National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-04-24

With latest novel calmly ats,
Or shakes her apron for dear life,
And "shoos' the chickens into fits
SENATOR ANTHONY owns half of the Prov
denco Journal. His share of the profits amounts
to about $4,000 year
IT Is calculated that there arc now residing
in the United States nearly thousand japanese,
and of this number 1t is said that not one has ever
been convicted Of any criminal offense in an
American court,
Miss ADA REHAN the actress, USED to be
Miss Ada Crehan. Tho name came to be changed
through the error of printer, who, installing her
handwriting, set 1t up to read ada G. Rehan."
Ada Rehan 1t has since remained.
ARTIFICIAL lips for moistoning postage
stamps have been patented by an ingenius man,
and the invention is said to be useful in business
houses. There ore times in the life OF an engaged
young man when he would cheerfully walk six
blocks to find asset Of artificial lips for his own
immediate use.
THE ring with which Gen. Israel Putnam
did wed his bride in 1888 is said to be now in the
possession of the wife of DR.. G. NJ. Dinsmoor, OF
Omaha. Neb., to whom II was presented thirty
four years ago by the sster-n-law of the daughter
of "Old Put" If the date is correct, Putnam was
but 20 when he married.
A WEST VIRGINIA young man who be-
lieves in self.improvemeut having recently mar
ricd. suggested to his wife that they should argue
some questions frankly and fully every morning,
In order to learn more of each other. The first
question happened to be whether O woman
could be expected to get along without hat"
and he took the Affirmative He learned several
| new things before the argument closed,
THE religious reporter of western news
| paper wished to take his girl on aponic, and he
engaged the services of the base ball reporter to
| report the Rev. Mr.. Jones. This is the way he
| opened his report OH the Monday following: The
Rev. Mr., Jones scored another immense hit yester-
| day, and the Oldest members of the congregation
testified that his shots were straight from the
shoulder. His metaphors came hot from the bat,
and the sinners ducked their heads TO escape the
eff ect Of his powerful runs
THE officers of the British bark st. Law
renee, at Philadelphia, from Demerara, report .
remarkable experience during the voyage, When
| about 500 miles off Cape Hatteras the air suddenly
became very dense and great difficulty was ex-
perlenced in breathing. A strong odor as of burn
| ing pine timber was also percepuble. The misty
mass is described of light blush tint, forming
zone extending from the horizon toward the
zenith about 10 degrees. Within the radius Of q
mile the water was inky black.
THE first effort to produce silk in this
country was made as long ago as 1922, when King
| James, of England, had a number of silkworm
eggs sent TO Virginia, with offers oflarge rewards
| to those who would successfully grow them.
Several failures followed, however, During the
| last decade however, the movement has received
| a fresh impetus, and our homo production is now
increasing every year. The percentage of silk
goods made in the United States since 1860 was 10
per cent of the whole consumption of such goods
In the country during the same year, which rose
by 1870 to % per cent and by 1879 to 80 per cent,
or about $40 OOO0 900 In value.
The fruits of Gen. Wolfe's gallant victory
in Canada 100 years ago have been lost, according
to Goodwin Smith. Instead Of being absorbed.
New France is absorbing Her population, which
multiplies almost as rapidly as the Irish, and in
some measures from the same cause, instead of
receding is advancing beyond its boundaries. and
either thrusting out or swallowing up such Brit
ish elements as had found place within Its con-
fines The British population Of the City of Que
bee is reduced to less than 7000 and even the
eastern townships are becoming more French. At
the same time the feeling OF French nationality is
apparently growing stronger than ever.
JULIEN MARrINETT, the well-known pam
tominist died of heart disease at Dayton, Ohio,
last Saturday evening. He lived in Baltimore for
the past thirty years, and was at times connected
with all the theaters in the city. He was men,
, Der Of the Adams Humpty Dumpty company for
several years, but had quite recently Joined sellss
circus as clown. While in the ring Saturday eve
ming he got off medieval joke about mothers-in'
law WHen ne lell nat upon tDe baWuusL anu ueu'
, The audience laughed and spplnuded, thinking
the great age of the joke had overcome the clown
and he had fallen to illustrate its effect But the
attendants thought otherwise. They knew the
, good old clown had cracked his last joke.
BESIDES the United States, the chief coun-
tries for the production OF cotton are the East
Indies Egypt, Brazil, the West Indies, and Guiana.
India contributes supply of cotton next in I'M
porance to that of the United States. Their total
| ntio aetiu far hal at
$500 900 bales of $40 pounds each Ceylon Borneo,
and other islands of the Indian archipelago have
, long produced cotton Japan produces 1t. A por-
- ton of Australia ia we'll adapted to it, but no
country either in the old or new world, is pro-
badly to be compared to America for the adapta-
ton of its soil and climate to this cultivation.
r The principal cotton producing district of Africa
70 is Egypt, where its culture was introduced in 1921.
@ THERE is good hope, from what is said, that
II the Kings Mountain IN. c. locality may prove a
q workable deposit. Tin is such a valuable metal
that it pays to work comparatively lean rock for
n 1t. In England the average of tho rock passed
i through the mills and worked for tin contains
per cent. only Of black tin orc or nearly fortyfve
pounds to the long ton. or, ordinarily, fifty tons
d of rock bearing have to be mined to produce
10 one ton of black tin. This one ton Of ore then
yields about 1900 pounds of metallic tin, worth
10 $40 II is said that the vein-roGk at Kings Noun
tain yields 10 per cent of tin ore, which is 1--WE
- times as rich as tho average English rock. This
makes 1t very hopeful for a tin mine in North Car
IS olina.
CHARLES ROBERT NEWMAN, a younger
% brother of the great cardinal, but older than Prof
IN Francis william Newman, has recently died a
renby, in England, lie was man OF remarkable
erudition, like his brother, but Of very eccentr
character. He was a recluse, and never went on
until night, when his striking figure, dressed In
n, peajacket, with a shawl or II rug thrown aofos
or his shoulders and with sou wesIer over his head
IT, might have been seen marching along the coun
is try lanes rgldly erect, with stsceato step lookn
l. neither TO the right nor loft. He had even NOR
e. dlstin gushed head and face than the cardinal
Of There WIS in him touch of Mephistopheles AM
r. also of Jupiter Olympus. The room in which h
If lived and died, in the top Of country inn, wa
mt as meagerly furnished as Goethe's study Il
be Weimar.
u GEORGE w, CABLE spent Sunday wit
u friends In Monson, Mass, and attended the Con
Or EDUCATIONAL church and was invited to talk to tn
u, sunday school in the afternoon. In the course
az his remarks he raised his hand expanded th
v" digits, and said 1 have 30 many children
ne home How many Is that?' "Fve," piped up
Wy youngster promptly. "And half of them ar
:" girls" continued the speaker, staggering hi
N- audience with his apparently reckless disregaT