National Republican., 1880-10-14
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

The New Orleans Piodyae says Of the SAL
vini opera combination, that 1t is the maca-
| roni-sandwich company, because Savini sings
| in Italian and the rest in English.
THE Boston Transcript evidently means to
intimate that when Cincinnati porkraiser
goes abroad he is very indefinite when lie
| speaks of the productions Of his pen.
GHOST of Thomas jefferson to General Han.
| cock: "Swearv' "5wear, is It. I'll be eternally
d.do-dum dashed if can't beat any man
| swearing in tho United States. Trust me- old
man, L can howlp'-Conmcrcia Adrortiser.
THE Boston Post says that not a single
| charge stands against Hancock. Indeed, we
were led to suppose that lie charged at Will
iamsburg and other places; but this may only
| have beon q champagne lie.-- Commercial Ad-
| rcrtiser
PUNcH gives tho following as an example Of
self.sacrifce: BoyQo lady visitor)-"Teacher,
| there's a gal over there n wnltin at mel"
| Teacher-"Well, then, don't look at her"
| Boy-"But If don't look at her she'll wink
at somebody else"
A BABY can put its rosy little too in its
mouth more easily than its father can,
but when II comes to putting the whole foot
| in 1t, tho man of years and experience can dis
count the baby half a hundred and then run
out.-BurlingiOn Hapkeye
WHEN a sick Galveston lawyer was asked
by his spiritual adviser what he would do in
that last day when all men would he judged
for deeds done in the fesh he replied "bo
would be id If he didn't get the case con-
| tinucd."
NEW YoRK bellies are wearing the Zulu
hat" IL is hoped that they will not adopt the
| Zulu full dress 1t would occasion remark,
except ut one of Queen Vietoria's receptions.
A Zulu full dress costs about twenty cents,
and is cut extremely deeolette at both ends
NoTistoWH Herald
AN "Englishman" asks: "wlo was General
,Meadc, and why is II proposed to erect mon
ument to his memory" General Meade was
an officer in the union army aud until re.
Gently 1t was supposed that he did some fight
| ing at Gettysburg; but since 1t las appeared
that an entirely diff rent man won that vic
tory without Moado's assistance, the mon
ument,sof course. will be andoned.-Norris-
| toun Herald
| ANOTHER of the popular errors TO be corr
| rected is that the African Sahara is great
desert On the contrary, It is now pronounced
cultivated country, fruitful as tho garden
Of Eden. All that is now wanted Is proof thst
| Iceland is u tropiC country, and that the Rocky
| mountains are below the sea level, In order to
convince the average citizen that the time he
spent studying geography in his youth was
| fooled away.-BoSton Post.
| As a prisoner was marched up to the war.
denis desk in the Tombs prison yesterday, ho
said: assure you, gentlemen, that the place
has sought me, aud not / tho place. My own
affairs really demand all my time and atten.
| ton, aud may truly say that my selection
| to fill this position was an entire surprise. Had
l consulted my own Interests, / should have
| peremptorily declined to serve, but as / am in
| the hands of my friends, see no other course
but to submit. l thank you" He will take
the stump for Hancock-wheu he comes out.
| I-GrdDhic.