National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-25
PERSONALITIES,

taken sick at Mexia, Texas, with an attack of
meningitis.
EDWIN BOOTH calls the British critics a
set of aesthetic asses. Or as he might have put it,
a set of aesthetic critics.
| THE Maine Legislature unanimously
voted to expei Thomas B. Swan, the member from
/ MinOt from his seat in the house.
LORD Ono W. L. RUSSELL, the British
ambassador at Berlin has been raised to the peer
| age, with the title of Baron Ampthill.
"LoTrA is an old maid" says the At
lanta Constitution, bravely. True; but she is the
sauciest, liveliest, kiekingest old maid in the
! business.
An exchange says that young Mr.. Pres
| ton Powers, the son of Hiram Powers, was sculp
| tor from babyhood. He used to make Grecian
models of his pap.
| A HUNDRED admiring Bostonians want
| to feast and toast Carl Schurz. There several
| thousand Indians who would love dearly to take
| part i'll the ceremony OftoGstiRg him.
| MICHAEL DAvTTT is said by London
paper to be srikingly handsome; but it is signif
| cant fact that this item was not started until
Michael was on the opposition side of a prison
door.
| THOMAS CARLYLE said much in q few
words when he said: " Do the duty that lies next
to YOU The duty that lies next to many manis
to apply clothes-pin to the of snoring bed
| fellow.
A CORRESPONDENT wants to know if the
| world is really coming to an end this year. 1t
looks little that way. President Hayes is re-
ported TO have refused an Office to an Ohio man
the other day.-ChieagO Tribune.
GENERAL NEY, Due d'Elchingen, has
been found dead at Chatillon, France his forehead
pierced by bullet and pistol in the right hand.
General Ney was born in Paris in 1885, and was
a grandson of the famous Marshal Ney.
CHAPLAIN ALLEN, of the Maine Legis-
lature, prayed as follows while total abstinence
measure was under consideration: go Lord, we
thank Thee that hardly dog, so to speak, is
against the onward march of this glorious cause"
THE Prince of Wales and the Duke of
Edinburgh will start for Berlin night to be pres
ent at the wedding, on Sunday, the 9th instant,
of the eldest son of the Crown Prince Frederick
William, of Prussia, and Princess Augusta Victoria
of Holsten.
THERE has no clew been found to the
missing Mr. Peterson, of Philadelphia who mys-
teriously disappeared nearly two weeks ago He is
a son of the well-k known publisher, and no
plausible reason for his absence can be ascribed
foul play is suspected.
ALMOST every first-class bore in the
country, except Sergeant Bates and Dr.. Mary
Walker has invited himself to Mentor. If those
two will now make pilgrimage, arm arm
with the American flag floating over them, the
record viii be complete.
THE widow of Honore de Balzac is still
living in Paris. The room in which her husband
wrote and died remains untouched His writing
materials are as he left them in 1850 His widow
was Countess Eveina Hanska, Polish lady, who
was married TO Balzac in 1918.
He kisses me! He kisses me!
This is the sweetest song know:
And so 1 sing it very low
And faint, and oh, so tenderly,
That, though you listen, none but he
May hear il as he kisses me.
Emma 4bJof
Mr.. WENDELL PHILLIPS has appeared in
Boston as the advocate and champion Of Ireland
He declared that Gladstone's position WAS yes
teTday like that OF a crazy man playing with pow
der in an arsenal. This is the reason said Mr.
Phillips why call the present condition of af-
fairs Ireland's triumph and England's surrender
Mr.. CORRESPONDENT REDFIELD is mar
ried and has three children, a girl and two boys
Mrs Harlacre writes: Z" Mrs. Redield is PENN
sylvanian. She is charming lady with cordial,
vivacious ways and bright face, out of which the
happy light Of -girhGod has not faded" "She is o
great reader" said Mr.. Redfeld, "but has never
dabbled much in ink
A. s. MITCHELL. an old and well-known
Journalist, died at Hot Springs Ark, last evening,
Of pneumonia. Mr.. Mitchell edited the IRteIi-
geaceF and the ErsniR9 Necs in st. Louis as early
as 1880. He subsequently was editor of the St.
Louis Times. and after leaving that paper started
weekly journal called the Standard, which sus-
pended few months ago. Mr. Mitchell was born
in Davidson County, Tennessee, in 1920.
IT is now stated that Whitelaw Reid,
of the New York Tribune, is engaged to the daugh-
ter Of D. o. Mills, the California millionaire. If
all the newspaper reports have been true, Mr..
Reid must have been gay deceiver. He has been
credited from time to time with the possession of
many hearts, including those belonging to Anna
Dickinson, Kate Fields, Miss Nellie Hutchinson
the poetess, aud Miss Huntington, OF California.