National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24

but they turned her away in the storm and the
darkness
To the icy.cold winds with their chill. piercing
BREATH
And the tiless curses that followed her footsteps
We're fierce as the tempest and cruel as death.
-Ernea McGo6fy IN The ourrent
THE heather Ohinee may be peculiar, bus
he has his redeeming traits. In San Francisco
the Chinese gave $4,000 to aid their countrymen
who were sufferers from the recent great floods
near Canton. Several Chinese merchants gave
$1,000 each
SUNDAY School Toachor-"What has our
lesson to- day taught us2' Little Boy-"That we
must shun OWL" Teacher" But we arc told
that money is the root OF all evil Now what
further does the lesson teachS Little Boy
That we must shun tho evil and grab the roo,.r
on the occasion of Baker Pashas battle at
II Feb an English officer placed revolver to the
head OF nn Egyptian and ordered him to advance.
The Egyptian, quietly putting aside the weapon
said, in an astonished tone: ~ advanced" adding
proudly, "Noi am an Egyptian" and he took to
his heels.
Mrs BERTRAM milford, who Is q grand
daughter Of the old, original, genuine, BRASS
mounted Commodore" Vanderbilt, has created a
sensation In Paris by giving party in which all
tho guests were In monagerie makeup as beasts
especially successful.
THE "Major Oak" near Edwinstowe, Eng
land, fell before the recent gale there. Its trunk
had girth Of 20 feet, and the circumference OF
the top was 30 feet. The hollow stem was used
by picnic parties, and seven people had at one
| time partakcn Of a meal in It, 1t was known to
have stood 200 yoas.
SIR JOSEPH BAZALEGETTE's carefully COM
piled statistics about the water supply of the chief
cities OF the world show the following per capita
distributions Rome, 1905 gallons per head day !:
Marseilles 1881; Washington, li3; Chicago, 1925 ;
Boston, 1873; New York, COS; philadelphia, 54l5;
Hamburg 500; Paris. %; London, ST. Berlin, 1873
THERE are only two American books which
have market value approximating $1,000; they
arc the Bay Psalm Book" which has been sold
as high as $780, and Eiots Indian Biblo--"Up-
| Biblum God" In tho aboriginal tongue, n copy of
which was recently bought at the sale of tho
library OF the late Judge Henry G. Murphy, IN
New York, for tho sum of $3.50.
GEORGE w. PECK, the Wisconsin humorist,
lives in 900 house in Milwaukee-that 10,
the dwelling cost that much, though Peck paid
only $4,000 for it. The costly mansion was built
by a millionaire with whim. 1t turns its back
| 10 tho avenue near which 1t stands and faces the
lake. The kitchen windows overlook the fash
ionable promenade. Peck owns other real estate
| in Milwaukee.
A GooD-HEARTED and illiterate farmer
living IN Ohio writes to the postmaster OF Clncln
natl saying that he is In search OF wife, In the
letter he says he has heard OF many persons being
thrown out of their comfortable homes by the raw
ages of the Hoods and having lost his wife some
| three months ago, he is ready to share his home
with ani good 'ouest woman that Is out OF home,
no matter how poor the woman might be-"
AN eccentric Binghampton, N. Y, man
| who Is married, but does not live with his wife.
proposes taking an excursion to Europe next
spring and to defray all expenses on certain con.
ditonH. The party must consist of ton or more
unmarried couples, the females to do the pop.
ping of the question: prior to the voyage on
board the steamer there is to be one or more we'd
| dings each day until the trip 10 finished
AN imitator of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has
appeared in Atlanta. Mrs. Mary Rasperry has
sued for the possession OF about twenty-five acres
ofland In the fourth ward. upon which there are
| seventy-fve or eighty houses The property Is
valued at s50s00e. She claims that the property
was bequeathed to her by an aunt, but that the
will was lost or stolen and she was cheated out OF
1t by her father, Two witnesses to the will have
| now been found
LONDON papers state that the rage for For
tuny's paintings appears to be on the increase.
His little piece, twenty-eight by twenty inches,
entitled, I'm the Vatican representing three con-
noisseurs, dressed in the costume of the las. CEN
fury, examining works OF art In gallery, which
was sold in London twelve years ago for GiO0, has
been bought again this year by an English col-
ector, who has Just refused an offer Of &C. 900 made
by an American lady.
A. II. SWAN, Of Cheyenne, Wyoming terri
tory, controls more stock than any other indl-
Vidual on the continent. His present possessions
are valued at between 100000 and 60, 600 900
I Nnht IA ~ II
exclusive control and management is over 200, 00C
head and valued at over 100000. He was the
organizer and is president aud general manager
OF no less than five different stock organizations
In wyoming. He lisa native OF Greene county
Pennsylvania which place he left for the west in
1862 when % years OF agewith 81 900 in his pocket
THE amazing success Of the California oars
man Petersen In outrowing Ice In n slngle-scull
| race at Oakland proved Waterloo for the local
sporting fraternity. Petersen is a magnihcently
developed young fellow, only 10 years Old who
has gained muscle and skill as boatman on Long
| Wharf. There is talk OF taking him east this
summer and putting him against tho bcst oars.
men, as preparation for match with Hanlan.
| Experts here who have studied HRnlans style dc.
clare that Petersen can outrow the Toronto cham.
pion, as he Is FAR more powerful man with equal
skin in the she'll.
THE dwarf tress OF China arc curiosities o.
forestry, Every child knows how the Chinese
cramp their women's feet by bandaging them
when thoy arc infants, aud thus render 1t impoS
slblo for them TO walk. II Is. however wonder.
full 10 SEQ miniature oaks, ohestuats, pines, and
cedars growing In flower. pots hny years old aud
yet not foot high, To do this take a young
plant, cut on Ia tap root. and place It in basin
In which there is good soil kept we'll watered. II
IL grows too rapidly, dig down and shorten IN
oral roots Every year tho Leaves grow smaller,
and the little dwarf trees make interesting pets
In 1912 there stood. and there is every