National Republican., 1880-12-30

by FIRE destroying the car in which Il was All her
trousseau Except her Wedding drcsg and nearly
all her presents were burned.
CHARLES LAMB said "When you
loaned a book to Colcridge itreturncd with addi.
tional value.' The trouble with most books that
are loaned is they don't return at all.
THERE are apparently just two men in
this Republic who are not intensely excited over
the formation Of Garfcld's Cabinet 1--WE" are one,
and General Garfield appears TO be the other
Hdckcyc
CAPTAIN BoYcorT the Protestant Mar
tyr" of Mayo, is, curiously enough the son Of a
woman who has been a convert to the Catholic
church, and has been leader in clerical society
In Paris.
JOHN RANDOLPH told the present Josiah
Quincy that the greatest orator he ever heard was
slave mother on the auction block appealing for
sympathy and justice and denouncing her heart
less auditors.
MRs. r. s. CUSTER, the mother of the
late General George A. Custer Is lying at the point
of death at her home in Monroe, Mich. The mas
sacre of her son gave her a shock from which sho
has never recovered
SENATOR BECK, who has left for Ken
tucky, has rented the late General Hcintzelman's
house, on Sixteenth street and Mrs Beck and their
daughter, Mrs. Paymaster Goodloe, are there. Mrs.
Beck has been seriously indisposed.
WILLIAM BLACK, the novelist, looks so
much like proper young clergyman that we
should not be surprised to hear of his getting a
"call" to some Chicago church rs soon as the
present batch of popular preachers are turned out
for heresy or something.
THE splendid jewels worn by Nine.
Robcllard, the wife of tobacco manufacturer at
ball at the Tulleries in 1870 first gave Napoleon
the idea Of making the tobacco trade a state
monopoly. 1t now yields the French government
an annual income of s50,000,0Oo
KATE FIELD says there is but one por-
trait of George Eliot, the novelist, extant, which
Is acrayon by Lawrence in possession of the Black
woods at Edinburgh, and Miss Field remarks
noively, 81 believe she Is the only woman
in the civilized world who has never been photo
graphed"
HARRY w. OLIVER, one of the candi-
dates for Senator from Pennsylvania, is of medium
stature, has black hair, dark brown eyes, wears n
black moustache, and has prominent nose His
countcnance bctokens him man Of keen percep-
tive powers, ,indomitable energy and much strength
of character.
CAPTAIN BAssErr, assistant Doorkeeper
ofthc Senate, has been connected with that branch
oftbe Government fon fifty years. lie Is perhaps
the only man now living that knows the seats and
desks that Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and Tom
Corwin occupied. He declines to point them out
even to Senators, giving his for doing
that relichunters would soon cut the furniture to
pieces for the purpose of obtaining miemcntoes
LORD DUFFERN is said to have related
with great glsto to friend, that when he came
home from 1ndin to be married he found no car.
riage awaiting him ut the little Irish railway sta
tion, and had to hire n common jaunting car.
Going along he asked the driver If there was any
news. Nothing" said he, except that pretty
Kate Hamilton is to be married to that one-cyed
Duflerin."
NJ. GAMBETTA is said to be great adj
mircr Of the writings of Nine. de scvigne. lie
carries his admiration to the point of making pill.
| grimagcs to the Burgundian chateau in which she
grew up; and he has been heard TO say, In speak.
ing of her that he never knew Of woman su-
peror to the rest of her by herwit aud literary
skill who mad not assiduously cultivated her in
tellect and cracked hard nuts Of philosophy