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WIT AND wisiON.

The feeble tr.nihle before opinion.
the foolish defy n, tho Wise Judge ~.
the skillful direct II.
Initiate time u DESTROYS slowly.
II undermines. wears, lousens. sspHr
ates. II does not uproui
Beware how you allow words ,o
pass for NOR. than they srv worth. and
bear In mind what alteration !. soma
times ,irtsiuced In their current value
by the course of time. H. SoHtAeg.
A fashion item says ''The skirts oi
little girls dresses grow longer True.
we've noticed this phenomenon our
selves and alwass supposed u va,
caused by letting ou, the tucks Loseh
Cntsrn
Too often sclh.hne=. rather than
unseltishness. rudcncss rather than gen.
apparently possessed of the highest al
vantagcs Tor education CA'o'go Hssl-
" haqas,nr
A Michigan girl wrote to loco.
motive mandatory saying that 10 10
didn't cost too much she would liz. io
buy one II their new spark arre.tcrs
and see how 4, worked Bari,.g,ss
FIRE. Pr,ss.
Is your table linen markedr'
asked the washetwoman 'Oh, rer.
tainly." rcpllei Mrs. i'uplnlsy. we
have had blackberry ple right slanR
this week and Mr.. ropln.sy has spilled
his coffee twice" - Bsrl,sgies f'rce
Press
five jus, iound out why lightnine
never strikes twice In the sam. place.
said Farmer furruw to the Deacon. a.
they st"od under q tree during . thun,
der storm. why !. it" asked the
Deacon. "l,ecau.e. sir, thu same place
10 never there after the lightning once
hits H." ~ y. Josrsai.
Young housrkeepcr ~ III small cs-
pcriencc In msrketiugl ~ hardly know
what To order Tor dinner. We hsd veal
yesterday and lamb tho dsy before"
Butcher How would icg of mutton
'lo. or beef or tosguc9" Young house.
keeper treleved ~ the suggesiion)
''Oh. vs., that would do nlcrIy. You
may send ley of tongue ~ D.
Mai and FTpr,ss.
Something lacking -Bakcr "yes
mum ] nov put my name on my bread
to prevent my rivals from initiating my
loavss and getting my custom" iiAIsc-
keeper "a wiso precaution. Hut was
that bread YOU left here yesterday
genuincP "Oh, yes. mum" Then
] would sugges, that YOU add some
thing besides your name Ia the loavcs."
Certainly. MIN. n You say so. What
IL hP" The date " Pa,iadeiph,a
Cal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21
How Tobacco Is DiscolOred.

Tobacco raisers and producers Of
other plants whose dried and curled
leaves are of value in the market, will
be interested in the latest explanation Of
the cause of the brown discOlorations-
spots of small diameter. in which the
tissue is nearly destroyed that so much
impair the value of their products. 1t
appears that raindrops after shower of
a hot summer day, act as condensing
prisms to the nearly vertical beams Of
the sun, concentrating the ray upon the
surface of the leaf just beneath the CEN
ter of the drop, and thus producing .
burnt spot or diameter corresponding
with that of the drop itself and of depth
proportionate TO the intensity of the
eat--HHSburgh Dispatch.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21
COcOa.Nut Culture In Florida,

An enthusiastic New Jersey capital
ist has started an extensive plantation
of cocoa nut trees in Dade County.
along the southern coast OF Florida.
The seed nuts were brought from
South Carolina. They We're germi-
mated. and about 100000 plants have
been set out, at Il cost of nearly $40,
600. Next winter the number will be
largely increased. 1t requires six years
for the trees to begin to yield returns.
but it is estimated that the grove will
pay ten per cent on valuation of
S2.OO0,O0O. A full-grown tree will pro
duce sixty nuts yearly.-N. Y. Com
nsercial advertiser.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21

"A single shoe manufactory in Mas
sachusetts turns out by patent machin-
cry i'll twelve months as many pairs Of
boots and shoes as thirty thousand
shoemakers in Paris make by hand in
the same period of time. Great are the
Uses of machinery. Boston Herald
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21

