National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-14
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.

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EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
For scasonable weather the present Easter
ly winds are eggs-actly the thing.
Watermelons are ripening in Southern
Florida. Mothers are preparing collie speci-
fcs by the gallon.
Tom Thumbhas purchased broad -brimmed
hat and one hundred rounds of ammunition,
and has gone to Texas for the purpose of
farming.
This Is the season when the active grangers
are skipping hither- and yon, anxtously en-
deavoring to barter next years crops for this
springs fertilizers.
One of the lost arts is said to be the knack
of keeping your feet after striking an orange
peel on a slippery pavement. When that was
lost it affected the balance of our body.
After all the startling rumors about trans
hitting disease Through the mails, the Post
Office Department has seen proper to appoint
Mr.. Mesels as postmaster In a New Jersey
town.
The editor of the Courier Journal in1ites an
editorial entitled "The Bath Wonder" 1t is
said that the man who furnished the soap and
towels was even more astonished than the
editor himself.
The independent voter has disappeared. He
has come to his senses, and quietly cutting
loose from his past foolishness has slipped
noiselessly back into the Republican ranks
without murmur.
The Jingle of the silver coin will soon be
heard at our counting houses, on our bars, in
the contribution boxes, and-now is the proper
time to have your pants-pockets made of
leather and stitched with wax-eDds.
A private telegram has been received from
Lynchburg stating that the resolution of pref
erence for Blaine was forced through the
convention, after long and stormy session,
but Senator Morton will have eight Of the
delegation.
Amid the noise and din Of investigations,
the voice of the public is heard crying aloud
for Fitzpatrick. Where is hei Where is the
startling evidence he talked so much about,
Bring it forward; the committees have e1-
hausted their resources.
After very bitter contest in the South
Carolina convention Governor Chamberlain
was made chairman of the delegation to- Gin
cinnati. 1t is thought that Chamberlain will
control the delegation, and that the first vote
-. L., DIE md ha FIR Pfaio
The number thirteen is an unlucky number,
as established by q very recent event. There
were thirteen persons at Mr.. Stewards last
Sunday dinner party, and one of the number
mentioned it as an unlucky omen. A few
days afterward the prince of merchants lay
pallid corpse in the house.
The Lincoln monument ceremonies to-day
will be q memorable affair in the history of
Washington. Lincoln was good man as well
as great man. His wife never had to ask
him to get up and build the fires but once.
He was as prompt in this little matter as he
was IN his more important executive duties as
President.
The COMMERCIAL Advertiser says 1.-THE Phil
adelphia census develops the Ito. bachel-
ors) interesting Tact that there are twenty
thousand more females there TEAMMATES" And
yet single mans ooat-pockets were filed
with boots on the threshold of brown-stooe
front on Chestnut street the other day, be-
cause he undertook to explore the waist
places in that palatial home.
A young woman in Watertown, N. Y, get
ting provoked at the balkipess of wayward
mule, jumped out of the wagon and kicked
the animal in the short ribs until u fell,
stunned, to the ground. She wears number
twos. That being the case, what show would
a contrary man have with woman of like
disposition who wears number sevensf They
generally spell 1t p-u-l.y-e-r-i-z-e-d.
When the Congregational ministers COM
mittee announced that they would stand with
open ears to catch all the new scandal the
world had to thrust in their cars respecting
Henry Ward Beeeher, they took 9 contract
which they are not capable of filling. It will
take more than the ears of one ministerial
committee to take in the amendments to the
scandals that are already afoat, to say moth
ing of the food of new material which Cos
sipy world is connecting.
Whenever you notice well-fed man moan
ing over the amazing corruption and thieyery
of the present time, Just leave him pass over 10
the assessors office and examine his sworn re-
turn Of taxable property. Itisresily sstonishs
inghow respectable man can fiyein q paIatial
home on heightened street:Nfth two, hun
dred dollars worth Of furniture IN the house,
But 1t is so, for the sworn statement in the AZ
SCISSORS book Gays 50, and sworn statements
certainly ought not TO lie.
What Is to be the limit of inventive scandal
spirit OF the day2 The latest story comes from
the West, telling show brutally Mr.. Blaine
| treated his first vile" and how, under the
cruelty, "the poor thing sickened and died In
q few years. As Mr.. Blaine's "nrst and only
wife, Is stiil living inSdne health, . well-pre.
seryedNew Rngiaudiady, "fat, fsir and forty, .
with large family OF good-looking children
around her, the Western story seams to lack
something of truth In Re eonpositaon. And
yet The papers that srs reckless saeugh 70