National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
ODDS AND ENDS.


held my peace and wrote this rhyme,
While they thought no one knew IT,
-Frtncciontdn.
THERE arc $50 German officers domi-
ciled at Weisbaden.
srRrNGBoK meat from South Africa has
been successfully introduced into England.
AN underground stream flows beneath
the city Of Birmingham, Ala. IL Is to be used
for a sewer.
The Americans spend S30,000,00o .
year for photographs. The bill for looking
glasses Is not yet In
MANY beautiful and hitherto unknown
colors have been obtained by tho chemical
treatment Of coal tar.
SANDWICHES are great staple in LON
don. Forty thousand men are said to be daily
engaged vending them.
BosToN Agricultural editor says that
the best way TO preserve peaches is to keep a
bull dog in the orchard
LAW is actually under consideration
IN London TO provide each policeman with a
big dog as u companion and assistant
MR.. CHAMBERLAIN thinks the Wiscon-
sin man of tho near future is to be almost
German, while the New Englander will be ct
least half an Irishman.
AT tho recent republican gathering al
Strong, Me-, 1t is reported that cx-vice Presi.
dent Hamlin STOOD erect as maple sapling
in clawhammer coat"
SAM SMALL, Of Atlanta, Ga, boasts of
having more than eighty scrap-books covering
thu political history of men and events in
Georgia for forty years past
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Russians in Harlem.
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or a oo,r,o,an', =. ,,,us. .''n n, '" 'ne sa'e
inter,,or, ,vos 40 ,ata ,,aoa a,s ~, 800
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delivery of the works or Ios d,Gnron, ou,hnrs
native and foreign. To libraries and nublic
J. reading roous has hoo, s,r,ctIv nrohihi,ad
as well as of eight Rnsslon ncyyspano,s ana
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uEoRGE AUGUSTUS SALA says he has
written ooo ., uaI 0 p a'iu nas
writer or lead,,n ort,oins n hoot, ro,,,a,'as
dramatic ana art critic ana a ,vri,oro s oonnrai
| london oossin
ihE COOK ana Ho"semdd IS the name Oh
new periodlcal started In Berlin. It's TO DO
tain Glasses of domestics md lts main object
| will be to abate the tyranny of masters and
| mistresses.
| or,
,, u ,no sMonsy wv nos' so'l iau,eS
~, oi wv pi''nHa VI IN isio U, ohon's no
s, a W. 20 y. sp,o'av,e' anu
intellectualitv Of the place IL eonscouentlv
most pronounced.
| n, 80. .,,
ioi.oiiy
s awa!' 70 nom in,Neu WIN ilhseeu gum
nu uaouou into neaus anu mower pieces ior
,a ,'a,',o,ss y. VI .u,ni'c. "nui uieu
anu narn,s as ~ as handsome ana mucn
lHE keystone watch case factory OF
fhiiaoeiphia, III which George w. Childs is
special partner turns out ooo watch cases every
uay. AS Huch rs so'oVo IN goiu com ana sl,oU
III SILVER puinoh arc meited Gown every WORK
ing uay; ms es'aDiishnncht In the largest OF
'he hinu III the world
IT is stated that over $4,000 Italians
go s"eu noh Nom iorh 10 re'urI 70 tneir
I'M s, eno pa1s ,n'eo "eehh'
~, Ill" " .' ou"s ahu 'no
a,a IT, Ia. .,,. 'no , oue Vi BUSINESS,
hatroa =, go 80 .ie Do'oine oU'o''S VI
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| WHEN it rains in Mexico il pours. At
Pachuca number of men were passing n
bridge when n storm began One of them ran
under the bridge for shelter The river rose
so quickly that he could not escape, and was
smsp. uonn 'he stream many miles, being
0A Wv ''e'' ".lN ''''.e''
fEGGEKLIT, Island OF Mois, Denmark,
is Tor sale, ana the present owner guarantees
that the estate was the birthplace "of that re-
markable young man Hamlet" and that on 1t
IL NIL with the grave OF King Fegge, who
was the Identical individual slain by the young
prince TO ayenge the most foul murder OF his
father''
SCHOOLS of voracious bluefish have
driven the mackerel along the coast of Connec-
ticut out TO sea. Bluefish are plentiful at Block
nlhhu, put they WIN not plte' Boat Loads OF
unn5.aaa 80 s, n,io pU u, ~ Me,sn. apiese'
| aa Va s"1,'' Nv niooA iAiiiiiu huh1 the
20" uaI', anu oiu po"'iheii hay 'ha' tiie paSs-
is ~ many uoa's a'Ioss 'he water irig htens
t"0 N'Ai ~ 'ia' 'heS ~ W 'he oo''oih una suik'
THE big woods of Minnesota cover 900
square miles, or 100000 acres of Surface.
These woods contain only hardwood prowths
including white and black oak, maple. hickory
Eastwood. elm, cottonwood, tamyraok. and
enough other varieties to make an aggregate
of over thirty different kinds. The hardwood
tract extends In belt across the middle of the
state' ana surrounding its northeastern corner