National Republican., 1884-11-29

And gets himself into pickle,
For the girl, the pert miss,
Says she never will kiss
Any lips that were void of a tickle.
In Tasmania IL is proposed to make 10
penal for candidate to ask man to vote for
him.
IT has been said that the first deserter
from the federal army during the late war was
George or John Clark, of the Sd New Jersey
infantry regiment.
THERE are now about 1000, 900 domes-
tic servants in this country, who annually earn
about S2l60OO0O0. In England the same num-
ber of servants would earn only 500, 100000.
IT is now announced that Kate Fold
has prepared no less than three lectures in the
hope that the whole of them at all events may
be fatal to Mormonism. They are to be fired
one after the other as soon as the battlefield
is ready.
NEW perfume, called "A Lily's Sigh"
is now in use among women whose purse Ia
long, the price being s5 per tiny phial. II pro-
duces an exquisite odor, very much like the
heliotrope. and is said to have been originally
introduced in this country by Mrs. Langtry.
THERE is little war raging between
button and hooks and eyes on the two conti-
nents Worth persists in buttons, very small
ones, still buttons; but there is an economy in
material and time in hooks and eyes, says the
majority, so the probability is the "eyes have
it,"
THE latest statistics on the comparative
longevity of the sexes show that under fifteen
years there are more boys than girls, but over
seventy-ilve years there are more women than
men, and from the ages of ninety to 100 the
proportion is about three to TWO In favor of the
women.
A DEAF family in New Hampshire has
been traced back to the fourteenth century in
England, and in all that time has regularly
shown a succession of deaf mutes In Maine
there is family in which there are ninety.
five deaf mutes, all of them connected by
blood or marriage.
THE travel across the Brooklyn bridge
is slowly but surely increasing. The receipts
for the month just closedswere the largest yet,
being s5O,O36. Last Sunday was red-letter day.
Thirty-four thousand five hundred and forty
people crossed in the cars, and the total receipts
were s2,O26.
A DAUGHTER of Mario and Grisi is said
to be in prison in Berlin for having contracted
debts she cannot pay. In court it was shown
that in five years she had squandered fortune
of 100000 francs II was also shown that she
| is given to drink. She has two married sisters
| in England, upon whom she depends TO get her
| out of her trouble.
MERCURY is firmly believed by the
| Chinese to possess wonderful virtues They
hold that 1t not only prolongs life but expels
bad vapers, poison and the gloom of an un-
easy mind. The doctrine of the.transmission
ofmercury into other metals prevailed In China
| 1000 years ago. Cinnabar was known to the
Chinese In the seventh century before the
| Christian era.
THE university Of Berlin has narrowly
escaped the scandal of duel between one of
| its professors and the rector magnihcus. The
| challenger was DR.. Schwenniger, who sue
ceeded in making Bismarck thin and was ap.
| pointed professor extraordinarious in conse-
quence. He has been vigorously boycotted by
| the rest of the professors, and the rector, anon
others, having failed to return his visit was
challenged to duel, but declined.
A LONDON merchant, late in the last
century, was stopped by some gentlemen of
the road when crossing Hounslow Heath one
dark night and relieved of fl2O in gold, be-
sides his watch and jewelry. At parting the
courteous and consderate highwaymen pre-
sented the merchant, as q souvenir OF their
meeting and of the interesting fact that he
had been relieved of his membranes, with a
gllt-edged copy OF the New Testament.
THE question of the admission of Chi
nese children to public schools in California is
growing in Importance. Though in receipt OF
a renewed application from the Chinese consul
general for the admission of Chinese child, 8
years old "a native OF California;, the superin-
tendent of education refused and the San
Francisco board of education has adopted reso.
lutions threatening the dismissal OF any teacher
who shall admit ANY Mongollan child 10 his
or her school or class"
A TRAVELLER in South America says
every window in Rio Janeiro has woman in
It, The measure of the respectabllity OF u
funeral there Is the number of mules to the
hearse After a hard rain In Rio the streets
are flooded, and big negroes earn tips by
carrying ladies and gentlemen from one dry
spot to another. 1t is said the only place
brazilian does not smoke is in his coffin. Tho
common beast of burden in Rio is the head.
after the Holland style.
The ideas of tho anoients upon the sub
iect of the origin of silk were rather vague,
some supposing 1t to be the entrais of spider,
which, fattened for years upon paste, at
length burst, bringing forth its silken treasure;
, others, that 1t was spun by q hindeous horned
, grub In hard nests Of clay-ideas which were
not dispelled till the sixth century, when the
first silkworms reached Constantinople intro
duced and cultivated, like many other bene-
fits, by the wandering monks Thence they
we're soon imported into Italy, which, for a
long period, remained the headquarters Of tho
n European silk trade, until Henry ", OF
France, seeing that mulberry trees were as
plentiful in his southern provinces as in Italy,
I introduced silkworm culture with great sue
cess.
THE Prince of Wales is about to figure
as a real estate speculator on an extensive
scale. As inhertor of the Duohy of Corn
wall, among other property, he is actual
owner OF 100 acres Of valuable building land
at Roche, on the north coast OF Cornwall di.
rectly facing the sea. He now proposes to lay
out the property in building lots, and al
a Padstow, Immediately opposite Roche, hal
q been for years a favorite fashionable summer
0 seaside resort, the proximity of Roche will
add to the popularity Of tho holiday center
: The Princes land will be sure to bring big
Il prices, will be built upon by rich and fash
= ionable people, and the sale should do some
: thing toward putting money into WaleSl
y pocket thus enabling him to pay portion O
his enormouA debt,