National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-14
PERSONALITIES.

SECRETARY LINCOLN is expected to give
the Decoration Day address at Rochester
"AND William took his Sarah by the
hand,
And ducked her in the surf by Coney's strand"
Ex-Governor c. c. WAsHBURN calls
Minneapolis, Mimi, the most prosperous city in
the United States and says that it ought to sprinkle
| its streets.
IF Mary Anderson does not like the
way in which her STEP father manages her prop
erty she will have no difficulty in finding
younger man to assume the responsibility.
UNCLE Rufus HATCH asserts that Ber-
muda onions, eaten raw, morning and evening,
are sure antidote to malaria and sewer gas. Ma
laria suits us pretty well, thank zee, Rufus.
Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS thinks Stonewan
Jackson was the great general of the civil war on
the confederate side. We can't it in that light
Robert E. Lee was the man.-NeaO York San.
Mrs. LANGTRY is in London again, but
we tremble for her reputation as professional
beauty when Whitelaw Reid arrives with his
moon -on-the-water pants and park-fence collar.
Mr.. FRoUDE says that "Pickwick will
beAnreadable to our grandchildren. This is prob
ably so but then our grandchildren will have in
its place Mr.. Froude's side-splitting History Of
| England"
| OLD COMMODORE Ericsson, in New York,
is still busily engaged on his solar engine, which
is to drive locomotive across the Desert of Sahara
! by means of heat from the suns rays focused on
mirrors and directed upon boiler.
WHILE Brady and Gorham's National
Republican at Washington is pitching into the Ad-
| ministration savagely, Stillson Hutchins' Demo-
cratic Post is its stout defender. Hutchins is
great friend of Blaine.-KROlring exchange
KING OSCAR, of Sweden, is the author
of dramatic poem dealing with an episode in
the struggle of former times between Denmark and
Sweden for the supremacy of the Baltic. Emil
Jonas has just dramatized this poem for the Berlin
stage
SECRETARY BLAINE telegraphed Senator
Robertson on Friday night at Albany that every
thing was going on as well as could be expected,
encouraging him to be of good heart, and that he
would eventually be collector of the port of New
York.
Mr.. WADE HAMPTON, of Virginia, has
in his possession a German bible which was
printed at Strasburg il 1915. 1t was conjectured
by some Lutheran ministers whose translation of
the manuscript accompanies it, that it was written
by Luther himself Or was copied from his writing
THE Hon. Elisha II. Allen, who repre-
sents King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands, at
Washington, is visiting his old home at Bangor.
Forty-f years ago he was the rival of eX-Sen-
ator Hamlin for Congress. They had previously
been leaders of rival parties in the State Legisa
ture.
THE Rev. Joseph Cook said in a Lon
don lecture that alcohol hardened the human
brain. The British Medical Record says this berays
his lamentable ignorance, because 8" it is an ele-
hat oil phOl no
cerebral substance in life it induces softening Of
the brain"
PROFESSOR TICE, the st. Louis weather
prophet, damns with faint praise his Canadian
rival. He says that Yennor had made some good
on the other hand, can hit an earthquake every
time, and strike cyclone right where it lives
without half trying
'Do YOU love me, Maud?" said lover bold,
As her head rested gently on his collar;
"Do you love me better than jewels and gold?
Is your heart as true a new trade e-dollar?'
She gazed on him then with her soulful eyes
That met his own with lovely glitter,
And softly murmured between the hugs:
"Do I love you, George? Well. should twitter."
COLONEL P. W. NORRIS, the superin-
tendent of the National Yellowstone Park, has left
for the scene of his seasons labors. He will this
year, in addition to building roads and bridges
within the confines of the park, explore still fur
ther the celebrated HoodOO Basin, the Sierra
Shoshone range. and number of mines said to
have been eXcavated by a prehistoric people.
From what is known of the Colonels energy and
ability there is no doubt that most valuable and
interesting results will be obtained.
PROFESSOR J. W. PRICE, of the Atlanta
University, is full-blooded negro. He lately re-
turned from visit to Virginia with a handsome
young white wife. After few days the bride left
him, and took refuge with neighbor. She said
that she had no recollection of marrying Price or
of coming with him to Atlanta; that she was
Isabella HILL the poSSessor of $1,000; that mis-
cegenation utterly repugnant to her, and she
could only have taken a black husband while
temporarily insane. Price maintains that she is
an octoroon but says that he has desire to hold
her to the marriage against her will, and now has
no doubt of her occasional insanity.