National Republican., 1884-03-01

STATUE Of Apollo, which Is said to bo q
fine one, was found recently in Rome outside tho
Porta San Lorenzo. Tho height is meter and so
centimeters
A STEEL pinion weighing eight tons was
cast at the Calumet Iron and Steel works in Chi.
cago last week. 1t is said to be the largest casting
ever successfully turned out In this county.
SToCK-RA1sING is quietly becoming a very
important industry In Louisiana. 1t is claimed
that the state has great advantages over the far
western ones, in that the winters are not severe.
NANCY BUCKALEw, o revolutionary pen.
soner, died at Northumberland on Tuesday. She
was the widow of Peter Buckalew, who died in
1916. She was s3 years old and Peter would have
been l2i. lie was 76 when he married Nancy
There is only one surviving revolutionary PEN
sloner in the state.
ANDREW ]. CARNEGIE, head of tho great
Plttsburg Iron company, is about TO build gran.
ite mansion ON Cumberland island near Fernan-
dina, Fla. This island Is famous as the burial
place of Light Horse Harry Lee, and, with wild
deer roaming through its forests, 1t surpasses any
private park in England.
OCCASIONALLY there is human being VIII.
gets ahead of a grocer A Louisville woman bough
hen aud placed her in q barrel to await the hous
of execution. When the hen was taken out OF
the barrel q newly-laid egg was found in tho
bottom. AS the grocer will never know who the
woman was he cannot, OF course, charge her for
tho egg, and it's dead loss TO him.
THE proposed tunnel under the Straits of
Dover, uniting England and France, having been
abandoned for the present, a member of the
French chamber of deputies has offered in that
body proposition for all eevated railroad be-
tween the points named. The channel of Dover
Straits is about 100 feet deep. The French bill
does not state on what the railroad piers are ex-
pected to rest
AN astronomer, busy calculating when a
comet will return, hears the voice Of the servant
| girl, who wants to know for the missus" when
tho astronomer is coming down to dinner,
Dreamily the man of science looks up and an-
swers, "Yes when, whom Just walt moment"
lie continues tracing figures on the paper then
suddenly exclaimed, "on the twenty seventh of
September, 1915, ZIG o'clock in the morning 1t
| comes"
RoCHEFoRT and Gambetta disliked each
other nstinctively from the moment they first
met, and their hatred became implacable after
| the fall OF the commune. The pamphleteer en-
We'd the tribune his powers OF eloquonce, while
| the tribune was jealous of the pamphl eteers pen.
They saw each other for the first time in the
dining room of the Hotel du Sente when one was
an obscure journalist and the othera mere student.
In Scotch family of eight sons and one
daughter the united ages of the nine amount to
572. Their great great. grandfather was born in
1924 One of his greagranddaughters is still alive,
in her Sth year. while grandson lived to be one
of the founders Of the Scottish railway system.
having projected the line from Renfrew TO Paisley.
| He was provost of Renfrew during the French
revolution, ana died in 1887 2l3 years after the
birth of his grandfather.
GALUsHA A. Grow, the Pennsylvania
statesman, tried politics, got very tired of that
| mr. hingnlf
by mining and selling coal. There are signs that
he is thinking of a new profession of which he
has hitherto known nothing. He is reported as
| attending lecture on marriage by Mrs Elizabeth
Oakes Smith, in New York, on Tuesday night.
Surely that doesn't mean that the bachelor states
man is contemplating matrimonyP
AT benefit entertainment in New Haven
one of the incidents Of the money getting was
mock auction sale of old maids. There were thir-
teen of these spinsers, and the bidding was spir-
ited but its result reflected on the perspcacity of
the gentlemen who did the bidding, for after tn o
unmasking the chattel who had commanded the
fewest offers and was knocked down ut the hu-
initiating figure of % cents, proved to be the
handsomest and wealthest young woman in the
city.
AN eye witness recalls an incident of tho
national democratic convention which assembled
in Charleston in the eventful spring of 1860.
|
great excitement, Francis B. Flourney, Of Arkan-
sas, who had been temporary chairman of tho
convention, took the platform and made an i'm
passioned speech in favor of the union. Striding
back and forth, and waving large red handker-
chief like flag above his head. he shouted
" Don't give up the ship Don't give up the
shipp Though he afterward became general
in the confederate army, his heart that day beat
true to the music of the union"
PIERRE MICHEL LA PIcE DE BERGoNDY,
who died at his home ON Lauderdale plantation,
ST. James parish, near New Orleans, on Feb. II, Mt
the age of ST. was the first planter in Louisiana to
I produce white sugar, He was leading Creole of
. the state, but Il native of San Domingo, whence
his family was driven by a negro insurrection in
} 1903 He served with distinction IN the Orleans
( battalion under Gen. Jackson, and was the last
surviving Louisanian who fought at the battle of
New Orleans. He owned seven eight cotton
aud sugar plantations IN Louisiana and Missis-
sippi. Seven years ago he visited the East lndel
in search of surgar cane adapted to this climate
finding II in Java II has great reputation now
being known as La Plce cane.
ONE of the hottest regions of the earth i:
along the Persian gulf where little or no rain
falls At Bahrln the arid shore has no fresh water
| yet a comparatively numerous population con-
trives to live there, thanks 10 the copious springs
which burst forth from the bottom OF the sea
The fresh water is got 0y dlNlnR. Inc ulVeTi slt'
ting in his boat winds great goatskin bat
around his left arm. the hand grasping its mouth
then he takes in his hand heavy stone, TO which
}. is attached strong line and, thus equipped, III
j. plunges in and quickly reaches the bottom. In
IS stantly opening tho bag over the strong Jet
o fresh water he springs up the ascending current
al the same time closng tho bag, and is helped Oh
d board. The stone is then hauled up, and thu
diver after taking breath, plunges in again. Tit
source of these copious submarine springs l
thought to be in the green hills OF osman, som'
500 or 600 miles distant
IS APARTY of quail hunters came upon
l. monster living upon the bank Of the river nea
Is Blue Spring, Ca the other day, apparently hal
"a asleep. 1t was OF light blueish color, darken
"a ing TO navy blue toward the back. Along II
o. spine was a toothed ridge the cartagenous toetl
is living fiat when IN repose but rising up like tn
feathers on y chickens neck when the beast wa
aroused 1t was about forty five feet long, as near
they could estimate, and they were quite close Il
in IL before they noticed 1t. Tho body was 'large
,a | around than Il barrel at the thickest part an
v tapered gradually to spur or sting at the tail
n had six legs and head like that Of horse set o
a long slender neck, with beard underneath lik
an a billy goat One Of the hunters fred a load Q
m bird shot against Its horny SIDE At voley froI
all the other guns together It raised its head, ant
catching sight OF the party, made movement q
IL to attack them, but finally backed into tn
water, roaring terribly all the time, and openin
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