National Republican., 1884-01-23

HENRI BLANC, who has just diod in France
at the age of9e, is declared to have been the last
French survivor OF Trafalgar, In which battle he
served on the Mont Blanc and was taken prisoner
when that vessel was reduced 10 wreck by the
British guns.
LABoUcHERE's Truth tells this pleasant
story OF the queen Of Greece "A dying sailor on
Russian ship In the Piraus wished TO sce once
more his mother, poor old peasant, living in
Esthonia. Queen Olga, of Greece, heard Of his
longing and sent an aidde.camp 10 fetch the sail
or's mother, and, when hll was oyor, had him es.
cort her back 10 her Russian home"
ANANDIBAI JosHEE, Hindoo woman of
the highest Brahminical caste, iaa student In tho
woman's Medical college of Pennsylvania. She
| Is the first Brahmin woman who ever let In6ia.
| To keep her caste while here she must live by!
herself prepare her own food, wear the native
costume, and-rigidly observe certain religious
rites. She is highly educated and q remarkable
| linguist.
DURING tho past year the number per-
sons condemned to death in France was sixty
three. Two women were condemned to be be-
headed. The Algerian court OF assres condemned
sixteen Arabs 10 death. and the council of war
| sixteen soldiers. But only three capital execu.
tions took place in France In 1883 One Of them
was at Rheims, another was Ut Versailles, aud the
third was at Lyons.
IT Is claimed $4,000 has been spent ss
Ticonderoga, N. V, in arranging for melting iron
| by new process devised by q French inventor.
The iron, instead of being melted and run off into
pigs, is heated TO what Is called a sponge heat,
and all impurities are then extracted, leaving the
refined product so soft that II may be cut with q
knife. II Is said that by this new process saving
of s2i a ton is effected.
Mr.. OSCAR A. DRoEGE has lust entered
into a contract with tho Mexican government to
plant 1000 900 trees In the valley OF Mexico within
four years. The contractor pledges himself to fur
nish $4,000 ash. 5000 willows, 10000 poplars 6O-
900 eucalyptus tree. 10000 trnnosjapones, 5000
mountain cypress cedarS, $4,000 acocias. and 12o,.
900 of miscellaneous varieties, The trees must be
in plantations of from $4,000 to 10000 each.
In suit at Stapleton, l.. l., between
"Unce Jake" well known oysterman, and
others Of his craft, the other day. when the fore
man Of the jury said that body could not agree,
an oysterman grasped Uncle Jakes hand and
said, Uncle Jake, them jurors don't know moth
ing about oysters. Let you and be frieuds and
settle our trouble between ourselves" Tho other
oystermen agreed and the case was drawn.
Mr.. HoRATIo Ross, the veteran British
deersalker, VINO has just celebrated bis golden
wedding, has spent seventy seasons on the moors,
and now, at SO years old, is still capital shot.
little over year ago he went out one day at In
| the morning, fired eighty-three shots, and brought
| down eighty three birds. His eldest son won the
| first Queens prize at Wimbledon, aud his second
son was for years the champion marksman of
| India,
| CocoANUTs, as we'll as pine apples aud
oranges, are grown In Florida. Mr.. Z. q. Chesley
writes that Mai. Evans, of Myers, has a grove on
the Caloosaha hatchie that produces 800 or more
cocoanuts per tree and that 1926 900 trees are grow
ing in Monroe county. A vessel has Just arrived
at Key West with 10000 nuts, TO be planted In
Biscayne by colony recently started there. Mr..
Chesley propheses that the entire coast line OF
Monroe county will ere long be a vast cocosnut
grove.
The egg Of an Australian emu is on exhi-
bition at q garden In san Francisco. II was laid
at the gardens, ana was accidentally found re-
Gently The egg weighs twenty.six ounces, and
Its greatest circumference Is thirteen and QUE
half inches. It's general color In that of very dark
granite, but some portions Of the surface are
iridescent. Tails Is believed 10 be the first egg
laid by MI emu In the United States, aud perhaps
the only one ever laid outside Of Australia, in
which country the emu is indigenous.
The largest diamond ever cut in the coun
try has just been finished, as already announced,
at the establishment of Henry d. Morse, Boston,
the operation taking three mouths The stone Is
from South Africa, and Its weight, In the rough,
was 1875 karats. The stone a. cut measures an
brilliant and beautiful, but has marked yellow.
sh tinge. In the quality OF clearness however, 1t
Is almost perfect. It Is cut in hroupded cushion
shape with ffty-six facets.
THE ground of the Northeast London
cemetery was opened forty years ago by an enter
prising pawnbroker. who oficisted as his own
chaplain and buried 10000 persons, "lGid with
their heads to the west shoulder to shoulder, and
head to foot piled closely one on top OF another"
/ mi. Ia-t -.
speculator turned the surface leyeled the ground,
and invited building tenders OF course. subs-
dence of the ground would take place and the
new inhabitants receive soon very perceptible
impressions of their ancestors. The Vestry is said
TO be fully alive 10 the situation" but there is
law TO meet the case.
A WONDERFUL bedstead, made for dn East
Indian prince, is on show in Paris. 1t is made
partly Of silver At each corner stands a beauti.
fully modelled female figure Qife size) holding q
delicately constructed fan, and wearing wig OF
real hair. This is to be regularly dressed by the
court barber once week. On the great poten-
tate getting into bed the weight of his body seta
certain machinery In motion. the effect Of which
Is that the silver msidens gently fan the sleeper.
If the figures al the foot Of the bed are required to
exert themselves, in like manner this can be &C.
complished by the aid OF a clock-liko apparatus.
Moreover, should the dusky owner OF tho bed wish
soft music, this can be done BY touching spring.
The bottom Of the bed contains large music boz.
CURIOUS story about prize ticket in the
Manila lottery was brought to light last month
In Shanghai court. Some time ago a poor old
Chinese woman found ticket lying on the
ground on which was some foreign and Chinese
writing, Not being able to read Il she showed it
TO two learned schoolmasors OF her acquaintance,
who discovered 1t to be Manila lottery ticket.
They subsequently, read with delight, which may
easily be imagined the announcement that the
, ticket had taken prize Of 5000. They cashed
the ticket at a shop in Homan road an. divided
the money between them. The original purchaser
of the ticket who is a giltbutton mandarin, then
discovered the serious loss he had sustained in
stituted inquiries at the shop where he had bought
the ticket and found out who were the persons
who had eashed 1t. In the meantime he had been
turned out of firm Of which he was a member,
his partners having superstitutious feeling, ars.
ing out Of their notions OF "JoSs Pidgin," that a
man who was unlucky enough to lose ticket
worth s3.00O was not one TO share their fortunes
The finder Of the ticket, her two advisers who dl.
vided the spoil with her, aud he Of the gilt button
all appeared at the mixed court, and the case was
fully gone into by Chen and Mr., CarleS. The de-.
PENDANTS admitted having cRshed the ticket and
the woman that out OF her share she had bought a
, coffin for 500 aud had given $500 to her son %
: buy wife with The court took time to consider
It's action,