National Republican., 1878-01-10
PERSONAL.

SrANL'H has grown gray.
GOTHAM has fourteen daily papers.
PARsLoE is the boss stage Chinaman.
GENERAL o. L. BABCoCH Is in the city.
THE Dsnites" are located In Pittsburg
RUSSIAN ladies' drink tea favored with rum.
GENERAL W. W. BELKNAP sojourns at the
Arlington.
SENATOR BLAINE will arrive in the city
January 10.
GENERAL DIX proposes to resign as Regent
Of the University.
THE Earl of Dunraven Is at the Hotel
Brunswick, Boston.
Mrs. d. 7. Bowers Is playing a short en-
gagcmcnt in Detroit.
EX-SECRETARY boutwell, Is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York.
EDWIN DEBAIR is dead, and the Desert of
Sahara remains unsurvcyed
ZACH. CHANDLER Is going to build block
Of stores in Detroit this spring.
The flowers on the tomb of the late Care
witch are kept perpetually fresh.
MAYOR DOYLE, of Providence has just made
his thirteenth inaugural address.
Miss Macy NEvINs died In Nantucket on
January l, at the age of 100 years.
THE Chinese propose to tax all newborn
babies.-Er. Will that stop their coming?
The death of the Marquis of Alesbury is an
nOunced at London, at the age Of seventy
| four.
JOHN MoRRIssEY thinks the Florida alliga-
tor is quite US companionable as the New York
! tiger
BrsMARcK's latest mot "If Turkey is the
sick man OF Europe, England is the sick
woman."
GENERAL NEGRETE has been appointed mill
tary commander of the Federal district of
Mexico.
THOMAS STURGEON, u son of the great Lon
don evangelist, is preaching successfully in
Australia.
UNCLE JOIN RoBINsoNs circus is still on
the road, and is now among the towns In North
Alabama.
SARAH ATKINS, a paupcr In the Hudson
County Almshouse, has come into Possession
of -, 900
LonDs sons say the old gentleman is mad,
but he says he's happy as humming-bird on
a dafodil.
ONE hundred and seventy-ilve emigrati Oh
tickets have been sold in Charlotte during the
past month.
BARSUM is looking for q live woman who
lit fire with kerosene. Ho wants to show
her for money.
JUsIuE YosHIDA KIYoNARI, the Japanese
J Minister, has arrived vt the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, Now York.
The Government is going to sell the goods
abandoned by exhibitors at tho late Phiadel
phia Exhibition.
A NEW YORK florist exhibits q green rose.
A green florist exhibiting New York rose
would be less novel.
CONGRESSMAN WApDELL, of North Caro-
lima, lectured in New York last Tuesday night
to Il large audience.
, PROFESSOR CHANDLER Eis experimenting
with the cremation Of cats, dogs, and rats, il
the School of Mines.
PROFESSOR WICKERsHAM Is mentioned q,
the next Republican candidate for the Govern
orship of Pennsylvania.
On Friday next the one thousandth perform
ance Of the "Gilded Age" will be celebrated
at the Park Theatre in New York.
A Or sixty.eight combinations that left Ncv
, York for "the road" at the beginning OF tn
season, all but three have disbanded.
Two Brockport church ushers recent,
/, fought because ono intruded upon the domain
of the other in seating some strangers.
ANY person desiring to hear the true story
, of the celebrated minstrels, should call ol
1 Captain s., at the Treasury Department.
, SPEAKER LORD, of tho Maine Legislature
q is but thirty years old. Hannibal lIamlil
" filled the chair when only twenty-eight.
Mrs. l.. +. BARTINE, mother of Rev D. w
Bartinc, of East Orange, died at Trenton oil
New Years Day, aged ninety-one years.
u BoUCICAULT says that the theatre manager
! cannot afford to reduce prices Perhaps the
II can afford better playing to empty houses.