According to the latest census the
people Of the United States engsg, In
active business pursuits are thus EN-
ployed: In agriculture. 22.0O0. 90, pro.
fessional and personal service. 1900
900; manufacturing and mining. H..
00.00); trade and transportation. 1900.
900
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21

Philadelphia Tines: The mission of
the orator is not over, but his influence
is weakened every time the mountain Of
elocution labors and brings forth sucf
insignificant mice.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21

Burgh: The proud have no friends:
not in prosperity, for then they know
nobody; and not in adversely. for then
no one knows them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21

Mrs. Mark Hopkins, formerly of
California, is building stone dwelling
bonse at Great Darlington, Mass,
which will cost $1,000, 900 Boston
Journal
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21

-Labouchere, in London Truth. says
that salt spread on bread and butter b
the best preventive Of cholera.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13
The Congressional Library.

The bill which passed the senate yesterday
authorizing the construction Of building
for the accommodation of the library of con-
gress provides for the erection of fireproof
building east of tho capitol, just outside the
present capitol grounds, the building to be in
the Italian renaissance style of architecture.
A commission is appointed to have charge of
the construction, composed of the secretary
of the interior, the architect of the capitol
extension, and the librarian of congress, who
are authorized to make contracts, &c. aud the
sum of 100000 is appropriated to commence
the construction of the building, the money
to be disbursed by the secretary ofthe interior.
The commission is authorized to purchase
the land necessary at price not to exceed
S550,000. after securing the written opinion
of the attorney general in favor of the valid
ity of the title. If the commission should
be unable within thirty days after the pass
age Of the act to secure the land by pur-
chase within the limit Of price prescribed, it
shall apply to the supreme court of the Dis
trict Of Columbia to have damages assessed
for the taking of the land in the usual
manner, pay the several owners the amounts
awarded to them respectively, and possess
itself of the land. In case Of dispute of title
the money shall be paid into court. Tho bill
further provides that the secretary of the
interior shall annually report to congress a
detailed statement Of all proceedings under
the act.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

right to a free discussion Of its principles
everywhere, and to receive the voluntary
support of its members unintimidated by
violence and unhindered by fraud; and
Whereas republicanism and despotism diff
fer only in the recognition by the former and
the denial by the latter of the right of the
people to govern through the ballot-box;
therefore
Reso'ued That tho committee on privileges
and elections make diligent inquiry into tho
condition of tho states, with view to ascer-
tanning if any of them are deprived of the
republican governments guaranteed to them
by the constitution of the United States
that they have power to send for persons
and papers, and to sit during tho session of
the senate, and that they report by bill or
otherwise.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

Shifting the Responsibility.

The house committee on naval affairs yes
terday reconsidered the recommendations
recently sent by it to the committee on ap-
preparations for o reduction Of the number of
naval staff officers, which recommendations
had been referred back to the committee on
naval affairs by the committee on appropria-
tions. On motion Of Representative Harmer
the recommendations were 1aid aside, thus
leaving the responsibility for action or nom
action with the committee on appropriations.
A spirited discussion took place in the COM
mittee on the question of awarding prize
money TO the officers and men of the Monitor
who took part in the engagement of that
vessel with the ram Merrimac during the
late war. The question in dispute was
whether the Merrimac was really disabled
so that the confederates were compelled to
destroy her, or whether she was destroyed
by the confederates that she might not be
captured. Final action was not reached.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

We know of nothing equaling in Importance
the work indicated in the following crude
draft Of preamble and resolutions They
would, if polished into proper form, and
adopted by a vote OF 40 to 80, BIO good read
ing in the senate journal, and would be a
rallying cry in the presidential campaign for
all voters who are willing to stand by the
union, the constitution, and the enforcement
of the laws:
Whereas the ruling party in the southern
states, encouraged, aided. and Allotted by its
friends, apologists, and defenders in the
north is clearly determined that the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to the con-
stitution shall not be enforced, but shall re-
main a dead letter; and
Whereas the question of party ascendency
in this country is dependent upon the ezer-
else of the right of suffrage by those lawfully
entitled thereto and upon honest returns of
the votes of the people; and
Whereas the maintenance of union tradi-
tons and national supremacy IN national
affairs can only be assured by the rule Of the
majority; and
Whereas the restoration of the reign of the
solid south to national control, under present
conditions would be vindication Of the
state sovereignty hsresy which led to the
great rebellion, and would endanger the
peace of the country, as before, by its despotic
spirit of intolerapcc and
Whereas each political party has an equal
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

