National Republican., 1877-11-24
PERSONAL.

| THERE are nearly 3,OoO telephones IN use IN
New York city alone
Mrs. T. l.. FORBES, q well known female
physician Of Wilmington, is dead.
A CHRoMo will be given for all future Dom.
| Ocratic abuse of Conoyer and Patterson.
PIERRE LoRILLARDs turf winnings during
the past season were upward of s70,000
| Now, what is kiss ? Only q smack In the
mouth. That's what Brooks gave Townsend.
EVE Is remembered to have been the first
woman to set tho example Of gathering leaves.
| THr Hutchinson family Of singers are max.
ing their thirty ninth annual tour Of New
York.
For Minister to Berlin we nominate Mr.. Jo-
seph Medill. Of tho Chicago 7fibune.-Giobc-
| Democrat
| PENDLETos leads for tko Ohio Senator.
ship Oebillallcn roars meanwhile. I've got
| two votes"
A nAny elephant In New York is being
brought up by bottle. The haby's bottlo holds
four gallons OF milk.
ONLY ono princess WAS ever born In this
country-Princoss Anna Murat, tho wifc of tho
Due dc Monchy.
| A MAN slapped "Gath" on tho cheek the
other day, and has been wearing his hand in a
sling over sinco.-Boston Post.
JoHN SLEEPER CLARKE will return from
London TO the United States for q short visit
| during the present winter.
QuERy-Does the Presidents order about
army officers drinking apply to the topper
graphical cnginCersr Kill i'm.
VERY poor styles of coats-Opium habits
| NJ Y Comic ddv True truei And yet how
many are given TO laudin'-'cml
THE shipbulders Of Italy claim that they
can compete with any nation IL solid, elegant
vessels. both ornamental aid useful
TN rawtuckct. yesterday, scvcn. .ycar-old
daughter of MIR. Armstrong was probably fa-
tally burned while playing with fire
BAHARD TAYLOR Is said to be the most OF
| band. easy hammered, aud good d-humored of
the poets that hang around Now York.
Miss LOUIS, BERGER. from Albany, aged
twenty three. took morphine in Brooklyn the
other day, which threatened 10 end her days.
ONCE more tho Hon. Samuei Sullivan Cox
| works himsciup into state ofmcntal innaIn-
nation over tho sggresSions Of the rich man"
NEVER catch me marrying reformed man."
| said a wise little Chicago girl. "When | get
married it will bo to man that doesn't neod
| reforming"
Mn. JOHN NJ. ScHuNEMANN. former pub.
| lishOr of .hc Neutrhiisi, died at his residence
near SkppaCkvillo. Montgomery County. Pa,
on Monday last.
| THs reason why Democrats like Mr.. Hayes
policy Is that thov expect In 1881 to appoint
Republicans TO oilioc-whero they cannot find
n good Democrat.
SENATOR BLAINE Is able 10 Sit up. his mp
| petite Is good. and ho Is in excellent spirits.
| His friends think that he will soon bc In
Washington again.
CoMNopoRR VANDERBILT paid $4,000 in
fees to DIR. Linsloy. and left lin $4,000 more
but, judging from the pod-'aorien', the Doctor
must have lost money.
THE inmily OF tho late W. i. Coolbaugh, tho
Chicago banker, arc still hunting for his will
but none has vet been found, and it Is doubt
ful that no loft one.
URnANo LUCcHEsr. of IuCca, Is as present
the most promising young sculptor Of Italy.
ranking third to Montovorle and Duprc, who
are much older in tho profession.
The succession 10 Thiers' seat in the Acad-
envy will be contested by tho Duo d'AudifTret-
Pasquicr, whom Sardou defeated; Paul Foval.
the novelist, and Eugene Pcll0tan.
AGNES ETuEL, who retired from the stage
on her marriage TO Mr.. Tracy, uf Buffalo, Is
said TO be about To return to II. She is now in
Paris. Her husband reluctantly consents.
DIR. PELEGALIo, the POpo's hvorite phySi-
| clan, was dismissed by Cardinal Simconi for
| having informed the Italian Government rs
to the real sanitary condition of the Pontif
JoHN STARR, of Cincinnati, invented the
electric light. and died in Paris thirty years
ago, while trying to Introduce 1t. lie proposed
to illuminate whole city with one electric
| ball.
ARCHIBALD BLACKLOCK, alias Mc('aw. Of
| the Gulf Of California Oyster Canning Com
| pany nOtOricty, was convicted Of forgery re-
Gently in the Municipal Court Of San Fran
cisco,
Ex-Governor PACKARD, for tho first time
since the Louisiana paciiications callod yes
terlay on tho President. The latter invited
him to lunch, and they spent two hours
together.
A wealthy English traveller offered last
summer, to give a million of dollars for
| Raphaols Madonna di San SistO In the Dresden
gallery. Tho manager replied that 1t was not
for sale ut any prize.
KENTUCKY paper says that eH-Seoretary
BristOw and three other prominent Kcntuck-
| ians lately went out on hunting expedition,
and that they killed very fow birds" Well,
We can't all be great sportsmon.
Mas. CHIsoLM will hereafter live in some
| Northern State and the remains of her hus.
| band and Of her poor young daughter, Corne-
| liza, will be removed also 10 tho North and
placed under II suitable monument.
HOMER HUHT and G. Mason Lane are re-
ported Us having fought II duel near Ashland,
Miss, in which Hunt was killed and Lane
mOrtally wounded. The quarrel was about u
girl of whom Hunt spoke disrcpeCtully.
|
Herr Krupp, the great cannon founder. in tho
current years revenue tax-list of the German
| Empire. The Baron's tax is Sl7,lOO, and
| Krupp's, $l5750 A Silesiah minc-Owner
ranks third. with Sl5,300.
| A scHoOLmhs cannot commit suicide
without stating the proposition. fortnight
ago pedagogue in San Juan, Cal. shot him.
self after school hours but not until he had
chalkcd on tho blackboard the words. MAY
this solve the problem"
Hon. JOHN WELSH. Minister TO Great Brit
ain. is I" be banqucted In Philadelphia by
| the same committee of citizens who urged his
appointment on President Haycs- Tho affair
will very appropriately come of on Tuesday
next, at tho Aldine. Tho big-bugs al dine
| there.
GEN. GRANT is an object Of exceeding curl
osity to Foreigners. When he went to the
American chapel at Paris, on u receut Sunday
| one porson, not satisfied with back view of
the General, left his place, walked down the
aisle, stood for a few moments contemplating
the American, and returned to his seat quite
cOntented.
MR.. WATTERs0Hs paper says, editOrially {:
"A western paper tells us that the Indian