National Republican., 1884-06-10

In shadowy dreams phantom train
From low land still aud deep.
And we dream till the morning white and cold
Comes over the hills of the east
And wakes the Lazarus sleep of night
With touch as of Gods high priest
WA Wallace HdrneN
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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Is said to pro-
pare beforehand and commit to memory carefully
every important speech he delivers and he seldom
reads u book, but studies newspapers constantly.
MARY ANDERsoN's success In Manchester
has been without precedent In English theatrical
annals. Herrcoeipts during the past week havc
amounted TO sl076O, larger sum than was ever
before taken by any dramatic attraction in tho
same length Of time in that city.
AT the Parisan industrial exhibition,
which opens June /. the French crown jewels and
the diamonds of tho French Cape OF Good Hope
company, valued at s2,0)O,0OO, are shown Private
Jewellers exhibit wares worth 81 100000. Elaborate
precautions for safe guarding have beon made.
HARVEY ID. PARKER, of Boston, was q
small, nervous man. who started business life run
ming lunch counter. He built the Parker house
| In Boston, aud died worth S3,OOO,OOO lie owed
| his success to good cook and system to insure
guests courteous treatment whether they fed the
| walters or not
|
anoat, was built in two years and five months in
j. A. Samuda's ship yard This Is one.half the
| time In which English naval dock yards can build
vessel. 1t takes two weeks to the Atlantic,
and six weeks for even England TO gather 20 600
men to land In Egypt.
A YOUNG man at Hillsdale, N. Y, has con-
tracted to work seven years for farmer TO obtain
| his daughter in marriage. 1t looks like big
| price; but the chances are that this Jacob will
tlta IA I,nc,
years are up and that tho old man will be a
| tramp, divorced from his WIFE,
A WHITE squall caught party of tourists
| moving acrossn lake in Scotland and threatened
| to oapsige the boat. Wien It seemed that the
crisis was really come the largest and physically
the strongest in the party, In state OF intense
| fear, snid: "Let us prayl" "No, no. my man."
shouted the bluff old boatman, "Let the little mau
| pray-you take tho oar"
TORONTO is the best Sabbath keeping city
| in the world. The only stores open on the Sab-
| bath there are those for selling milk and med-
| cine, and these only for an hour or two in the
morning aud evening, tue druggists not being al
lowed to DO business as universal providers, SELL
ing confectionery, cigars drinks, and knick-
knacks.
| LAST week, when about to break up for the
| holidays. Mr. Spurgeon dismissed his young men
with a caution. Don't get courting That is not
| good for students. Come back, as some one puts
1t, with your hearts aud manners uncracked.
Walk in tho fields like Isaac, by all means and
mediate, but don't lift up your eyes for Rebecca.
| She will come soon enough"
A sHREwD old Chicago lady listened to O
sensational preacher last Sunday Her MUD nat
urally wandered back to olden times. Almost
unconscously she contrasted the present with the
past. Fifty years ago." she said, after she had
returned to her home, 1--WE had golden sermons in
| wooden pulpits; now we have wooden sermons in
golden pulplts." Even her son-in-law did not
dispute the good woman's remark
THE recent marriage of the third daughter
of the historian Motley ~ Lieut.. Col. St. John
Midmay, of the British army, recalls the fact
that another OF his daughters, Mrs. Ives, made O
notable English marriage by becoming the wife Of
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the present home
secretary of the Gladstone government. Motley.
like his fellow Bostoniau Prescott was a great
fayorito in London society, and his daughters
were all OF them most accomplished.
ALTHOUGH our language contains abou b
l25.0OO words Shakespeare made 1900 answer his
purposes, and Milton was able TO get along with
only 5000. The Old Testament contains about
5000 words. A child does not employ more than
100 words, and few practiced speakers require
more than 10000. According to Max Muller, q
we'll educated person who reads his Bible and
|
seldom uses more than 1900 words in conversa-
tion. A writer needs more copious vocabulary
: than Il speaker.
, The new queen of Madagascar is young, Of
pleasing expression OF countenance. and singu-
larly dignfed and ladylike. On the occasion of
! her Inauguration she wore dress of ivory satin
: with much gold embroidery. She had a train two
I or three yards in length of handsome dark GRIM
son velvet, spangled with god borne by six off,
a0afn y,YI nj a1xT
her head, and thus she stood upon the throne
: The prime minister is her welded husband, and
old enough TO be her grandfather. She is the third
queen who Las been his wife.
:, SOME interesting researches have recently
b beenlmade by the director of the bureau of sta
0 tistOs at Vienna, to dete rhine the Comparatv,
longevity of men ana women and TO ascertain thu
causes for any difference that might appear. HI
finds that out of l02s3l individuals who hav
passed the age of 90 years, 6O303 arc women, whil
only AZ 52S are men. In Italy ho finds 24l ALLEGED
q centenarian women, aud but Ill mon Of that ago
The fact that of children who reach the age of II
a years there more females than males seems Il
a be well established ana that the disproportion ir
6 number grows greater as the years Of their lif
q advance is equally certain. The number of mali
o births exceeds the female by 4per cent
Is Mrs. GRUNDY would be at homo in tn
= Grand ca nyon of the Colorado which is consid
cred the greatest whispering gallery in the world
s For years this chasm has been matter of surprise
% TO prospectogs and miners, on account of Its won
derfl transmission of sound and 1t has only.b
n since the advent Of the railroad that any defni
a idea has been entertained OF tho great distance
" travels within its walls. train Of cars crossing
the bridge at the Needles can be plainly heard oil
II q quiet day at Cottonwood island, distance o
n eighty-four miles. The fife and drum at Fort No
j. jaye is distinctly heard Mt Bulls Head distanc
g OF elghty-tour miles The report of the sunris
1f gun at Fort Moaye can be heard at Eldorado can
N yon, distance of niney-slx miles, 1t is tn
greatest whispering gallery in tho world.
ACCORDING to a report sent by Lieut.
Frederick 10 the Moscow Gasebe there will 500
T. be no Kamlchatkans left In Kamtchatka. Tn
OF population IN district larger than the whole {
if France, which was once above $4,000 had In lss
"a allon Off TO 600. The only occupations OF tn
~ inhabitants are shooting and fishing, their foo
y consists almost exclusively Of fish, for the annua
income Of any one rarely exceeds S4, for whic
~ not oven 40 pounds of -four can be bought, o
40 -, fhe western coast things arc even worse. tt
S y mortality In these parts is even greater than
~ ~' the east. on the Commodore Islands, howeve
., which are separated by distance Of less than q
a. miles from Kamlchatka, the population is -four
M ishng again under the benevolent supervision
OF an American firm.
60 DURING q small thunder shower the othC
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