National Republican., 1885-01-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

now ouZVyOi showing an increase of % per
cent. in fifteen years.
He jests at roller skates who never
felt a philadelphia CdA lie tests tho
less If he gets up and feels rising lump.
COMMISSIONER LoRING being asked II,
he rs Il Boston man was an exponent in WASH
ington of "culturc," wittlly replied, mo Of
agriculture"
Nor long ago western paper had an
account of wedding In one column, and Of
n divorce In the next column. The heading
of the first column was "Tho Tie that Binds"
and Of the second, "The Yoke that Calls"
Mr.. john LANaDoN SIBLEY for thirty
years librarian mt Harvard College, has just
completed the s0th year Of life and the third
volume OF his biographical memoranda Of IIar-
ward graduates. His health is now failing.
THERE'S tho very deuce of row being
raised by the medical journals at home and
abroad about adulteration of drugs II this
goes on no doctor can be sure that his skill
will have any chance with the druggists kill.
THERE Is regular telephone line now,
from New York TO Boston, but the line doesn't
pay very big dividends. The New York gram
mar sent over the lines shocks the Boston
end so that most of the receipts 20 for repairs
to the receivers.
BoUcIcAULT says that he mover goes
into dry.goods store where handsome girls
are employed as forms on which to display
garments without realizing that they are bet
ter actresses in the matter of beauty, style,
and grace, than those whom he finds on the
stage.
THE British admiralty has sold 81 900
ounces Of silver plate, and IN future COM
manding officers will draw for their personal
use clectro.plate instead of silver. The reason
assigned Is, that since the improvements Of
late years In electro. plating, tho officers prefer
| 1t to silver.
THE collection of Christopher Dennison
which has cost him upward of a 81 100000,
and which includedmany specimens from the
Duke of Hamiltons sale, having purchased
Rubonss "Daniel in the Lions Den" at that
time for $4,000, will be sold in June next at
Chrlstie's auction rooms in London
THE senatorial candidate dictated n
telegram to member of the legislature: "1f
| you vote for me / will not forget the obliga-
ton." "How many words is that7" ELEVEN"
said the private secretary. well, you know
what mean. Boil 1t down to ten words"
Tho private secretary struck out the word
| mot"
SOME strolling actors were once playing
| Macbeth in q country town. Their prop
critics were not kept in n very systematic order,
for when the hero of Shakspeare's drama ex-
claimed, "Is that q dagger that 1 sec before
me7' a shrill voice responded from the "hies,"
mo, sir it's the putty knife The dagger is
lost"
''How Is 1T you never married, Char
le?" "oh, don't know, except remained
single from choice" "why heard you tried
to get that Podgklns girl a year or two ago."
eyes, did ask her to marry me-" "And sho
would not have you" "Thats about the size
of II. So ! remained single from choice-her
choice you know"
THE sea coast of California has been
visited this season by several varieties of birds
which have never before been known TO leave
the mountains This has generally been sup
posed to indicate severe winter, but accord
ing to science, tho migration is more probably
due to the prevailing scarcity of all kinds of
seeds in the mountains this season.
A HOTEL Is to bo built in Pittsburg
seven stories high, with the kitchen on the top
floor and an electric fire-escape In every room.
| The escape Is to be operated from the office.
BY touching a button there the guests are
simultaneously aroused, every window thrown
open, and flexible ladder loosened that
reaches to the ground.
CLAY BELMONT, the infant son of Fred
W. Clarke, of San Francisco, is curiously
blessed with seven grandmothers, or being tho
grandson of seven women Two of them are
great great-grandmothers three great.grand.
mothers, and two plain, simple grandmothers.
Six of these singularly fortunate grandparents
live in San Francisco, and the seventh lives in
Cambridge, Mass.
PIERRE LoRILLARD's experiment Of
Introducing English pheasants and partridgea
L.. !. .sa Ial.@N q -
resulted so satisfactorily that he has been in
duced to order large consignment OF these
birds, 1t will consist of 100 pairs of English
partrdgcs and fifty pairs of English pheasants.
Besides the birds there will be herd of ten
roe deer and twenty-five pairs of English hares.
THE annual revenues of the govern
ment Of Great Britain arc e2lOOOO,OO0, OF
which sum the royal family draws 1887 900.
Those OF Russia are el06000,00O. of which tho
czar spends on himself and family f2i50,000,
while the Prince of Montenegro takes n cool 7
per cent. of the meager revenues of his prin-
cipality, despite the fact that he has another
source of revenue yielding him e7s,OOO per
annum.
ALTno UGH Prince Albert Victor of
Wales will enter as n studentIlt the inner
temple he will not go through any of the ex-
aminations necessary previous to a call to the
bar. II Is intended that after leaving Cam
bridge University his royal highness shall re-
ceive commission in the Grenadler Guards.
He will perform the ordinary duties of an ofh.
Ger, and, at the Prince of Waless request he
will be treated In exactly the same manner as
any officer Of his rank
ENGINE 165, on the Philadelphia and
7 Reading railroad, has run three years without
being Off her wheels or costing anything for
repair. Her mileage in that time Is 10000,
but this includes only tho distance between
stations, not that Travelled in going to and from
J the round house. Moreover, the work done by
the engine is exceptionally heavy 1t driving
a train of four cars at very high speed be-
tween New York and Philadelphia.
NEAR the mouth Of the Sutro tunnel, in
Nevada, there Is a small lake, the water In
which is kept continuously warm by the hot
water which flows into 1t from the mines Re-
Gently the mine superintendent sent to Florida
and procured two healthy alligators. When
they arrived the temperature of the place was
100 below zero and the alligators were barely
alive. Upon being put into the warm lake
r however, they revived, and are now growing
rapidly
1 GEORGE G GARDNER, Of Boston, left his
: widow an annuity of 100 troy ounces Of pure
gold, which was her weight at the time the
will was made. "a troy ounce Of pure gold"
says an expert, sis worth S20.67 and fraction
of u cent. That would mako her annuity
; amount to about S2i 600. One pound troy OF
pure gold is worth s2iS.06 2-l0. One pound
0 ayolrdupois is worth s3Ol.46 4-l0. One pound
I troy of standard gold is worth s223,25 5s-lOO.
one pound avoirdupoIs is worth s27l3l 7s.lOO.
r A ton of standard gold is worth about s5OO,OOO.
! THE latest English fancy isa Japanese
!. village, which is being set up in London, all
, the materials being brought from Japan. 1t
is built by japanese carpenters, and when
1 finished, every art and industry OF Japan Will
.l.ll nLaA