National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-03-14
MARY is tho most common of all names

Fathers are fathers and dogs are dogs.
Boston Courier.
MARY is tho most common OF all names
in England, there being $50 out OF every
$1,000 individuals answering to ii. william
comes next, with'6,59O.
AT recent London auction q rare
orchid plant was bid of at 1856. The plant
had seven flower spikes, the blooms being
snowy white without the least shade or tint
WHEN Shakespeare and Milton wrote
only five or six million people spoke the Eng
fish language. The number of English-speak-
ing people nowis 10O,oOO,OOO over one-half Of
whom live in the United States.
IN Apologize creek, southern Oregon.
q stage coach was upset the other day by
rush of salmon. The horses were cut loose.
and the driver escaped on their backs The
salmon crowded the river from bank TO bank,
aud the school was over mile long.
PECULIAR tests have been made on tho
limits of hearing Recent results were ar
rived at by using powerful metal stem, actu.
ated by steam. The vibrations reached 1000
per minute, which proved to DO the highest or
rather faintest sound that could be heard
Ina Trenton store. window there is on
exhibition revenue stamp of the 5000 de-
nomination. According to an inscription on
the frame 1t is 1.-THE largest and highest value
adhesive stamp ever issued by any govern
ment in the world" It's size is 41sr234 inches.
In excavating at Canterbury recently
there were found skulls of oxen which, from
peculiar curvature of the horns are said 10 be
those of the ancient British OK. This species
formed the chief meat supply of the early Brit
ons, but disappeared about the time of the
Saxon invasion.
JUDGE GREEN. the chief justice of
| Washington territory said, in recent charge
to grand jury Twelve terms of court have
now held in which women have served aa
| grand and petit Jurors, and 1t is certainly a
fact beyond dispute that no other twelve
terms SO salutary for restraint Of crime have
ever been known in this territory.
HENRY JONES, farmer, residing near
Waynesboro', Ca, suffered great annoyance
by the invasion OF his pea fields by crows.
Recently he packed some peas with dynamite
and scattered them in the field. One Of the
birds which had taken the bait exploded as IL
roso In the air. Since then not crow has
been seen on the place.
The Salvation Army people and other
eccentric exhorters can get grain Of comfort
| from decision just rendered In the supreme
court in Brooklyn, n. Y. Judge Bartlett holds
that the fact of "A mans praying on the sidewalk
and in liquor saloons is not proof that he is
insane. II is safe to say that the decision will
be affirmed on appeal.
IT has been discovered, says the Paper
World, that In order to get the benefit of the
low rate of postage in the United States,
Canadian merchants and manufacturers who
have a very large correspondence send their
letters in large bundles by express to the near
est poStotiice in the United States where they
are mailed ut 2.cent letter rate, whereas they
would have to pay cents If mailed in Canada.
HENRY T. KEENAN, is said to be the
author of 1.-THE Money Makers" OF the char
acters "Horatio Blackaw'' is said TO be White.
law Reid; "Gen. Ajax" Gen. Grant; Gen.
Archer" President Arthur; the "Castors' and
the "Stalendykes," the Astors and the Wander
bilts; "Archibalk Hiliard," Col John Hay. and
aaron Grimstone," Amasa Stone, Hays
father-in-law, the Cleveland millionaire who
committed suicide.
The Chinese take their history back to
the time of Noah. The empire has borne in
its time many names, for it was a custom
when a new dynasty assembled the throne tC
give another name TO the empire, as Hatque
Chum-que, Han-que, &o., according TO the
name of the ruling monarch. The true name
is said 10 DO Chum-que. ''the center kingdom
of the world" This term was by usage cor
rupted TO Chin-que, and from this word this
Portuguese gave 1t the name of China.
AN interesting estimate Of the amount
in weight of one inch of rainfall on one acre
of ground Is thus given: An acred Of ground
contains 6,272,6iO inches square. Rain one
inch deep would give that many SQUARE
inches l,72S cubic inches make one cubi'
foot Rain one inch deep would give $685.
cubic feet. cubic foot of water weighs 62ls
pounds 1000 make ton. This will give 220, 81
pounds, or ll3 tons and S75 pounds to the acre
, OF rain one inch deep.
In Caracas, Venezuela, there stands q
: heroic figure in bronze having no inscription
upon the pedestal but the name washing
ton" 1t was erected to celebrate the centen
= airy of simon Bolivar's birth, and its dedica
/ ton was accompanied by a ceremony which
! has never been equaled in magnitcence OF
7 that continent. There are shops and stores
. hotels and streets in Caracas named afte
Washington, and his memory is reyerencet
: there as much as at home.
. Mr.. WHISTLER, the eminent painter,
Q carries his theories of art out so faithfully as Il
5 have no discords even in his menu Says q
81. Steph as ReuiclO writer: ~ once break
tasted with him. The potted shrimp was al
i inspiration in coral pink and white; the curr
I u concoctlon in sepia and white; the omelett
: was an Ola podridd in chrome and yellow
$ and the hot cakes and bread arrangements Il
= rich brown, The wine was ofa high ambe
o color and gurgled from globes Of Venetial
: glass of a darker tint
ONE Of the strsngest peoples with
whom the missionary has to do arc the Fala
shas of Ethiopia. They are black Hebrews
about BOO 600 In number living west OF Jordan
' who have as their holy writings the Old Tests
) ment in an Ethiopic version, and who still
n rigldly adhere TO the Mosaic ceremonies AM
& laws They are the children OF Hebrew imm
j. grants, who, In the time Of the great disDeE
II sion settled in Abyssinia and marie
wives of that ,naton-a thing not strange, a
i the Ethopans are Semitic in nationality AM
language.
The ex-khedive of Egypt, while in tn
height of his power, was visited by the el
Empress Eugene. He showed her all Ii
II sights but there was one sight sho wanted
d see, namely, an Arab marriage. "You sha
10 see 1t, madam" he said and forthwith d
Ne rected one of the ladies of his harem to
10 brought out, and to be presented to his aiC
ID decamp, Tho unfortunate officer, who WI
r as much M Euglishman as an Egyptian an
- whose dream had been 10 marry European
had no escape,