National Republican., 1877-12-19

to go the other way, He meyer approaches an
audience without feeling Q shaking Of the |
knees and a drynoss of the lips. |
THE capital stock Of tho new Cleveland Her |
aid Company Is 500, 1000, and tho inoorporators |
are Richard G. Parsons, w. p. Fogg, Z. v.
Smalley, Elias Simms, and c. J. Thyng. Tho |
three English daily newspapers of Cleveland
are now published by joint stock. companies
A BROTHER and sister, each Of whom sup |
posed the other dead, met by accident In Char
lotte, N. O., few days ago. after separation
of thirty-seven years. In tho meantime he
had frequently been In Charlotte, where she
lived, and at no time did he reside very far of.
MRS. d. P. BOWERS has play called 'The
Woman In Red" and the other night she
couldn't make out why the house was so ex-
traordinarily large until she found that In
the advertisement RED" read Bed" She
hasn't made up her mind as to what the peo-
pie expect TO SEQ.
OsMAN PAsHA, who was made out suicide
by Dame Rumor for little while, has been de-
scribed ms an athletic man, In the forties, with
O superb head aud regular, earnest features
He was tactiturn, pious, and sclf-reliant, and
a man that could not endure the sight Of n
newspaper correspondent.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, in his lecture on ITEM
perance, Labor, and Women" takes the ground
that the remedy for the threatening evils Of
the great hosts ruled by intemperance and by
the ballot TO women. He says he does not de-
mand the ballot for woman, but he claims 1t
of her.
MRS. BURTON, wife of the famous traveller,
Is the Bergh of Trieste, where her husband is
consul, and seems to have succeeded in awak-
ening the Triestian mind to the fact that the
brute creation Is not devoid Of feeling. She
lately distributed prizes for humanity In the
presence of tho Governor General and other
magnates.
Miss ROSE BRIDGES, Of Monticello, Me-, was
bitten last summer by a small dog, which be-
fore or since showed no signs Of madness. Two
weeks ago she was taken violently i'll, raving
and frothing at the mouth and barking like
dog The spasms were intermittent but re-
Gently she has become better, and Is likely to
| recover.
GEN. LORD HENRY PERCY, Of the British
army, brother of the Duke of Northumber-
land, was found dend in his bed In London on
the morning Of December 3. He had been
great sufferer from neuralgia for long time,
but his death was caused by angina pectoris.
In the Crimean war Lord Henry distinguished
himselfat the battle Of Inkerman.
In the office of Henderson, the swindling
Philadelphia banker, who is now in prison,
was found the manuscript prospectus Of the
Great American Meat Supply Company. Shares
were to be sold for IS each, and an annual
dividend of twenty per cent. was to be gusran-
teed, besides the privilege Of being supplied
with meat at ridicuously low rates.
IT is somewhat strange to read that his
Excellency Kuo Ta;jep, the Chinese Ambas-
suite, the other day, to hear Prof Legge's lec-
ture on Chinese, the subject being Imperial
| Confucianism or the Sixteen MaNims of the
K'ang.ts Sacred Edict." Truthful James,
civilization Is not failure and the Caucasian
is not played out"
THE Rev. Mr.. Collins, one Of the wealthiest
| and most influential magistrates in Cornwall
England, was drowned In his own fish-pond
the other day. He was looking into tho pond
from high bank when, being seized with
| giddiness, he fell against tree, which stunned
him, and thence into deep water. Mr.. Collins
Eyeglasses were found in his open hand.
In recent address on Erasmus to Glasgow
students the eminent principal, Cavid, alluded
| to the amazing literary industry of that cele-
cumstance that che possessed some advant-
ages which all students and scholars do not
possess Ho was unmarried and was therefore
free from the distracting obligations Of domes.
tic life"
JOHN BRIGHT wrote lately a note in which
occurred this passage: "If children at school
can be made to understand how It is just and
noble to be humane even TO what we term in
fcrior animals, 1t will do much to give them q
higher character and tone through life. There
Is nothing meaner than barbarous and cruel
treatment of the dumb creatures, wuo cannot
answer us or resent the misery which is SO
often needlessly inflicted upon them"
AGAssIz's family have presented to the Mas
sachVsetts Historical Society the branch Of
palm borne by the students at the funeral of
Humboldt, and given to Agassiz by Mr. Win
throp, who brought 1t to this country. Mr..
Winsor, at the last meeting Of the society, boro
testimony TO the great labor bestowed by Mr..
Agassiz on the preparation of his address on
Humboldt. He spent many days at the public
library In reading the numerous works of that
distinguished savant In all the languages in
which they appear.
, Gov. BLUE JEANS WILLIAMS, of Indiana,
Is not distinguished for financial liborality
ing the poor Of indianapolis, called upon the
Governor for contributions. "Why don't you
stop building churches" he asked, "and leave
of dressing In such fine clothes2 Then you d
have moro money to help the poor, and
wouldn't need to come begging of other peo
: pleH' And he gave them nothing
WEBsTER's opinion Of Byron, conveyed in
private letter, has lately been made publ,
property for the first time. 1t was no gentl,
opinion. The brilliant American says of tn,
great poet: ~ have tried hard TO find some
y thing in him to like besides his genius AM
wit, but there Is no other likeable qualit,
about him. He was an incarnation of demon
8 ism. II Milton was alive to recast Certain
d prominent characters in his great epic, h
could establish them with new traits withou
: violating probability"
Rum Did II.
A Nw days ago drunken ruffian, who wa
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