National Republican., 1875-12-04
EDITORIAL AFrERrHoUaHr.

EDITORIAL AFTERTH0UGHT.
Judging from the men who held the stakes
there were great many drinks bet on the
Speakership yesterday.
A lady of Richmond has written 10 Professor
Tice, requesting him to pay her a visit. She
has two pokers and fiat iron in the front room
waiting for him. He prophesied pleasant
weather during the first half of December, and
the lady, taking him at his word, left her
choice plants out doors, and the Frost King
took charge of them.
The Minnesota women look as smiling as a
boy with iumping-jack. They can vote on
all the school questions and everything per-
tanning to the management Of the schools.
\ Professor Anybody and Trustee Somebody and
Officers Everybody dare not even pass an
| opinion on the fall stylesfor fear of wounding
| the feelings of their fair constituency.
The fact that Henry Wilson's brain weighed
more than the average gives rise to the re-
| newed statement that weight of brain deter
mines PERSONS ability. A London cartman
had the heaviest brain ever weighed. Quail
ity: not quantity, gives greatness.-HerGld.
The which is-a fact. Mix, of the Island, has
head large enough for fifty ounces of brains,
yet he has not sense enough to talk back to
his mother-in.law.
The school season in the West has opened
with much briskness. A small boy poked an
other small boy in the eye with a paper pei
let, and the school ma'am in attempting to
walk him up to the rostrum by his ear was
suddenly Drained with poker by the little
fend. School teachers after few more such
unfortunate occurrences will learn not to in
terfere with the paper-wad enterprises of their
pupils.
1t is said that in the main building every
man, woman and child in the great State of
Pennsylvania could be supplied with standing
room, and good-sized corner left for the en-
tire population of the State of Maryland.
Then q person can walk over one hundred
miles in machinery hall, without going over
the same spot twice. Taking all the build
ings, a visitor to the Exposition can walk over
five hundred miles and not go over the same
ground second time. The girl out West
with four legs will have the advantage in get
ting about those buildings.
Slippery notes-Seventeen pullbacks were
broken last night on the Avenue alone Each
female as she went down spoke particularly
about "thunder."-The man who rushed out of
Willard's last night and dashed his coat-tails
on to the pavement and brought up on the
rough edge of the curbing cried, "Kerr sit,"
and Immediately took the Speakers-hip into
his own hands, got up and disappeared in the
gloom.-As old Mrs. Mix with her market
basket sat suddenly down on the bricks in
front of this Office last evening boot-black
shouted, "Take Kerr-age, ole woman, and
get up in the morning to hear the Cox crow"
The bears failed to put in an appearance, and
one more citizen is left to help pay off the
national debt.-The thermometer said almost
o yesterday.-Many Cox of the walk yester-
day slipped up on an-ice little game and
come down Kerr-chunk for Randall, all of
which can be traced to the fact of its being
Morricy than usual.-She tripped along gaily
and nicely and well, then slipped on the pave
ment and suddenly fell; man who stood by
hastened quick at her call, and lifting her
promptly cried "Ah, did you tall?" "Did 1 fall,
you great goose, and isn't it plain that fell
and have busted that pullback againl"
He had journeyed all the way from North
Carolina and entered the political atmosphere
of Washington for the first time in his life.
He was q newspaper man, and as nervous q
little journalist as you have ever seen we dare
say, and being nervous and Democrat, he was
naturally lively as June bug on a warm
pavement. He moved strictly within the cir
Gle which is bound by the walls of the Willard
lobby, and seemed content with these con-
fines. He arrived here with the idea that he
knew much about politics, but his tongue be-
came silent in the busy hum of the converse
tion of great men who filed the place, and
often said more in one breath than our little
newspaper North Carolinian knew in twenty
hours. Amidst the vast and restless crowd of
men nothing was uttered that did not SAVIOR of
the Democracy. Those who did not talk those
doctrines looked them, and those who failed to
look them smoked them, and those who could
not smoke them drank them, and thus 1t
seemed as though everything was Democratic,
from the floor to the ceiling. He listened for
a while, and then pricked up his ears and
listened more eagerly and still increased his
interest in the conversation until the one in
cessant Bourbon talk on Bourbon principles so
encroached upon and overwhelmed his mind
as to force him into the belief that everything
in Washington was Democratic, that the Ad-
ministration had changed, and that his brother
politicians had already begun to feed upon the
Government, and with this wild and strange
impression he hastened to the Post Office De-
partment and demanded the removal of the
Republican postmaster of his native town,
and the appointment in his stead of White
Line Bourbon. And it took some time and
messenger to convince him that the Admins
tration was still Republican.
"Alexander's wig p shouted an old lady as
she struck the pavement last evening In
sitting posture through the icy influence of the
storm. Why it should have been Alexander's
wig, instead of Christopher Columbus, or the
Highland chieftain, Blake's, or any other gen.
tleman addicted to the habit Of wearing wigs
in olden times, the old lady failed to say.
Why the old lady should thus have publicly
announced the fact that Alexander wore wig
is also q mystery. The simple fact of a man
wearing a wig is not, of itself, strange or won
derful, but that it should be so prominent in
an old woman's mind as to be profaned in ex-
pressions of disgust or surprise Is what In
terests us. "Alexander's wig" is smooth
sounding HARMONIOUS phrase, we acknowledge;
but why could she not have said ssTupper's
top-knot," or "Columbus, scalp-lock," or
stMartin Van Buren's waistcoat," or some
thing like that. Why especially and par
ticularly and publicly "Alexander's wigl"
Surely Alexander's wig is, or was, not any
better than Adams wig, for we believe that
1t is generally acknowledged that he needed
wig before he evacuated the garden; in fact,
very shortly after his hair-zardous enterprise
in the fruit business, being near the time when
Eye-aided him in the great sin. We speak
of sin here not In the sense that 1t is wicked
to wear wig. Not at all. We had rather
see the -sombre shade Of sixty wigs in the
orchestra Of theatre than to be dazzled with
the glare of reflected gas light from the top of
one bald-head. If the old lady, therefore,
meant to be profsne in the use of the express
sion, the bump she received was well merited.
If on the other hand she was thinking Of
some near and dear friend, and accidentally
used the possessiye noun Alexander's, in
connection with the common noun wig, 1t was
excusable, but not exactly plain. That's the
great trouble with women; they are often too