National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-18


OF 1900 members Of the New York stock
exchange it is estimated 800 are not worth $500
aud have morgaged their memberships, which
| are worth $4,000.
Ex-PREsrDENT WILLARD, of the Northern
Pacific is said by those who have seen him lately,
to be looking badly. He still suffers from nervous
prostrauon and insomnia.
RUSSIA, which has an area In Europe two
| thirds rs large US the whole United States with
population Of more than 7o0)0 900, lies almost en-
| tirely north Of the latitude Of st. Paul.
The bank Of England has floating balance
Of Sl0o,0o0,OOO, and the bank notes, II stretched
together ond to end, would reach distance Of
| 1880 miles. The Egyptian war will use up few
miles of this money,
THE khedive Of Egypt may not be fitted
| with much Of q conscience, but he seems TO have
| a sort of instructive sense of his deserts. He
thinks there is plot on foot to poison him, and
he sends his wife into the kitchen daily to in-
spect his food.
AN eccentric old man in New Hampshire
surprised his neghbors and friends tho other day
by shouldering his gun aud starting for the woods
on the morning OF his wifo's funeral. On being
urged to come back he refused, saying, "sho
warn't no blood relation Of NINE"
UNDOUBTEDLY the most complete game Of
poker record Is the one recently played by
| Willis Kssee and Jack Kellogg at Gunnison. Col
| Each held three of kind, each reached for tho
stakes, each promptly pulled out pistol because
the other reached, both fred and both fell dead.
SOMETHING over 100000 has been raised in
Philadelphia Of the quarter million deemed neces-
sary for the establishment OF q free public library
a long felt want in that city. The movement has
been on foot two years, and these subscriptions
are contingent upon the raising OF the FIRST $780,,
! OJ0
A NEGRO girl ut Marcus, in Jackson county,
Georgia. has curious deiormity In the way Of
four feet on two extremites the two feet on each
leg intersecting or crossing each other Shoes
almost in the shape OF cross are made for her
feet She has twenty perfect toes aud four distinct
heels.
The permanent part of Montreal ends at
high water mark. Below that point the oonstruc-
ton is such that the entire area may be swept
| with impunity, and after the food IL over the
piers quite serviceable as they were before.
Some OF our western city builders might take q
hint from this
THE product of South Carolina cotton mills,
valued in gold was III 1860 S71S 059; in 1870 81 274-
9i4 in 1880, 2S95,769 IL 1885, Si, S796S, l9s The
percentage ofincrease rs per cent. for 1ss0-70,
1877 per cent. for lS70'S0, and 175 per cent for
lsso-'s4. The lumber product in 1880 was worth
S2,o3l,5 O7; in 1884, s5,592.565.
IN the northeastern island Of Terra del
Fuego the Ia people who intermarry frequently
with the more southern Yahgans as they are
called by tho English missionaries, the tallest
race on the globe. according to the French mis-
sion to Cape Horn report presented to the acad-
envy of sciences Paris, by DR.. Huhn. In stock
and speech this tall people appear closely related
to the Patagonians Of the continent
A FORTUNE TELLER told King Victor
Emmanuel, while he was yet a bit of boy, that he
| II n In In nj alaaa in inc,
laughed heartily at this apparently absurd
prophecy, but did not forget 1t. and himself re-
lated the anecdote in 1852 to the Duke Ponza di
s. MARITIME. In the year 1870, when he sent the
duke to Rome with his letter to Plus *, he said.
significantly; "You remember that you 60 70
Rome to prepare for me the chamber in which
must die"
PROBABLY the smallest and most unique
postofiice in the world is barrel, which swings
from the outermost rock of the mountains over
hanging the Straits Of Magellan. opposite Terra
del Fuego. Every passing ship opens 1t to place
letters IN 1t or take them out, Every ship under
takes to forward all letters in 1t that is possible
Tor 1t TO transmit. Tho barrel hangs by its iron
chain. beaten and battered by the winds and
storms. but no locked or barred office on land is
more secure.
STYLISH dressed couple called on the
mayor of Jersey City the other day to be married.
After the business was done the bridegroom said
, they were from Italy, and that he was Count
Francisco st. Angelo and the bride a peasant girl
whom he found working in his vineyard as a
common laborer. He fell desperately In love with
her, but his relations were so aristocratic that
they would never hear Of his marrying her, SO he
just bundled herup and brought her to the land
Of the free and made her his lawful wife.
HUGE crystal throne has just been manu-
featured in England for an Indian rajah. Some
| nf m wi has
been employed in the construction may be gained
ftom the fact that the lnial Of the legs are each
cut into 1874 mathematcally accurate facets. Wood
, and iron are used TO some extent to make the
throne substantial but all such parts are covered
} with glass and hidden. The cushions and hang
! inSs are Of crimson velvet and altogether tho
rajah is destined to possess gorgeous and proba.
bly, very uncomfortable seat.
THE discovery of tin in North Carolina was
I made in sine nlpr manner, Among the minerals
exhibited at the Boston exposition from that State
was lump of orc marked unknown" II was
analysed by an Rssayist and found to contain rs
, per cent Of tin, the richest ever known. The
specimen came from Kings Mountain, and while
( the vein has not been discovered, from the guam.
tlty of ore lying around loose scientists are sure
the metal exists In great quantities. There are
only three tin bearing mines in the world. and 1t
is II there is a Standing offer of $4,000 for the
J discovery OF one in the United atatos.
THE latest estimates place the population of
the globe at 1883 900, indicating decrease In
the last three years Of some % 100000 though as
? matter fact there has been au actual increase
of some 100000. This apparent discrepancy is
accounted for by the fact that the population Of
China has heretofore been largely oyerestimated.
In reference to our own country the statistics
. show that no country in the history Of the world
a ever had such composite population as ours.
} The white natives and the emigrants from Ger
many and Great Britain make up SO per cent OF
our population, leaving but cent from other
Q countries, and from white races OF other types,
h and 10 per cent. for those of African descent
y A PARTY of prospectors, while ploddinR
It along in the bottom Of the Grand canon, in Ari.
S zona at depth Of 1lS feet below the first level
they came upon an imprint in the rock denotne
bare foot with toes, instep, and heel plain and
unmistakable. 1t measured twenty-sx inches In
length and twelve in width. The average depth
i Of the imprint is four inches, while at the bali Of
n the foot 1t is six inches. These imprlnts appear
It along the narrow passagewaY for some distance
h and they are distinctly and evenly eighteen feel
apart, showing tho great distance the monster
with the human foot could make at single step
d An Indian with the party, when he came upon
Il the tracks remarked big Father here hear
d years gone" The gentlemen making tho dis.