If the government employees were mainly
democrats the Tall Sycamore of the
Wabash" would be the last man in the senate
to introduce bill that would serve to pro-
hibit them from contributing to the support
of the democratic party, On the contrary,
his stentorian voice would be Indignantly
raised in eloquent protest against such
tyrannical invasion of the ordinary rights of
an American citizen. 1t is all right to protect
government employees from burdensOme de-
mands, which they may feel constrained
10 Weld to because OF fear Of
giving offenso to superior influence, but right
there loyal interference should end. II Is no
disgrace to be q government otical-or it
should not be-but II such measure as that
proposed by Mr.. voorhees, is to become law
no man who fools an honorable pride in the
prcrogatives of his citizenship can afford to
enter tho government service 10 say that
man in government employ shall not con-
tribute of his own free will TO the legitimate
necessities Of the party in whose principles
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

TOLEDO. Feb l1-An animated discussion has
been going on In the columns of the Blade for
some weeks as to whether the army of the Po-
tomac refused to charge the enemy the second
time at the battle of Cold Harbor, when ordered,
as is stated in most histories OF the late civil war,
Gen. Grant was appealed to, and wrote the fol-
lowing letter.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 1ss4-To THE EDITOR OF THE
BLADE.-Dedr Sir: Your favor of jan. 81 is at
/ will say that never gave any order to any army
that commanded during the rebellion to make an
do not remember the circumstances, that have
given an order for an attack for a certain hour,
and afterward concluded that 1t would be better,
possible, not TO make II, and have sent orders
countermanding; but do not remember that any
such circumstance as that took place at Cold
Harbor. Truly yours, U. s. GRANT.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

THE people do not complain of the rate of
duty on any single article except that on
wool. II they have any wish on the subject
it is some reduction of the revenue as
whole. This can not be assured by any
change of any duty. The reduced rate
might rather increase the revenue. What
ever reduction is deemed necessary could
best be accomplished by abolishing the tax
on tobacco. If that is not feasible, then the
surest way to reduce revenue without ere
ating panic in business is to wholly abolish
the duty on certain articles of general con-
sumption not produced in this country, or by
reciprocity treaties with American nations
which will not harm any important home
industry.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13
Great Hunks OF Satisfaction.


Morrson's tariff bill will please the doctrinaires.
The manufacturer and producer will find ample
reasons for emitting roar Of protest. The pro-
ducers of sugar and rice will have an opportunity
of contracting o deep affection for their demo-
cratic brethren of the north. The duties on wool
are still farther reduced, and nothing can prevent
the Ohio democrats from nominating Frank Hurd
for the presidency. The farmers and producers,
however, will be reconciled to Morrison's tariff
reduction when they fully realize that silk UNI
brellas and kid gloves will pay 10 per cent less
duties and playing cards 20 per cent. under Nor
rlson's bill. The poor man must be protected.
The reduction on kid gloves will satisfy every
trud FREQ trade democrat and q cheaper silk UNI
brella will make him positively happy.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

The democratic governors are falling from
grace. Gov. Cleveland recently treated q
friend to cocktails at Buffalo on a Sunday,
whipping the devil round the stump by sit
ting at table and having cracker served
with each drink, to evade the law. And now
Gov. Waller, of Connecticut has been guilty
of buying chances at lotteries in the "Grand
Army fair" at Ansonia. Whittier are these
good men drifting?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13
CHANGES IN TIE NAVY.
The List OF Rear Admirals Has Now Been
Reduced to Six.


