National Republican., 1884-04-05

The New York street railways kept 1858
horses last year at cost of s2,7l52l5, or Sl073s
each. And yet the council voted against cable
cars.
FREEMAN, the historian, has been appointed
regius professor of modern history at oxford
university as the successor Of DR.. Stubs, pro-
noted to bishoprc.
WALTER J.. CAMPBELL, tho republican
nominee for mayor of Youngstown, OHIO, who
has blind since he was years OF age was grad.
uated from Harvard law school, Is fine organist,
successful chess player, and edited daily news
paper for many years.
The cdccd torpedinicre, or torpedo hunter,
which is being constructed in Que OF the Italian
arsenas, aud is intended to destroy torpedo boats
is Al meters long and wide, will run twenty five
miles an hour, and will be armed with guns and
Nordenfeldt mitrailleuses.
POSTMASTER THOMAS CoGGEsHALL, ofNew
Bedford Mass, has been in the employ Of the
office without break for half a century. When
he first began work rs II clerk the mails were
carried to Boston in fifteen hours by stage, and to
New York in four days when navigation was
closed
AN Italian pedestrian has performed the
remarkable feat of walking or running from
Caserta to Naples In an hour and fourteen minutes
The railroad cars do the distance in an hour,
though this need not say much for them. OF
course the pedestrian "i intends soon 10 start for
America"
A NEW box that is used in the English par.
eel post is made of compressed paper, metal bound,
very strong, neat, light, aud being vanished in.
side is suitable for the package of flowers other
things that require moisture. Such box In diff
ferent sizes, would be convenient in this country
for dspaching packages by mail or express.
The Indians in Oregon hold that it is O
violation of their religion to deal In land; that the
Great Chief male them from the dust ofthe earth,
and after they wandered on its surface for q cerI
tain length of time they returned to its bosom and
again became part of the elements OF the earth.
Dealing in land they regard as dealing In their
| own flesh aud blood.
THE oldest horse in the country is sup
| posed TO be owned at Hartford, Conn. This,
| industrious animal which was purchased by n
railroad company twenty.nine years ago, had
then served for five years in front of milk wagon
in Bloomfield, Conn, and must, therefore, be now
at least thirty-hve years old. His unromantic
duty has been to furnish motive power TO a wood
saw, and he still labors occasionally in the tread
mill.
PRINCE NAPoLEoN's sneor at the Orleans
princes-"I have not the gold of the Orleans
princes; am poor. and l am proud of it"-has
recoiled on himself Several newspapers remind
him that during the empire he received 37,07s.000I
francs, besides i,95300o for fitting up the Palais
Royal and Meudon. NJ. de Lavedan remarks that
France had nothing in return but the questiona-'
BILE part taken by the prince in the Crimea, Italys
and the war of 1870.
GEORGE SUMPTER, of Georgia, had just
finished a cyclone pit in his back yard when a,
black and angry cloud arose in the west. Hei
hustled his family into the pit and closed the
trap doors. They went to bed and slept in per-
feet security, although the storm ragged furiously,
but when they got W in the morning the doorsT
hat thAxf all V,nk
be opened from the inside at all. The neighbors
had to come and dig the family out.
HARRY EDWARDS, of Hudson, KY, cut,
down large tree that has been standing in AMI
open field on his farm for nearly seventy years.
The fall caused II TO split open near the top. Az
fow inches from the heart of the tree, and sew
enty-two feet from tho ground, was found PEN
knife embedded in the solid wood. The large
blade was intact, but the others had evidently
been broken off before getting into the tree. Tho
bone handles have been entirely absorbed, the
steel blades and brass rivets alone remaining.
THE Chinese have begun TO adopt the west
ern chemical science, and factory has recently
been erected for the manufacture Of sulphurio
acid on large scale. Two well. known chemical
, textbooks, Malgutti's Elementary Chemistry"
I and Fresenius's chemical Analysis" have also
been translated into Chinese with the help of a
great number of new characters, and adopted into
the imperial colleges. Tong Sung, first minister,
and a director of the Tung Wen Haun, has taken
the work under his immediate patronage, and
written preface for the first of these books.
A GREAT sensation has been excited among
anglers IN the south of Scotland in consequence
of the Duke of Roxburghes agents having inti-
mated their intention of applying to the court OF
session for interdict to prevent the Inhabitants
of Kelso from fishing in the Tweed for trout. a
fright" which they have enjoyed from time i'm
] memorial at certain places near the town. The
case excites unusual interest," because 1t is believed
that if the duke is successful In his attempt to de-
prive the inhabitants Of their angling similar pro-
ceedlngs will be taken elsewhere by other rapa.
cious proprietors.
PRESIDENT LINcoLN's largest professional
fee was Of 5000, paid him for twice arguing
the of the county OF Mclean against tue Hi
= nois Central Railroad company. The opinion of
the court sustained his view of the case, holding
that the provision in the charter Of the company
by which its property was exempted from taxa
ton on the payment of n certain portion oil its
earnings was constitutional. The Central Rail
road company owned nearly 900 acres OF land
. which had been granted to II by congress, and
the road passed through twenty-six counties, so
that, had the decision been adverse TO the com
pany S5Oe,0OO put ut interest would scarcely have
paid the taxation.
G The newsboys in Detroit are threatening
!, | to get up a riot. About two weeks ago several
little girls appeared on the street corners selling
T. papers. The boys laughed at them at first. but
Q when they discovered they sold more papers and
: got bigger prices than even the tayorite boys,
IT they changed their tune. Threats were made
IS against them, but the factory boys took the
II girls side aud promised TO clean out the whole
D. lot of newsies If they laid finger on the girls.
The boys then appealed 10 the proprietors OF the
n papers for protection, but found the sympathy
q was all on the other side. Now they have con
o cluded the best thing they can do is to get up
81 a riot and burn a railroad bridge or something
D. that would be Of no use to them nor any injury
/, to the girls. Newsboys IN Detroit are licensed,
1t and the city attorney has decided that a girl
% cannot be n newsboy, consequently cannot get a
70 license They are selling without any, and no
e one has yet been found mean enough to bring
u action against them
GEN. SuHRAMM the veteran French gen.
eral who has lust died at the age of 90, was a
good soldier, but poor courtier lie was junlo
ID lieutenant at the battle of Austerlltz aud II IL
G. said that his promotion TO every successive grade
was attended with one or more new wounds. II
has often been asked why he after having been a
peer of France under Louis Philippe, did no
become a marshal under the second empire at a
~ time when Napoleon III delighted to honor mill
OF tary men who had served under his uncle? II 1:
said that the reason OF this was that Schramm had
ID humilated, in petty way in 1850 the future EN-
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