National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-06-26
MTSCELLANY.

| - was the winner.
1 Gold bonncts arc one of the latest ex-
/ tremes. They are made OF straw, which Is then
stecpcd In bath of gold. Tho trimming constr Is
OF q Large velvet bow and hummins bird.
| Italian girls trained up as models for
painters now fetch as much as 81 per day In Paris.
u day: As they are tho best models among all
| nnt,onalitcs there Is growing demand for them
| In the French capital.
| -Butlcr.I"Damn the report. There is no
new party. have had enough OF reports and Of
newspaper men, and when you go away you'll 20
down and write t.r.- -.s..::.., ~ M iutcryicw
vim me Ilst never took place and ri be damned
Mrs. Rocker, an English Woman's Rights
shrckcr, declares that there arc 2JD0Oo0 maids In
England and that they arc worth fibOOOOOOO ster.
Ling They Should chip in and buy husbands from
| money. There's plenty In market
oh! no came from Tennessee,
And his name twas HcnneSsy,
And he bought little corner lot In Custer;
Hut the q GLANCED to he row
Bout tn tite-decd; aud now
Mesa little angel In a linen duster.
Ball hours are now the small ones In Lon
don a bal! room Is desert OF iloOr and candles
,i lig ~ the earliest from then tin Y tssparscly
gloves and making crnIaync-s visible, iand mid
nisht always reached before anything really
some Harvard students have been indulg-
ing IN burglnrlous practical jokes" They gathered
all the ladiet drawers, chcmiscs and aockinps
managing III the neighborhood and hung them IN
conspicuous place; entered house aud captured
hustle and Ia ly's underwear. and otherwise con
Quoted thems ives as Irresponsible moral agents.
The Car has presented to his aid dc camp
the explosion Of the Turkish monitor Lnnl Djelil
ton written BY tho Car himself The recipient Is
the inventor OF the stxinch mortar. tho projcctcs
OF which destroyed the Ottoman vessel.
This Is what old Morocco, Becksnna king
IN south Africa told Mr. froude; My sous" he
said, want me to be baptlsch. say to them,
and Christians iherc," pointing to thc Anglican
monks, christians there won't speak to Christians
here When one OF them has converted tic other
II VIII be time 10 come 10 me-" mad
exactly what they are They had one q them In
franklin. Tenn, the other day. and a scientific
man put BIZ Of tho meat under microscope,
soria." Each animaiculc Is inciuscd In a Shell of
silica, and Is one four hundrcdth Of an inch long
s mi nn s% tSHo,y a%HS ny Of ,he The
Ing heaps OF kclp In the Gulf Of Mexico.
Pail up your stakes" the old man said;
"why don't you Westward go
And s,.rt farm. The youth replied,
"Chivarous boyr' his sire exclaimed,
Your pluck fiill well know;
~ help you out, u that is all
You need. Here. Ivanhoc"
1t looks aud sounds odd somehow, to sec and
hear big auctioncer In cigar shop sweating. aud
shouting: Aud Imnnly oticredOnc dollar aud.
hiSplendidboxoicignn worth seven.
inrai,eahai monly for This splendid bSsof
cigarslOlhearthe twUgOingat twodollars onlyfnr
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, ETC., with nobody ia the
siiop or IN sight but the boy that sweeps out and
docs the crrundA
A Pittsburg parson, charged with forty Of
lenses against the Church, pleaded guilty to thirty
two, but soicmnly denied the balance. Those CON
ics'ed were for debt, ialschOod, engaging In i'm
moral conversation while visiting, aud Tor drawing
q promissoty note In church while brother was
brs SSn ,h PS5,y sSaded h man probably The
investigation, stopped all the witnesses ulid ac-
quilted the accused What the eight denied
ionably Of small obliqitics, too slight for man Of
his LOFTY ideas to indulge In.
Paris has just had a sensation which re-
peats the story Of the corpse told In the Memories
s &c S1dofS b ana III upon The gc by vieosn
Alexis de r., was maintaining Improper relations
with married woman. During one OF their clan
lover was unable to bring her 70 and hue, lar
doctor, who found that she had died VI H. art
disease; me co,nmiss.rc ofpolicc happened aiprg
at the inquest. and ordered the body To be tax,
home. Thereupon NJ Alexis de +. He'd from Paris.
"A Toronto barber who had become con-
ysrted 70 religion. was told that he mus, Wort; FIR
diaidcnt mau aud did not know how to bcriu; /,
one day pretty hurd case came into lie shnycd
and he Thought that he would improve the oppor.
chair, duly athcrcd, the rnzor stroppcd hi the
edge was ns keen as Damascus blade aud lust
TS%dy ,1h%ppiy to the eustoms.s throat when Tie
der With bound and u shout the victim len
ne chair, CRYING. Not Il know tt,,-rushcd up
pursued by the, MS he supposed would he muir.
dcrous barber, The wicldcr OF the razor
has given up conversion during business hours.
The birthday of the Prophet, which coin.
was celebrated this year at Cairo with the trlil
t0nary do'eh, or the passage Of the mounted maum
the most part OF the very humblesi claSscs-camel
md donkey drivers, grooms. runners and feilaiI-
had been drusged with hashccsh aud excited to
religious frenzy by the attendant dcryishcrs The
packed them 81 ,sely, face downward to the mum
Der of some three hundred. IN a long line on the
roadway and over this human pavement the
imaum, mounted on white horse. rode 70. a
quarter Of an hour, amid the frantic yelling Of
verses OF tho Koran by the attendant priests There
were the usual and natural aties-arms broken
skulls fractures and ribs cayed In, aud some Rfecn
OF the worshppers went or will go 10 paradise.
"A curious ease came before the English
Court OF the Queens Bench recently. The de-
had been convicted In n lower court under the ACT
OF III which says that every person found drunk
publican III question had been found dIscrcc,iy
i Me was conSietcd and appealed. The learned
contemptuous view Of the Judgment Of the court
below. Mr.. Justice Lush said that II this view |
were sustained, publican" might be found
guilty for being drunk inhis own bod or for going
to his home amer getting drunk elsewhere III
such case the man would only be OF evil example
TO his wife and family, while there would be no |
ohcnse ~ regarded the public. The upper court
held that the act did not apply to any one found
drunk In his own private house. and when u pub.
lic house was closed 1t became private. The con.
victlon was set aside.
A queer bit Of superstition IL that concern.
Ing the death Of all the owners OF an emerald |
which used 70 flash the shirt fonts Of prominent
negro minstrels The stone was sold by Pony |
Moore, the London minstrel manager first 10 Luke
West, VINO was then In excellent health. Very soon
west was taken sick, was ut the point OF death aud
wishing to give Matt Peel something for his kind. |
ness IN nursing him, presented him with the |
emerald A once Luke began to regain his health,
hut Peel died after wearing the Jewel year |
Hiram RuInsey bought Il from the widow wore Il |
inr while, and dying, bequcathed II 10 George |
Christie After few months Of dreadful suffering |
with epilepsy Christie died IN New York city. The
emerald had been sold to Shcr. Campbell but he |
never wore IT, but loaned II to unswOIth who |
sportcd II on the stage at Bryants. Bryant Uns- |
worth and NelSe Seymour all wore the grave |
Campbell, were all dead The night Nelse Scy mour
died his brother aud Tony Pastor smashed lie |
stone and scattered the tiny fragments, |