National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-18
PERSONALITIES,

| n. ). WENDELL and j. w. WadSworth,
of New York, are stopping at the Arlington.
AN unhealthy site was chosen for the
White House to give the Vice President chance
| Puck
PROFESSOR GEORGE RoLLEsToN, NJ. D.
and F. R. 6, of Oxford University, is dead, at the
| age of fifty-two
THE Atlanta Constitution hears, among
the other crimes reported from Texas, of lecture
| tour in that State by Eli Perkins.
GENERAL Z. S. GRANT, accompanied by
his wife and two servants, reached the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel n. Y, yesterday morning.
IT is said the German word "pfngsten +"
comes from the old Greek pentecoste.' Yes, and
| dyspepsia comes from sauerkraut.-Puck.
OUT West man was recently shot
dead because he wouldn't pray Let us get the
artillery out and have a general revival.-Elmtra
| Free Press
IFvou want to make a jovial man feel
| lugubrious sit down in front of him, put both
hands On your knees look at him expectantly, and
say, " Now, be funny"
GENERAL BEN BUTLER carries on his
watch chain an immense alligator tooth, mounted
in gold. On his coat he wears two rosebuds, one
white and the other rcd.
wants to know whether
the assassinated Gar got off any appropriate last
words We are not certain, but think he ex-
claimed, "Well, I'm blowedr'
THE newest idea is to scent artificial
flowers with the favorite perfume of the wearer
Just think of rose in ast. Louis mans buttonhole
perfamed with old Tye.-BosoH Post.
PERHAPS Joe Emmett, the actor, is suf-
fering from malaria. There are so many dis
eases masqueradng under this name now days
that you can't always sometimes generally tell.
VIsCoUNTEss BEACoNsFIELD is said to
have once remarked to the gentleman who is now
Lord Rowton: There are only two persons in the
world who really know my husband-you and l."
EX-SECRETARY Boutwell, says that after
knowing General Grant many years he may say
that he never heard him utter a word that could
not have been spoken with perfect propriety any
where.
"IF am such a fool as the papers try
to make out, why was ever placed at the head of
the Agricultural BureauT demands lie Due For
mercy's sake, General, ask US an easier one.-BoS-
ton Post.
G. w. ROOSEVELT, recently appointed
United States consul to Bordeaux, France, has
been spending some days in Washington, and will
leave tomorrow for New York, en- route for his
post Of duty.
HENRY CRUM, lawyer of New Castle,
Pa. was recently mistaken for horse-th by
band of vigilantes and nearly killed before he
succeeded in proving his identity. Lawyers
should stay at home nights.
GEORGE D. RUNsEY, of the wealthy grain
commission firm of Rumsey Brothers & Co., of
Chicago, died yesterday of Brights disease at his
residence On the north side, aged sixty. The de-
ceased was born in Troy, n Y.
The London Standard states that
Colonel Gordon (' Chinese Gordon ", after long
absence on special employment, has finally de-
cided to return to duty under the War Office. He
has been appointed commander of engineers at
Mauritius
THE Morning Post, of London, says
eve have authority to state that Mr.. Joseph E.
Boehm, the we'll known sculptor, of London, has
been ordered to execute statue of the late Lord
Beaconsfeld, which is to be placed in Westminster
Abbey as national memorial
REV. GEORGE SHELDON, D. D., died at
his residence last night in Princeton n. j. after
lingering illness. He was about sixty-eight years
of age. For many years he was district secretary
of the American Bible Society for the States of New
Jersey and Maryland. He was also member of
the New Jersey Historical Society.
OK the last night of The World at
Drury Lane, in the hotel scene, when Mr.. Macklin
as Hdrti, BaslJord, was seen crawling along the
carpet to chloroform Mr.. w. Rignold Clement
HuntiHQfdrdD, man in the gallery was so excited
and carried away that he shouted to the latter to
Look out The house of course roared, and
roared again when, the handkerchief being
thrown over Mr.. Reynolds face, he again called
OUT There, 1 told you so?'