National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-04-25


Just tall enough toilet me try7-
Yes, tall enough-Good night"
PROBABLY the largest and finest perfect
plate glass ever made IN this country has Just
been finished at Jefiersonville, Ind. 1t contains
LOG square feet and measure lOix2l6i inches.
THERE arc twelve manufactures Of arti-
fetal teeth in the United States, which make
10 100000 of those useful articles per annum.
They are made Of fedspar, knolin. and rock crys--
tai.
THE graded license plan in Chicago is
hardly working the desired result, If reports are
true, which state that up to the present date, out
Of $50 saloon licenses 5l6 for wine and whisky
and but for beer alone.
LONDON gossip says there is demand for
Matthew Arnold to give up the annual pension Of
$500 conferred on him from tho queens bounty
fund, because he already receives 5000 for a COM
parative sInecure, and is able to earn living.
THE quantity and value of the anthony
exported from New South Wales In 1851 was .1oS
tons of value of nearly $4,000. Ores are now
found In several parts of tho country, common
form being oxide and sulphide of anthony,
which occurs IN punches.
OLEoMARGARINE has found its wa y into
the English market from this country, and ia
creating considerable talk among the people
there. 1t Is certain to encounter fierce opposi-
tion and there IS a strong probability that strin-
gent prohibitory laws will be enacted.
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, our minister to
China Is now dean Of the diplomatic corps at
Pekn. lie possesses certain advantage over his
colleagues In his warm friendship with ii Hung,
the premier, who liked him first because he was
Gen. Grants friend, aud then for himself
THE London Spectator says: Murder is q
Of 1path m En0land N por In,
Belgium, TO $40; in France, to 265 in Scandinavia,
to 266 In Germany, to 279; IN ireland Qs70 to 294
in Austria, to $40; in Russia, to 1923; in Italy, to
5Oi; In Spain, TO 539, and in the United States to
s2O."
THE number of stations Of the African
International association now amounts TO thirty.
One hundred and twenty-oght white and 1900
black men are In the service of the association.
OF the whites, 10 are Bel gans, SO Englishmen, %
swedes, II Germans g Frenchmen, Italians, 2
Americans, Austrians. and Dutchmen. The
association has Aotlla Of thirteen vessels.
THE boss of San Francisco is a democrat
and is named G. A. Buckley. He is blind, is ~
years old, looks younger, is of medium height,
with light complexion, and blonde hair and
mustache. He Is a stylish dresser, wears dia-
monds and high silk hat was born In Ireland,
but votes as the son Of naturalized father. His
power is great. What would II DO II he could see?
In Japan everybody takes real hot bath
once day. The rich battle before dinner and at
night The whole household dip In the same
water. Precedence is given to visitors. then the
elders, followed by the young people according to
age, aud then the servants. On getting out OF the
caldron each bather garges mouth and throat
with cold aromatized water. They then fan each
other until they are all dry.
Mr.. ROBERTSON JAMES, younger brother
| Of In m nnynliat haa benD pla N
charge of the Milwaukee art museum. While still
| young Mr.. James left Newport. r. l.. where his
| family then lived, and went TO Wisconsin, whore
| he married. One Of his brothers, now professor
at Harvard, studied for time In the aIelier of La
Fargo, at Newport, and Robertson James also 10
said to have some artistic talent
IT is expected that 100000 head of cattle
will be driven from Texas into Colorado this year,
and that $4,000 more will come from other western
states. The calf crop of this year is about 100000
and, when all the new cattle are there, Colorado
stock will amount to about 100000. The largest
purchasers of Texas cattle have been the Pryor
brothers, of Pueblo. They will drive $1,000 head
into Colorado. and to do that will require a force
of forty men and 400 horses The journey will last
from sixty TO ninety days.
AN old and skilled New York physician,
when interviewed on the hot water craze, said !:
ut had long been used 1t Is an internal wash.
nothing more or less As such It is excellent. An
old trainer of prize fighters used to tell me about
1t before had even heard of II elsewhere. He
said he had cured everything, from toothache to
rheumatism, with It, My lady patients often beg
me to prescribe 1t for them and very often do
so--sometimes because think II likely to do good
and sometimes because don't think 1t will do
any harm"
OF the one hundred largest cities in the
United States standard time has been adopted in
seventy. eight Of them. The three notable ones
that continue without 1t are Cincinnati Cleve.
land, and Detroit OF the twenty-five cities now
using local time six are In Ohio, and there are not
more than two in any other state. In Canada
every city has adopted standard time except St
John n. b.. although Halifax aud few other
cities in that vicinity have adopted time based on
the sixteh meridian, which is the most easterly
ofthe new standards.
FEMALE rival of Frank Frayne in the
line of fancy shooting is one Of the boasts o.
Woodbine, Cape May county, New Jersey. The
lady is Mrs. Jennie Moore. She is about 80 Year,
OF age and quite prepossessing In appearance
With an ordinary rife she can perform all o.
Frayne's feats, including his backward shot at an
apple, taking aim through small hand mirror
Recently she shivered an English walnut on her
! husbands head, and she has frequently knocked
at one shot the ashes from cigar In her husbandi
mouth. Her favorite trick 10 to light parlol
!, match with a rifle ball at twenty yards,
A LADY manicure of New York says many
gentlemen are very particular about cutting their
. nails, and have not the knack' OF keeping theft
, finger ends in presentsble condition. They are
! as anxious to have their nails brilliant as art
women. Learning the art of treating finger nails
: she states, is more difficult than might be i'm
; agined. A neat. def hand is required, and con
D siderable Judgment to discover II tho patient 4
thin skinned or the blood flows freely TO the sur
, face. Scores OF women have failed to make &C
, complIshed manicures, because clumsy aud uh
able to study ''the style OF the hand" and shap
; the nails accordingly These drop from the rank
: Of operators.
: IN the south dipping is still much practice
: among the poor whites, or Crackers" they ar
n called In this part Of the country the dip-stic
o pure aud simple is unknown. Here when
n woman wants to get snuff in her mouth, he ger
% orally takes clean cotton waste If she be in mil
: and Sits the yellow powder over 1t, or else sh
rolls piece Of paper in the form of cornucopi
and fills it with snuff, and then inserts the deli
cous morsel under her check, where she rolls
with the same enjoyment that man does hi
g quid or, II she be In the privacy Of her room, sh
r. may take toothbrush, and after putting littl
j. soap on II, dip II in the snuf ana then rub hi
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