National Republican., 1884-05-15
MARY ANDERsoN's profits abroad are p,

getting cheap In Boston.
In the town of Mansfield, Conn, within the
last half century twenty eight persons have died
whose average age was 97 years, some Of whom
were over 100 years old.
LONDON has seventy-six guilds endowed
by wealthy benefactos for tho benefit of tho diff
ferent trades and their trust property alone yields
an Income Of 100000 annually.
DURING the recent international exposis
tion at Turin balloon, which had ascended from
the exposition grounds, was struck by lightning
aitor 1t had assembled but a short distance.
THE amount contributed to college aud
university education in the United States during
the past ten years Is s35,622 900, and since 1871
the total amount given has not been less than
S50,0OO00O.
DOG was dug out of the debris of snow
slide in Colorado few days ago. lie had been
confined In narrow space next TO the logs of a
buried cabin for thirty.two days, and when found
was in good health. but thin.
THE Chinese hold the theory that by pre-.
serving fellow creature from drowning the res
cuer Is answerable in the next world for all the
sins atterward committed by the person rescued,
which literally means that a wise dispensaton Of
Providence has been frustrated
DECATUR, Ca, is q quaint old town which
forty yearI ago refused to allow railroad station
lanta, six miles further up. Tho town council
passed two ordinances last week, one forbidding
| children toplay marbles on the streets and the
| other allowing hogs to run ut large.
AMONG those who went down on the ILL
| fated State of Florida was Miss Alice Bowie, 2S
| years of age, who was on her way to her home
In Scotland from Providence, r.. l., to be married
| TO tho young man to whom she was engaged
Miss Bowie had sent no word Of her coming to
her friends at home, intending to surprise them.
| RUSSIAN capitalists arc undergoing the
petroleum fevor. Twelve years ago only one rm
was engaged In the petroleum industry, now
there arc more than dozen. In 1872 the total
amount OF naphtha or crude oil procured was
only 100000 barrels in 1881 1t reached 900 bar
rels, and twelvemonth later. 1t exceeded $780,
| 900 barrels.
The death ratio of Russia is the highest in
| Europe This is attributed to the pauclty of med,
| ical men and the habits OF the rural population.
| According to late returns the average duration OF
life is only 26 years, and tho mortality among in-
iants is frightful More than 60 per cent of in
fants die before they rench their 9th year, and
nearly 100000 children perish every year.
THE mother Of Sir Trevor Lawrence, NJ.
| p, reached the highest fashionable round by
means of flowers. She was the wife of a surgeon,
but devoted herself TO flowers, orchids especially,
and sent specimens of the rarest to the queen VINO
was thus forced to recognize her. She and her
| flowers soon became fashionable, and now her
son is baronet and a member of parliament.
AN English firm states tho total quantity
| of champagne forwarded from the champagne
districts for tho year ending April /. 1884,
amounted to 20, ,Ss2,5H bottles, being the largest
OH record France taking 2675,575 bottles only)
against average for the past ten years Of 49, 466
400 bottles. Present stocks in cask and bottle
equal about 120, 1000 bottles, or over six years
| requirements.
THE starch sugar industry In the United
States consumes daily 40 600 bushels of corn and
produces grape sugar and glucose sirup Of the
yearly value OF SO 100000. There thirty fac
tories in the United States furnishing their pro.
duct to brewers aud for the manufacture of table
| sirup and the adulteraton of caue sugar 1t Is
also largely used in confectionery, In canning
fruits, making fruit jelieS aud In cooking.
Artificial honey is made from 1t aud so, also. Ia
vinegar.
The train on which Mr.. William III. Van.
| derbilt rode from Lima, Ohio, to Dayton, made
what Is supposed TO be the fastest timo record
| seventy-four miles in sixty-fout minutes Tho
entire trip from Detroit to Cincinnati, distance
| Of 263 miles. was completed in five hours and
thirty minutes an average of j0.7 miles per hour.
number OF stops were made, however and en-
glnes changed three times; SO that the engineer
of milo in every forty eight to hfty-wo seconds,
1T is not generally known that the eldest
daughter OF the present. Lord Lytton has taken up
the family pen, and, although only 10 years OF
age, has already hai printed and published for
private circulation one of the most blood. curd-
ling ghost stories that has seen the light for many
Il long day. The Messrs Longman would have
published 1t In their magazine had 1t not been
that If was rather longer than their space would
allow but the idea of curtailing the story in
dgnantly repudiated, so 1t has been placed in
the hands of few privileged friends exactly as
the juvenile authoress wrote it.
New YORK city claims to have more than
one thousand women who speculate In stocks,
grain, oil, whisky, and every other way known to
the sterner SEX but brokers, q rule, refuse their
custom. The reasons for this were expressed by
a broker thus: "Ther risks are small, and If they
lose-phe- w.w" "But. supposng they make q
hit?" "Well, then they grow confidential They
tell you they knew 1t was coming so. They
dreamed OF black cat, or the baby cried twice in
its sleep, or something like that. They are a
strange lot If they lose they kick vigorously.
If they win they talk You to death. You die no
matter which way the market goes. They swear
by their dreams. Ifa woman'has certain dream
and puts her money on that dream and then the
market fiops why she has been swindled by the
operator. Oh no; no women in mine. They are
screamers from way backW
JEFFERSON DAvIss estimate of Mr.. Benia-
min is that he "could not be called an orator nor
u debaer and yet he shed ON every subject he
discussed II light which answered the purpose and
had the effect of both. IN manners gentle and
conciliatory, with voice every tone of which was
silvery, he was both persuasive and convincing.
Notwithstanding the wide range of his knowledge.
he was SO gentle us always to be seeming TO re-.
ceive information. and perhaps none of his most
familiar acquaintances can recall ever having
seen him during social intercourse engage in
heated argument Trained TO the close investiga-
ton of the law, he found periods OF relaxation
during which his memory became storehouse of
poetry aud fiction, and In times Of darkest pros-
pect and deepest depression would enliven his
comrades by rectations .lrom his fayonte Tenny
son. The pride Of Louisiana tho love of all true
confederates, the admiration of all Americana
who rejoice in the glory of their countrymen.
must long keep green the momory of Judah p.
Benjamin"
AN English statistician has gathered tho
! following interesting data on the matrimonial
situation in Great Britain Taking ffteen years as
; the minimum, there were, in 1882, sixteen and O.
half million people in England and Wales OF u
marriageable ago. OF these eight and three.quar-
ter millions were married, six and one quarter
millions unmarried, aud million and hall
widows and widowers The number Of married
women under 20 years Of age was nearly six times
I, that ot the married men under that age and the
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