National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-21

-NeW York Journal.
L. v. ASHTON, Bostonian, who died at
Tunbridge Wells, England, on Jan. "a, lefl over
5000 900 to various charitable associations in his
native city, though he had not lived there for
years.
AN English judge lately refused the OK
penses OF three tiadesmen who prosecuted men
for stealing goods from their shop doors on the
ground that by exposing their goods in the way
mentioned they held out temptation to steal.
WALKING yesterday along the Rue do
Sevres" writes a lady from Paris to the London
Truth, II saw the following delightful announce.
ment painted OH the side of porte cochere:
Nine. Zenobie c., third story, lets out teeth for
evening parties and balls"
81 HAVE more trouble than any living man,
or dead one, for that matter" "whats wrong
now p inquired friend "why you see, about
two months ago was trying to put a note in
bank" Yes" "well, now I am trying to take
1t out. Just why there should be trouble at both
ends ofsuch an affair don't understand"
WILLIAM KING, upon being converted in
Methodist revival meeting In Caldwell. KY, arose
and confessed that he had robbed store in 1858
Of $500 worth OF goods. He went to the proprie-
tor the next day and paid the amount with
twenty years interest. but was Immediately ar
rested for the theft, and now languishes in Jail.
KING HUMBERT has directed that here
after. at state banquets and court dinners, Italian
wines with the exception of champagne, shall be
served. instead of foreign. Hisexample has been
Immediately followed by the e1-Khedive Ismail
Pasha, who gave a dinner party at his villa In
Rome two weeks ago, where only Italian wines
were served.
RATHER a curious and sensational state
ment is made TO the effect that book Is being
prepared in New York which will adduce proof
that Queen Victoria was secretly married to John
Brown In a reasonable length of time after the
death OF the royal consort. The documentary
evidence compiled will show, 1t il averred, that
Disrael discovered the fact and used 1t TO his ad-
vantage In securing promotion.
In the island of San Domingo there is a
remarkable salt mountain, q mass of crystalline
salt nearly four miles long estimated to contain
s9337 900 tons, and so clear that type can be read
through block n foot thick. The mountain
biologists say, was once plain at the bottom Of
the sea, and, as the island rose from the ocean,
this plain formed the bottom Of a shallow lagoon,
where the salt was deposited.
KLEIN induced McCue to drink three pints
of whisky on q wager at San Antonio. Texas,
The feat proved fatal. McCue's widow sued Klein
for damages, and got verdict OF $1,000 On APP
peal the supreme court confirms the jury's con.
clusion. The ruling was that, as the drinker was
time of swallowing the third and killing pint,
the man who made him do it was responsible.
MUCH sensation has been caused at Vienna
among the lower classes by some alleged super
natural occurrences. In a house in q western
suburb the furniture flies about, china Is broken,
pictures drop from the walls. tables fall aud
lamps are broken, all by unseen agency. The
police have interfered three times. and as the &C.
currences have been repeated, the family has
gone elsewhere, and the lodging has been locked
up and sealed.
WEST END gentleman, who is occupying
his elegant leisure In wasting a handsome fortune
and leading his son into ways as vicious as his
own, recently suggested to his wife the necessity
of retrenchment I'VE might rent one of our
rooms" he said. at wouldn't be difficult to find
| somebody who would be out a good deal, and
there Is no need for the neighbors to know any
thing about It," "If we are going to rent room"
| his spouse returned with cutting emphasis, "what
do you say to letting 1t to amilkmanY He wouldn't
trouble you at all. for he'd 20 out In the morning.
| before you and Harry come I'M"
THE London bankruptcy court is occupied
with the affairs of Lord Huntingtower, who has
| been many years dead. His father died five years
| ago. leaving an enormous fortune In trust, to be
applied among other uses, to the discharge Of his
sons debts. Most Of the creditors have died. and
| there is great difficulty In proving debts, the
transactions going back In some cases nearly fifty
years. Lords HIS father LEFT each Of Lord HIS
daughters 100000, One is married to young
man named Scott, whose grandfather kept shop
in Dumfries, and who was q few years ago
brokers' clerk In Wall street.
GEORGIA is just now interested in two most
peculiar personages. One Ia u living skeleton re-
| siding near Keno, Habershaw county. He 10 q
years of age. 10 fully six feet in height and only
weighs flfty. ak hounds In his clothes The other
| cratic individual lives in one OF the upper
counties of the state and always feels If he was
in the frigid instead of the temperate zone. Even
| in the hottest days OF summer he wears all the
clothing possible to protect him from the imagined
cold He was never wet by q rain in his life, and
never goes out at night without shelterng him
| self with an umbrella from dew. No part OF his
food is ever eaten cold, and he often remarks that
II Is all he can do to keep himself from freezing.
He Is always seen on the streets clad in a heavy
| overcoat.
| SIR WALTER SCOTT made more money out
| of his literary work than any author who has
ever lived. He received $500 for "Waverly," and
| for the succeeding eleven novels he was paid
| $3.50 900. Then he wrote other novels at from
$4,000 70 $4,000 each. His Life OF Napoleon
brought him 100000 After these figures 1t will be
interesting to refer TO other successful novelsts.
Miss Burney was paid 500 for "Evelina," $4,000
| for "Cecillia," and $4,000 for Camilla" Mrs.
| Trollope received 81 900 for her work on America,
and for the next twenty years made 5000 per
annum writing novels. Dumas's FIRST novel
| brought him nothing and left him out OF pocket
$50, but he afterward made immense sums spend
Ing his money however before he received 1t.
Bulwer made 100000 from his novels, Dickens
about 100000 Beaconsaeld $3.50, 900, and Thackery
about S26lo00