National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-24

INDIANA has 3,737 church edifces, valued
at sl2,55j,OOO She pays her ministers sloS7,337.
THE value of the tea imported from British
Idda In 1862 was put down at $4,000; in 1872
at G3,GO0,O0O Any disturbance in China will react
favorably on the Anglo. Indian market
QUEEN VICTORIA will spend q considerable
part OF the spring on the continent. She goes At
first to Badou. Baden, and aiterward to Drmstadt
TO attend the wedding OF her granddaughter with
Prince Louis Batienburg.
w. j. CodGswELL, q repentant ex-Mormon,
Is leGuring In the far west Among other astou-
ishing statements, he says the Saints have $4,000
900 on deposit In Washington, which they will use
when necessary to soap" congress.
AMONG other things recently stolen bya
servant girl in Hartford, Conn., was n set Of false
teeth belonging to her mistress. The lady, who
was young, tried to keep this part other loss q
secret but II leaked out after awhile.
IT is now boing found out that the terrible
volcanic eruptions which took place recently In
Java were not au unmixed evil, as the enormous
masses of ashes hurled oM Of the craters are ex-
cellent fertilizers, which, with proper treatment,
may make Java bloom again.
NEARLY 500 miles of railway havo been
built in Mississippi during the past two years, and
the cotton mill output Of the strie has been
doubled Gov. Lowry predicts bnss Mississippi
will manufacture into cloth within a few yeas
| every pound Of cotton raised in its limits.
SEVERAL hundred colored people have
abandoned their homes In the upper and middle
counties of South Carolina in tho past two or three
months, and have left for Arkansas and Texas.
One hundred coored laborers have gone to the
turpentne farms in Georgia in the last few weeks.
OLD BAT DE PRARE, who fought with Jack
son at New Orleans, is hale and hearty at Mars
field, Wis., at the ripe age of l06 He says that for
nG.. at.1,,
smokes, drinks, swcars, chews tobacco, plays
poker, and for the last few years has taken kindly
| to nghtcap.
TEN prime ministers were educated at Eton,
to which Lord Coleridge recently compared Yale
| Sir Robert Walpole, the Earl of Chatham, Lord
| North, Lord Granville, &. j. Fox, George Canning,
Earl Gray Viscount Melbourne, the Earl of Derby.
and Mr.. Gladstone-six liberals and four tories
Lesser ministers have been contributed iii about
| equal numbers.
The ostrches on the Anaheim farm, Cali.
| fprnia, laid S05 eggs during the season from the
| first of May last until the first Of October. The
birds have been plucked twice since their arrival
| OH the farm. The first clip in May last yielded
$500. The clip in December yielded $500 quilts Of
all kinds from eighteen birds, and is valued ut
| $1,000.
Nc R. CoRcoRAN, of Philadelphia, who has
lately come from Rome, says that the pope's
| countenance shows his strength of character.
:" lie 10 SO thin that he seems tall though in re-
atty he is not His capacity for hard labor is
unbounded. He spends half the night in work.
He is discreet even in his charities. lie wastes
nothing. He gives generously, but judciously."
A RICH gold mine has been discovered in
Sewer county, Tenn. on the waters of the Little
river the North Carolina line, 1t is the rich
est gold mine ever discovered in that section.
Recently there was found in one gold pan full Of
sand from 20 10 80 per cent. of gold some of the
grain being as large as wheat grains. The facili-
ties of working said to be good. and all that ID
needed to dovel op the hidden treasure is capital
and labor.
X AMANDA HALL IAN assumed name), sem
fenced to the workhouse in Dayton, Ohio, last
month, has been taken to his home by Council
man Lincoln, OF Pittsburg. She is the daughter
OF gentleman who was governor of Ohio, men,
Der of the United States house of representatives
and senate, and distinguished officer in the late
war, whose death WAS fastened by the hayward
course of his daughter. One Of her sisters is the
wife of Pittsburg millionaire.
THE fish supply of Russian lakes and
rivers is enormous. Recent statistics show how
great is the catch. During tho past year 900 900
hundred weight of fish were caught In the Caspian
sea. In the Sea of Azof and the River Don aud
Kubau. more than 1900. 900 hundred weight were
caught. In the Black sea about 100000
hundred weight in the White sea and the Frozen
ocean, 100000 hundred weight; In the Baltic not
less than 100000 hundred weight the total OF
the Sc numbers being 100000 tons Of fish.
FARM in the town of Eliot, Me-, has been
the home Of nine generations ofone family, having
been handed down from father TO son for nearly
$50 years. The first house was built of brick i'm
ported from the old country, but In 1886 1t was 80
shaken by an earthquake that IL was torn down
and the present structure built Of heavy oak tim
Der. Upward of seventy five children have been
born and brought up here, and 1t is recorded that
only ono unmarried person has ever died in Ii
except one child, who was accidentally killed.
WHILE New Yorker was nosing around
Birmingham, Ala in search of a coal or iron
! mine at u bargain native aocosted him with d
request for 10 cents, and added: "Only yesterday
owned coal mine worth $4,000" "And why
don't you own 1t to-day?" because man got
d me drunk and coaxed me to trade 1t for an old
n mule9 "And how will 10 cents help your" "Why.
. want to buy whisky to get him drunk enough TO
trade back for a blind dog and an old shotgun.
Stranger don't let me lose $4,000 for the want Of
10 cents" He got it.
"PAREsIs" is the spec ial name given to the
: disease from which Delmonioo suffered. and, ao-
cording to Prof Janeway ofthe Bellevue hospital,
is far more prevalent than is generally supposed,
o affecting all classes equally. People who worry
i and anxious about their affairs are subject to
!, 1t. once attacked, the patient succumbs to slow
d exhaustion. Many live for years, and have long
y lucid intervals. Men with weak minds, engaged
= In speculation, are most subject to It, and the dis
o ease is said to be more prevalent among stock
q brokers and spectators than in any other line o.
- business,
Is THE fine lately imposed upon NJ. Clovii
II Hugues by the French chamber OF deputies CALI
= to mind the fine of Grassot, of the Palais Roya
II theater At that house there was rule that bad
N language should BIO punished with fine. GrassO
s. came late to rehearsal one day, and was roundly
y scolded by the director, NJ. Dormeuil, suddenly
he interrupted the lecture with Pardon me- Mon
sleur lie Directeur, but how much would it cost me
to call you an IDIOT" Dormeiul, boiling will
M fury, Numbered: "You would be fined twenty
~ francsl Twenty francs2" murmured the othe
10 softly, aud with sigh: "Ah, mel 1t is too much
il too much | cannot in the present state Of m
l. finances, afford the pleasure, But If 1t had Dee
~ only francs"--
~ AN ex.conductor tells Leadville Chronicl
~ reporter how some porters in the sleeping car
~ accumulate wealth: "a Pullman passenger jump
80 aboard late at some intermediate station. lie il
a tired and sleepy. He wants TO go to bed at once
Ia Usually the berths are made up Why certainly
q the porter says, tumble right In. Just give M
Ne your fare, and when the conductor comes along
~ will turn IL over To him. The passenger Is dc