National Republican., 1884-06-16


MELON brandy is tho newest drink. Ii
was discovered by Frenohman, aud is said to bd
potent and seductive liquid, little stronger
than applcjaok.
THERE is said to be rage among English
ladies for violin playing which prompts an Eng.
lish punster to remark that they are Bow Bellies"
healthy American cowboy could mako more
fun than that
THERE is ut present q great dearth of
Protestant theologans in Germany. Very few
young men choose the church as profession, and
according to recent account, the pulpis Of sev.'
eral country parishes are vacant literally for want
of pastor.
The bishop Of Lincoln England, is a cheer
full and unprejudiced old gentleman He said re-
Gently that England has been punished by the
Lord with bad harvests for the past iow years be-
cause some people have been trying to legalize
marriage with deceased wlfe's sister
IN the course of last year the German
LiIeboat society saved 277 lives, the rescued per-
sons belonging to forty-seven German vessels,
aud TO five English, four Dutch, four Swedish,
three Danish, ana two Russian ships. The society
supports eighty seven liieboat stations.
A SIGN of tho impecunious times in LON
don is the substitution at the clubs of a nip Of
whisky for cents IN lieu of sherry and bitters
for IL. The receipts for wine and liquors In
most clubs have, by reason Of blue rbbonism
going hand in hand with hard times, sensibly
decreased.
THE coyote, or prairie wolf, is making
depredations upon the sheep in some parts Of
California. Recently flock in the Berryessa
valley was attacked at night by the snealing
brutes and pursued toward Il high bluff III leap
Ing over the ledge of the steep place less than
eighty sheep aud lambs were dashed to death.
IT IS said that only one small heard of
bu1al6es remains in Texas This has been feed
ing on the Pecos river in the staked plains region,
but band of hunters Is lowering about II con-
tinually, killing the animals as fast as the meat
can DO cared for, and Its days are numbered. This
is the remnant of what was known few years
ago as "the great southern herd"
A YOUNG lady who has been visiting
Modoc county, CAL, found the inhabitants very
generous. She says that they offered her half
interest in q saw mill, a barber shop, printing
office, gentleman horse and livery stable re-
spectively, to say nothing Of the offer OF two or
three saloons ranches, and bands of cattle, II she
would remain there permanently.
The latest novelty in church entertain-
ments has struck Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 1t is an
evening of cradle songs, in which the different
customs of nations in singing their babies to sleep
will be told in song and illustrated in pantomime
Each representative mother and child will be in
the costume of the country, and the lullaby will
| be sung in the native language.
| GEN. JOHN B. GORDON ono of the few men
ever known to resign willingly a in the United
| States senate, has become a regular optimist in
regard to the future of the man and brother.
Said Gordon in New York yesterday "The negro
is to-day the most fayorably crcumstanced, tho
| best fed, and the most independent laborer to be
found, not only in this country but in the civil
lied world"
THERE are 10000 producing oil wells in
Pennsylvania, yielding at present 200 barrels OF
oil day. 1t requires 5000 miles of pipe line and
1000 iron tanks ol an average capacity OF 5000
barrels each to transport and store the oil and
surplus stocks. There are now nearly 3s,0OOGOO
barrels Of oil stored in the region in tanks. This
oil would make a lake more than one mile square
and ten feet deep.
WALLA WALLA, Washington territory, has
a municipal ordinance, which is strictly enforced.
prohibiting any boy or girl who is under fourteen
years of age from being out alone after dark.
| child sent for u physician must be given permit
to do No tobacconist can sell tobacco cigar
cites to children less than fourteen years of Hge
and Sunday liquor selling is punished by s2S fine
| for each oifense
No STEEL rails were imported into the
United States during March, and only 7,0l0 tons
during the nine mouths ending with March,
| against l05,l2S tons imported during the corre-
spending nine months of 1883. OF iron rails.
81 tons were imported in March, 1854, 1i3 tons in
March, 1898, 5S7 tons in nine months ending with
March, 1884, aud 5,2l5 tons in the nine months
ending with March, 1883.
THE late Comte d. Jacksonville, French
academlcian and senator. won u great reputation
for courage in 1870, during the siege of Paris,
when he patrioLically mounted guard upon the
ramparts He never ducked his head or threw
himself PROSTATE when shot shell whistled by
or exploded near. I'll est etonnant" his COM
rades used to say. The simple explanation of his
seeming heTolsm was that he was stone-deaf
WILHELM AcHTERMANN, the German
sculptor who died in Rome recently, was IS years
old. He was field laborer up to his thirt ieth
year, but having some talent for wood carving he
determined to become Il sculptor He went to
Berlin, where his abilities were soon recognized
by Rauch, whose pupil he became In 1889 Ach.
termann removed 10 Rome, where he resided ever
since, identifying himself with religious art. The
church of San Trinitate al Monte at Rome pos
sesses his Pleta considered one of the most re.
markable creations of modern sculpture
InlMIaRANTs after coming to Arkansas are
soon naturaized. The other day on railway
train an Irshman stopped the conductor and
asked, "Phat toim do yez sit inter Little Rock?"
$3.50" Cant yez pull out an git in hal ( hour
earier?" "No. Is your business very urgent?"
"Yis av yez place" do you live therel" "No,
niyer was there. Me brother does Pm Just from
| lfelhnu, tnuu why uIo you hO utslTOub Oh tI-
riving there by o'olock" "Wall, yez see, sor.
there is a Election there to-day, an l want to git
there in toim to vote before the polls closes"--
arkansas Traueiler.
A HENRY CLAY whig gave tho boys at
Chicago this story: "Iu 1874 my next door neigh
Dor aud myself slipped iuto the postotlice ON the
night tho mail WAS to bring the decisive news,
As the stage came numbering up, my friend, who
was the postmaster became so nervous he had TO
sit down, and when the mail bag was carried in
we were so excited we couldn't unlock IT, Afler a
struggle of ten minutes wo got the sack open,
and learned that Clay was defeated We blew
the candle out and sat there in darkness until
morning. Then we crept home, and both were
D sick for a month"
l AN English scientist had an American
mosquito under the microscope, ana finds II TO be
thoroughly equipped surgeon In Its bill there ara
five instruments, alance, two meetsaws, a suction
pump, and u small steam engine. II appears that
. when "skeoter" settles down to his work upon a
nice tender portion OF the human frame the lance
Is first pushed into the flesh, the two saws, placed
back to back, begin to work up and down to en-
large the hole, then the pump is inserted and tho
victims blood is siphonad up to the reservoirs
carried behind, and finally to complete the
cruelty Of the performance, the wretch drops a
quantity of poison Into the wound to keen II rri.
, tated Then the diminuuyo hend takes fly
l. around just to digest your gore and makes tracks