National Republican., 1877-12-04
PERSONAL.
JUPITER looks splendid.
Polish up your snow shovels.

JUPITER looks splendid.
POLISH up your snow shovcls.
The PORE is said to be dying again.
QUIcKsIIyER-The nimble sixpence.
A LOAD which any man would like to carry
"a silver lode.
Mau.who-leaves.t .the-door-open has begun to
pass in his drafts
AN opium. smoking house has been estab.
lished at Dcadwood.
VENUS will grow in brightness and beauty
until December IL.
PAscAKEs cut bias. and gored with ourrant
jelly, arc In fashion.
Miss Pomeroy plays moro "As You Like IT.
than any other woman.
, JACK FROST is already busy on new lace de.
signs for window panes.
"THE millennium with sugar in 1t" Is Chi
cago phrase for happiness.
Vanderbilt had 800, 900 when he died,
and disease for every dollar.
THE duel is the quickest way to settle dis
pute IL only takes two seconds.
Hewitt's mush blunder Is highly relished
by the Corn fed -errata in Congress.
The Dayton Journal thinks Grant the
strongest man in the popular heart.
SITTING BULL Is one Of tho few men who
arc Indifferent about what tho papers say.
Ontario, recently. That baits shower Of fish.
E. E. Cabot, of Enfield, died yesterday from
the effects Of a cat bite received In September.
JOHN s. CLARKE intends leasing the Hay
market Theatre, London, at rent Of $4,000
per annum.
THE man who invents something wonderful
Is only ovsrtopped by the man who discovers
something useful.
History repeats itself. William Shaks-
pears has been indicted at the assizes Of the
Midland circuit for poaching.
CoNaREssMEN are 30 reckless now that they
frequently make . night Of 1t, and report
themselves In session.
The Herald p. I. man has the following In
his mother-tongue: Pat says the turkey wa
counted In. There were to 8 IL.
al DON'T like to bo called phenomenal
says Mary Anderson, the actress. Her fees arr
not nominal she gets 5000 night.
"AH, PARsoN, I wish i could carry my gold
with me" said dying man to his pastor. at
might melt,' was the consoling answer.
WILLIAM d. IVES, of New York, was yes
terday reappointed by Vice-President Wheeler
manager Of the Government telegraph Of the
Senate.
Mr. RUsKIs's lectures at Oxford this yeal
are reported to be attended chiefly by ladies
schools, which crowd out msnbers of the
University.
CAPT. GREENE, United States military at
tache, has received the Russian order Of st
Andrew, for coolness in battles at Shipka Pas
and Plevna.
IT Is said that there are thirty-two bachelor
In tho diplomatic corps In this city. That
why there is so much dip-low-ma-tism wher
ever they go.
Miss KATE II. GooDALL will receive hel
friends at Willards Hall on Friday evening
as Mrs. Spansdown In the comedy Of "A
Widow Hunt"
GoyERNoR-ELEcr MCCLELLAN, of New Jer.
sey, has taken furnished house at Trenton
1t is on State street, and Is the former resi-
denco Of Col. Freeze.
SOME one will soon bring out volume ant
put stop to these silly book titles. 1t will bt
entitled: THE Fool: or, the Man Who Buy
Me."-Free Press.
Mrs Hale, editress Of Godeys Ladys Bool
for fifty years, and who has just retired at tht
age Of ninety, invented Thanksgiving Da,
thirty-one years ago.
| SELA NUrrER, q colored woman living neal
Nanticoke, Is said to be 1l3 years old. She ha,
three children living, the youngest Of which /
seventy years Of age.
THE Detroit Free Press knows of man VIII,
returned lost wallet to its owner, and for hi
honesty was presented with horse which raj
| away ana kiiled MS sister.
Ex-CoNGgEssMAN VANCE, of Ohio lies seri
ously III at The National Hotel He was at
tackled with Hemorrhage so violently that a
elegram was sent for his wife to join him.
MRS GRANTS clothes worn ut Paris festiyi
ties are said to be in very good taste. They ar
rich and yet have certain simplicity, ncve
being overloaded with trimming.
A CONFIDENTIAL clerk of the Rothschilds, il
Paris lately abscOnded, after robbng his en-
ployers of over S36O,OO0. The money had beei
nearly all lost.in stock speculations.
Mr.. Y. MOSES, who was Secretary to tn
Vicc-President during the Forty Fourth Con
gress, has received an appointment in tn
office of the Secretary of the Senate.
THE Chicago Times thinks President Haye
and Gov. Nichols ought-to pay the expense
of the Louisiana Commission, inasmuGh a
Hayes ordered and Nichols profited by it,
Mr.. W. C. ELAN, one of the editors Of tn
Richmond Whig Is here, doing the special wOrl
for that Journal in place Of l.. q. Washington
who has severed his connection from the VhiS
OSCAR +, LOWE, brother-in-law Of tn
once iavorite New York actress, Julia Dean
attempted suicide IN st. Louis. He shot at hi
head, but his aim was poor, and the bullet mad
only q scalp wound.
Mr., LONGFELLow In his new poem writes Q
pottery, but he says nothing which soothes th
Washington Republican whose editor Is reduced
to paste poetry.-P. l. Man. You are alway
pottering; pie-man ever In stew.
BY ORDER of the Emperor William himself
La Patti Is not to appear In Berlin. He ha
declared that the price charged per night b.
the late Marquise de Caux is something mon
strous, and that he will not allow such absur
prodigality.
A VERY amusing conceit Of Gustave Dore
reported from Paris. Having boughta villa q
the outskirts Of that city, he had placed owe
the entrance the musical notation: "Do, M
81, La, DO, RE-" which, In another shape,