National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-06-05

Learn TO lock our bonds In box.
EIGHT hundred churches have been burned
down in the United States within tho past nine
years.
In his work on tho solar system "Gen,
Pratp maintains that "Eclipsing ignorance Is
the origin of in6dollty."
THE Webster estate, except the modern
mansion at Marshneld has been sold 10 Walton
Hall, ofQuincy, Mass for s5.OOO
GEN. SAM CARY has dropped the green
back cause and will lecture on temperance this
summer, his field of operations being tho state of
Maine.
ONE of the late Bayard Taylor's daughters
with art proclivlues is going to London to put
herself under the tuition Of the painter Hubert
Herkomer.
THOSE capes with peaked shoulders which
the girls wear should be adopted by the men.
Just think what a lovely place it would be to hide
q pocket flask. Waterloo Observer
THE report comes from Georgia that seven
women recently made a quilt without speaking
word during the entire operation. They were in
mates of n deaf aud dumb institution.
THE phosphate beds in the Bear Creek hills
of Autauga county, Ala, are of great value in the
manufacture Of suphuric acid. These beds yield
500 or 600 tons Of phosphates to the acre.
THREE thousand pounds of pompano, .
delicious fish which is principally caught on the
gulf coast, were among the items of cargo shipped
last week from Fernandina Fla, to New York.
The English missionaries at Jerusalem and
other places in Palestine are reported to be an
earnest, Woodworking set of men, who are
making large numbers of converts to Chris
tianity.
SINCE John L. Sullivan has made $4,000
by his recent tour at the west he thinks of SUB
siding into quiet respeotabiity, aud II Is limited
that he may be made professor of athletics at
Harvard
JOHN b. COUGH has gone to Denver to
lecture there for the first time. He will take
few quarts of water along to make the people
comprehend what he is talking about-PhiiadeI.
phid Cal.
HENRY PRoBAsco, the Cincinnati million
ARE, had boy street car conductor arrested be-,
cause he would not give back nickel and take a
ticket. The boys father sues the millionaire for
5000 damages.
In order to impart dignity to the town Of
NIaroa, ILL.,. forty of tho merchants have signed a
pledge TO wear high silks hats. Instead Of the
wide brimmed slouches that have been In FASH
ion there.
PITTsBURG, Pa, has promising heavy
weight girl, aged Is, who tips the beam at 400
pounds She is n native of Westmoreand county,
Her mother is also large woman, weighing no
less than go pounds.
A MATRIMONIAL association has been
started in Harlem. Young men pay monthly dues
of So and agree to remain single one year. At the
end of that time any one, by giving three months
notice, will receive on his wedding $1,000. Many
are joining.
ROBERT H. TERRELL is bright young negro
hi h,,h uatf In,
Memorial hall, Cambridge, but who was per-
suaded to enter Harvard college, and will gradu-
ate this year, taking ono of the seven speaking
appointments.
IT is told that at Geneseo college Charles
II. Fowler, whom the Methodists have just
elected TO be bishop used TO say that he would DO
Willing TO 90 To the place whose existence Col
lngersol so srenuously denies If he could only be-
valedictorian of his class He won the honor,
but soon after experienced religion.
LITTLE NELL" Mamma gave me a straw.
berry. Amt 1t big?" Little Jack-"she gave me
one, too. Here it is. It's just as big as yours,
Little Ne-"Ain't that nice? Let's pretend it's
n strawberry festival" Little Jack-"But 1t don't
seem like a festival" Little Nell-"Why don't
it?" Little Jack-"ThereS too many strawber.
Philadelphia Call.
CAPT. CHESTER A. BALL is q mariner to
the very marrow OF his now aged bones Some
mont his ago he lost his ship and returned to Bath
Me-, where his daughter lives She being dutiful
urged that as he had reached the age of "a
years, and had acquired plenty to live on, he
ought to leave the sea to pass his declining days
In peace. He promised but the other night the
old sailor slipped away, went secretly to Rock
la nd and shipped for another cruise,
mrs. MAoKEY," writes Labouohere, Of
London Truth, 'has face and figure which Dick
ems would have liked to sketch IN one of his genial
and half sentimental moods She Is not tall but
she has prettily rounded figure that looks well
in. plain dress or in fine clothes, freshness,
piquancy, transparency of disposition, and moth
ing that shows egotishcal self-assertion or self
worship. Her features are well shaped and reg
ular and her eyes full blush gray and candid.
Cabanel has Just done a portrait Of Mrs. Mackey,
which satisfies all her friends"
"WHAT was all that scufIiing about down
stars?" asked Mrs. Hilboots, as her lord and mas.
ter strobe into the room. Nothing" except
that monkey faced dude asking for Sarah AM"
"What did he say?" ooh, he began by saying he
was speaking from the bottom of his heart, and
80 on" "And what answer did you giye?" 1T
grew spasmodic. too" answered Hilboots, gently
tapping his little angelic number twelve shoe"
"and gave him an answer from the bottom Of my
SOLE"
"How ARE you, old dust?" said rough
lookilg man W u EeuerhDlci gray halreu newport
octogenarian Sunday evening as they met on the
sidewalk. "You insulting wretch" said the old
gentleman in angry and trembling tones as he
turned about. "What do you mean by calling me
such Manner "No insult offered, venerable sir.
was at church to-day, and learned from the
sacred words Of the preacher that man is but dust
and hence seeing that you one Of the oldest OF the
Dust family addressed you as SUCH" Tho old
man then busted home. Kentucky STATE Journal.
AT the head of Lord Beaconhold' s.grave
flowers in the form of cross afford II brilliant
display of hyaclnths OF all colors. mingled here
and there with bright red and yellow tulips. The
grave is very carefully tended by the sexton, aud
n perpetual succession of flowers kept up all the
year around. The sexton says he doubts whether
Lord Beaconsleld would have liked all these
flowers, He would never allow a flower to grow
on his wlfe's grave. Where all these flowers are
now, there was nothing but plain turf. The
queens wreath, looking rather aged, still fingers
there.
THE Coco de Mer palm is found only in the
seychclle islands 1t is from sixty to a hundred
feet high, and It's trunk is IL foot in diameter all
the way up to the top, whore It is crowned with
TUT of huge leaves, some of them as much as
twenty feet long. The male and female flowers
are produced on different trees. The resulting nut
Is about foot long, Of irregular shape, and, till
the discovery in l7i3 Of the only spot in the world
where these palms grew, was believed TO be
marine product The Malay sailors used TO affirm
that II grew under water in placid bays; but II
they diyed for IL Il disappeared. The nuts Wera.