National Republican., 1884-03-29
WHEN nights no longer freeze as,

WHEN nights no longer freeze us,
And balmy verna breezes
Cure colds, sore throats and sneezes sure az fate
fate, fate;
Fond lovers will be swinging
While to each other clinglng
In fond affection, on the garden gate, gate, gate.
-SomerUiue Journal
IL Wilcox county, Georgia. under the same
root, live the great grandmother, grandmother,
mother daughter, granddaughter, and great
granddaughter, the only four persons in the
family.
Mrs. JAMES K. Polk, at the venerable age
Of ST. still lives in excellent health at Polk place
Nashville, Tenn. She never had any children,
but adopted a niece, who married George W. Fall,
merchant Of Nashville, and who, with her hus-
band and only daughter Sadie, make up the
happy family at Polk place.
AN editor out in York suggests in double
loaded effort that there is marked difference be.
tween toadstools and mushrooms; also that the
most reliable way of finding out which Is which,
is to cat the fungus that is in doubt If the eater
is not dead at the end of an hour and twenty
minutes 1t is mushroom, II he 10 1t Is toadstool
and should not be eaten.
POKER has become the rage in the ladies'
clubs in New York. They take to 1t quite nat
uraly, and succeed in squandering their pin
club man tackled a couple of these Murray Hill
experts the other evening, aud dropped $1,000 in
less than two hours He didn't mind IL much as
he had made as easily MS he lost 1t.
ID. T. DIvINNEY, Of Wrightsville, Burling-
ton comfy, New Jersey, Slaughtered n Pen of
twenty three hogs Wednesday. the net weights of
which were $50, 65, $50 no. 7io, 7s5, 75o sil 727
7Sl, si $780, 7sO, $780, s47, $780, $780, s32 $685. 9l3 995
10l5, and 1850. The twenty-three average $40
tpda aud roptfo
pigs ana Of the common Jersey red breed.
THE Paris police have arrested at Ver-
saillcs man who conducts there large manu-
factory of false trufTles. Heretofore false trufies
have lacked the right perfume. but the man of
Versailles obtained the needed perfume by means
Of an essence of a highly deleterious character.
Orders have been given for tho examination OF
specimen trufles from all the market stalls in
Paris where trufles are sold.
Mr.. BREcKINRIDGE, son Of the famous Gen.
John C. Brecknridge has become a member of
the San Francisco legislature. A few years ago
the prospects of young Breckinridge, who is a
lawyer, were deemed brilliant But the besetting
sin OF bright young men caused him to lose by di-
vorcc his wife, the daughter of Lloyd Tevis, the
millionaire. Now he is pulling up under the
banner of personal reform.
MoRILE is having regular boom in the
shipping line. There were Sunday four.y- -four
| vessels in port, as against twenty the same
time last year, and twentyone up and cleared for
that port against fourteen last year. The total
number on the list in and to this port is sixty five
against thirty five last Year, an increase Of thirty
vessels. This is certainly n magnificent showing
| for the new channels second year.
| THE number of deaths from anesthetics in
England in 1888 was but thirteen. OF these eleven
died from chloroform, and one each from cholo.
| form and ether mixed with nitrous oxide. Or.
| Jacob remarks that tho deaths from nitrous oxide
are now so rare that physicians have almost be-
gun to look on 1t as without danger In the case
Of death from 1t above mentioned the patient
died from syncope, as is usual in deaths from
| chloroform.
ONE evening at Windsor in the drawing
room the Hon. Amy Lambert danced Highland
fling with one of the young equerries, much to the
delight of the queen, and she said: "Why, Amy,
you dance charmingly ask what you will aud
you shall have it," The young lady instantly and
willingly replied: "The head of Mr.. Gladstone on
a charger" The queen applauded the saying
with her hand and said: "At least you may have
the charger" and sent Immediately and had
fetched gold salyer which was standing upon
sideboard In the dining room, and then and
there presented 1t to the fair dancer.
AN elephant keeper noticed that when his
| pets were fed on cakes and sweetmeats by the
children they became uIwell. Not being able to
stand in front of them all the while, he had sign
painted warning visitors not to feed them. He
was in the habit of pointing to this sign when he
saw anyone about to drop a cake or nut into tn,
outstretched trunk. The keeper was sorely puz'
zled TO find out who tore the sign down whenever
his back was turned, until one day he caught one
of the wise brutes dexterously removing 1t from
the peg on which 1t hung and throwing 1t into
corner where 1t would not be noticed.
A REVIVAL of ancient art is vigorously set
ting in throughout Japan. as sensible natives are
beginning to see the evil effects of western in.
Guence in deteriorating the true national style.
Now the Japanese are eagerly looking up their
old artistic heirlooms, and taking care that such
treasures do not pass into European hands for @
few pence only In order to raise the public taste,
also, exhibitions are TO be held in the chief cities
of the best works Of the old Japanese masters, the
series having been opened by a display In Yoko-
hama of some 100 pictures by Tanin, who lived
more than two centuries ago, and is considered
one Of tie great native painters.
THE phrase "Sarawak the Soudan," has
been invented by The Pail Mall Gazette. and the
plan Of operations advocated is similar to that fol-
. owed by the r0ahs OF that principality. In 1888
Sir James Brooke, Grriving in Borneo, found that
the natives had revolted against the sultan OF
Brunei on account Of oppression and slave raids.
He meditated between the rebels and their soyer-
eign. obtained free grant of sixty miles Of coast
line, and with the consent OF the natives became
4 the absolute sovereign OF sarawak. For fortysix
years region as large as Scotland has been wisely
r and benehclaly governed by this Englishman
, and his son without an army and without q
, European staff, If any Englishman can do this
= in the soudan It is Gen. Gordon.
!. THE sale Of thoroughbred yearlings at the
Z famous Belle Meade farm, near Nashville, will be
v larger this spring than ever before. Forty nine
young racers catalogned, representing the bes
a strains Of blood in the world. There are Grea
: Tom, Enquirer, Luke Blackburn and Bramblt
colts these renowned stations being bred to mares
I OF the best blood, many Of them the dams OF the
> most famous Bonnie Scotlands. The French
4 commission. sent to England and elsewhere by
the French government 10 study breeding farms
} reported Belle Meade the best they found II
0 Europc or America. The yearlings at the Bell
/ Meade sales have brought higher prices than a
any other farm, over thirty yearlings averaginl
nearly 81 100 one spring. The sale this spring &C
ours on April 80, and will bo the great event o
the year.
v A THRIFTY young German Of Woodhaven
:, n. y, after getting the consent OF Miss Lizzie
= Hinse built and furnished neat little cottage
% which was TO be their future home. Last Sunday
d evening was selected as the time for the wedding
d which was to take place in the cottage The pros
j. pectiye II usband; inyited number Of his friend
y, and provided several kegs OF beer to take th