National Republican., 1884-10-04

cchts per l,OOO feet.
LONDON police are now allowed to carry
revolvers, but only ut night.
IT is suggested that petroleum refuse
could be used adyantageousy for fuel In loco
motives
FOR somo unknown reason large num-
bers OF squirrels are cmigrating from West
Virginia to Kentucky.
ABOUT 10000 jewish immigrants land
at our ports yearly, and they have been com.
Ing at that rate for ton years.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's household numbers
Just under 1000 people, whose aggregate sal.
aries foot up e3S5, 900 annually.
Mr.. BERGH says he is in possession Of
wis bequcathing half million to the Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals.
THE concoit Of Kansas man Ia to re-
move the tombstones from his family burial
plot to the roof of his house, where they stand
in n row of seven along the rldgcpole.
JOHN BROKEN, of Germantown, Ohio.
Is digging for seven barrels of gold which n
gypsy fortunc.teller assured him. as another
assured his father thirty years ago, is buried
on his farm.
A LEEsBURG, GA, negro has an extra
finger on each hand about an inch long. bear
Y nail, but boneess. His father, brethren,
and children are also similarly gifted, some OF
them having also extra toes.
THERE is little of interest now to be
found in Eba, Napoleon's island prison. All
the relics OF his stay there were long since car
RED away, and the place has sunk into the in
significance from which his presence raised 1t
temporarily
'" BRADsTREET's has made tho dis
covery that in gathering crop statistics per
cent. must be added to the estimates of OBJ
servers in order to make good the tendency of
the human mind to occupy the safe ground of
under rather than over statement
THE first money Mrs. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox ever received for n poem was Sc from
Frank Leslie's publishing house. Since that
time her muse has been phenomcnally prolific,
not less than 200 eilpsions being attributed TO
her authorship, including Solitude"
Nor one out of thousand lightning
rods at present upon our buildings is of any
use, says Prof. Trowbridgc in Science, for the
simple reason that the rods arc not led into
moist ground, and therefore offer great resist
ance to the passage ofan electrical discharge.
'1Vm1 ANo" ioih Chplthilotd pTODOs6 10
invest two millions in a building which will
include n theater, concert rooms, restaurants,
music halls, dancing pavilion and roof garden
and restaurant, and within the structure there
will be every appliance of u fashionable and
thoroughly equipped club house.
In Lancashire, England, according to
the secretary of the Amalgamated Weayers'
association, there are $4,000 persons employed
In the cotton factories OF these, $4,000 are
females above13 years Of age, $4,000 are males
above l3 and under IS, 10000 arc children be-
low 10, and 10000 are adult males.
A HANDSOME income is made by n
Frenchman at Berlin, who has introduced tho
Partisan system of window cleaning by con-
tract He charges 2s. q month, and has 6,0O0
customers in the German capital alone, where
he employs forty men. He has now branch
establishments in Hamburg, Frankfort-on-
Main, and Breslau.
Mrs. A. I. STEWART has q piece of
amber, bought for her by her husband tho
size of the palm of ones hand, and inclosing a
small fish. The price was $500. The en-
press of Russia, who has the finest tea in the
world, has an amber tea service-cups and
sancers, cream jug and sugar bowl--out Of
which TO drink il.
IN the way of single dwelling houses of
u cheap kind Boston builders are proceeding
In the direction of solution of the problem.
| one objection has been the unattractiye ap.
pcarance of whole streets of dwellings, which
are alike inside and outside, givingthe appear
ance of factory boarding houses OF late large
| numbers of houses are In the course of erection
which are small, comparatively cheap, and at
the same timo really picturesque in appear.
ance.
Mr.. RICHARD BURDELL, of New York.
has distinguished himself by choosing to take
| up his abode on a fast railroad train. He is a
regular traveller on the limited express be-
tween New York and Chicago. He has an In
come of $4,000 year, and Is too restless to
stay in hotel. lie Is entirely able and, will
ing to bear the expense of s35 day that 1t
costs him to live on n Pullman car for the sake
of the soothing effect of travelling at the rate
Of sixty miles an hour.
THIS is the way in which the Dacco
Prokash, a Bengalee newspaper, speaks of the
English in India: "At every step the people
send up cry for succor when the English
whip or the English kick falls upon them.
The demons are engaged heart ard soul, in
violating the chastity and taking the lives of
Indian females. What a heartrending scene
1t is matter of regret that the people of India
do not grid up their loins to gettrid of the op-
preston of white men"
THE financial condition of the Hawaiian
islands is not encouraging. There are about
$4,000 in the treasury, and there is no i'm
mediate prospect of an increase to any great
amount till November. This month there Is
considerably more than $50, coo due for bonds.
There is a very large sum due for tho salaries
and necessary expenses, and the moment the
appropriation bill is passed there will be large
demands from many quarters Bankruptcy
seems TO DO staring the cabinet in the face.
THE fortune of the Orleans family ID
estimated at COO, ,O0O, 900 francs, which, at per
cent, would yield an income of 49, 900, 600 francs
Some reactionist journals, which have made
much Of the recent gift of $4,000 francs by the
Comte de Paris and his family to the cholera
sufferers at Toulon and Marseilles, have also
lost no opportunity to belittle the generosity Of
President Grevy, who devoted 1900 francs to
the same worthy object, NJ. Grevy's fortune
and his salary are estimated to yield him only
about /, 800, 900 francs annually.
In tho lead production of different
countries Spain still holds the first rank, the
amount reaching some 10000 tons In one
year, or one-sixth more than America, which
comes next on the list, while Germany follows
with 10000. ofspain's total production some
$1,000 tons are derived from one district, that
of Llnares, in which more than 500 mines are
registered. The total number of steam On
gines employed is stated to be l30, nearly one
half of this number belonging to English com
panies in fact, most of the mining machinery
and pumping engines in all the mines arc o.
English make.
THEY waste money on the English
navy, too, 1t appears. There was H. NJ. s
Thunderer, magnificent war ship that hai
cost about s2,5OO,OOO, including repairs, and YET
has done only about two years service since
she was launched in 1872. On her trial triI
she burst q boiler and killed forty or flfty oi
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