Reduced to Six.
The present year is very good one for the
retirement of prominent naval officers Rear
Admiral Pattison was retired on the eighth
instant, and he will be followed on the
twenty-1rst instant by Rear Admiral Shu-
feldt. Rear Admiral Hughes who commands
the Pacific squadron, comes next, on the
thirty-first of March, and Rear Admiral
Cooper, of the North Atlantic station, follows
on tho twenty-seventh Of July. Admiral
Baldwin will BIO compelled to relin-
quish tho command Of the European
station on tho third of September,
and on the thirtieth of the same month
Commodore Wells will be releRated to private
life, and on the second of November Com
modoro Phelps, the commander Of the South
Atlantic station, will follow. This large
number of retirements will, of course, neces-
state good many changes in the assign
ments of the leading naval officers, and con-
siderable guessing is already going on and
states prepared in naval circles. Admiral
Shufeldts successors on tho advisory
board and at the observatory have
been announced as Admiral Simpson and
Commodore Franklin. When Admiral Hughes
retires on the thirty-first Of March there will
be wanting commander Of tho Pacific sta
ton. Commodore Wells is DESTROYS of being
ordered there, although he will have but a
few months to serve, and IT is known that
Secretary Chandler Is willing to accommo-
date him. Tho list Of rear admirals is now
reduced to six and it Is probable that %
commodore will succeed Admiral Coope
in July on the North Atlantic station.
Commodore Jouett's name is mentioned as
being likely to be selected for that duty.
Commodore de Kraft is DESTROYS of succeed
ing Rear Admiral Baldwin in command of
the European station early in September,
nd has a1a Epnyyu his xviahnU IN tha Ia
partment. 1t is reported however, that he is
just as apt to be selected to command the
south Atlantic station whom Commodore
Phelps retires on Nov. 2.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

If the northern republicans wait for the
redemption of the solid south from bourbon
rule by men who will not be denounced by
the bourbons as thieves, scalawaSs, loafers,
renegades, and all that is bad, there will never
be any political change. The northerners
should reserve little sympathy, as we'll as
credulity, for the southern men of their own
political faith.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13
Eaton's Boom Mt Home.

The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle has made a most
startling discovery, which is to the effect that
Hon. William Eaton, OF this congressional dis
trlct, as a presidential candidate, can carry New
York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Allowing
that this discovery was made before Congressman
Eaton had opened q gap in the ranks of the demo-
cratic party by refusing TO assent to the COM
mandatory resolutions offered by Irish AgitatoI
Finerty, OF Chicago in memory of Wendell Phil.
lips, the Chronicle must be laboring under a false
impression. We know OF one, and only one dem.
ocrat in the state of Connecticut who is of thai
opinion. He comes from "deestrict" near New
Haven, and swears by the "old man Eaton
every time no swaps his quid Of tobacco from
RIGHT to left
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13
CURRENT GOSSIP.
THE DEVIL.

THE DEVIL.
Men don't believe In devil now, as their fathers
used to do;
They've forced the door Of the broadcast creed to
let His Majesty through
There isn't print Of his cloven foot fiery dart
from his bow
To be found on earth or air to-day, for the world
has voted So
But who is 1t mixing tho fatal draught that pal
sizes heart and brain,
And loads the bier OF each passing year with ten
hundred thousand slain2
Who blights the bloom OF the land to-day with the
fiery breath ofhell,
If the devil isn't and never was2 Won't some-
body rise and toll.
Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint and digs
the pit for his fee2
Who sows the tares in the field OF time wherever
God sows his wheat?
The devil is voted not to be, and Of course the
thing Is true
But who is doing the kind of work the devil
alone should do?
We are told he doesn't 60 about as roaring lion
now
But whom shall we hold responsible for the ever.
lasting row
To be heard in church. in home, In state, TO the
earth's remotest bound,
II the devil by unanimous vote is nowhere TO be
found7
Won't somebody step TO the front forthwith, and
make their bow and show
How the frauds and crimes Of q single day spring
up2 We want to know.
The devil was fairly voted out, and, of course, the
DEVILS gone,
But simple people would like to know who car.
ries his business on.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

