the suburbs Of Boston, and amuseS himself by
working as al amateur blacksmith and mauhinlsi
lie serves his guests with huge glasses OF beer
holding three bottles cacl and another OF his pc.
euiariucs Is the wearing of shoes OF odd designs,
OF which he has an enormous assortment.
IT is stated that Mallais, the painter, is to
be made baronet. He has sufficient property
qualification, being worth Il m lion OF dollars
aud is earning II large yearly income. lie viii be
Tho first painter baronot, US Tennysou has been
the first poet peer. Mr.. Milas only sister is the
wife Of Mr.. Lester wallaek. There nave been va
rious painter knights. likei Reynolds, Lawrence
and Sir r. Leighton.
MILLEMAlNE Is the name OF q new cereal
which has been introduced into South Carolina
from Colombia, south America. 1t is allied to
sorghum and Guinea corn, and has the merit of
an almost unlimited capacity TO endure drought
Cakes made from the meal have been described az
better than corn cakes and the grain has been
pronounced by the chemist OF the Savannah
Guano company superior In food qualities TO
wheat.
BRET HARTE is a rather spare, nervous
man of 40 years, with features naturally some.
what delicate. His dark hair is now longer than
fashion dictates, and glossy mutton-chops adorn
his cheeks. His eyes are alert and uneasy, and
were wont to look haggard when he hung about
the theaiers where his plays didn't succeed.
Tickle fortune has smiled upon him recently, in
reparation, perhaps, of degree Of neglect in the
not remote past.
GOOD humor is de safes quality in man.
As long as de dog wags his tail dar ain no danger
in him. Else 'spiclous o. de man whut bows low
De mole goes down mighty low, but ali, Lawd,
whit mischief he does Oars no hope in dis
worp an 10 hope in dc naixt fur de man whut
doan Tub his chile. In dis respook he's wus den
dc wolf, TOO close 'lention ter business amt
good fur de system. Dc rooster what crows all
night crows de weakes in de mornin' .-ArkansdS
1faveiT.
In Texarkana-the town lying partly in
Texas and partly fl Arkansas-the marshal for the
Texas and the MARSHAL for tho Arkansas side
were sent out to arrest q drunken man It APP
pears that he was lying across the state line-his
head in Texas, the feet in Arkansas. Each mar
shall argued for jurisdiction and finally the Texan
won, on the ground that the head was the offend
ing party, as the legs did not intend to get drunk
aud had no part in doing what superind uoed in
toxicaton.
TULARE lake once had an area of 1,736
| miles and depth sufficient for n steamboat that
navlgated 1t; bts its area has been reduced to 1856
miles, and its greatest depth Is only 90 feet Its
contraction is attributed to the absorption of water
| for irrgatng purposes from the two streams that
| feed II. Some San Franciscans who have lust
| returned from trip to the lake predict Is utter
| absorption, as every farmer who settles near it
digs new canal for irrigation There are about
forty artesian wells within radius Of forty miles
| around the lake.
At Belle Meade farm near Nashville is O
| drove Of imported Shetland ponies from which
ponies are bred for the market Gen. Jackson sent
special agent to the Shetland isles and had Sc.
leoted two or three stations and number OF
brood mares. The experiment has proved sue,
cossful one The ponies sell as fast as they can
| be bred at from 500 to $3.50 each. The Bonnie
Scotlands" and "Great Toms" on this famous farm
doubtless look down the shaggy little strangers
with contempt, but they fill their masters exc
chcquer oil the same.
THE London correspondent of tho Liver
pool Daity Post snys; ~ hear great deal Of a now
singer, who Is expected to create sensation ut
the opera this season. His story Is slightly ro-
mantle. When Patti was down at her chateau in
South Wales she heard q great deal OF miner
| who had lovely voice. She not only heard Of
him, but she heard him, and the result of the
performance was that the miner left the scene Of
| his industrial labors, cultivated such musical
| capacity MS he combined with his rich voice, and
will come out this seRson-if all be well-a great
bnrytoue"
| A PHILADELPHIA museum has just boon
enriched by the arrival of five Botocudo Indians
from Brazil. The most conspicuous characteristic
of this tribe not excepting their peculiar hatred
of water and love of human flesh, is their custom
of wearing discs of wood inserted in Sits in their
ears and under lips, which are thus stretched in
a groteseue and irightful manner. One Of these
visiting Botocudos Is II woman whose ears hang
down upon her shoulders, TO the admiration and
despair of her rivals at home. This custom OF
voluntary mutilatoh is said to be dying out, the
older women alone adhcring 10 IT with any degree
! of enthusiasm.
THERE are those who assert that this VOW
| ely soitsounding Castillian is an eusy language
TO learn-but they are those who never tried it.
The mistakes which tyres make are often too
dreadful to be amusing. young American
lady in Monterey, who prides herself OH having
mastered Spanish QUICKLY and who Is wlthal
something Of cOquete desired to display her
new found knowledge for the further captiyation
of handsome young officer As he passed her
window one day she rolled up her blue eyes at
him In sentimental mood ana meant TO say, ~
am very loncSome"-yD Gs'oy nay sOltdrt0i but
what she ala say, by merely changing the tense
OF the verb and the lnal into was; II have q
tape worm,