National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-14

Dye Pusha.
Whose emlssaries vainly look
In many dark and devious nook
For some desired but absent crook7
Dye Pasha.
Who, when the public has doubt
fittings he ought to know about
Declines to give the pointers out2
Dye Pasha.
Who vainly racks his intellect
10 think Of some one TO suspect
Ofcrimes that he cannot detect2
Dye Pasha.
Fair Lii came tripping through the wood,
And l. mere chance, passed that way
chance, too, that on the bridge stood;
Still, when she comes laughing say,
None pass save those who pay the toll"
Then She down glAncing, Unjust pay2"
All chance you rogue, the fare stole
Ere pretty LII could get away.
OF course twas all the merest chance,
But still, will protest Away
That from her rouguish, backward glance,
I'd dare be sworn she'd not say nay
Had /, per hazard, dared advance
And ta'en toll then for many day
RATHER startling declaration was made
in the New Jersey assembly recently TO the effect
that railroad corporations own one. fourth OF the
assessed property in the state, but pay only one
| twelfth the taxes.
FISHERMAN on the Columbia river, Ore
gon, while playing poker recently picked up his
cards and said II pass" and as soon as the
words were uttered, fell out OF his chair dead.
Rupture Of the heart is said to have been tho
cause ofhs sudden death. Moral Don't pass"
SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARcoURT, British
home secretary, who married daughter of the
| historian Motley, has secured very favorable
| a thn Npyy
Lyndhurs and will build thereon u line country
| house with surrounding extensive grounds and
| gardens
OUR New York Sam Ward, appropriately
called by the Paris american Register "Mr Samuel
Ward" has been from Rome to Malta to meet his
particular friend, Lord Rosebery, Just returned
from voyage around the world, and to whom
Sam Ward has dedicated bis Lyrical Recrea-
tions," recently published in London.
THE public school fund of the state of Mis-
souri, now amounts to sO,s70O6i, and is con-
| stantly increasing. The sources ofincroase of the
state school fund arc by grant, gift, devise or APP
preparation. In addition TO the fund above mem
toned the state owns school property to the value
| of S92S5,i09. The total investment In schools u.s.
therefore, sl0l6s473.
THE news that three Englishmen have been
seen by native among the prisoners of tho Mahdi
raises the hope that Edmond o'Donovan, tho dar-
ing London correspondent, is one Of them. Not
only Is his own safety matter of public interest
but the fact that If he escapes he will tell the his
tory OF the Mahdrs movements for the past six
months, is OF much moment
Mr.. MUNDELLA, the head of the English
educational department, severely reproves those
London property owners who complain of tho
high school tax. He shows that, while the cost of
the schools in London is but IS. 5l6d. per head of
the population, in Berlin 1t is U.s. 3d. in Paris 49,
and in Boston 19s The educational rate is but
one-ninth Of the total taxation of the English
capital.
IN no particular, perhaps, are railway cars
In Europe an improvement on the American
pattern, except that their windows are made TO
lot down from the top by means OF a strap. which
can be- fastened at any length, 80 that travellers
can have the window open few inches and
fresh air circulating without getting blast OF cold
wind and cinders directly against the face, neck
and breast.
OUR knowledge ofthe animal kingdom is
increasing very rapidly. The number of nam.
mails is now estimated at 200; of birds, 1900;
of reptiles, 1000, and of fishes lo0Oo-making a
total of20,0OO species belonging to higher classes
ofbeetles alone the museums of the world con-
tain over 100000 species, while the best estimates
place the total number of distinct forms OF insects
at more than 100000 The whole animal Kingdom
is believed to embrace about 100000 species.
THE following anecdote is told of Earl Lind
say, father of Lady Anne Barnard, who wrote the
famous ballad, "Auld Robin Gray" The earls
kindness of heart was unbounded. One day he
overlook on the road an old woman who had
stolen quantity of turnips from one of his fields
He began TO bluster and scod in a way that would
have frightened a stranger, but the old woman
waited and cou tested till the storm had subsidized,
and then said: "Ay, my lord, they're unco heavy;
will ye nae gle me a liftY and the earl dis
mounted and helped her to take the sackful on
her back.
THE expectation of artificial flowers from
France declined in value from over g. 100 900 to
about S3,6oO,000 in 1882, loss of about "a per
cent. This dmunition was much greater in the
case of exports to some particular countries, such
as Germany and the United States. The former
took in 1883 barely than half what 1t took in
1881, ana America took nearly 100000 less than
two years ago. These heavy losses would have
: reduced the total manufacture much more seri-
ously than they have done lift had not been for
u revival Of the demand in Great Britain.
A FRENCH journal describes Gen. Manteur-
fel the Governor of Alsace Lorraine, as tall old
man with grave and gentle face He lives with
, his son, who runs into debt, and his daughter, u
little hunchback, who occupies her time in works
of charity. The marshal himself buys tickets for
all charity lotteries and is rather fortunate. He
ia very generous, though there is suspicion that
his generosity does not effect quite as much as he
expects. One of his almoners is policeman, aud
this parsonage it Is said, has saved $4,000 in the
= last four years. The governor occupies his time
hearing official reports, giving audiences, and
, walking about in the neighborhood of his Official
residence.
D DIPLOMATIC circles are not little scan
: dal2ed," writes the Berlin correspondent Of the
= London Globe, Eat the wanton attacks launched
0 Mr.. Sargent, the American minister, by the
: German semi official press, Mr. Sargent is decid-
. edy disliked by the imperial government which
took umbrage at his sarcastic report on the spread
: of trichinosis in Ermsleben, whence German sau
sages are largely exported. The minister's pointed
remarks at the dreadful havoc created by the
0 dire disease in districts whittier American pork
: had never found its way, struck home the more
y as they were made before the issue OF the prohi
o bition forbidding the importation Of American
y pork into Germany which can be distinctly traced
l to the influence of the agricultural party"
d The diving for the remains of the Greek
: and Persian ships sunk in the great sea fight a
l. Saiamis has caused hutter in Archaeological
circles. Little is known Of the great galleys VIII
IS their banks of oars Of the ancient world. W.
have descriptions presented to us in the delight
:. full gossip OF Athenaus of two ships built by
n Ptolemy Philopater, and one built by Hero
70 tyrant OF Syracuse But the description is wholly
- of the interior. We read Of rooms in these ship