National Republican., 1881-11-26
PERSONALITIES.


HENRY WARD BEEcHER says if the Sab
bath goes ministers and churches 50 with IT,
The Seminole Indians say that God first
made the black man, then the red man and finally
the white man.
WHITEJAw REID is married and
Prince Leopold is engaged. At what point do l
strikc the procession9"-S. j. Taden,
EX-SENATOR JAMES CHESTNUT, of Cum
periand County, is candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Governor Of PENNSYLVANIA.
1T is said when Private Dalzell heard
that the Postmaster General talked of reducing
letter postage to two cents he burst into happy
tears.
EVEN Hendricks does not seem TO be
anxious to be nominated for the Presidency next
time. That shows the nomination isn't worth
much.
PROFESSOR SIMON NEwcoMB is seriously
Ill with malaria IN Boston. and has been obliged
TO postpone the delivery OF his proposed course OF
lectures on astronomy.
Miss EMMA STRAIroN, daughter of John
Strniton, esq, of New York, is visiting at the res
idence of II. n. James, Chief of the Customs Blu
reau OF the Treasury Department.
MIR. HERMoN ii. De RoUvILLE and wife,
of Albany, are to celebrate their golden wedding
Tonight Tho family Is snid to include eighty
children, grandchildren, aud grandchildren.
MIR, Il. c. BURHAND, the editor of Punch,
Is u man of middle-agc who with his dark eyes,
his French beard and abundant scarf knotted at
his throat, looks more like Parisan than an
Englishman.
Mr. ROBERT BRowNINa has thus far
written 93,a23 lines His first work, Pauline: A
. H.
1888, and consisted of over thousand lines In
blank verse;
IT is little singular, but it is true, that
business firm In Greenfield, Mass. delivered
goods on forged order purporting 10 come fiom
Ex-Governor Wnshburno, In which delivery was
asked to "barrer"
CAPTAIN SUNDBERG says that off the
Capes Of Delaware he ran into school of wh-
whales. and with his ships bow out two OH 'cm In
halves. The Captain takes the cake. This is the
biggest" fish story OH record.
HAMMOND persists in saying that If he
had been tho attending physician Garfield might
have lived. The only way to prove 1t is to snovt
some other man exactly as the President was shot
and then hand him over to Hammond. Who will
volunteer to be shot?-BoSLon Pos.
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG will be
married to Mr.. Whitney in New York next spring
She has sold her home on the Hudson aud will
spend most Of her time abroad with her husband.
Miss Kellogg has earned during her life upon the
stage about half q million dollars Mr.. Whitney is
a man OF large fortune.
NJ. RENAN in these days looks like q
comfortable French priest, all occupant OF some
quiet village pulpit. Ills face Is round, and would
10 coarse were II not for the noble brow and
thoughtful, searching eyes. He is a small man,
thickset and clumsy, and looks as II he liked the
good things of this earth.
JOHN ANDERSON, the well-known mer-
chant aud tobacco manufacturer Of New York,
died In Paris ON Tuesday last of pneumonia, in the
seventieth year of his age. He came to this city
at un early age, aud continued in active business
up to his DEATH He had a country residence at
Tarrytown. N. Y, and his place of business was at
No. ia Liberty street.