How WOULD it do for the senate to put o
quietus on all fears of tariff legislation, with
it's attendant panic and uncertainty, by
adopting n resolution declaratory of it pur-
pose not to pass any tariff bill whatever dur
ing the present congress, except one restor-
ing the duty on wool?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

CONGRESS is ask ed to vindicate Fitz-John
Porter for having disobeycd the orders of his
commanding officer on tho ground that he
has ascertained since The war ended that Long
street had more confederates in front of him
than was supposed at the time. This is an
ca post facio excuse and will not do.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

THE flood at Cincinnati is two feet higher
than even the unprecedented inundation
of last year. Travel in large portion of the
west is suspended, and it is difficult to get
relief to the thousands of suffering people
who are cut OF from the ministrations of
those seeking to come to their aid.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

At caucus of democratic members of the
house, held yesterday afternoon for the pur.
pose of electing caucus officials, $. S. Cox was
chosen chairman, and Messrs. Post, Lamb,
Mayberry, and Breckenridge, secretaries. A
joint caucus of senators and representatives
will be held Wednesday afternoon, the TWEEN
tieth instant, to select congressional cam
paign committee.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

The republican party will do the country
a vast service by allaying as soon as possible
all apprehensions of any change in the tariff
except in the duty ON wool. We can afford
to 60 before the country on the issue of no
other change and no disturbance of business
intnrnlta
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13
The Photographic Pole Nuisance.
Nsw York Sun,

Washington's war against the toegraphic pole
nuisance ia certainly vigorous Some wires 1t
already has under ground, and 1t has notified all
the companies that the rest must promptly go
there Washington will probably DO the first city
in the country to clear its streets Of the network
of wires, and its example will be a bright one to
follow,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

JUDGING from press dispatches, Queen
Victoria's book, which was issued to the
London press on Monday, is hardly worth
reading--or reviewing This is not said in
disrespect to her majesty, who is, as all the
world knows, highly respectable lady. 1t
is only of her literary powers that we speak
Z
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

GEN GRANTS millions Of friends and hun
dreds of enemies may be assured that he is
not in any danger from his recent hurt, nor
from any other cause, but is, on the contrary,
rapidly recovering.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

THERE is sudden rush at president
making, but it is mostly confined to the busy
knights OF the quill who indito letters and
dispatches from Washington to the great
da;I;os
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

If wealth brings as much misery as money,
as some people say, several of our acquaint-
ances desire to have the misery passed around
their way, money and oil.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

The opinion is gaining ground that the
democratic managers in the house are devils
ing ways and means for letting go of the
tariff question.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

Representative Curtin was yesterday au-
thorized by the house committee on foreign
affairs to report resolution to the house
granting Minister Hunt, at st. Petersburg
permission to accept the coronation medal
given him by the car.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

he believes is a monstrous proposition that
could only originate in the meanest spirit of
purblind partisanship.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

THE Danvillo Times moaus piteously about
"the down trodden whites of the SOUTH"
Poor things!
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

eral charge Of the distribution of supplies
He will establish headquarters at Cincinnati
and act directly under orders from the secre-
tnrY of war
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13
C overnment RELIEF for Flood Sufferers

q OVerhmeht NeIIeI Tor FIOOu HUIVTeTB'
The secretary of war is taking active
measures looking to the immediate relief OF
the sufferers from tho overflow of the Ohio
river and its tributaries in accordance with
the act of congress appropriating 100000 for
that purpose Orders were issued yesterday
for Gen. Amos Beck with, assistant commissary
general, stationed at st, Louis to proceed at
once to Cincinnati, where he will have gem
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

The Need Of Political Information In the
South.
From Ayers American Newspaper An
nual" for tho year just closcd-a work of the
highest authority-thore appears to be in the
''solid south" papers classed, respectively, as
renubIicnn and democratic as follows:
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-13

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1884.